Hello all! Love this website so far - hope it will do me a w

byebyeobesity

Hey everyone over here at myfitnesspal! I'be been using the site for a couple of weeks now but I have only just started poking around in these forums, and I thought I'd introduce myself and ask anyone and everyone to add me as a friend if they would like! I really love this idea of being able to support each other even with a simple comment on a good food diary entry or a lb lost or anything like that. I used calorie-count for many years and I did enjoy the tools they had, but I feel like mfp is far superior in how you track food and water and weigh in and everything, and of course I especially enjoy the community interaction. I don't have a lot of support from family, because they've pretty much given up on me ever losing weight, and I have a couple of friends who understand and do their best to encourage me and kick my butt out the door for some exercise but even then I often feel isolated in my struggles with this lifelong weight problem.

Some quick stats: I'm 19, in college in California, but hail from Singapore (which is where I am currently and during most holidays), I'm 5'6'', 202lb and have been big my entire life. My most successful weight loss was when I went from 177ish to 168lb in 11th grade, but I can't even remember that phase because... wait for it... screw freshman 15, i gained THIRTY lb in my first year of college. I was in denial about it for a long time because I rarely weighed myself, but when I realized I was now officially obese I was just completely in shock that I could let myself go that far. So I started a tumblr - byebyeobesity.tumblr.com if anyone's interested - signed up here, and am ready to attempt to get rid of this weight forever. I've made many a plan in the past - I'm sure a lot of you can understand the hundreds, maybe thousands, of times one vows that "This time will be THE time!" so I'm trying not to think of this as the last time - I will screw up, I maybe gain back weight, who knows... just as long as eventually, I do get to my goal weight. Or at least not be obese anymore. And then not be overweight, etc. etc.

So anyway, sorry if this was a big ramble. I'm looking forward to going on this journey with so many other amazing people who will inspire me to do the best I can, and I am definitely here to encourage and support anyone who needs it.

xx