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juliek710

Hi all - I'm Julie and I've been doing MFP via my phone for almost 3 months now and finally decided to come check out the message boards. I'm so glad to find this group!

I started at 315 and I'm only 5'2" and am down to 295ish now (anyone else find their weight fluctuates by more than a pound each day?) I live in the deep south where everything is fried and/or covered in delicious gravy, lol, so staying on my eating plan is a struggle.

I'm 38, married no kids, and I work in an office in a fairly stressful job - if I disappear for a day or two I can assure y'all it is my job sucking up my time. I'm blessed with a wonderful supportive husband - he also needs to lose some weight, in fact so does our dog and our cat so our whole house is working on it now

I sent a couple of friend requests to folks that said 'add me' from this board, and I would be delighted to have some folks add me. I know that going into Christmas I will need a support group and I hope I can also be a support to y'all.

EweCreekCottage

Just wanted to say hi and welcome to the group :flowerforyou:

Joanitude

Welcome to the group. I lived down South for a number of years - married now to an ex-Texan. I understand the Southern food groups well: Fried, w/Gravy, Fried w/gravy, Sweetened A lot of my calorie control is because I find it impossible to get catfish, tea, biscuits (w/ w/o gravy), etc around here. I am so far North now, even the local Popeye's doesn't know how to make a decent biscuit! LOL

I also can relate to the weight fluctuating. I have seen as much as 7lbs in one day. In my case I have old floors that make it seem even more erratic - if I don't put the scale in exactly the same place and stand on it in exactly the same way I can get very different readings.