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doo_rider
doo_rider Posts: 1
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Hi everybody , i'm new to the website and can't wait to get started . I try'ed ww and was up and down with the weight , but now it time to lose weight and keep it off :)

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  • gadgetgizzmo
    gadgetgizzmo Posts: 53
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    I did ww too but finally stopped once my friend told me about this site. I lost a ton of weight while I was nursing my daughter and thought it was due to ww, but once i stopped nursing I gained all the weight back. Since then, I have been a ww yo yo. Some weeks I'd loose a pound or two then the next couple weeks I'd either gain or lose next to nothing until after 6 months I was only down like 6 pounds. I've been doing this for 2 weeks and I lost 2 pounds both weeks. (My profile says i've lost 6 pounds but that is just cuz I changed my weigh in time to Friday morning instead of thursday evening at meetings). And it's free. I found it is so much easier to just count calories rather than convert everything to points. I never tracked while in ww because it just seemed too complicated, but I have tracked every single thing on mfp these last couple weeks. Good luck, I know you'll do great.

    ~Heather
  • BrenNew
    BrenNew Posts: 3,420 Member
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    Hi everybody , i'm new to the website and can't wait to get started . I try'ed ww and was up and down with the weight , but now it time to lose weight and keep it off :)



    Hi, and welcome to THE best site on the web! :flowerforyou:
    I see you're from Maine, I'm right next door in NH! :smile:
    Between the easy to use food counter (which by the way is SUCH an eye opener!) and all the wonderfully supportive members, you WILL be able to lose the weight that you want to, AND, it'll "almost" be easy doing it! :wink:
    I recommend logging ALL your foods BEFORE you have them, rather than later, as it tends to lead to better food choices. (not to mention you'll know if you've got enough numbers left to have a night time snack, like I ALWAYS try to do!) Some people also like to weigh and measure some things, such as meats, rather than just estimating and possibly being WAY off! :noway:
    Don't go making the mistake that if you have LOTS of numbers left at the end of the day that you'll lose even faster, because that DOESN'T happen. Feel free to read any info about the site in the "help" section at the top of the home page. And also under "Community", then "Weight Loss and Healthy Living", then "general diet and weight loss help", and then check out the first few threads. They'll REALLY help you understand how MFP works. :smile:
    Before coming here, I had tried just about EVERYTHING out there, including hypnosis, TWICE, and nothing really worked until MFP! :love:
    Just the word "diet" would make me cringe and set me up for failure. :grumble: It meant depriving myself of all the "good stuff" out there, and as a result, I'd only last just so long, (maybe a few weeks if I was lucky!) and then I'd "cave" and go right back to eating all those "goodies" again! :embarrassed: :cry: But, MFP ISN'T a "diet". :noway: It's a "lifestyle change". :smile: (When I first read that, I said "Ya, SURE it is!", thinking that it WAS just another diet. :grumble: But, it wasn't! :noway:)
    The main reason that I've managed to lose the weight that I wanted to is because I HAVE been able to eat "real/good" foods. :bigsmile: (Not Slim Fast or any other easy, quick, fad "wacko" diets!:noway: ) Through MFP I learned that I just needed to "work for it", through exercise, and watching my numbers (MOST of the time! :wink: ) As long as I do that, I CAN occasionally have stuff like Chinese food, a double cheeseburger, pizza, and even homemade ice-cream! :love:

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