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Another Newbie Here

MandyMH80
MandyMH80 Posts: 20
edited January 17 in Introduce Yourself
Hi everyone! I'm new here and am looking for some advice on how to lose weight and get fit as healthy as possible. I'm currently a member of another fitness forum, but for some reason I don't get much feedback when I post questions there. I'm hoping to get more support here. Looking forward to getting to know all of you. :)

Just a little bit of background info, I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis earlier this year so my goal in 2013 is to drop as much weight as possible to get into a healthy weight zone. At my highest weight back in 2010 I weighed in at 250lb. Last year when I started to get serious about my weight I got down to 235lb before more or less giving up. I'm now at 211lb. I am making progress, but still have a ways to go!

My latest exercise "program" started in mid Feb 2013. It consists of walking on the treadmill for an hour at 3mph using varying degrees of incline, but a good portion of it is between the 5-6% range. I'm working on getting faster and raising the incline, but don't have the stamina just yet. I'm getting better though. I also just started doing tae bo last week which I've found to be a nice change of pace even though I pretty much suck at a lot of the moves. I'm very out of shape and very uncoordinated so it's hard to keep up at times, but I do my best!

Anyway, as I said, I'm hoping to get some good feedback and support here and I'm looking forward to meeting all of you. :)
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