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melanie92
melanie92 Posts: 184 Member
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I am so impressed with this site! I just joined this afternoon, and found out I have already had my calorie total for the day! Oops!

No wonder I need to lose so much weight.

But this site is very encouraging, and that is what I need.

Looking forward to lots of posts and weight loss!

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  • RhondaCrombie
    RhondaCrombie Posts: 292
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    Good luck with your journey!! I really LOVE the website, too; it has really helped me with portions and with tracking the counts. :-)
  • badloki13
    badloki13 Posts: 15
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    I am new too and so far, so good. I think this site will help me get up and go to the gym every day. I go six days a week but it is getting harder to do so. I hope to use this site as an encouragement in the tough times that, I'm sure, will come.
  • miqisha
    miqisha Posts: 1,534 Member
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    Welcome and goodluck.....this sight is awesome....I didnt realize how much I overate....especially on the weekends, which is when I tend to munch more than any other day of the week

    Like tonight is done and I have 21 calories left, so I know to stop....once upon a time I would have still been eating, because I would not have realized how much I already ate.
  • melanie92
    melanie92 Posts: 184 Member
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    thanks everyone for the encouragement!
  • lreed
    lreed Posts: 348 Member
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    Isn't it amazing, you think oh I did pretty good today, but those little things add up. I love this site, I get great ideas and inspiration from people who have been on the journey longer than me! I hope that some day I will be someone giving inspiration! Welcome and good luck!:flowerforyou:
  • BrenNew
    BrenNew Posts: 3,420 Member
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    Hi, and welcome to THE best site on the web! :flowerforyou:
    I LOVE your dog pic! Adorable! :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:
    As far as exercise goes, it doesn't always have to be awful. :noway: For my exercise, I walk almost every day, (weather permitting!:wink: ) I also dance to a fast oldies CD that my husband made up of all my favorite old songs. (Like "Love Shack", Wild, Wild West", "Mony, Mony", "Footloose", and "Gloria") :love: :happy:
    It's free, (unlike a gym!:grumble: ) fun, :smile: and I can even watch tv at the same time, so I never get bored! :happy:
    I also have Wii Fit, and jog to that, which is a lot of fun, and easy too! :smile:
    So, to make a LONG story short, make good food choices, eat in moderation, get some exercise, and you WILL lose the weight that you want to! :smile:
    MFP REALLY, REALLY, DOES work! :love: :happy: Give it a chance, and it WILL work for you too! :smile:

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