Done!! Might motivate me to make healthy and not just low cal choices...maybe...!! x

Hi,

I'm Marina, Oxford based and just turned 28 (boooo!) I weigh 150 pounds and would like to get back to my ideal 126 pounds. I say back to as I managed to get from 156 pounds down to 126 about 2 years ago and have slowly piled it back on, but i'm getting married next year so I have new motivation.

I am a WIWT lurker but never posted and I'm also hoping that losing the excess poundage will mean I'll be able to post without feeling self conscious.

Feel free to add me as a friend so that we can motivate each other xx

Thanks

You've got a great reason to lose the weight, wanna look great in that dress, right?

Mine started differently for me. My reason started in a doctor's office while waiting for an appointment to start. The secretary came in with the scales - digital - and I got the fright of my life. I came in at a shocking 287 pounds. Got a digital scales of my own and went up a pound first. After 40 pounds, I joined here. Oh, the reason for the doctor's appointment? The results to my cholestrol test were back and they were up. Still working on that too, but hopefully I won't be on something like Lipitor like my Dad. He's on that because of a heart attack he had in 1995. High cholestrol runs in the family on his side, and I don't want to inherit that. And I'm gonna make sure I don't, no matter what I have to do to stop it.

Hey littlebigvoice

I think we're cut from the same cloth. I'm 5'3 and carry most of my extra weight on my hips bum and thighs - I actually quite like my waist and like you get the comments about how i can't weigh what i say i do!

Well i definately do - but hopefully we can do something about that!

My thighs and legs are my biggest bugbear. Although I've got pretty lardy, it's safe to say that I don't carry it too badly - my waist is still visible. This makes people go 'but you can't have put on a stone and a half since your wedding...'

Hellooo...

I'm Molly. I'm 24 years old and I live in London. I'm 5'1.5" and currently I think weigh about 11stone (just got back from holiday - too nervous to get on the scales this morning!). I was down to about 9st 7 last year through a combination of Dukan and being really regimented about exercise, but since then it's just crept back up. Motivation is what I find really tricky - like a lot of the stuff Poppy covered in her original blog, I still look ok in most of my clothes, I have a lovely boyfriend (whom I live with, and who has the metabolism of an antelope - also an issue when it comes to food choices!), I do bits of exercise now and then and think that that's enough. But it isn't really, and holiday snaps and dresses getting tighter and tighter just underline that. I'm really overweight for my height, and disappointed by not being able to keep the weight off from my last effort, so that's my first aim - to get back to where I was last year in a more sustainable way. And from there, who knows!

Hi all, I'm Eva and I'm from Spain. I'm 31 years old and have two small children. Two very close together pregnancys has meant a lot of weight gain. I'm 5 ft 6 and weigh 80 kilos. Last year I lost 10 kilos but I've put 5 back on again. I want to get down to about 60 kilos, my pre pregnancy weight. I hate exercise but realise that it really would benefit me to do some.

I'm glad to have found this group, I hope we can all help each other.

Hiiii Everyone!

My name is Alicia, Im 27 from North London. I know how much I weigh, but refuse to write it.


From November 2010-November 2011.. I lost 5 stone.. Then I met a boy and got so wrapped up in him that before I knew it I had gained 28lbs in 8 months.. I am devastated and none of my clothes fit.

I want to lose at least 3 stone by my birthday which is in six months.. I have high hopes..

Lets do this folks!

Liss x

Lets do thiiiis folks! x

Hi, I'm Rebecca, 26 from Warrington.

I have been on MFP for ages but I'm excited that this group will hopefully make me use it properly and give me healthy meal ideas!!

I am 5"7' and 186 pounds. Over the past year or so I have come down from over 254 pounds (didn't weigh myself till I'd lost a bit!). Over the past 6 months the weight loss has slowed to pretty much nothing as I get closer to my goal weight and I really need a kick to complete the final furlong... Goal weight was always 175 but I reckon 160 is probably realistic as I get closer. We'll see!!

Good luck everyone!

Xxx