I have been overweight my whole life. After my divorce a few years ago I lost 52lbs, going from 230lbs to 178lbs in a short time, but I did it the wrong way by starving myself, so once I started eating more the weight started creeping back on. Before I knew it I had gained back 35lbs. I decided enough is enough. I am not getting any younger and I have MS so I need to do something now while I still can!
I had a friend from work who invited me to join her here on MFP and I have been here since April of this year. When I joined MFP I had gotten back up to 213lbs. I am happy to say that I have lost 29lbs so far with support and encouragement from all these great peeps here! I have recently hit a plateau though and I am hoping that these challenges give me the motivation to get back to losing more, even if I don't hit the 30lb mark by Christmas, which I am going to try my best to do!

Hi there.. I am in because frankly I let myself go and then i got pregnant.. Soo here i am 5'4 at 187 lbs.. I would like to be about 140-150.. Where ever i feel good in that range. I am not making excuses but I got married 2.75 years ago to a man in the military.. our first duty station together was in Germany.. It takes 2 months for your stuff to get there!! I ate out every meal for at least 2 months. Let me tell you here in germany where everything is fried you won't last long at any weight.. sooo i was about 176 and got pregnant..(it is a great thing really but not for your body) My son is now 3 months and 1 week.. he was delivered by c section soo i didn't want to push it going back to working out too soon.. Soo here i am off to get fit.. and loose all this weight i have been packing on!!!

I'm in because, despite busting *kitten* for 4 months, I still love food too much, ready to see the scale move, or sizes dropping. I'm lifting heavy weights so it's either 30 lbs or 2 sizes before Christmas for me:)

I have been a member here for a little over a month! I am finally ready to take this weight thing seriously. I used to teach aerobics and weigh 115 back in the day! lol! Recently I got results back that I have extremely high cholesterol and I am too young for that! My husband and I are both doing this together! We started Insanity on Monday and have taken up bike riding! I am excited to see the progress that we make! Our goal is to make all of our family members jealous at Christmas dinner! lol!

I'm in because I have 30 more pounds to go to reach my goal weight. Let's do this peeps.

Are you in an why?

All of my life I have been either the bulky rock of a small child or the overweight or plump one as I grew up. My worst time was after I spent two years without sleep while attending a magnet school that tried to put too much on me at once for my conditions. I destroyed my immune system back then. It has taken me until just 2 and a half years ago to finally recover my immune system back to normal. At the beginning of my sophomore year in high school, I peaked 299.6 lbs while being 5'2".

It was then that I ran into the video game, Dance Dance Revolution. I loved it so much that I played it every day, all the time. Over a summer, I lost 150lbs and shrank down to 4'10". During that summer my parents pushed the school system to let me go back to my zoned regular high school.

The night before the next school year started, my mother passed away due to lung cancer--just after the summer Olympics ended. The next couple of years were hard, but I met many friends who kept me going. However, from there until now, I had gained another 40 lbs back.

Now, all of my female friends are engaged to and/or married, and with the exception of one of them, I am the pudgiest. I've been selected as maid of honor for one, and I'm back up maid of honor for another. I, myself, have found the love of my life whom I know will one day be my husband--he just knows priorities and realizes that he needs to get me a car and possibly a new computer before he can turn around to get me a ring--and sometimes I don't understand how he can say that EVERYTHING about me is sexy. I've decided that it shouldn't matter what anyone else thinks of how I look but him, but I can't stand not being able to keep up with him while running or carrying things.

When I restarted MFP back in July--when I started my new job as a security guard--I was ~190.7 lbs (5'0"). Right now, I am 179.4 lbs and I would love to challenge myself to try and hit 150 lbs by Christmas. If I'm already seeing the effect on my body after 10 lbs, I can only dream what I will look like once I lose another 30!

Feel free to add me as a friend. So far, after I added a bunch of people as my friends here on MFP, I have found it easier to log in everyday. In fact, I'm a little obsessive compulsive, and I try to comment on as many posts from others as I can every day. (And when they comment on my posts, it gives me new energy that bursts my confidence to keep pursuing this new lifestyle of health and freedom!

Let's kick 30 lbs in the rear!!!!

I am in because I weigh 298 pounds and am so disgusted with myself I can no longer stand it. Seeing this has sparked a flame in me and I'm grateful to have you all to talk to about it. I love reading your posts, they are so motivating. Good luck!

For me, it's about pictures. I love taking them and realized the reason I am always behind the camera is because I can't stand pictures of myself. I recently saw a sneaky picture my hubby took of me (without my knowledge) while we were on a walk and oh goodness.... it was gross.
I too am sick and tired of not losing weight. I have the motivation but I need help with the willpower!

Im in! Ive always been the heavier kid in my family but not by a whole lot, then i miscarried and i got depressed. I gained over 100lbs. My family makes comments about how i went from chubby to horrible and they treat me like crap because of how I look (I didnt even look that bad to begin with) so Im doing this for me, but without their negative attitudes. Ive chosen not to mention my weight loss. Since I live so far away they have no idea I've lost 32lbs... I hope to lose another 30 by christmas so when I walk in christmas eve they all drop their jaws.. lets make this Happen!

I'm in. I'm just shy of 200 days into this and an active group is always welcomed. I was 308 lbs then and not proud at all to admit it, but I own up to it. I refused to exercise and ate with wild abandonment.

I am grateful for all my MFP friends who are supportive and I enjoy seeing people so excited as they make progress. The synergy is inspiring. In the last six months I have accomplished unimaginable feats of physical exercise that I never thought possible for me to do; certainly not when I tipped the scale over 300. I find the more I push myself, the more I can do. I am no where as fit as I want to be, but I am fitter now at my current weight on the way down than I ever as on the way up. That was over 16 years ago.

Well, I was always very thin like under 100 pounds in my early 20s and I really did eat what I like. Then my metabolism slowed and I stopped exercising and I put on 3 or 4 pounds a year. Add in few pregnancies and other events like a friend dying unexpectedly and in 15 years it crept up so I was borderline obese.

It has taken over a year but I have completely changed my lifestyle and have passed my original goal and I now have about 6 pounds to meet my ultimate goal of 106. I never thought it would be possible for me to lose so much weight, but I have and so can everyone else!

So I should only be losing in this thread for a short time, but I am a mfp of mark's and I am happy to support him and everyone along the way.

I am in! I am tired of every New Year;s having the same resolution ("to get healthy"; "to lose weight"; blah blah blah). I want to RING IN THE NEW YEAR a healthier me already. So my job is already done for next year and it can be all about maintenance :drinker: I have roughly 50 lbs to lose!!!!

I am in. I have anxiety even writing this post. I feel I have "failed" too many times, I havent lost more than 23 lbs in 5 years, (and I have put back 10 of those) I haven't been under 200 in 6 years. And I wasn't always fat, so I know the flipside. I know how much fun it is to be thin and cute!

Anyhow, I need support, accountability and motivation. Hopefully I can get it here !