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johnhenrythomas
johnhenrythomas Posts: 2
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my goal is to drop 100# in the next year to year and a half. started at 328 and am now 315 in 17 days. had to quit drinking and my wife found this site for me . It seems to make it easier to stick with the food changes when using this site! do not even miss the evening Martini as much, as i monitor the food intake and calories. I really find the variety of foods listed her to be amazing, I mean where else would you find Mountain Mikes Pizza listed !! Well got to go , just figured it was time to intro. myself...ooops by the way I am John Henry Thomas and I am 55 yrs. old...but working on getting younger.:wink:

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  • onelegpat
    onelegpat Posts: 33 Member
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    Welcome John, here's to you and your goals, go hard!!!!
  • bridemom
    bridemom Posts: 3
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    Hello everyone,
    Tried to start this a month ago and computer needed repairs. Feb. was a really bad month for me. Hoping March will be better. All of the Diets are there are so confusing. Do I go Low- carb and high protein or concentrate on high fiber??? Thinking about just cutting portions in half and see what happens. My daughter is getting married in Aug of this year and I would sure like to lose 50 pounds and not look like a Fat mother of the bride.
  • cha36jennings
    cha36jennings Posts: 99 Member
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    Hi bridemom
    If you're a busy person or just lacking motivation then I would forget all these diets and just stick to the calorie count, regardless of what you eat. That is what I have done and I am losing weight. I am going to try and walk 30 mins a day next. :-)
  • jlloyd
    jlloyd Posts: 68
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    Hi and welcome, set your mind to your goals and you will see the results, good luck.
  • BrenNew
    BrenNew Posts: 3,420 Member
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    Hi John, and welcome to THE best site on the web! :flowerforyou:
    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:
  • BrenNew
    BrenNew Posts: 3,420 Member
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    Hello everyone,
    Tried to start this a month ago and computer needed repairs. Feb. was a really bad month for me. Hoping March will be better. All of the Diets are there are so confusing. Do I go Low- carb and high protein or concentrate on high fiber??? Thinking about just cutting portions in half and see what happens. My daughter is getting married in Aug of this year and I would sure like to lose 50 pounds and not look like a Fat mother of the bride.



    One of my main motivations when I started with MFP was to lose weight for my son's wedding. Like you, I didn't want to look fat and awful in the pictures. :grumble: And thanks to MFP and all its wonderfully supportive members, I looked great! :wink: :bigsmile: :laugh:

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