Well I am a lil older I am 49 and here for the duration. I started MFP on May 31, 2012 and have lost 54 lbs so far. I am live in Michigan and we have a ton of snow! Please add me if you would like!

Hello everyone! My name is Andrea. I am thirty-six, which seems to be on the older side around here. I have lost some weight, but still have quite a bit to lose.

I have polycystic kidne disease (PKD). I'm hoping to get the excess weight off before I require dialysis. I won't be posting pics of my stomach because as I lose weight, my stomach actually looks larger due to my huge kidneys. So dont expect posts from me about bikini body shape, lol! I have started a thread for those group members with chronic health conditions to chat about the challenges that health problems bring to the weight loss journey.

I would love to have friends added from this group. It will be a great motivator.

Andrea

Hi My name is amy and I am 43 years old and need to lose between 25-50 lbs. I live in Indiana and am a stay at home mom.
Please friend me if you want and I will try my best to be encouraging to you on this journey to be healthy

Hi guys! My name is Karen and I live in the Buffalo NY area. I am 40 Yrs. old and I'm a stay at home mom of five kids. I joined MFP a while ago, but never bothered to actually use it until recently. I finally decided to get serious and make a change for the better. I'm looking forward to getting to know everyone and helping each other stay on track.

I LOVE this thread and reading everyone's bios! GREAT IDEA!!!

My name is Jodie and I'm a stay at home mom to 4 kiddos. (15,13,8,6) I'm 38 and have been married 20 years last June. Yep, married my high school sweetheart at 18 and we are still together! He has a crazy, stressful job at a nuclear power plant and so I often feel like a single mom. He does what he can, whenever he can but works 50-60 hours week, always. So keeping up with all my kids is CRAZY, HARD, STRESSFUL, BUSY, BUSY, BUSY!!!! LOL

I'm 38, almost 39 years old and honestly have spent most of the last 20 years OVERWEIGHT!!! That's OVER half of my life WASTED on DIETS, being unhappy, depressed at times.... I've lost the weight a couple of times but can never maintain the loss because I DIETED and didn't form a HEALTHY LIFESTYLE!!!!!!

So here I am, realizing FINALLY DIETS DON'T WORK! I'm DETERMINED MORE THAN EVER to create and maintain a healthy lifestyle and lose just 1 POUND A WEEK! I'm establishing healthy habits that I can do FOREVER!!!!! This will be the LAST TIME I LOSE WEIGHT!!!!! Every pound I lose will be gone FOREVER!!!!!

SLOW AND STEADY WINS THE RACE!!!!!!!!!!!

I super excited so many others are joining me on this journey! I love all the support and help that we can give each other!

THANK YOU EVERYONE!!!!!! :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:

Hi, my name is Razia. I live in the UK. I've always struggled with losing and keeping the weight off - I want to to lose about 40lbs.
Looking forward to supporting and getting to know everyone.

Happy to accept anyone who sends me a friend request.

Razia

Hi,
I'm Lelah and I live in Michigan. I'm 45, married with 6 kids (23,21,18,18,14,5) his, mine and ours. I teach full time and have the majority of the house /family responsibility, due to the fact my husband works in St. Louis , mo and is only home weekends and sometimes misses a weekend here or there due to work issues.

My weight loss journey started in high school. I was maybe 10 lbs over weight but felt like I was huge, so dieted. I remained thinish until I got preg with my daughter ( 60 lbs) I then lost it, got preg, gained 80, lost it, got preg, gained 80, lost it. Was close to goal and then hurt my neck (herniated disc) and have gained back some of the weight.

This year I am focusing on eating healthy, getting activity that I can without re-injuring my neck. I am excited to be part of an active group, to get support on my journey. I struggle in the evening, so I'm wanting a group that I can check in with each night.

Greetings from the Sandbox!

My name is Shawna and I'm a 29yo single mommy of a preschooler. I'm active duty, so I'm a resident of Iowa, I live in SC and right now I work in Afghanistan. I maintained a nice healthy 125-130 lbs all through college until I met my now ex-husband and then I blew up. During my last semester I gained almost 20 lbs and by the time we married just over a year later I had gained another 25 lbs. My ex's grandmother said it was "love weight", when you are so in love you don't feel like you have to be someone you aren't and you let yourself eat whatever you want. Looking back at the stress and emotional roller coaster of that time, I think my emotional binging was more likely the cause.

After enlisting, I lost over 30 lbs during my training and was feeling good about my weight until I got pregnant and gained it all back. I had my daughter and lost some of the baby weight over time, but after the divorce and more roller coaster-ing, I found I was getting really close to my full-term pregnancy weight and I got really scared.

Being deployed is a great time to get back into healthy habits except for one thing - the chow hall. YUCK! It's hard to eat healthy and not just eat a salad for every meal. But I've lost 12 lbs since getting here and I'm not quite done with my rotation. My goal was to lose 30 lbs total while deployed and that's right about the 1 lb a week goal we all share.

Hi!:flowerforyou:
I'm a mom of 2 living in Tunisia, come from Sweden. I lost 20 kg's, first 10 here on Mfp, next 10 with the help of another site. I came back here now to get rid of the last 12, mainly because this site is less complicated and I noticed that here I'm told to eat better.:bigsmile:
We'll see if I'll be able to lose 1 pound a week, but I sure could use the challenge to get myself back on track.

Hello! I'm the first guy posting it appears. My name is Luke. 34 years old and am an Engineer at Caterpillar. I'm married with 2 kids (8 and 6 year old) I didn't start dieting until 2 years ago on/off. I am a crash dieter and I seem to take it to the extreme which is probably why I seem to quit within 2 months. I've been within 8.5 lbs of my goal weight once so I know I can do it.

I seem to try to lose weight using less food and not much exercise. I hope to stay true to my treadmill until the weather turns warmer and I can run outside (much more fun when you aren't just running in place).

I'm hoping this time around I don't starve myself which (in the past) sent me over the edge and I'd devour all the food in our house and quit. I want to be healthy for my kids and attractive to my wife!

I'm online quite a bit so if you'd like...friend request me and we can help each other out.