Hey all,

I'm relatively new to this site. I am commiting myself to eating more mindfully in 2013. I did not do a great job of following a healthy lifestyle consistently in 2012. I would love to add some friends to share support, recipes and laughs day to day.

A bit about me: Almost 30, unconventionally married, child-free by choice, queer, vegetarian, love video games, cheesy TV shows and action movies.

Cheers

Welcome guys.... best of luck!

I agree, mel, I hate having to deal with the bad science. I've mostly just tuned it out now.

Hi, I'm Amy. I've been using this site sporadically for quite some time, but kept my page private. I thought that if I went public I'd be more serious about sticking to my goals.

Hey everyone.

I'm a 27yo queer child-free atheist from South Australia. Been godless pretty much forever.
It's so awesome to see so many people in this group! I've seen a lot of christian groups around, and I'm glad there's a hangout for us too.

Hi, all. I am a 57 y/o heterosexual femaile. I am somewhere between Atheist and Agnostic. I am not superstitious and do not attribute everything from creation to my personal accomplishments and failings to the interventions of an imaginary sky god. With that in mind, I decided that I could not, "in good faith" so to speak, continue to blame my weight gain on my abusive mother and dysfunctional family. I have always been about 133 (my "military weight"). Over the past 10 years I gained weight and am now 162. It is time that changed. And I am the one who has to do it.
Anyway, I guess I have always been a nonbeliever, even though I was raised Catholic. During my recent involvement with my dysfunctional family I not only gained weight but, hold onto your hats, tried to turn back to the church for answers to why I was in such a situation. After actually reading the bible and, more importantly, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, a realized what a glut of cognitive dissonance and bent logic Catholic dogma is made up of. I feel I have cognitively returned to sanity. Now its time I physically regained my health as well.
As you can see from my picture, I have one less item on my "bucket list"!

I was also raised in the Catholic Church and I am glad to be rid of that ball of crazy. Congratulations on scratching sky diving off of your bucket list. I am also trying to get down to my military weight of 185. I think of a good way of describing me is Agnostic Atheist I don't know if there is or is not a god but I don't believe there is one. If evidence for one were brought forth then I would have to evaluate that in turn but up to this date no such evidence has been brought forward.

Thats pretty much the Dawkins position.... can never be 100% sure, but there sure isn't much evidence...certainly nothing that indicates anything in the bible is true....

Hi all --

I'm Henry. I've been on MFP on and off for about two years now. But, for reasons you can see in my profile, I've got a lot of good reasons to keep going on it this time, and it's going extremely well so far.

I have never been a particularly religious person; I guess I'm what happens when you don't brainwash your kids from a very young age. We never went to church regularly until I was about 10 years old. My inquring mind always had questions about how things in the bible could be true, but I never asked them or thought too long on them because...well, you just didn't do that!

Not to feed the whole "liberal college ruined a good christian boy!" myth, but my freshman year in college was really an eye opener for me. I took my first philosophy class, and all the questions I had always had in my head were laid out on paper, with thousands of years of thought and debate to go with them. How amazing!

That summer I worked overnights in a call center and had lots of time to read. Between the books from this philosophy class and the internet, I solidifed my atheism when I realized that I wasn't alone and I wasn't the only one who thought like this. And here I am today

Hi, I'm a yo-yo dieter from Texas who has created and destroyed in frustration several accounts on here in the last few years. I hope this one will stick. I've got about a hundred pounds to lose and I'm going to do it one...by...one.

I was raised in a secular household. I was never told God existed but I was never told that God didn't exist. I figured out the latter on my own after having jumped into the former headfirst for a few years as a teenager. My parents were supportive of my beliefs except I was not allowed to tell my brother he was going to hell.

I'm in a mixed marriage - my husband is Christian and I am decidedly not even spiritual. We are extremely happy despite this fact. I hope to be as tolerant as my parents were with my own children, and like my parents, never stop giving them opportunities for curiosity and discovery. You don't have to indoctrinate anyone if you show them how to come to their own answers.

Hi, I'm a yo-yo dieter from Texas who has created and destroyed in frustration several accounts on here in the last few years. I hope this one will stick. I've got about a hundred pounds to lose and I'm going to do it one...by...one.

I was raised in a secular household. I was never told God existed but I was never told that God didn't exist. I figured out the latter on my own after having jumped into the former headfirst for a few years as a teenager. My parents were supportive of my beliefs except I was not allowed to tell my brother he was going to hell.

I'm in a mixed marriage - my husband is Christian and I am decidedly not even spiritual. We are extremely happy despite this fact. I hope to be as tolerant as my parents were with my own children, and like my parents, never stop giving them opportunities for curiosity and discovery. You don't have to indoctrinate anyone if you show them how to come to their own answers.

Interesting story. Thanks for sharing!