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Hi everyone. This is my first post here but hopefully not my last. I can definately use the community support during my journey. Last year I started to look at my life with a serious eye and decided to count calories. I stuck to my diet for for about 3 months and lost 24 pounds. I was excercising here and there a few minutes each day and running 20 minutes on the treadmill twice a week. After 3 months I stopped my calorie counting because of the lack of support in my family. However, I continued some of the healthy habits and have not gained any of the 24 pounds back. This year in March I pound this app on my iphone and decided to start my counting again. I logged in at 190 pounds. I recently came back from Hawaii so I gained some weight back but I know I can easily go back down to 190 soon. Today I weighed in at 195. Even though I havent done very well since my first log in in March, I am starting fresh this week. I am back to my mental level from last year and am looking up and logging in every single calorie. I hope to be at 175 by August, when I go to Vegas. I never swim in the beautiful pools there with my kids because I'm too embarassed. This time around is a little harder for me though because my husband and I are having a rough time with our marriage and are considering divorce so I find myself constantly depressed and thinking about food. The other problem is that in the last 6 months, I have become addicted to sunflower seeds. I eat them every time I am driving anywhere and in the evenings. I don't know how badly this is going to affect my weight loss. I drink coke zero and perrier but I hardly drink any water. Does perrier take the place of water? I read a few posts from other members and it seems like a lot of you like to snack on apples and peanut butter. PB has a lot of calories? Is it a good snack for a diet or is it that you guys just have to have it? I'm curious because I love PB but have been staying away from it for a long time. I am also going to start the couch to 5k run program this weekend after I buy some running shoes. I ran the LA Marathon in 1999 in 4 hours. I used to be fit but after my first child I became ill and put on a lot of weight at once, that was in 2001. Since then I have had 2 more kids. I'm very happy that I took this first step, it actually feels good to write all this down. Any comments/criticisms/advice are welcome. Good luck to you guys.

Ani