June Weight Loss Team

Accountability for today - I walked (briskly) the dog this morning at 5:20 until 6:00. Wahoo for me. I have lost 2 lbs since I started on this site a few weeks ago too. Tracking food/exercise is a chore but worth it. All good things are worth the effort!!!

Since we are telling a little bit about ourselves I'll go next. My name is Janean and I will be 32 in a few weeks. I'm a single parent of two boys. My oldest is severely autistic. I work long hours on top of shift work. Both of which are reasons as to why I have not been able to lose the weight I have gained. I was in a pretty good spot weight wise when I went through my divorce. I didn't gain the weight because of it as many would think. I gained it when I met the most wonderful man! So there was someone to cook for and eat with again....and slowly but surely the weight packed right back on! He doesn't care, he still believes (thank god) that it doesn't get any better then me :blushing: But I know I'm better then this, I went to two military schools and although I've never been a "skinny minnie" I've always been in much better shape. It's embarrassing to tell people where I went to school, and then explain the weight gain was much later in life! Plus, for work, I need to be in the best shape possible! I've been with MFP for several weeks, but have not found the motivation to keep up with it. So I'm hoping joining this group will help! Feel free to add me as a friend for support!!

I’ll go next with “a little about us”…My name is Natascha and I’m 35 years old. I have three teenage children (17,15, and 13). My husband has been in the Army for the last 16 years and I am now a full time college student( raised the babies, it's my turn now!) I have never been thin but remained at what I considered a comfortable weight between 130-150 lbs. I did shoot up to 200 lbs in the early to mid 90’s but I had 3 children in 3 ½ years. In 2004 I woke up one morning and quite simply could not move my legs…I could feel them just couldn’t move them. After hospitalization and what seemed like medieval torture I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. A hefty dose of steroids gave me back the use of my legs but also gave me a 38 lb weight gain in less than a month. After feeling sorry for myself for a few years I decided to take my body back. Every specialist told me the same things…lose weight and exercise or the disease will win so for me this journey is about avoiding the dreaded cane or wheel chair. At my last doctor’s appointment I was told if I can keep going the way I have been and continue with the medications I’m on ( a lovely 13 pills a day and 3 shots a week) I stand a good chance of avoiding any progression of the MS. So….while I will never be considered healthy, I will do everything I can to keep the body I was given as healthy as possible.

good for you for getting rid of the bad stuff in your life! I'm sure that wasn't easy, especially having been with him for a period of time. And you're right, it's probably easier to stay on track by checking in here daily. I should do the same! And my reward for getting rid of all the weight....I'm finally going to get the mommy makeover I've been wanting for so long!

well, looks like a lot of people are writing little blurbs about themselves, so i decided to write one as well!

so i guess to start, i'm a 19 year old student trying to lose weight and get in shape. my image has always been an issue of mine, ever since about 8th grade i've been uncomfortable with my weight, even though i wasn't overweight at all lol. my junior year was when i first working and was working a lot, and i guess i decided to turn to food to deal with the extra stress and whatnot that i had, and gained about 15-20 pounds. so senior year rolls around and i say enough! and over the course of that year i manage to lose 15 pounds, was feeling great, looking good. and then summer comes along and something just snapped in me and i stopped caring. so very, VERY quickly i packed back on those 15 pounds PLUS an extra 12, bringing me to my heaviest weight to date. it wasn't until about the end of this april that i had any real motivation to work towards weight loss again, so i started eating a lot cleaner, and a lot healthier than i ever have in my life, and lost 5 pounds in about 3 weeks. i thought, great! well. then all my friends came home from school and i was done with classes, so going out increased and boredom eating became more and more frequent, and cheat days became cheat weeks. i was still eating my healthy foods, just with milkshakes, fries, and pie on top of it.

SO, that brings me to here and now, june and this wonderful thread of people. i want to make up for the time i lost in may by really trying hard this month, so i can get a nice confidence boost before i go away for school in the fall (which, i am really nervous in relation to this. i have no idea how easy/hard it will be to keep up my good eating habits when i won't have my own kitchen!).

to reach my goal my plan is to up my strength training and really try and stick with it, since that is what i always get super lazy with, so i'll be doing some strength training 3 days a week, and the rest of the days will be various forms of cardio. i am ready to do this, and i know we can all reach our goals :]

I would like to join your group:

JoJo_69 - to lose 14lbs
crking - to lose 5lbs
Purenel - to lose 9lbs
Alexandrea888 - to lose 10lbs
Caramel827 - to lose 10lbs
Janeabt - to lose 10lbs
Annasid78 - to lose 6lbs
Justahorsen - to lose 10lbs
Sotonguetied - to lose 5lbs
Marvey1214 - to lose 10lbs
aimeeclaire - to lose 4lbs
pavenneh - to lose 10lbs
aimeeclaire - to lose 4.2lbs
flwyland - to lose 6lbs
crystalfordham - to lose 10lbs

Thanks looking foward to this!

OMGoodness! I went way over on my calories today! Should have got more exercise in to counter act.... it just didn't work that way though.

Hope everyone has a great day tomorrrow.

Hi! Hope it's not too late to join, I would love to do this!

My name is Sara, I'm 27 and I'm finishing up recovering from an L4-L5/S1 spinal fusion that I had done in March. That was my second spinal surgery in less than a year. I used to be very active before I started having issues with my back, and when you're back pain is so bad you can't even bend to touch your toes the weight goes on pretty fast. I am also insulin resistant and have PCOS so I am watching my carb and sugar intake. While the fusion sets my ability to work out is limited to walking, swimming and basic stretching (and core strengthening...my physical therapy workouts) so I'm having a hard time burning more than 400-500 calories a day from exercise. But I'm sticking to my diet and drinking plenty of water so I would like to lose, we'll say 8lbs this month, an average of 2lbs per week. If I lose more than that yay! But I'm happy with a 1-2lb loss per week.

I typically weigh in on Wednesdays, but I may be switching to Mondays.

Good luck everybody

I am so mad... I'm not sure if it's more at myself or my husband. I really wanted to workout last night but he came home early and took over the tv. I wanted to tell him to turn it off so I could do my video but I didn't. AND somehow I gained a pound this week. :explode:

I have been beating myself up about this all morning so when I went to check in, I figured I would measure myself. I lost 3 inches from my waist and 1 inch from my neck, nothing from my hips (oh well). I think I ate too much fast food even though I staying in my calorie range all week. I probably need to workout MORE!!