God help m!! And anyone of you who wants to lose 75+ pounds

Hi! Feel free to add me too. I Was 295 lbs when i was my heaviest, but started MFP when i was 275. My ultimate goal is to bring it down to 180, but we will see how far i will come. At least i want to make it to 200. We will see, weightloss isn't a sprint, but a marathon. So i'll be here for a while ;-). Good luck!

You can do this - commitment is the key! I can remember thinking that losing 10 pounds was going to take forever and might just be impossible. My doctor told me I could lose 10 pounds a month for the foreseeable future and I thought he was out of his mind - after six months he asked me when I thought I would stop losing 10 a month (LOL) because he had not expected me to actually do this for more than a month or two. The better you eat, the more you move, the easier it becomes to lose the weight. I tracked everything I put in my mouth and built my exercise up from sitting on the couch to 1 1/2 hours a day most days and sometimes more. Think positive, stay the course, don't quit when you have the every once in while bad day, and YOU WILL DO THIS!

You can def do it! At the risk of sound silly, Dr. Phil said something that was powerful (paraphrasing of course) –
“<<Southern drawl>>> Next year you can either weigh less or weigh more but you will not weight the same. What do you choose?” That resonated with me because I, for one, want to weigh less…like 100 lbs less! Choose healthy options for food and beverages and move that body and you can do it!!! Congrats on your first step to a healthier you! Feel free to add me if you like!

YOU CAN DO IT! THE FIRST STEP IS SAYING YOUR READY TO START. THAT WAS THE HARDEST FOR ME. BUT FITNESS PAL HAS BEEN A GREAT WAY TO MAKE SURE IM NOT EATING TO MUCH. I STILL HAVE 100 LBS TO LOOSE. I TRY NOT TO LOOK AT THE WHOLE AMOUNT I JUST GET EXCITED SEEING EACH POUND COME OFF 1 AT A TIME.

I really have to agree with your statement "Here is another important word..Goal.. and I don't mean a number." I think we all have that in our heads. Mine is to see "oneder" land again. To just be in the 100's again is my dream. Once I get there I'll reset my goal. Until then Onederland here I come.

My original goal was 144lbs and as of Yesterday I have lost 142lbs. That said I probably want to lose another 15 on top of that now. When I started at 343 I just wanted a weight that started with a 1, now I want to actual weigh what would be pretty much perfect for my height and build.
The important thing is to understand this isn't about losing x lbs, this is about a total change to how you approach food and probably how you spend your free time, ie not passed out on the couch. Even when you lose weight you will need to keep losing, and add exercise to tone and try and stop yourself looking like a melted wax person from the weight loss.then you may have to adjust food and exercise when you hit plateaus. You will probably have several rethinks about your diet as you learn more and see what does and doesn't work for you.
And when you finally get where you were going, you have to find a way to stay there. Take your eye of the prize for a few months and you will be back on here looking to start again.

75lbs is exactly how much I'm looking to lose. I started at 250 and now I'm down to 235. A lot of losing weight is mental and knowing what it means to be healthy. We have a long road ahead of us so lets help each other stay motivated! Feel free to add me!

Almost 30 pounds in to the about 100 a want to loose. Remember why your doing it everyday