Hello everyone,

My name is Jessica and I'm currently a desk jockey. I'm 9-5 Monday through Friday, with no kids except for my husband (he counts, right?) I'm constantly connected to my phone, so if you need an ear or something just message me, I'll probably get back to you pretty soon.

I've gained approximately 80 pounds since I started my desk job six years ago, and I'd like all of it to go away.

Strategies I plan to use when I feel the urge to binge or veg out all day without exercising:
1. Work out first thing in the morning. It works super-well for me.
2. Walk during my breaks at work, whether or not I did my elliptical in the morning.
3. Call a friend or family member. I have several friends and a family member using MFP; I have no excuse.
4. Plan for splurges and snacks so I don't feel deprived
5. Remind myself that I enjoy exercising once I start doing it. Getting up is the hardest part, and if I can just do that, then I'm golden.

Hi everyone. I'm Laura. I'm 44 years old, not married, no kids. I too have a desk job, although I've got a couple of people I regularly walk with to try to get some activity during the day. After years of yo-yo dieting I finally signed up with a personal trainer in February. I strength train with him for 30 minutes 3 days a week, I'm just starting Week 4 of C25K, and I get some additional cardio in the days I don't do C25K (walk outside or on the treadmill, bike at the gym), and once a week we do a fitness class at my office after work (alternating Zumba/Pilates). My rest day I typically go for a light walk or just try to stay busy around the house, and now that it's summer I'll be mowing the lawn (push mower, not riding mower). I'm at a place right now where activity isn't an issue, but eating healthy remains a constant battle for me. I'll go in streaks where it almost seems easy (just finished the AdvoCare 24 day challenge and breezed through it) and then there are times where it seems impossible to eat right.

Strategies I plan to use when I feel the urge to binge or veg out all day without exercising:
1) I've got enough plans/structure during the week that typically I'm okay then, it's the weekends where I struggle. The weekends are also when I have no excuse to not get my exercise in - I have time to get outside or go to the gym - and if I'm active I'm far less likely to want to overeat.
2) As part of that, when I want to overeat I need to get up and go for a walk or head to the gym until the urge passes, or I've burned off enough calories that MFP bumps up my calorie budget.
3) I have a Fitbit to keep me honest as far as my activity level/intensity.
4) My trainer weighs me in every Monday, which does give me pause when I want to start compulsively snacking on Sunday nights.
5) I'm just recently getting involved in the MFP message boards, and there's an awful lot of support on this community.

Hello everyone

My name is Miriam and I´m from Slovakia. I´m 23 years old, teachor/translator, so my job is pretty sedentary, although I walk to work everyday or go by bike and almost never use our car. Sometimes, usually once a week, I go to a fitness centre for an hour of trampoline jumping, which I love, but don´t have enough free evenings to do it more often. But then there are also the days when I don´t leave the house and sit behind my computer translating all day. I´ve put on 10 kilos (22 lb) in the last year, just because I haven´t paid enough attention to my eating habits. Eventhough my friends keep telling me that they don´t see it, all my clothes have mysteriously shrunk. Summer is coming and I´d just love to feel good in my body again. I´m still single and the weight doesn´t help much with my selfconfidence to finally try to do something about my "relationship status". I know that I don´t drink enough water and intake too much sugar and fat. Another problem is that my favourite way of relax is just to sit on the couch and watch some TV serie. That is why I need something like this challenge, to be motivated to track my days, to exercise and eat healthy.

Strategies I plan to use when I feel the urge to binge or veg out all day without exercising:
1) Check in here for support.
2) Instead of relaxing by doing nothing, learn to be active, to take out my bike and go exploring my city or call a friend to go for a walk (but with no ice-cream/cake&coffee breaks for me). Fresh air is my friend and not an enemy.
3) Turn on my favourite music really loud and just dance around the house. Every move counts.

Hello! I'm Margherita.I'm Italian (sorry for my bad englis :S )... I am 19 years old and I am a student of last year of high school.. I love walking with my friend and running I love animals and I am vegetarian.. I really need this challenge to focus on my goal...because I have also graduation exam in June...

Strategies I plan to use when I feel the urge to binge or veg out all day without exercising:
1. Text a friend who follows a diet like me ..
2. Remind myself my goal to lose 5kg before 1st of July
3. Do blogilates video and follow Cassey's calendar of the month
4. Go out for a walk with my dogs or a friend or , if it's raining, go to the gym
5. Complete the food and exercise diary everyday writing everything...
6. write the programm of every week in a notebook

Hi, I am Karen, I run a home daycare so food is always just a couple steps away. I have been struggling since Easter and need a real good kick in the butt. I have 2 children 12 and 10 and they are both active and in sports but I worry if I continue down this road they will soon follow. I have been overweight my whole life. I am in other groups and feel like I am letting everyone down, in this one I only let myself down and that just isn't an option anymore.
Some things I like to do so I don't binge is having my fruit, veggies already washed and cut up and on the table so that is what I see first when I go into the kitchen. I go everywhere even shopping with my water bottle it helps with cravings and to get my water in.

Hello everyone. My name is Kate, I am 28, and I live in Dundalk (Baltimore), Maryland.

Strategy:
*eat mostly veggies (50%+) per Dr. Furhman’s 90/10 Rule (90% vegetables, nuts, seeds, beans, whole grains and fruits and 10% healthy oils, meat and dairy)
*walk at least two miles every day (not much to most, but a lot to someone who usually does a mile a day!)
*no soda (no diet soda either... it's worse for you!)