Hello all. My name is Jeanna, my husband is in the Army National Guard and is currently in training for yet another year long deployment to Afghanistan. Since he is not active I do not have the full support of living on base with other wives. I am joining this group to help me emotionally through these next few months. We currently live near St. Louis MO.

Hello, my name is Sarah. My husband is in the Air Force and we are currently living in San Antonio, TX. We have two wonderful daughters, ages 11 and 13. I love military life but it can definitely be challenging. This year I want to really focus on myself more and meeting my fitness goals. I look forward to getting and giving support as we reach our goals together!

My name is Emma and I am 23. I have been married for a year and three months. We live in Houston, Tx. I am not technically a "military wife" but I am a merchant mariner wife. My husband works for 3 weeks driving ships in the Gulf and then he is home for 3 weeks. No one really understands what I go through and that is why I joined this group. I hope y'all don't mind. I won't pretend that I know the level of stress you go through because he has never been deployed overseas but we have spent several months apart and it is normal for him to actually be gone 5-6 weeks at a time. I am sure my stress is on a different level than y'alls but I need the support from people who understand. If you don't want me around just say so. I hope you do though because I don't have many friends and none that really get it.

Welcome, Emma!

Hi Jen! I'm at Pope, Nice to meet you. I look forward to getting to know you and cheering you on to your goal.

Hi I am Kara I met my husband at a theme park where we worked in the summer together this Sept we will have been married 5 years and together for 10. He is over seas at the moment and should be home around our anniversary. This is our 3 rd deployment the first with a child we have a daughter now 1 year old. I would love to lose wait before having more children. I'm 5'4' and now 267 was 230 before getting pregnant. I have trouble trying to get started but just need to for the sake of my health and to be here fro my daughter and hubby. Would love support and friends. P.s we are stationed at HAAF in Savannah Ga but I'm in NY with family for deployment.

Hi my name is Brittany and my husband is active duty Army. Currently stationed at Fort Knox but he is deployed. My goal for the deployment is to lose 50 pounds!

Hi, my name is Tammy and I am 31 yrs old. I am a Navy Vet. and spouse, as well as the mother of 2 boys (6 and 4) and full-time college student. It gets very hard to juggle life and remember to take care of me, but that is my goal. I was in the best shape of my life when I was active duty and I WILL be there again. I would love to chat with other wives and maybe we can motivate each other in our weight-loss journeys!!!

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My name is Kayla and I'm 24 years old. I am married to my husband Lars, who is active duty Marine Corps. We are currently stationed in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. We have no children but are parents to 3 adorable cats. During the past 3 years we've endured 9 month deployments almost back to back in 2 years. But it wasn't until this past year did I seem to pack on all of the extra weight; mostly from stress eating. But it's time to get back into shape, not to just look good. But to be healthy, happy and confident.

*5'1"
*CW 178.8lbs
*GW 140 lbs
*UGW 132 lbs

I'm currently suffering from shoulder bursitis, torn shoulder tendons, and a strained neck so I am currently off of work for 2 weeks. Then I will be on light duty and seeing a physical therapist. But I don't let this current set back stop me from making healthier meal choices over my usual stress eating. And I walk at night to burn calories without further injuring myself. Feel

I'm looking forward to feeling confident again! Feel free to add me

Hello everyone! I joined myfitnesspal over 2 years ago and I just found out about groups so I decided to join for more motivation. My husband and I are currently stationed at ft. Gordon GA. I am 25 and would love to lose a total of 93 pounds. I have lost a little over 20 but I have been stuck pretty much all year gaining and losing the same 10 pounds.

My diary is open to friends so feel free to add me for support and encouragement.

My name is Stephanie. We've been at Fort Carson for almost 4 years now. I have an almost 3 year old named Evelyn. she was born during a deployment (2010-11.). During that deployment, I went from 222-150 while he was gone that deployment. Lots of hard work and dedication. I am trying to lose the last few and get to maintenance. I am only 10-15 away from where I want to be maintenance wise. I'm really proud of how far i've come and I'm trying to look on the bright side instead of being overly critical of my body.

My name is Diana, I'm 28 yrs old, happily married to a wonderful man and have two loving, full of energy boys ages 5 and 3 1/2. We are an Air Force family and are currently stationed at Mountain Home AFB in Idaho.

My story is a long one as to how I got here....
I have a chronic condition that is rare and hard to treat, basically my body has a hard time breaking down anything I consume or eat which causes pain and nausea. I have a wonderful team of doctors who have been treating me for 3 years. Unfortunately in that time I was medically retired from the Air Force.
After too many surgeries to list, as well as too many hospital stays to count, my current list of medications giving me some kind of quality of life, my growing list of foods I can't eat, and not being able to do any high impact exercise. I have arrived at a point where I am just sick of being tired all the time, constantly feeling icky, and 70lbs overweight!!

I just couldn't go another day like this! I put my foot down and went to see my doctors, after a very passionate plea, and a few tears (couldn't help it) they agreed that being 70lbs overweight, despite my obvious limitations, isn't helping to keep me healthy and out of the hospital, and that they would consent to help me lose weight safely. We sat down with a nutritionist (who clearly hadn't read my GINORMOUS file, lol) who after 4hrs finally came up with a plan that would work for my illness. I am on a calorie restricted diet, I will be going in for bi-weekly check-ins, and monthly blood work to just make sure that I am not causing any further damage to my liver and pancreas.

But despite what I know will be a long journey I am thrilled to be doing this! I want to be a better wife to my husband. Who I can not say enough truly is a saint and a prince among men! Not many men nowadays truly mean it when they say, "...until death do us part, in sickness and in health...". And not a lot of them would stick by a suddenly out of no-where chronically ill wife, become the sole provider suddenly, a caregiver, as well as Mom when I can't be! God definitely knew what he was doing. I am truly blessed. Not to mention my boys, oh my boys, they deserve to have a mother who doesn't spend half the year in the hospital.

I know losing the weight isn't a cure but maybe it will help alleviate my symptoms. Who knows? But I am ready to find out!

Hey yall! My name's Kelsey, I'm 20 years old! I'm married to the love of my life and my bestfriend, who happens to be in the Army. He's a Combat Engineer currently serving in Afghanistan. But we're stationed at Fort Polk, LA where I'm living with our two little furbabies i've only been on MFP for about a weekish. I've also been doing TurboFire through BeachBody and just finished week 6, only 6 more to go! And I've seen great results! I recently became a coach with Team BeachBody as well and I couldn't be happier! Other than being a coach I just got hired as the Supervisor at my local Plato's Closet! Hope to meet a workout buddy or two

Hi ladies! My name is Natalie, i'm from Germany and met my husband when we were 18 and he had just moved to his first duty station (Ramstein). We have been married for almost 9 year now, together for almost 11 years and we have 3 children, ages 8, 6 and 3. Currently we are stationed at Travis AFB in Cali, but before that we were in Texas (Lackland AFB) for 4 years. That's where my 2 daughter were born, my son was born in NJ.
I started my weight loss journey after each child, I really got into it after I had my 3rd child. Lost a lof weight, looked great, but still a work in process. Sadly I injured myself and had to stop exercising. I had a fracture from running and it hurt to walk for a long time). So I didn't work out anymore and then we got orders to move so I was busy getting everything ready for that. The pounds started coming back. A year and a half after our move, I had a light bulb moment. I changed our diets to whole foods, very little processed, no gmo and organic foods. It helped me a little but I was still not working out. I saw one of my friends have great success with a program (i'm not sure if i'm allowed to say in here or if that is considered advertising, lol, so I won't say it), so I decided to invest in myself and get into shape. I am now 4 months into it and lost 21lbs total. I have about 45ish more to lose, so I still have a way ahead of me. But I am sticking with it and it shows. I'm happier than ever :-)

Hey everyone!

I'm Casie, Army wife and we're stationed in Ft Hood. I have two little furbabies and far too much time on my hands, so I figured now's a perfect time to finally lose the weight I've been holding onto for far too long! I hope I get to chat with someone of you ladies soon!

Hi everyone!

My name is Tish, and I am a proud Army spouse. I just started Myfitnesspal and I'm a stay at home mom needing some motivation to lose 40lbs. My husband is currently deployed and I have 5 children. They are 15, 14, 5, 4, and 4 months. We are currently stationed in JBLM, WA, but we PCS in the summer. I'm almost 40 and already have a lot of health problem. I'm hoping this group will help me with some great advice and support.