I just joined and I have 190 pounds to loose. I know this is 200+ but I hope I am welcome. I'm a 37 year old mother of 3 boys (15, 10, and 1 -surprise). I weighed in at 308 on January 1, 2012 and weigh in again on Monday. I'm looking for accountability partners.

SW: 308
CW: 261
GW: 119

Hi,
I'm Niki (27) I've been trying to lose weight but never been very serious. So starting today is my new begging, and my quote is new body, mind, and soul. I am surrounded with negative people at work who tease me, who don't like my colorful joking, but I will not let them get me down! If I lose the weight I will look, feel, and begin to play with my daughter the way I should, and I hope these bipolar and mood swings shed with my weight. Sorry about the long intro.

I was fluctuating betwen 310- 320 at my worst in Jan 2012. I carry a lot of fluid
Now I am fluctuating between 294--300.
the Ins tables say I should be 108--147
I will be super ecstatic to be below 170 thats my first long range goal
Short range goal is 10% of my total weight every 3 months. I am almost done with the 1st increment.. I hope to achieve the 2nd increment before New years.Day. Will you pray for me? And I will for all of you.

Welcome, new folks! Feel free to friend me and steal some of the AWESOME people from my friends list, as well. Let's get fit

Hi I'm Renee. I'm new to the group and to mfp. I'm excited to get started again. I see that so many in this group are making great strides in achieving their goal. Thanks for posting because it helps to motivate me seeing others with similar amounts to lose.

SW 363
First Goal 299

Hello! I'm starting MFP again. This time I want to be part of the community. I look forward to making some friends.
SW 380 (damn)
CW 380
GW 180

Hi, I'm Cyndee
SW 358
GW 135
CW 304.6

Hello everyone soon to be 34 year old father 7 husband here in Michigan. I have tried everything you can imagine to lose weight with the exception of surgery as it's just not for me mentally but I don't knock it at all for anything that has had it done.

About a year ago I tried out and made it as a semi finalist on EMWLE with trainer Chris Powell about a month or two before filming I was told I wasn't picked for the show.

This made me realize that even if I was on the show the work and effort was still going to have to come from me more so from within me. I have a 2 year old daughter that keeps me dedicated now to this journey.

I blog about my weight loss on my site toobig.net and my EMWLE story if anyone is interested can be found on my site at the links just below the banner with the scale.

My heaviest weight was 523 in Feb 12 when I auditioned for EMWLE I was 505 today I'm almost a year later I'm about 70lbs down and still going.

Thank you all for crating a group with people who i know get me and can relate to each others struggles. I welcome anyone that would like to become a friend.

Thanks Jess

sw 356
gw 156
cw 264

I have lost 91.
I have 109 left to go.
I may go farther than 156; I will reevaluate when I get there... Hopefully

Hi, I am 58 and 400lbs at 5'2". Hope to lose 250 lbs after all is done, but the first 10 per cent goal will make me feel lots better so that is losing 40 lbs.
Let me see if I can do it in 3 months time.
That would be right at the beginning of summer and maybe I can get out and enjoy the season for a change!

you look great! hope to follow in your footsteps soon!

Hi everyone, my name is Sherri and I live in Michigan. I am at the beginning of my journey to be a healthy person and I can use all the help I can get.
Heres a little bit about me.
I have been active on mfp for just 3 days now but I plan on staying here, making new friends and learning how to eat right.
I am a 47 year old mother of 1 and Grandma to 2 of the most awesome kids ever to be born:happy:
I have been with my boyfriend for 16 years.
I am 6 months free of cigarettes and I don't miss them one bit.
I have isolated myself for so long, I no longer have any friends that I can just hang out with.
I am seeing a therapist for the first time in my life and I am learning so much.
I am addicted to food.
I am on disability due to the weight, severe depression and COPD.
I was just told by my Dr that I am on the verge of Hashimoto's thyroiditis.
Oh yeah, to top it all off, I weigh 400 pounds at 5'8 and I feel like I am a giant.

Hello, my name is Brandie. I am 27 as of March 3th 2013 and I started this year in January at 420 pounds.

I decided I had my whole future ahead of me. I was tired of this and tired of just dreaming but all the things I wanted to do and never doing them. I am engaged to be married on 10/31/2014 and I want to look and feel my best. I want to be healthy and not take shortcuts because I want to stay healthy.

I want to have kids and be able to run around and play with them.
I want to go backpacking across Europe and I want to run a marathon for a good cause.

I am currently in school for radiology and when I graduate I want to be able to get a job because I am so full of energy. I do not currently live off the state other than them paying for my school, but I don't ever want to live off the state. I want to work for a living, I want to get my own place and I want to be able to go out with my friends and I want to go camping and I want to go swimming and not be so shy or the recluse I have slowly become.

I want to live and experience and raise a healthy family, and then when my love and I retire, I want us to still be healthy and be able to go and travel more. To travel across the united states and to go on cruises and to just be free. I have so many thoughts and dreams and plans for our future..... but it just can;t happen at the weight either of us are at.

I am tired of being afraid of dying of a heart attack, or dying young so that I don't get to do my dreams. I am tired of the stares and looks and the whispers and always wondering who is making fun of me behind my back. I am tired of just sitting here and waiting for life to come to me. I am ready to get up and charge at life head on.

I am not currently Diabetic, I have normal blood pressure, I am actually very healthy other than my weight which has always been a bit of an amazement to doctors, but my grandparents (who are also very overweight) are diabetic, my dad who is a little over weight is diabetic and my mom had the gastric bypass when I was a teen is pre-diabetic.

Before I joined MFP I had lost some weight, now I am at 394, according to MFP I have lost 16 pounds but I have actually lost 26 pounds.

I had been working on this on and off since the beginning of the year. A little over a week ago someone I loved very much and who I was trying to encourage and help because she was very sick, very diabetic, and about 490 pounds, and who most importantly like my second mother, passed away from a heart attack. It has pushed me even more into doing this. She was so proud of the 20+ pounds I had lost, and I want to continue to make her proud and to smile down at me from where ever she is.

My new motto is one step, one day at a time.

I am happy to have joined this group and I need all the encouragement I can get. I just want to be healthy. My goal for my height is 150. I have a long way to go, and I don't want to give up. Ever.

Hi everyone

Not comfortable posting my start weight of yet but over 200lbs to lose. Made a decent start so far, hoping to keep going.

Would love to hear from some of you for some support?

B x