Hi I'm Desiree! (waving)

I joined MFP and started my road trip on February 1, 2013 - I have lost 36 pounds so far with a goal of 104 total.


I live in S. California. I am a homeschool Mom, a Girl Scout Leader, a wife and a travel agent. I love to travel, read and cook.

I log in daily and look forward to being part of this group.

Hello... Im Mandy, live in Lancaster UK, have 2 children 8 and 5. Im 5ft 3 and 10st 7 / 147lbs.

I like running and classes at the gym, did alot of body pump, spin, combat but have changed in the last few weeks to bootcamp, weights based classes like advanced kettle bells and more power hour with weights in short circuits and boxfit and tabata aswell.
We have the x force machines at our gym too so have been using that once a week.
I eat pretty healthy, love my salad but have the odd takeaway and wines.
Think I need to look at this though and refine it, im not sure how many calories to eat really, mfp says 1200 but i think more with exercise?
My goal is to lose a stone. Finding it hard though. Nothing shifts! Thought i might find some inspiration on here....

Oh, I too love to cook and entertain so bring those recipes on!

Hi Everyone,

I'm Martha and I've been lurking your group all morning ;-)

I'm 41 and have 3 kids 8 and under. As I like to tell it, I began my pregnancy with our oldest about 10 pounds overweight. I then got down to within 10 pounds of pre-pregnancy. Repeat 2 times and I am now within 10 pounds of being 10 pounds over my pre-pregnancy weight with our 3rd...she's almost 3. So, see, all but 20 pounds of this is baby weight!

But, who really cares where it came from? My weight has been a daily thought and discouragement my entire adult life and I'm SICK of it. I think I'm ready to realize that I can't do this with a "diet" - there is no "somewhat quick" way to get there and then make a lifestyle change to stay there. I just need to make my lifestyle one that affords healthy living and live my life.

You ladies seem to be a supportive group and I hope to learn a lot...and give some too.

Hello, I'm Jane, I just hit 50 in April (bit of a shock!) I downloaded MFP on my Android phone (now deceased) back in November and have steadily lost just over 2 stone :happy: Never never never thought I'd do that! Still another stone to go to get to my healthy weight/BMI. But I'm doing really well, and proud of myself!

I'm a Brit living in Hull, UK.

Wonderful supportive loving husband, who cheers me on and makes me feel 20 and beautiful! Sadly though, his work takes him off to London for the week far too often so it's just me and the cats and the biscuit tin - glad to say the biscuit tin sits alone and ingnored! A measure of how well this is working for me!

Glad to meet everyone and happy to be friends :flowerforyou:

Hello everyone,

My name is Lyn and I am from Perth in Western Australia. I have been using MFP for 3 weeks and have lost 3.1 kg in that time. That is 6.8 lbs for those who are not using metric.

I am 56, love to cook - and EAT - of course!! I fit the Ladies Who Lunch group perfectly as I love to go out to lunch with girlfriends and love a glass or 2 of wine, either champagne or red wine. Yum.

All the lunching and the drinking and cheese and dinner party eating over the years and the sampling and enjoying my cooking has been the cause of quite a big weight gain which has slowly crept up and up. How did this happen you ask, well I have managed to avoid looking carefuly (truthfully) in the mirror and definetly have not stepped on the scales until recently! All the while just buying the next sized clothes.

Well enough was enough and I have now made the decision to return to a decent weight which I can manage and still have some enjoyment out of all the good things in life! So here I am.

A bit more about me. I have 2 grown daughters, 32 and 30 years old and 3 grandchildren, 2 little boys 4 and 2 and a little girl who just turned 1 year old. They are adorable and truly light up my life. My husband is very supportive and is also counting calories on MFP in an effort to lose weight also. As is often the way he is dropping it off fast - typical male - and has lost 6.7 kg in 3 weeks! That is 14.7 lbs.

I look forward to finding some yummy recipes to try from this group and perhaps sharing a couple with you all. I also look forward to your company and support!

Best wishes to you all. Lyn x

Hi I am Sandy, 54 years young, in Huntsville AL.
Years ago I lost 85 lbs and kept it off until I was hit like every else by the economy and became sad
I love to hike, kayak and cycle but when I lost my job and had to move to Huntsville from Columbus GA I had to leave my activity friends, house and dream job behind. I became a couch potato! I changed from someone that never watched TV to a lump that re-watched reruns.

But I am done with that! When I lost 85 lbs it was with no carbs and no sugars but I find now I crave fruits so I am going to count calories and eat healthy!

I moved my bed into my apartment living room..lol, and have made my bedroom into a gym. I have started back paddling the lakes in the area and have found a few Green-ways to cycle.

So today is DAY 1 of "change my attitude and my down hill spiral" Back to being the old Sandy that was healthy and happy! One day at a time of smart choices!

Hi, I'm Alison and I turned 40 in June!

When I was a child I wanted to grow up and host dinner parties. Well I grew up, married a not so great guy, left him and found a pretty great guy, had a child and now I stay at home to look after the boy and hubby plans lots of dinner parties for us to host. Livin' the dream here!

I am a stay-at-home mom to a 5 year old son. We live in Toronto, Ontario.

It took a while for me to lose the pregnancy weight, I guess 2 years ago I lost it and a bit more and then have been a bit roller coastery since then. Although I have always managed to remain at a loss weight wise. Since turning 40 I decided I wanted to get in tip top shape just so I can be a hot lady who lunches.

For activity I love Jillian Michaels DVDs. I also figure skate typically 3 at least 3 or 4 times a week. In the fall/winter season I do 2 on ice classes a week, then try to have an evening for myself and then once a week I skate with my synchronized skating team. So part of the getting fit is to look good in a skating dress since I'm still no pleased with how I look.

That's basically me. Looking forward to chatting and losing weight together!

Hi I'm Christina. I'm 44 years old and have about 66 pounds to lose. I'm a single mother with a young, active and fit daughter. I wish I had her motivation actually...

I've done just about every 'plan' you could imagine short of weight loss surgery and am really looking for a lifestyle change. I'm not getting any younger and am tired of avoiding pictures and mirrors etc. My daughter will be competing at a really huge Cheerleading competition in Dallas next March and my goal is to be much fitter so that I'm not ashamed to be in the pictures when she wins! :flowerforyou: Actually, I want to look so good that I'm tempted to run around photo bombing others. I've got a lot of years of pics to make up!!

I work at home and am on the computer and phone all day which is a great job for a single mom but gives me the activity level of a slug. And I'm not kidding. I did the WW Active Link 7 day assessment TWICE before it recorded any activity at all which is probably some kind of record. But now I've committed to spending a year changing my habits, my mindset and my life. Next July 4th I'll be lying on the beach in my bikini and I'll be proud. I had to put in the proud thing because I have no shame and go to the beach in a bikini now anyway LOL

So, thanks for having me. I'm looking for motivated friends to join me on my journey and plan to exercise regularly and be on this site every day.

Hi everyone. My name is Gretchen and I just turned 49 this year. Two years ago I got down to a healthy weight and lost about 60 lbs, but my hormones have decided that I needed 20 of those back. Yikes!! I have changed my eating habits and my workout routine to hopefully counteract this little problem. I am recently re-married to a great guy and want to do this to help be a role model for him as well. I have two young adult sons. Nice to meet you!

Hi, I am 44 years old from Houston, TX. I always had a weight issue but the recent passing of my mother made me decide to gain control of my weight problem. I love to cook and bake. I always get a kick out of making new dishes for my family(add a little wine here and a dash there ). My goal is to walk at least 30 min. a day and change my eating habit.

Hello - I'm Cheryl. I am new to this - again I signed up when I had less weight to lose - now I've got a lot more. Hopefully, I will stick around. Would love to have some "friends" to make me feel accountable in a way.

Thanks!

HI, I am new this week of august 2013, I need to lose 50 to 80 pounds and I am 52 years old. I was told about this site threw one of my husbands ex-co-workers, We are just fairly new to being married as of august 3rd 2013. I haved gained amount of weight since i lost my job.I am now at home hopeing to start up a new bussinees here at home an outdoor pizza oven resturant. I haved nevered been this heavy in my entire life . When i seen my husbands ex co-worker at our wedding, I didnt know who she was , so I asked him and he told me , I couldnt believe it ,, What a difference , she looked beautiful and walked so proud..[GREAT JOB CATHY]] So I called her up at her place of work and asked her how she done it and she told me about this site ...So I had to look into it and so here I am ...I live in wisconsin and am willing to have and listen to any advice and I am willing to help coach anyone of you on and any other way that I can be of help...I haved tried over 5 dozen of diets and haved always failed at them all and gaining weight back plus an extra pound or two...So now it is about time I do lose , cause I want my husband to look at me like he used to do and all the little thing's he used to do before I gained the weight THAT he doesn"t do no more. So i am hopeing to have most of it off by next summer JUNE I hope....

Hi. I'm Sidney, a newly retired teacher and must be about the oldest person on this board. I have had a weight issue since I have been 15. There have been periods of months or even a few years when I was on target, but even then food has controlled my life.

I have just joined MFP and am determined not to let my age dictate my body shape. In the last 2 years it has been changing form 'hourglass' to 'apple'. Enough. Recently I have begun walking about an hour a day, and even more recently have added light weights. I haven't yet seen a difference yet, but should soon, right?

I am thinking with tracking and support that I can turn this around. On seeing the Cocktails, anyone? thread, I knew Ladies Who Lunch was my kind of group!

It feels good to be here.

Hi, I'm Sidney Doris an I am my worst diet enemy. I hope to remove almost all prepared foods and take charge of my weight. I seem to loose the battle in the afternoons before dinner. Hoping to take charge of my cravings with healthy choices. Using fruit instead of cookies.