Looking for motivation friends to go from 284 lb to 140 lb!

hey, i feel your pain...been overweight forever myself! though, im 33 now and looking to get down to about 130-140 from 263, my CW is 242...i do have instagram, but rarely use it and dont remember it atm, but feel free to add me here

Add me! Started at 270 and goal is 140ish! Currently 255

Feel free to add me as well! I could use some friends on here that are going through the same thing. I started at 272, currently 257...looking to be about 140 as well!

Hi all,

My husband and I both joined in late July. MFP has been a pretty good experience so far, except the whole male vs. female weight loss thing. He literally has lost about 2 lbs for every 1 pound I've lost. Rather than being discouraged, I just keep moving. Chasing a 13-month-old toddler around helps.

Highest weight: 305 lbs (late August 2012)
Joined MFP: 275 lbs (late July 2013)
CW: 258.5 lbs
GW: 140-150 lbs

Good luck to everyone!!! Please feel free to add me. I definitely could use extra MFP friends.

Hi! Feel free to add me too. I just joined yesterday, and started my 'diet' today. I'm 30 and have two boys (5yr old and 13 month old). I've always been big as well. Currently, I'm 200 lbs and my goal is to get down to 120-130 range.

Hi I'm 23 also and have always been a bit bigger all my life.

Right now I'm about 2 dress sizes smaller than I was at my largest but still nowhere near where I want to be.

Currently 175lbs looking to go to 130lbs

Feel free to send me a msg or add me as a friend.

Hi everyone,

I started MFP a week ago tomorrow, so tomorrow will be my first weigh in! I found it through a nutritionest. She is free through my health benefits at work and she will be helping me as I ask her to. I am not vain so losing weight to get thin is just not motivating for me. I am concerned with the risk of high blood pressure, diabetes, and cancer at my age since all of those things run in my family and being overweight increases the risk. Ideally I would like to lose 50 pounds.

So far, I have found MFP easy to use and very informative. I am so surprised with how much sugar I eat everyday without eating "sweets". Has anyone else been surprised by this? I would love to share this experience and support you all. I am very interested in sharing recipes, tips, and information.

How do I "add" you all? Or is it that kahays will add me and then I'll automatically be part of the group?
Thanks for the open invite.
Amy

Hello! My name is Karin and I just started my new Journey as well! I would welcome support as well and I'm also very supportive! The great and wonderful thing is you are so YOUNG! You have chosen to take this step at a great age! YOU CAN and WILLDO it ! JUST believe!! I'm a huge advocate of visual help! My suggestion is to find a picture of an inspiring figure, body type and post on Mirror! also what I'm doing is POST IT NOTES every day! Motivational words! Of course there is the health plan and exercise but let's not forget SUPPORT! You Can ROCK it!!!

Just read your post and I wish you all the best. One thing Ive learned is that we can oversell ourselves in losing weight. Jump in from 0 exercise to an hour a day of something and suddenly dropping a gazzilion calories from our diet. If I could give any friendly advice to a long term relationship with successful results, it would be this. Commit your self to one or two things that you know you can do until that becomes a habit. Like walking x miles every day no matter what the weather may be. Then add something else to your day and make that a habit, then so on and so on. Don't be to obsessed with the scale, use it as a target area + or - a few pounds. You can lose a lot of fat and not change the scale but your clothing is getting a bit baggy

Hi. Im 20 and 273lbs. We r at a very close point and our goals are really close so maybe we can be partners in this

I'm not one to judge anyone else on how they do their weight loss, however, you don't need some food program to lose weight. Just make sure that you keep the trans fats low, trade in your vegetable oil for pure corn oil, and cook your food in olive oil. Our bodies are designed to eat natural food and unnatural aka processed food confuses our body and causes us to retain weight. Shop on the edges of your local market, as more processed foods are in the inner aisles and the fresh food is on the edges. (Think of the produce wall or the meat and fish wall) If you cook your meal at home, you'll find that you're eating much more healthy. Cook from scratch, ie, shun frozen or pre-packaged chips or other food items. One really tasty and healthy recipe is a six ounce chicken breast, pounded so that it is the same thickness all around with some salt, pepper, and some parsley rubbed into it. Preheat your skillet by pouring about a teaspoon of olive oil into the cool pan then turning on the fire up to medium heat. Test your pan by touching an edge of the chicken breast into the hot oil. If it sizzles, it's ready to start cooking! Gently drop your chicken into the pan and carefully some lemon juice. The lemon juice adds a little bit of tanginess to the chicken, as well as tenderizes it. Cook until the chicken is firm and the inside is white all the way through the middle. Remember, pink chicken is dangerous chicken. Once it's done, place it on a nice spinach salad and enjoy!

We're all in the same boat!!! I'm 5'3", starting this change back on 9/15 at 286.4 lbs. Today I'm down to 265.6 . Like @bgheald2010, I'm not following any diet, either...I eat CONSTANTLY throughout the day - 3 meals and 3 snacks. In order to spread out my calories to cover all of that, I've got to make smart choices and tradeoffs with myself. Can I have a donut? Sure! But it will probably mean having a smaller, less yummier dinner...worth the trade off? For me, no. So the donut never gets eaten.

It's a learning process - honestly, the biggest help was buying a scale. I had no clue what amounted to a proper portion size! It's made a world of difference...that, and making sure that I eat veggies at every meal. I never used to do that before, either. And I usually eat them first to fill up a bit. I've had no problem to sticking to 4 oz red meat serving sizes...

feel free to add me as a friend and poke around my food diary...you may find something yummy in there!

WE CAN ALL DO THIS!!!!

How do I "add" you all? Or is it that kahays will add me and then I'll automatically be part of the group?
Thanks for the open invite.
Amy
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Click on the person's name, then click the green button that says SEND FRIEND REQUEST (or something similar).

Feel free to add me, too. I have been overweight my whole life, too. Not very many supportive peeps around, and family was not only brutal about it, but also insulting. Ghastly. Anyway, currently at 200 (30 of which I've just gained in the last 9 months), heading for 135-145. I may not get there, on account I was stuck on 165 for a number of years, and that was with a really low calorie diet and high exercise (hiking a 3500 footer 3x week and working in the yard doing heavy landscaping almost every day.) Sigh. Anyway, I am always one to aspire to inspire, before I expire, lol.

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