Heya!!! I am Tegan! 29 years old, soon to be 30 this winter! Am at goal weight and now working the slow process of body recomp!

I am two weeks into IF with a 14/10 eating window 5-6 days a week and one non IF day (long run day dictates that I eat when I need to). I am loving it and look forward to continuing with it as long as it works for me! Oh and I eat all the foodz. In moderation. Just don't look at Easter. Or Christmas. Or my bday. Or my anniversary. Or New Years. Or thanksgiving. Those days calories don't count

I am a new runner and love it. Working my way up to doing a personal half marathon! I love lifting as well but as my current goal is to improve my running, I am just doing gym machines and some freeweight stuff as heavy as I can . Goals may change this summer, we shall see .

I enjoy kittehs but am deathly allergic to them . So I has a chihuahua named Taylor instead! He is 7 years old and full size (not a mini and as big as a skinny pug). He has a bunch of medical issues too. He has severe environmental and food allergies (poor baby has to eat salmon based food and is often sporting furless legs), a heart murmur, and floating patella (meaning his knee caps can just pop out of place and I have to pop them back in). He is a goofball though and he brings me a lot of joy !

I live with my boyfriend of 2+ years. He is the man I will marry as soon as he asks lol! We enjoy Netflix and being geeky together. He is a big gamer and I am the girl who would have been a gamer if Mario would have just been a dear and jumped over the damn hole at the beginning of the game!!! I do enjoy some games but they have to be easy or I lack the hand eye coordination to excel. We like to watch movies and be silly in stores and basically just hang out and have a good time.

I am currently the owner and operator of an infant and toddler daycare and it is me and 6 infants and toddlers in a house I set up as a school (I don't live there). I have done this for almost 9 years and well to be honest, it is no longer my passion. So! I am going back to school this fall to study nutrition to hopefully become a Registered Dietitian!

I had a sort of crappy childhood and do have some residual stuff leftover from that including codependency issues. I have done a lot of work to overcome it and am doing really well but still don't have tons of confidence in myself and my abilities so I am still a work in progress. But aren't we all?

That was super long but hopefully gives you somewhat of an idea as to what I am all about!

Hai!

My name is Steph. I'm 23 years old female. I started getting serious about fitness in January 2013. In the beginning it was all about the number on the scale. I wanted to get down to 140lbs from 180lbs. I didn't want to starve myself because I'd be very unhappy and wouldn't stick with it. I lost weight doing various cardio workouts and got down to 150lbs. At that time I stopped caring about the number on the scale. In Oct/Nov of 2013 I started weight training. I tried body weight programs, weight machines and eventually started Stronglifts. I love Stronglifts. It's hard, exciting, makes me feel like a badass, frustrating, etc. It makes me feel alive. I get so emotional (in both bad and good ways) and I've noticed little changes with it. I lifted for about two months then moved and lost access to the gym for 2 months. I started back up a few weeks ago and fell in love with it again. My boyfriend just started lifting with me and I love having a gym partner.

I'm trying to lose a bit of fat before the end of May where I'll be cosplaying at a convention for the first time. I am eating at TDEE-10% but want to do my first bulk session in july/august.

Hiya everyone! I'm Karin, 52, married for 25 years. I have 2 sons and 2 grandkids. I live in Southern California and think I was some kind of ocean animal in another life as I am drawn to the water. One of my goals is to learn to surf this summer, I've wanted to try it for a long time but being fat = not comfortable in a swim suit. I'm a Montessori Teacher with kids ages 3-6 (preschool & kindergarten). I normally wouldn't mention my pets but since Kristin did, I have 2 bearded dragons, Sunny and Spike.

I recently started resistant training on the advice of my doctor after getting a bone scan that showed more bone thinning than is normal for my age. I do not want osteoporosis! I researched and tried a few different programs but something really clicked with free weights. I am doing the All Pro program right now.

I've lost 56 pounds over the last 2 years and am within about 10 pounds of my goal weight. Yippeee! I have done yoga for about 15 years, I have taken many classes but now I practice at home. For about a year I was extremely indulgent and took private classes in my home. My husband and I recently went to Belize for a yoga retreat. It was an amazing trip and we would love to go back. I also like to hike and we have some beautiful places around where we live to do that.

Hi! I'm Joelle :flowerforyou:

I'm 36, married, mommy to one terrible-two year old :smooched: whom I adore despite his crappy attitude.

Education in Social Work, practiced predominately suicide assessments and crisis intervention, dabbled in some long term case management -- burnt out with the whole mentalit or do more with less and sought other career opportunitites.

Now I manage a small Base Exchange (think convenience store) on a USCG Base in Maine. I my job, my customers and my country. I have never, in my 20 years in the working world, had a job I loved more and looked forward to every day.


I have a sad and pathetic story that I'll skip :yawn: regarding my previous marriage(s) involving a fat, broken, sad woman who allowed a super morbidly obese man (700+ pounds when he died at 40 years old) to control her life and abuse her emotionally for five years......

Fast Forward to the present, because that is all that really matters. Happy, healthy, 5 years post Gastric Bypass, maintaining a 200+ pound weight loss, working on the last super stubborn 15 pounds. Married to a true knight in shining armor that came along when I gave up looking. Strolled into my life and never looked back despite my claims that I would NEVER marry again, and he was just going to have to get over his need for marriage. Well.......... what can you do when your soul mate won't go away?

Love me a good run, and working on getting my *kitten* back into gear. I refuse to run on the treadmill (as I truly believe a part of my soul dies when I do), so I did no running all winter. Now, I am trying to get my groove back.