Other than yourself, who is your biggest supporter?

My husband! He has always been stick-thin, and doesn't have to work out. He works in HVAC so he does a lot of heavy lifting and walking and moving things around all day so his job has him working out. I on the other hand work as a Speech Pathologist in the schools, so yes I am on my feet, but I don't get nearly as much exercise, so I have to exercise outside of work. My husband is always reminding me that I can do this and to stop weighing myself! He also signed up to do a 5k with me in September and to me that is the biggest show of support!

My husband and kids...I know only one, but they all do in their way. My husband defends my logging if someone makes a snide remark, he will weigh things and look up info for me, he goes to the gym with me. He is very supportive as long as we do not discuss facts, he still believes many of the debunked things that others at MFP like to post sometimes. My girls are always complimenting me and asking questions about the gym. My oldest is a little upset that she soon won't be able to steal all my "skinny " clothes, she was worried she would have to return the ones she already got from my closet, but the hubby says when I reach the size I want....a whole new wardrobe is needed.

My boyfriend! He has took on healthy eating with me, and is very supportive with my work outs. He also keeps me in line with my eating which I like and need.

My dog

My fiance. He points out areas where I'm looking better, laments the loss of my tush/bust, but is always taking me for long walks. I notice after a weekend together, with 5+ mile walks every day, the scale slides down rather quickly over the next week!

My personal trainer and any that likes me to improve or any that makes me noticed that i gained weight, then i usually befriend cause i take it as a help to become better no a critic !!!

My 17 year old son-he loves to talk fitness with me and tells me I look awesome (for a mom-he's learning!). Three of my girlfriends tell me I look great but we all have different views on exercise/diet so we don't discuss that aspect but we all tell each other how proud we are of each other's efforts.

Sadly, my DH is NOT supportive. He doesn't workout, he eats total crap (and tries to get me to eat it with him more than I'm willing), he tries to make me feel guilty about rolling out of bed early to hit the gym. I just ignore him and keep doing my thing but it sure would be easier if he was along for the ride. I guess I will look good for my next husband though!

Oh! And I get comments from the folks at the gym too-I almost think those are the best!

My son (the kid I have in a headlock). He is always so proud of me and has even started running with me, we did our first 5k (we walked and ran) together this weekend.

My friend, Nicole!

Super Trainer!!!! I have no spouse or kids (not for lack of trying, but apparently the male population around here has absolutely no interest in the likes of me) and my parents live 3.5 hours away, so no family nearby to support me
Almost 6 years ago I lost my best friend to stage 4 colo-rectal cancer (her second round) and really floundered for friends (have discovered that I have some of the greatest friends over the past 6 years, and in the past 2+ two of them have stood out and are the closest that I've had to my best friend.) Then just over two years ago I joined Lifestyle Family Fitness and met this really vibrant Les Mills Combat instructor. When I decided to look into some personal training, on the advice of another instructor, I decided not to work with the personal trainers at the gym (apparently LFF charged $30-50+ per hour and the trainers only received about $12, didn't seem right and I'd rather the trainer get the bulk of the money), so I asked the Combat instructor about this as we had started to become friends, she told me on the down low that LFF was being bought out by LA Fitness and they were not being kind to the Les Mills instructors (all the LM people were fired when LAF took over at the location I was at) and that another instructor was opening his own gym where she was going to be offering personal training. Well I became her first training client and we've become fast friends.
She has been there through the worst: the first year of training with her I gained (yeah, I said GAINED) 40 lbs, she supported me through the tears, frustration, and anger. Even through the moments of being ready to give up because we couldn't figure out why all the exercise and eating right wasn't working. If I didn't show up for class I got a phone call (still do) to check on me, when I was down, she tell me we just have to find the right key, let's try this, there's got to be something going on. Every fail was met with an attempt to solve. When I went to an endocrinologist, she called before my appointment was over to see if I had answers (not yet at that time since I still had lab work to get done now that the doc knew what the background was), we cheered when we found out that I really did have something wrong with me (how sick is that? we're happy that I have something wrong???) and now we're seeing extremely slow progress (I'm hypothyroid and insulin resistant, just got stabilized on all the meds in the past few months), but we're seeing progress! And she's still my biggest cheer leader and always reminds me that I found my "roar"

My son (the kid I have in a headlock). He is always so proud of me and has even started running with me, we did our first 5k (we walked and ran) together this weekend.

That's amazing, my daughter did 2 5k's with me last year-- we did the color run and neon splash dash! They were fun, this year we are doing the Texan's Bulls on Parade 5k and maybe another color run! We never run the whole thing, but we did set a goal to finish faster each time. I believe we walked/jogged the first one in 45 mins and the 2nd one only took us 30 mins! We were so happy and tired!

We did the Neon Dash this weekend!! He told me he was going to start looking for other runs he thinks would be fun to do