Hello,

I have joined a medical weightloss center in my city to help me drop the weight. I wanted to use MFP as a way to help keep me honest with my tracking. I am on a 1400 calorie plan by the doctor at the weight loss center. It is my last ditch effort I guess before seriouslly considering surgery. I do not want to go that route (I hate hospitals).

I have a long way to go and was hoping by being active in the online communties on MFP I will be more likely to stick through this.

If anyone wants to add me as a buddy please message me. Thnx.

Hello everyone. I'm Billie, a 41 year old chef and sometimes doula, mom of three amazing children ages 23, 18 and 16 and wife to a very supportive and loving man. I have struggled with being overweight for most of my adult life and have been on MFP for a few years with mixed dedication (and therefore, mixed results). I usually go a couple of months and do just fine before getting derailed, giving up on tracking and gaining all the weight back. This time, even though I have been far from perfect, my attitude has changed and I am able to see a setback as something to prompt me to take a step back and re-evaluate and move forward rather than allow it to drag me down and make me lose momentum. Because of this new outlook, I'm proud to say that despite a few weeks of being less than conscientious about my choices, I have tracked all of my food for all but two of the last 158 days!

I started out at almost 300 pounds, and my first big goal is to simply get below 200 pounds, which means 68 pounds to lose to reach that goal. I'm going for a slow but steady because I'm aiming to do more than just lower my dress size, I am overhauling my life! I'm sick of feeling tired and want to take back my life and be the active and healthy person I know I can be. I look forward to shopping for that new wardrobe, too!

I'd love to make some MFpals to share stories, struggles, encouragement and support as well as helping each other stay accountable and motivated. Feel free to send a friend request, I am a very active and supportive pal here on MFP! I LOVE cheering my pals on and need some friends who will do the same!

Hi my name is Jen. I am 35 years old from southern California. Been on here for about 3 months and down 60 pounds so far. Looking for some encouragement and friends!

Hi My name is Diana, and I live in South Jersey. I've been overweight most of my life, and I'm motivated more than ever to get this weight off. I'm down 18 pounds, but I'm looking to lose over 160 pounds.

Hello all. I am Maggie. My highest weight (March 2013) was 339. I am now somewhere in the vicinity of 270. (this is the first time I have publicly shared those numbers) I have either been on a diet, or was aware that I should be on a diet, since grade school and I am 49 years old. My goal is to be healthy, not skinny or sexy or anything else. I have a good life and I want to be around to live it for a very long time.

I started this weight loss journey due to significant health concerns, then promptly began to lose motivation once I felt better. It seems I have gained and lost the same 10-15 lbs too many times to count in the past year or so. I joined MFP a couple of weeks ago to try to get myself back on track. I had stopped tracking my food and exercise, and thus fell back into bad habits.

Just when I thought I had my diet under control w/MFP, a friend came to visit for a week. We "celebrated" with food the entire time. (we both struggle with our weight). My friend left yesterday, so now I am facing the music. My wife turned to me last night as I was eating a giant bowl of ice cream and said only, "You are going to be so mad at yourself before long." Boy, was she ever right. .

Today, I am struggling with negative thoughts. I know I should be proud of myself for saying, "this stops today", and getting back on track. Instead, I am focused on the "failures" of last week. I'm hoping to sweat out some of the negativity in my yard today (I live to garden), but the rain may force me to turn to my exercise bike instead.

How do the rest of you handle this situation? We all know that beating ourselves up does not really help with weight loss, but I'm fairly sure we all do it. The physical aspect of weight loss is the easy part for me. It's the mental aspect that defeats me every time. suggestions?

Hello,
My name is Zach and I weigh 300 pounds. I have about 110 stubborn pounds to lose. I have tried every diet under the sun from weight watchers to a cookie diet. In the past, I went on diets to lose weight to look better, but now I am on a diet for my health. My weight is starting to wear me down and I can not do all the activities that I used to enjoy. Thankfully, I found myfitnesspal and tracking what I eat is now easier then ever! I feel like the diet games are over and I am starting to take control of life. I wish everyone the best of luck and success.
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I'm Lynne, 36, married SAHM to two children 7, and almost 4. I really started getting serious about changing my lifestyle in May when I saw my PCP. I see her once a month for a weigh in. From May 6- July 2, I've lost 20lbs. I have another 140 to my goal. I try to take each day as a day to make good choices. Some days I do some don't. But I don't beat myself up when I don't either. I've done pretty dang good thus far. I do Zumba 5x a week, Core exercises 3x week and weight training (just arms) 3x week. I do everything from home. We also have a limited budget. It can be done.

I my name is Trisha im 23 married with two boys 4 yrs and 5 months... I weigh 247 and my goal is to lose all together about 102 lbs but my short term goal is to lose 30 lbs by December 31 2014 I want to be healthier for my kids and my husband I feel utterly disgusting when im naked I cant even look in the mirror...

I'm Steph, a 6'1" 24 year old. I played sports since I was 4 and didn't gain weight until after I quit my Division 1 softball team, but kept eating like I was still on it. I want to get down to under my high school weight, which was 225, to 200. I will be adding a photo to my profile later tonight, as I want to take a current one. I will also be starting C25K tonight to begin my journey and I have already been watching what I've been eating for the past couple of days. I joined MFP because whenever I had a weight loss question, I would google it and these forums always came up. It's an amazing community and I wanted to be part of it. I live in CT with my boyfriend Dan and our little Chihuahua/Jack Russell mix named Colby.

Hiya, Claire here and like everyone else I'm on a healthy mission. My husband has just been diagnosed with diabetes and to date I have dodged that bullet but...lets be honest...I won't for long! I don't have many secrets but I must say those numbers on the scale is one of them. I know, everyone knows I'm fat and have an eating problem...I just don't want to admit that I weigh more than the full backs on the football teams. I just turned 50, so...I'm OLD but I really don't feel like it...have a 13 year old son who may also have an eating/too much screen problem...which he came by honestly.

I have a business trip in December so my first goal is to not have to use a seatbelt extender on that trip from Washington state to Washington DC. I've tracked for 10 days...so far so good. Really see the difference between cutting out the carbs this time around. (I held on to them for dear life in previous attmepts). Don't get me wrong, I'm still eating plenty of unhealthy stuff...but REALLY cutting back. I didn't weigh myself when I started, but I believe I'm down (my clothes say so and the ease of walking upstairs say so) so I have no progress number to date. I barely want to participate here until I have some real success you know? BUT thought I'd at least admit that I'm following you all.

Have a great healthy weekend...watermelon is good food!

Hi everyone! I'm looking to meet some people with like-minded goals. I'm 29 and I started my serious attempt at a lifestyle change about 7 months ago. Since then, I've made some great progress.

I started at 357 lbs and am now down to 276. I still have quite a ways to go. I'm really looking for people that understand emotional eating, over-eating, and big struggles in motivation to exercise.

I am trying my best to be active on MFP and am on here at least 5 days out of the week. I'm looking forward to getting to know more of you and doing this together. We're definitely not alone.

Thanks!

Hello. My name is Cindy. I had been using MFP before and had been quite successful, having lost 45 pounds. Unfortunately, I stopped using the program and quit logging my calories. So while I had stayed active hiking regularly until I had a slight mishap and cracked three ribs. As a result my activity level declined. Combined with some emotional eating, I have gained 13 pounds back. I now weigh 182 pounds and am aiming for a goal of 135 pounds.

My name is Michelle. I am a 39 year old mom of 4 kid's and a FT teacher. I have ran the diet gauntlet and have lost hundred of pounds and gained hundreds of pounds.

I currently eating lower carb-high protein meals, heavy weight lifting and cardio 6x a week. I have list 22 pounds since May. I started at 283 and I am currently at 262.

Feel free to add me if you want to help encourage each other.

Hey everyone, I'm Sara I'm 30 years old, I started MFP back in January where I weighed 308 lbs as of today I weigh 227 lbs, I'm 5'4 and live in the UK, I don't currently work as I was agoraphobic from August 2012 to March of this year, I still don't go out as much as I should be I go out every weekend, I'm slowly getting some control over my general and social anxiety its been a battle I won't lie hehe, Since June I have been suffering from gallstones so I have to live on a very restricted diet at the moment its frustrating but the weight it dropping off so I don't mind it as much, just the little things that bother me like not being able to eat those little goodies at the weekend like I used to or sometimes I can smell my nextdoor neighbours cooking a fry up haha! anyway.... my goal weight is to be under 140 lbs as I have never in my adult live been a healthy BMI... Anyway my diary is open so feel free to add me.

Is this group still active. There hasn't been a post for over a year. Maybe everyone is just shy. Lol . please let me know