Good job! I hope you reach your goals

hi all sorry another late arrival (nothing new there! !) in Suzy 35 from Doncaster, UK, I am a wife to 1 and mum to 3 (boy 15 and 2girls 14 & 7)
I have been wanting to lose weight for a while now, I was a nice comfortable 9st10 a few years back but as a new years resolution I decided to give up smoking (yay me 2yrs 8months so far ) so as you can imagine I piled on the pounds to my highest yet of 185lb I never have a lot if will power or motivation for weight loss and not very 'face to face' and a bit shy so wouldn't dream of going to any sort of WW /slimming groups which is why this group is ideal.
The reasons I want to lose weight are obviously I want a nice figure and to be less embarrassed by myself. I am starting university in a few weeks (bit late I know but family came first) and I want to feel confident at the christmas shindigs, also our 10th wedding anniversary is on boxing day so if I succeed I will reward myself with somewhere special.
Good luck to every body on their journey and hope you all accomplish you personal goals




Remember everyone has a story and you dont know the half of it!

I am not late to the party. I have arrived exactly when I mean to.

So, after a bitter/amicable divorce I added 50 pounds, as per our settlement. It's the heaviest I've ever been. I got rid of about 15 of them without trying too hard, but the other 35 feel a bit stickier. I'm hoping to be back to normal adult weight by tax time or so.

Good Luck everybody.

Hi, I'd like to join if it's not too late! I'm Carrie, currently living in Michigan. I'll be 44 in October. When I started tracking my calories again in mid-July I was the heaviest I've ever been. This was partly due to a terrible harsh winter that put a severe dent in my exercise program even though I tried to get to the gym as much as possible and I have a series of workouts to do at home. There was something about the dark days and extreme cold and never-ending snowdrifts that made this winter very bad for my eating and exercising habits. I was heavier than I wanted to be before last winter though, so I have some years of extra weight to deal with.

My BF/fiance is dedicated to fitness which is great! We go to the gym together and sometimes run together when he's not going for speed. He'll always be stronger and faster than I am, but he supports me in my fitness goals and we help each other get up and out the door to exercise on those morning when neither of us really feels like it. He's also very tolerant of my cooking experiments (currently low-carb high-protein).

Ideally I'd like to get back to my pre-grad school weight, which would be about 20 pounds from where I am now. I'm not certain I can do it by the holidays but I'm going to give it my best effort.

Hey! my name is Nick I weigh 175lbs and I started MFP because I need to loose about 25-30 lbs and I though doing it in a Group would be even better! Hopefully we can all achieve our goals and feel better about our selves!

Hi everyone,

I'm Liz, I'm 33 yrs old and a single mother of a wonderful soon to be 12 yr old daughter and both my parents are diabetics. I'm a recovered alcoholic with 2 yrs being sober and happier then I was. In the beginning of 2012 I decided to change life around in many aspects, I was weighing in at 215 lbs and feeling very unhappy with my life. My job was making sick from so much stress and at some point it was causing me so much anger to the point where I wanted to beat someone up everyday (but I didn't) so I decided to see a therapist. After months of seeing someone and hearing to go to AA over and over I took actions in to my own hands. I refused to go to get help at AA, instead I decided to put to use that membership at the gym and began going 2 times a week, slowly moved to 4 and then got a personal trainer. When I least expected I was at the gym 6 days a week and began taking advantage of the classes the gym provided, I began with doing only 30 minutes of zumba the next day I did 30 minutes of kickboxing and so on. In 6 months I was done with my trainer and was doing 1 hour of each class 7 days a week. Today I do 2 hours of classs a day and spend 2 hours at the gym 4 days a week, well that was until I tore my cartilage in taebo class a couple months ago but I don't make that an excuse because I still manage to go for a swim and some light weight lifting. I'm full of so much energy and managed to meet some great people at the gym classes and eventually we became each others motivators and made sure we were at the class everyday even when we didn't feel like being there.

I went from being 215lbs to 160lbs, being an alcoholic to being sober and smoke free, being at a job where I hated the management teams to finally bein in a job where I'm respected and appreciated. I make healthy decisions when it comes to eating and spend a lot more time with my daughter and slowly teaching her healthy habits to absorb while still being young. Being healthy is my goal now, not just for myself but for my daughter as well! And that right there is my main motivation!!

Even if I don't meat my goal of losing 30lbs by the end of the year I'll be very happy to lose 15, 20 or 25lbs, something is always better then nothing.

Hi,

I'm soon to be "55" by almost Christmas! An I too decided that 5# at a time sounded great to me then I saw this group. I too have been challenged by my health due to auto-immune issues. But, enough about that I'm just looking for positive people & positive energy. I'm also gluten free so I love to cook if anyone needs any help let me know. Oh I too got a fitbit flex . I love life & I want to be the best I can be. I have a great hubby & 2 awesome kids, 3 grandkids! I guess now I just need to know how this works. I'm new to the whole online group stuff.

Thanks for including

Hi all,

Late to the party here; wish I'd found this group earlier!

I'm 43, married, no kids of my own but have acquired 2 stepdaughters - 18 & 15. I live in Toronto, Canada and OF COURSE I play hockey year-round, bike, swim, run and cross-country ski. I started on MFP January 2013 at 240 lbs. A few missteps here & there, but I got down to 160 in May 2014, just in time to get married. Then life intervened. I love to cook (and eat). Celebrating my marriage, rolling into the short Canadian summer (hello patio season!), camping, vacations and some family issues (stress eater & drinker here), and I regained about 18 hard-lost pounds over 4 months. Things have settled down again, and the summer high social season is over as of Labour Day, and I'm back here, back on track, and determined to re-lose those 18 pounds, plus a few more, to achieve my ultimate goal weight of 155. It would be awesome to get there by Christmas and I'm going to try my best, knowing that a pound a week is very aggressive this close to the end.

I've found MFP works best for me when I set my own calorie goals (search for the "road map" in the open forum) based on MY actual body composition. And when I stay within those calories. And I (aim to) exercise daily for at least 500 calories burned. And only eat half (or so) back. And cut back/out the booze. As much as I love it, alcohol REALLY slows down my weight loss - more than if it were equivalent food calories. Nailing all 3 of these simultaneously is the trifecta for my success.

I'm happy to be here, and am keen & motivated. Looking forward to rocking this challenge with all of you! I've made some good friends here on MFP in other challenges; I hope for the same here. Feel free to send a friend request if I sound like your kind of MFP buddy! Just mention this challenge so I know you're not a creeper.

Hi all! Jen here, im 27, Just found this great group : ) I am looking to loose around 15 pounds. Getting married next fall!!! I can't wait! I know MFP work because like many others have lost using this site. First time around I lost 25 pounds! Then slowly faded away from logging daily, but now I am back looking to really lose the weight but also looking to be healthier as well. Better food choices all around.

Hi, I'm Dorothy, another latecomer to the group. I'm 50, heading for 51, and I'm from Ireland. I have a husband and 3 kidults (14, 18, 22) who are all very underweight. Unfortunately I am compensating for them ))

I struggled with keeping weight on until my first pregnancy (I was only 98lbs when I got married) and was 140lbs after my last pregnancy.

Our 14 year old son has Asperger Syndrome and we have been having a number of problems with him this year - issues with stress at school - which has impacted on my own stress levels. And unfortunately my stress levels are feeding his so its a vicious circle.

The stress levels have also reactivated my asthma forcing me to have to take anti-allergy meds which have helped push up the weight as well.

My "Moment of Horror" was last Friday when I was trying to buy a pair of winter boots. I couldn't get a pair to fit me and had to go up a size. The guy in the shop had to push my legs into them. :blushing: I realised there and then I needed to do something about my weight because otherwise it would just continue to creep up. I came home and immediately joined MFP.

The diet plan is a 1200 calories a day plan and I'm trying to do 30 minutes brisk walking every day. I've rejoined the gym and hope to start going this week. For the moment, I'm working on a simple Calories in < Calories out process. 20 lbs would be lovely to lose but realistically I need to lose about 28lbs.

Even writing this down and reading the stories of others has been therapeutic.

Good luck everyone.