Hi, great to see such a nice group I can add myself to the emotional eaters (worst thing for me is to be totally dissatified with my day but too tired to do something nice), to the people living in small Eastern European countries, though I am originally from Germany (technically even from Bavaria ). You guys have really managed to motivate me, especially the weighing-in list and the excersize challenge.

Hi!
I'm from London, England but live in Surrey. Still work in London as an Area Crime Reduction Manager. It's a very diverse and varied role, I work closely with the police which I love. My fiance's a police officer and we're getting married in August! So excited.
I just love food and am a greedy mare, but do emotionally eat a little, and when I'm bored! Love cheese and bread, and cider.
We're loving this app, I've lost 8lbs since January 1st and my fiance has lost 7lbs. It's really good doing it together!

Good luck everyone in your journeys xxx

I live in Massachusetts about an hour from Boston. I have 8 year old boy/girl twins. I am 49 and I have 30 lbs to lose to get back to my prepregnancy weight. I turn 50 in September, and I want to be at my goal weight by then. I am very motivated! I am happy I am on MFP, and found this group to help me on my journey!

Love seeing posts from all over the world! I'm Jen from Lexington, Kentucky (USA) (GO CATS!) I'm 29 and married with a six year old son. I'm a corporate paralegal, which can be very demanding and stressful at times, and is very sedentary. My husband travels for work and is gone 2-3 weeks every month (also stressful at times). I'm currently in the process of paying off my student loans so that I can be a stay-at-home mom and volunteer more at my son's school (and possibly have another baby sometime in the future) .

Embarrassingly, I've never hit my goal weight. I was extremely active and athletic in high school, but had horrible eating habits. Those habits didn't really show until I started college and my activity level dropped. I have done many crash diets, taken many diet pills and basically starved myself more times than I can count... and obviously none of them worked for very long .

I was at my lowest weight (8 pounds within my goal weight) in 2010 after my mother passed away due to no appetite caused by depression. Since then, my weight has yo-yoed up and down anywhere from 15-25 pounds because of my binge eating habits (depending on the circumstance, I'm either an emotional binger or an emotional starver... it's a horrible line to walk.)

I made a decision to adapt healthier eating habits and to train for a 1/2 marathon in the summer of 2012, but an injury sent me back into an emotional eating downfall. So here I am - over a year later and almost 30 years old - starting over.

This time I'm looking at it as a lifestyle change instead of having the "all or nothing" mindset like I have had in the past. I'm not rushing it. I'm trying not to stress over the scale. I'm trying to stay positive. Slow and steady wins the race, right?

Good luck, everyone! I'm glad to have found this group!

I love seeing how international this group is and concur- would be lovely to be inspired to travel some place new!
- Waving hello to fellow New Englanders!
I'm from northern Vermont, not too far from the Canadian border. I have lived in various places in New England, having grown up and gone to college in Connecticut.
I'm 35 for a few more weeks. I grew up slim, though I had terrible eating habits and come from a family where most of the women are largely overweight or obese. It really wasn't until I was in grad school that I started to gain weight, and not until after my first child that I was starting to need large/xl clothes. I've been carrying this weight for 10 years now, and its past time it goes away.

I started changes in May, 2014 and have lost 52 lbs to date. I'm aiming for another 30-40, with no hard goal. I enjoy cardio, but have added more strength training recently. Each month the proportion of time spent on each increases for the latter.

I have a fitbit if anyone is interested in connecting there.

My name is David and I live in a just outside of Valdosta, GA. I joined this group today so I'm a little late to the party but still looking forward to reaching this goal.

I'm Alisa. I live in Utah, USA. I have struggled with my weight my whole life. I have to be very diligent in maintenance always. This last time I had back surgery and never recovered from the pain so all exercise stopped. I was able to keep my weight under control for 2 years then depression set in and all eating well went out the window. I am down 27 lbs since Aug of last year and have 20 more to go. Love to see everyone around the world and to know we all struggle with similar problems. Good luck everyone!

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Love seeing the posts from all over the world - and then I see another Hoosier! I have lived in Indianapolis my entire life.

And the Hoosiers take over! Grew up in Columbus, IN and am now in Indianapolis. I've lived in Chicago, Charleston, Miami, Bloomington IN, Terre Haute IN, and Muncie IN. 45, been with my boyfriend for 11 years, no kids though we had a Newfoundland until he passed a few years ago. That's like having a very big, hairy, 3 year old.

I started my bad eating habits in 3rd grade. My (single parent) mom was in grad school so I was on my own quite a bit (gotta love the 70s!). Then puberty hit earlyish and while I was curvy and looked good for my frame - for my age, I was mortified and started eating. The lowest I remember is 145 in 8th grade. 185 by senior year of high school and 240 at college graduation. Since college I've been as high as 267 (2014) and as low as 192 (1994). I ran a marathon for my 30th birthday. Don't recommend it (or really the months of training to get there) when you weigh 217-240. You will destroy your knees. I have no cartilage in one knee and only a smidge left in the other.

I love to eat just about anything unless it's good for you. Not a huge fan of taking time to prep. Exercise is the one thing that I'm pretty ok with - though certainly not perfect. I've been working on the planning thing. 2 weeks in I really understand the benefits to me and can't believe it took this long for me to do it. Being a mostly single person, and not having a family to manage lends itself to doing whatever whenever (including food). I now enjoy coming home looking at my "plan" to know what I'm wearing tomorrow, what I need to pack for breakfast and lunch (and sometimes dinner), and knowing what my workout plan is for the morning. It does take some valuable time to do but the benefits are worth it I think. Pretty sure this will stick.

I am a church business manager. If any of you are churchy people and involved you know you usually meeting in the evening for stuff. So, I'm that staff person who is there with you in the meeting. And I work, generally a normal 8-5 day. So, there are many days in a week that I work 13 hours because of evening meetings. Yes, I COULD take a day off to compensate but I rarely do. Too much to do

20 pounds before Easter will put me at my lowest (217) since my mid 30s. Totally doable (and exciting). I started last year at 267. It's been slow and I've taken long breaks but I'm really ok with it. My goal for this year is to get to 191.

It might get up into the high 40s(F) this weekend. I think I'm going to take the opportunity to go to the driving range and hit a bucket of balls. That's the plan anyway.

Hi everyone

I am from Guelph, Ontario - CANADA

2015 is the year of health - I don't want to be a super model I just want to feel good

Have been achy and gained all my weight back in 2014 - tired all the time - I found myself saying I feel like a sausage ( no not eating one)

So this year I got a fit bit charge, went to the Dr for blood work, had my first visit to a natural path, changed chiropractor (someone who looks at the whole picture and gives you ways to improve) Changing massage therapist ( my current therapist and I are too close and chatty not therapeutic enough)

Making small changes every day - good luck all

Rachelle

Hi everyone

I'm 52 and married with 2 daughters one is 7 the other 12 and 2/3's of the way to losing 90lbs I'm English but have lived in Donegal Ireland for the last 20 years.