Need to lose many many pounds.

Hi Connie. I'm Tammy Tucker from Louisiana. I have 100+pounds to lose. Feel free to add me if you like. We can do this. We just have to push through and eventually we will get there.

Hi, Connie! I live in SoCal. I started out with 100 lbs. to lose, now have 70 to lose. It seems overwhelming at first...soooooooooooo many pounds. I stopped thinking about how much I had to lose and started thinking about how far I'd come (at any given stage) and that helped a lot.

I remember when I had lost my first 10 pounds, and I thought, "but I still have NINETY pounds to go." Then all of a sudden it occurred to me: a month and a half earlier, I would have killed or died to have been 10 lbs. thinner. And now I was there. I was where I'd only dreamed of being 10 weeks earlier. That's not cause for celebration?

That's how I think of it now, every step of the way. 70 lbs. to go? Come on. Last Thanksgiving, would I not have thought I'd died and gone to heaven if I'd woken up 30 lbs. lighter without having lost an arm or leg or something?

So with each pound down, think about how you'd been wishing you could be a pound down...but now you're there. Celebrate! And just keep going.

You can do this! Plug your info into MFP, follow the calorie recommendation it sets, exercise if you want to.
The most important thing is to not quit. Literally everything else you can figure out along the way.