Looking for friends. I need accountability.

Hi, my name is Renee. I'm on the journey to losing weight too.

Hi my name is Jen. Feel free to add me as I love having friends to help motivate and support one another in this journey. :-)

If you aren't going to be accountable to yourself and your own goals..how are you going to be accountable to a bunch of random people you don't know online and will never see in real life?

Do you want to lose the weight? Does it drive you crazy to need to lose weight? Do you hate the way you look in pictures, hate the way your clothes fit, hate the fact that you can't walk upstairs without losing your breath (or whatever other weight related issues you may have?)

Then eliminating those issues should be accountability enough. Nobody can want this more than you. No amount of coaxing or cajoling or inspirational memes from people you don't know is going to inspire you more than the resolve you have within yourself to JUST DO IT.

This is my 4th or 5th time (at least) trying to lose weight. I went weight watchers, I tried atkins, I tried juicing, I tried denying myself....none of it worked because I was only halfway committed in the first place, and in the second place, I was living in a nutritional vacuum. I grew despondent, depressed, apathetic. At some point earlier this year I finally had my AH HA moment and said I'm sick and tired of looking disgusting, I'm sick and tired of being morbidly obese, I'm sick and tired of being embarrassed because I only JUST made the weight limit for riding a horse (YES, for riding a horse. An animal that pulled covered wagons across the prairie. Talk about an eye opener.) I was sick and tired of being short of breath with the least amount of exhertion, and when yet another person I knew died young due to a heart attack, I knew I had to do something.

The accountability - it's the clothes in my closet. As I go down a size, I throw the bigger sizes OUT never to come back into this house again (with the exception of keeping a single pair of size 22 pants as a memento.) I have the next size down from what I'm currently wearing waiting for me to fit into them.

It's the photos. I no longer want to hide behind my kids or my dog in pictures.

It's because it's WHAT I WANT more than ANYTHING.

If you're going to do this & be dependent on other people to "support you" you are going to be in for a tough time. You have to want this FOR YOURSELF and you have to REALLY WANT IT.

My name is Ed. I'm 41 years d and took a lot of weight off with the help of this app a few years ago. I'm starting to put it back on. Need accountability partner!