Hi! I'm Britta! I've been large all my life and I'm working on changing that. Love new friends. Message or friend me!

Hello all, I'm Jenna, having another go at this healthy lifestyle again. This is my 4th time using MFP. I've been up and down with my weight and everytime it goes back up, I'm always bigger than ever. Finally hit 310 this year and am feeling really scared about my health and my past failures. I feel like I have so much to overcome and it feels a bit overwhelming, so I'm hoping to find some good support. Looking forward to getting to know y'all!

Giving this here a try for the tenth million time, I need to loose weight soo bad it's killing me in side. I'm sooo tired of being tired. I'm tired of not being able to keep up, tired of being in pain cause I had a little too much fun. I'm tired of rolling over, and just laying there cause I'm out of breath. I just want to take my life back, I want to stay on top till he can't take it anymore. I want to live a good healthy lifestyle.

SO HERE I AM AGAIN

I'm ready to live. Now I just need good friends, a little motivation, and some positive vibes.

Anyone on my page? Let's do this!

Hello. Been away a long time. Spent the winter sitting on my butt, gained a lit of weight, now I need to at least get that back off. .. I know you guys can help!

I never really introduced myself! Hi I'm Shelly! I'm like a lot of people, been (or felt) overweight my whole life. We ate food that was usually healthy, though my mom has a penchant for meals with "Cream of" in it, and snacks were never lacking. About 8 years ago I was on another mfp sort of site, and lost about 80ds. I got unemployed and gained it all back from not being able to afford decent food. Now I'm back, and diabetic (on top of being hypothyroid), but at least I'm cured from being anemic (it only took 1 blood transfusion and 2 iron transfusions, woo). Not at my heaviest, but at the top, and starting to come down.

I feel a little like I am introducing myself at a meeting...but here we go....
Hi, I'm Ruth, and for the umpteenth time in my life....I am on a dieting journey. I initially lost weight in my teens, being told that I was 40 pounds overweight and needing to lose that to be perfect. I lost most of that weight, and gained it back and a hundred more. I went on to lose that in my mid twenties, to find myself pregnant with my first daughter. I gained back everything that I lost, and a few extra, got pregnant again and gained a few more..and became a single parent and gained a few more...got married and gained a few more.
This Christmas, when I no longer could be weighed on my TOPS club scale, I got serious. 360 lbs scared me. I weighed the most I had ever weighed, couldn't fit into my clothes, and couldn't justify spending money on clothes that I could fit when I had a closet full that I couldn't fit into.
My mantra for January became "no more resolutions vague to the point of failure". I set a VERY specific goal of losing 100 pounds in 2015. Which may seem daunting but is only half the weight I need to lose...I purged the kitchen, cleaned the fridge, cleared the pantry and cleared the freezer....guests leaving my home on new year's eve left with cookies, candies, crackers, chocolates, cakes, chips....anything that did not fit the menu plans was purged from the home.
I starting planning menus, grocery lists and keeping track of food. I started a my first exercise plan in years...5 minutes on the treadmill once a week...and now do 25 minutes three time a week as well as a deep water exercise class....56.5 gone.....let's keep going...I want to see 250 in december!!

Hi all. Emma from Ireland here. I started at 328, my highest weight ever and at 5 ft 3, dangerously overweight. I have lost and gained in the past but that was in the past. So I have logged everyday now for around 4 months and I have been swimming 3/4 times per week since February. The hard work is paying off as I'm over 30lbs down now.
As I still have around 150lbs to lose I plan to be around for quite a while so I'm always looking for new friends. I'm not following any particular diet plan other than eating pretty clean as it seems to work best for me.

Hi, I've been on mfp on and off for a few years now. I've tried sw and Ww , recently I list 6lb in 3 mths with Ww! Crap! Need to get back in track badly, I'm around 310lb, need to reach 150lb ideally.
I'm happy to have more friends for support and motivation so feel free to request me

Hi everyone!

Basics: my name is Kelsey, I'm 23 years old and I'm hoping that this app & forum will lend some accountability to my newest weight loss endeavour.

I have always been overweight, around 260 for most of high school. After a couple years of university (and of constantly battling my weight) I stepped on a scale and realized I had topped out at 306. I decided to commit to trying the 17 day diet and it did work for a bit. It also helped that I changed career paths and began a 2 year college program that kept me so busy I had less time to sit around and eat. I swear I saw 250 on the scale one night LOL then I went back up to 280 my summer at home, lost steam for the diet second year and just maintained at 280. Next I graduated and left my demanding, structured program and began the adventure of living entirely alone and started one of those careers where they toss words like compassion fatigue and burnout at you. (But hey I love what I do.) By this time I was so done with restricting the types of foods I was allowed to eat, you could say I let my emotions take control. Aaaaand I gained more weight...like 50 pounds. The biggest I have ever been and it was/is awful. I weighed 334 pounds at the beginning of November 2014. So I bought a treadclimber and told myself that I was going to do this, for real, by eating right and excercise. I suck though and until this past week, hadn't really gotten on it. I started taking yoga once a week last month and added in a second class each week a few weeks ago...I already feel so much better and my last weigh in was 322 lbs. I have found that the workout I get in my classes motivates me onto the treadclimber the other days of the week. And my biggest motivator at the moment is my bridesmaid dress....you see, it came in the mail last week, the wedding is far far away so i wasn't at the bridal store when they chose it, never saw it before I paid an obscene amount of money for it. I took my own measurements and emailed the shop with the size I chose from the sizing chart another bridesmaid had snapped picture of and sent me. This was back in January and I guess I still had illusions where my weight was concerned as I decided to order a size down. Whoops. I thought i would have made more progress by now. It is also more like 2 sizes too small. Double whoops. So, here I am, and I am determined to lose 45 lbs in 3 months. Because I have no plan B. Who would have thought that a dress 2 sizes bigger than my street size would be more like an 18? Gahhhhhh!!!! (A sane person I am sure, just not a woman with too much pride)

So here I am. This is happening. Thanks for reading ;-)

Jenn here. Just moved back to Washington state. Im working on getting healthier, hate diet foods! I want real food just normal portions of it. Looking for friends to walk this journey with. I'm 366 as of last thursday at the doctors office. I will celebrate all minor victories, scale and non scale. My first big goal is to say goodbye to 300.

Hi I'm Amber and new here. I've been diagnosed with pre-diabetes and pcos at my heaviest I weighed 350lbs. I've been eating healthier for two months now and have recently joined a gym and started weight training. I'm down to 319 lbs! I motivated more than ever to get below 300!! Feel free to friend me!

I'm Sara. I have been using MFP for a little over 6 mos. Looking to really focus on me this summer and getting healthier.

Hi all

I'm Donna-Marie, I'm 36 from the UK and my current weight is 419. I live with my other half, our 4 children and a menagerie of animals.

I've always been overweight and only ever got heavier over the years. Frankly my motivation up until this point has sucked. It really is true that you have to decide to do this for yourself. You can be given all the advice, scare stories or support in the world but until you are ready to step up and take control, it's not going to work.

I think we have all probably been there. Not exactly token efforts but seeing it as a diet and not a 'lifestyle change'. How I hate that phrase, by the way. So if anyone can come up with something better, I'd appreciate the input

So here I am. Ready to change my life once and for all. To step up and be the best person, partner and Mum I can be. I need to be healthy and mobile to do that, so the fight begins. So I'll be here, plodding away with you all. Logging each day, setting short term goals and looking to a future of health.

I know I'm going to have bad days. I know there will be days when I eat take out, junk food and other assorted crap but it's just one day and I will work my butt off (literally) to burn it back off again.

I need to be my own priority for a little while. I deserve that.

HopelesslyFat2014 wrote: »

My name is Kamber. I am looking for friendly individuals on the same journey as I. I am 29 years old, my highest weight is 335, I am 310 at the moment but my weight often goes up and down. I am having a hard time getting under 300 and I am working harder this time than last time I used mfp. Last time I lost 32 pounds in a month, no exercise just changed my eating, now I am exercising almost daily and it is coming off very slowly. Feeling pretty down, needing some support.

It's coming off more slowly this time because you're busy adding muscle with all the exercise. Promise! And muscle weighs more than fat. So you can not have lost a pound yet lost fat and be healthier. It comes off more slowly this way, but leaves you looking fab as you do so.

Drink lots of water is all I can suggest. I know it's a pain at first, running to the ladies' constantly, but your body gets used to it. Eventually.

Hello, I am Mary from Alabama, USA my original weight was 337 I have lost 33 1/2 pounds since February 19 of this years I have 140 pounds more to lose. Feel free to add me to your friends list. Good luck to everyone