2015 Adopt a Noob Official MFP Thread

Are there any mentors who are still willing to take on a noob?

I'm 18 years old and I weigh 135 pounds (heaviest I've ever been). I've always been really active, seeing as I was on a dance team in highschool. After college started, however, I put on a lot of weight because of the food available to me and my lack of commitment to the gym. I recently started Kayla Itsine's workout guides (basically HIIT style).

*Up for adoption!!*

21 year old female, PCOS sufferer, start weight 15st (210lbs). Very unfit, I find exercise difficult but willing to do more of it. Slight chocolate addiction and binge eating issues at emotional times. Looking for someone who can motivate, encourage me, hold me accountable and help me to do more exercise.

Thank you anyone who wants to help x

Hi again
Im a noob but looking to gain weight not lose. Exercising hard and eating a good diet, little extra motivation would be awesome. Feel free to add me

luke.

I'm up for mentoring someone!!

I'm 26, turning 27 this July (what up cancers!!!??). I started my weight loss Journey about 3 years ago when I reached my highest weight of 290lbs! The moment I stepped off that scale I began dieting. I lost a good amount of weight, so I took a break. Started dieting again and lost even more. I downloaded MFP in September of 2015 when I weighed 238, but didn't really use it to track. It wasn't until January, that I began living by MFP. I started off at 225 and (as of my writing this) have dropped to 188.

Im the kind of person that when I have my mind set on something, there's practically no stopping me. I learn everything I can about a subject I'm interested in, and then implement it. That's exactly what I've done with this transformation. Of course I was unhappy with how I looked, *kitten* I was depressed about it. Just like you might or might not be. The only difference about us, is that we're doing something about it.

I want to mentor an individual that has a mindset just like me. One that knows what they want, and will get the job done to achieve it. I will help you set realistic goals, create a plan to bring those goals to fruition, and motivate you along the way.

I can help you lose weight, gain muscle, or maintain Your current weight. If you're interested, shoot me a friend request and a pm with your goals and information about yourself!

Look forward to helping!!!

I love this idea! Having a mentor would really motivate and ensure accountability, not to mention feeling like you have a friend in this whole intense journey. I am 32 years old and have over 150lbs to lose, any support I could get would mean a lot to me I don't see a list of available mentors to browse through, so if any mentors see this message, and think that they would be a good match for me, please contact me and let me know

Hi I need a mentor. I'm new to this app and exercising world. I go to the gym 4 days a week and I also do my daily walks at night. I'm trying to loose weight and get my body back after having 5 kids. If anyone want to mentor me please send me a message thank you.

I'm offering myself as a mentor to 2 or 3 people. I started out weighing in at around 250 and I'm down to around 190 but planning on shedding another 15 lb after maintaining for the last 3 months while I prepared for a triathlon. My journey has been bumpy but this has allowed me to learn a lot about myself along the way. I think the biggest single issue I needed to overcome was the simple fact that to get into shape I needed to change me rather than drop a few calories for a couple of months. I started out here with no clue about health apart from knowing that everything I had ever tried had failed. After getting to know people here I started to learn about my body and what I need to do. I looked at those successful and decided I needed to emulate successful people and after looking around I decided that Triathlon would be good. I trained hard but sensibly and have just completed my first triathlon, a pretty tough one called Slateman in North Wales around the mountains. From where I have come from I think it is amazing that I have changed so much thanks to the help of others. I know some people may be interested in Triathlon which is great but I will encourage and help any positive change in any direction - the direction isn't important - but I believe the change is essential and anyone can do this if they want to.

I personally believe anyone and everyone can do this. I think we are all different and will come up against our own issues along the way. Some will be common and some will be personal. The big thing I found is that I learned from others and even if their situation was a little different to mine I could learn from them. I am totally non-judgemental and believe we all have the ability to problem solve and think for ourselves. I will offer advice based on my own experience as well as moral support and space to talk about stuff I may not have gone through myself in order to keep you going until you work out the best course of action.
My personal issues that I have to look after is that I am asthmatic and I am sugar sensitive/hypoglycaemic. If I start eating sugar I find it difficult to stop  If you are like this then I would gladly help you all I can with what I know and my own coping strategies.
My future plans are to get my %body fat down to around 10% and to run another tough Triathlon on September called Snowman. Long term goals are to eventually go for an Ironman somewhere and compete competitively at triathlon with my local club. I’m guessing the latter two will be 2 or 3 years time.

If you want to come along for the ride, feel free. I'm friendly and supportive and will do what I can to keep you motivated and help you though the bumps

PS I'm 47, happily married with 3 kids. I work as a professional engineer and live in a lovely part of the UK called Cannock Chase . I'm happy to take men or ladies who feel I could help them

If you are interested please friend me with a note saying you are from this forum :-)

Hello! I am willing to mentor a couple newbies if possible. I've been on here for a while just haven't gotten involved with the community til now!

A little about me...
I'm 31 and live a very active lifestyle. I'm busy doing something six days a week. Three days I'm in the gym weight and strength training. The other three I'm running short distances with my long run on Saturday. In less than one year I went from .10 mile to completing two half marathons! I'm starting early and training for my first full marathon in December. In the past I've also done boxing, yoga, and a little Zumba! (I'm not that great at it but it's fun!)

About 5 years ago I was at my heaviest at almost 300 pounds. Since then I've lost about 80 pounds and still have more to lose. That's okay because I am focused and dedicated to making myself a better person for me! I would be thrilled to share my workouts to help those they want to shed some pounds, as well as some eating tips that I'm working on now to loose those pesky inches. I love seeing people succeed at any they out their mind to!

I am willing to mentor. I have been on MFP for over four years. I have worked out all my life. I have studied weight loss and hormones for a long time and have already mentored several people on my own over the last few years. I love to help people and I love to see people be successful. I have struggled my whole life with eating too many pop tarts and donuts and I have spent much of my life carrying too much fat.

Hello, I would like a mentor. I have previously lost about 22 pounds more than two years ago. After that, everything has kind of just gone downhill. I went into depression, started gaining weight.. I didn't gain back as much, but I had never lost enough to begin with. My goal right now is to lose 24 pounds. I find it hard to stay motivated so I joined MFP hoping to change that. Is there anybody who is willing to mentor me?

I'm a noob. 32, 5'4" 170-ish lbs. and around 31% body fat. Looking to lose fat and gain strength/muscle. I've been working out 5 days a week at my gym for a month now. I just started weighing all of my food with a food scale and counting calories.

I have done some reading and I like the TDEE method, so that's why I don't log my workouts. -20% of my TDEE is around 1800 calories.

Anybody want to volunteer to help me out??

I am a newbie here and looking for a mentor. I have around 100lbs to lose. I have previously lost 150 pounds but gained 100 again. I need someone to help me with advice on nutrition and exercise and help keep me motivated. I really want to change my habits and routine once and for all and live a healthy lifestyle

Hi, I'm looking for a mentor who has experience losing weight while breastfeeding. I don't have heaps to lose but I'm having a hard time working out how to reduce calories and maintain my milk supply. For exercise, I do interval running, yoga and a bit of Crossfit. Please PM if you think you can help!

I'm looking for a mentor or even just friends on here. I'm looking to lose about 45 lbs but have multiple autoimmune conditions that are impeding weight loss (hypothroidism, RA, etc.) as well as a bunch of dietary restrictions due to allergies, so any help/encouragement/advise is always welcome!

Info

• 21 Years old
• Male
• From the UK
• Started at 323lbs (first time I weighed myself, probably a bit more before that since I'd been trying to eat less before)
• Now at 188lbs = 135lbs lost
• Not at goal yet

What I can offer
Hey! Willing to help anyone that feels like they need help or support from somebody like me. Been at this for over a year and a half and faced a lot of problems through the time, so hopefully I can help people trying to overcome similar problems. Obviously I'd probably be more help to people similar to me, but am willing to try to help anyone. I'm online pretty much every day, so easy to contact me. I go to the gym most days, although I didn't do that for most of my weight loss, took me a long time to get the confidence to actually go. Most of what I ate for the majority of my weight loss was simple and easy to make food. Used to really hate having to prepare anything so I just found out the easiest ways to get my body what it needs, so if you're like that then I can probably help you with some ideas. Now I'm starting to learn to cook a bit more, but still nothing too complex haha. Through my whole weightloss I've also been a student at university, so have been drinking at least once a week and not had too much money to spend on fitness, so have also found different ways to work around those problems

Thanks for reading, feel free to message me if you would like me as a mentor, will reply to it as soon as I can!