*Summer Sweeties to Fall Knockouts (CLOSED GROUP)

Amanda
23 years old
Member since Nov 2010


I just got accepted into nursing school, and i have a gorgeous almost 2 year old little girl named Chloe, she is the love of my life and I want to do everything I can to live a healthy lifestyle and raise her with healthy habits. This is my second challenge, as I was a member of the Snowflakes to Sunshine group that Krystle previously created. I look forward to getting to know all of you and can't wait to get started!!!

Happy Hump day everyone!!!:flowerforyou:

Thanks Krys for doing another group/challenge! I really enjoyed the last challenge and your organization of everything was so awesome! keep up the good work!! I am very excited to start the next challenge and hopefully do much better these next 3 months. I reflected back on what I did these last 5 months and meditated on what I need to do differently these next 3 months to reach my 2011 goal of getting under 300 pounds. I have set in motion some things to reach my goals and I am excited to get the ball rolling in the right direction. I am glad you are pushing the measuring too because I hate this but I am going to force myself to measure myself regularly from now on.


Name: Mollie

Age: 46

How long with MFP: March 2010

I have been overweight my whole life.:grumble: Before I was 20 I was super morbidly obese. Tried many programs, diets, etc and yo-yoed a lot over the years 100 pounds or more lost and re-gained twice from age 24 to 35. In 2004 I had weight loss surgery (RNY) and lost nearly 300 pounds in 1 and half years or less actually.:bigsmile:

In 200 or 2008 I gradually started to pick back up some of my weight and I never reached my goal weight.:sad: I never got in the 200's. By February 2010 I had gained back 80 pounds and I was totally depressed and desperate.:brokenheart: I even reconsidered another surgery. My surgeons office said no and that I my stomach was fine and that I had to get back to basics and that I could lose the rest of my weight without more surgery. :noway:

They told me I was doing awesome just to have still kept off over 200 pounds. Well I was in the dumps for a minute but I had to do something so I started posting back to a website for WLS patients called ObesityHelp.com and that is where I learned about MFP. So here I am and I must say I have not lost as much as I wanted to lose:grumble: BUT I have not gained weight either since joining and that in itself is encouraging. I have yo-yoed but I was able to end last year with a loss of 25 pounds and whatever happens this year it will not be a gain either. So from year to year as long as I am not gaining weight I will take it.:happy:

I am still moving full speed ahead to get to 299 to 295 before January 1st, so I have to get moving because time is not waiting around and it is already June 7th! :ohwell:

Thanks again to all who have supported me thru all the ups and down :flowerforyou: and I look forward to getting to know more of you as we reach for the stars! :flowerforyou:

Hello Everyone

My name is Norma

Age:49

MFP: member for a little over 2mths now

I started off having a weight problem about three and a half years ago when my children didn't need me so much anymore i did'nt have a clue what to do with myself so i started watching tv and start eating and before you know it i was up to 203lbs i would walk up the stairs and could hardly catch my breath .in december i really started to get depress and feeling like i was 80 my knees hurt ,i started to get migraine and i went to the doctor he imform me that it had to do with my weight among other things.... stress so i decided to start on a healthy regime i lost 6lbs but the weight wasn't coming off as fast as i would like so the old pattern started showing again ...after my 49th birthday in March i decided to stick to eating right and lay off all the sweets my friend found this website on her phone and to top it off it was totally free (MFP) so i decided to join and her i am my life saver. My first official challenge ya


Heaviest weight...... 203

SW: 197.(MFP)
CW: 185.5
GW: 140 (by March 15,2012 my 50th) maybe 135 final we'll see how i feel at 140

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Bump for a bit later when I can share!

you have been through so much at such a young age! good luck to you in all of your goals and see you at the finish line :flowerforyou:

Hey everyone!
My name is Mel, and I am 21!
MFP will tell you that I have been a member since 2009; but I've had a roller coaster life, so everything has not exactly gone as planned.

In 2008, I was my heaviest at 190, then using MFP, I dropped to around 175 by the summer of 2009, which was actually a big difference since my goal weight is around 150. But, my health got worse. I was really really sick during the fall semester of 2009, and then I had a kidney transplant in January of 2010. During that ordeal, I was back up to 185.

Then, I took it easy during the Spring 2010 semester, and starting working out hard again over the summer of 2010. It was REALLY hard to lose any weight because my medications (9 of them, at the time) all caused weight GAIN. So, by the end of the summer AND fall, I had dropped to 177.

Then, I got REALLY sick starting in December of 2010. I was comatose for about a week during Christmas-time, and was lucky enough to receive a second transplant since the first kidney had failed.

Now, in terms of my health, I am stable and seem to be doing all right. Just little problems here and there, nothing too major.

But I'm back up at 190 pounds! :-( :-(

I now take 12 medications daily and my team of doctors told me it is probably unrealistic to try to lose weight right now, but I am determined to prove them wrong. I may not lose weight as fast as anybody else, but i'm still going to try my hardest.

I need all the support you can provide. As you can see just from that ONE story, I have been through a lot in 21 years...

I look forward to getting to know all of you!!!

Hey everyone! My name is Holly and I have been a member on here for about 2 1/2 months and have lost 9lbs. After having my second daughter(now 2) I'm having a really hard time losing the weight. Before getting pregnant with her I always weighed right around 120-130 depending on what was going on that point in my life. My journey started about 7 months ago when I was at my heaviest and unhealthiest(bad eating habits) which was 178. Before starting MFP I got down to 160 and now I am 151 and my goal is 130lbs. Thanks to all my friends here on MFP I not only want to lose weight, but I want to live a healthier lifestyle while doing it. I have changed my eating habits so much in the last 2 months and I feel great! I want to be a good example for my girls and my husband.

I look forward to meeting new people and making new friends through this group. Good luck to all of us!

Hey everyone

Name: Jackie

Age: 24

How long with MFP: since January 2011

About my journey:I started seriously in my journey on jan 3 of this year. my friend kelly introduced me to this site and i instantly fell in love. Im proof that weight loss can be successful with portion control and exercise. I lost 32 pounds this year doing those exact things. I kind of fell off and this challenge is exactly what i need to get my self back in gear

Hi everyone,

My name is Nikia. I am 23 years old. I will be 24 on June 27th. I have been MFP since January 2011. My weight was never an issue until I went to college. I then gained 65 pounds and would so love to get back down to as healthy weight so I will not have to take medications the rest of my entire life due to high blood pressure and high cholesterol. I believe this challenge is going to be a great stepping stone in the right direction pIus I really need something like this to keep me accountable. I can't wait to become a FALL KNOCKOUT!!!! Thanks Krystle!

bump for later ... at work .. and dont have a lot of time

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My name is Mayra and I am 29 years old. I started MFP in August of 2009 around my daughter's birthday because I wanted to lose the baby weight. I did a round of Insanity, almost finished P90X, trained for running, and lost almost 40 lbs. After losing the weight I started a new job, and the stress of working again, and juggling "life" and my health, led me to lose sight of my health, so now in a period of about 1 year I ended up gaining everything back again. So, today my daughter is almost 3 years old, and I'm back at it again, but this time it's different. I understand now that working out and eating healthy IS MY LIFE, so I can't ignore them just because Im' stressed out or sad about a situation. My body is important and I want to dedicate all my energy and time to make it the best. My Body is the temple of God and also goes with me everywhere, so I owe it to myself to do all I can to give me the best body I can have.

I'm glad to share with all of you, and am so excited to do this, because i need this.

Name: Bonnie

Age: 23

How long with MFP: 1 Month

Hi my name is Bonnie, 23 years old. Am a mother of two toddlers and yes life is hectic, as many of us know. Basically I've been battling with my weight since the age of 12 around the time i hit puberty. Of course it dint feel so bad back then because thankfully i was around good kids that dint make fun of others differences or weight problems. As i started to get older i kept on putting eating healthy off, instead i would go for all the bad stuff, and because my parents both worked it seemed i was mainly alone to fetch for my self whatever there was to eat, and that's when i lost control of myself, my health and my body. In high school i was 180 lbs, but i felt perfectly fine because i was playing tennis, running laps, and i was even in theater dance productions, but still i wasn't paying attention of what i was putting in my body' so all that still dint make a difference. I was a very self conscious teenage girl, and even though i had friends who were "like me", being the weight that i was and constricting myself of the clothing i could wear or how good i knew i could look, made me start having self esteem issues, and that's when i started the worst thing i could have ever done to my body, DIET PILLS. Yes ive tried them all, all of them! I regret it every single day now. I wanted an easy fix, i wanted to wear nice shirts and tight jeans. I ended my senior year 60lbs lighter, but i fell sick all the time. I wasn't myself anymore. Taking diet pills changed my personality so much, some of my friends dint want to be with me anymore, so that's when i had to stop. I met my husband during my first year of college, but i was really depressed, i never had any energy and that's when the weight started to creep back again, and as we all know, if you go for a quick fix it come back 2x as hard to bite you. And that's exactly what happened to me. I became pregnant with my first son at 190lbs and only manage to gain 20lbs during pregnancy, which was ok, but i was still fighting with it after birth. I had my second son at 220, and since then ive had a war with weight. I want to win the war, but this time im doing things the right way, because there is no easy way out, ive learned my lesson. I know i can do it right, because i have the tools and the motivation, it will be hard and it is hard, but im not giving up even if it takes me 7 years, im will still be fighting.

Name: Cherese

Age: 27

Hello everyone My name is Cherese and I have been a member of MFP for about 3 months. I love this site because it offers a lot of support and seeing others achieving their goals really motivates me. I was always thin in H.S. (10 years ago), but after having my son in 2003 I never got back down to where I wanted to be. Even after almost 8 years I have never got used to being on the heavier side (heavy for me). I am marrying the love of my life on 9-10-2011 and want to look my best on that day and every day after that. I currently weigh 154 (I lave lost 11lbs since the beginning of the year) and would like to get down to 135-140. I am so excited about this challenge and working alongside you all!!! Good luck to everyone!!

Name: Betha

Age: Quarter of a century

How long with MFP: maybe six months at most

I started this journey back in december and lost about 20 pounds with out MFP. Then my friend told me about it so I joined to encourage her in her weight loss. We are both getting married mine is coming up Oct. 1st and her's isn't until next september. We are both trying to do this together since we were both broken over a year ago her from a car accident mine from falling on ice and squating to take a picture (fractured my leg in three spots). Anyway we gained some weight she calls her wheelchair weight and mine is just lazy weight from college and what not. So here I am preparing for my wedding and the rest of my life. If I could get down to high school weight that would be amazing. I want to have a healthy BMI and then get pregnant. I joined this site because of all the stories and all the support everyone gives to each other. I will be a step mom of three one older than me and two 11 and 8 when I get married. Also a grandma of two a 2 year old and a 7 year old So I may be one of the youngest grandma's but I'm going to be one of the fittest too!!!

Hi everyone!

Name: Latoya

Age: 26

How long with MFP: I joined last year but didn't start really using MFP until January of this year when I joined the S2S challenge that Krystle started. My weight became a problem after I gave birth to my son three years ago. My pre-pregnancy weight was in the 170's and I gained 207 lbs afterwards. With the help of the previous challenge I managed to drop a total of 18lbs but within the last few weeks, I've gained four of those pounds back. I'm ready to get back into the swing of things and looking forward to this challenge.