Welcome Claire! We usually set goals monthly and check in to help with accountability and motivate each other. We also have several discussion topics on more wedding related stuff. Please participate as much as you can. Hope this group can help motivate you and/or serve as a sounding board or just a safe place to vent about the stresses of being a bride.

Welcome and congratulations to all! If you didn't read back to the beginning, I'm Sarah and the moderator. I lost about 35 a couple years ago with MFP, then gained about 10 back last year. My wedding is late July 2016, so at this point, targeting to lose 20-25 and tone up. We have a small group of active participants and hope you'll join. We usually set goals at the beginning of each month based on where we are (so for those in maintenance or with only a little to use, you can focus on your strength workouts or eating healthy rather than moving the scale) and personal challenges (trying to break bad snacking habits or limit alcohol intake). I hope this will be a source of support for physical and emotional/mental stresses during this exciting period of preparation.

Kristen, congrats on your great loss and making it to maintenance! Since your goals are more around toning, are you focusing on strength work rather than cardio?

Rach, good luck with the last few kilos and making it to the homestretch! You're probably a bit further in some of your planning so hopefully you can offer some tips and lessons learned to those with a bit more time or just starting the planning process.

Shelby, you have tons of time so you can totally lose that weight (in a healthy and sustainable way)! I hope that this can be a supportive place where you can be supported and get as much for yourself as you have been giving to others. Feel free to offer suggestions for new challenges that could be done on this group, but absolutely make sure you're doing what you need to do for yourself.

Welcome Jill! Sounds like you're in pretty great shape already so kudos to you. I hope you'll join in some of the threads and let us know how we can best motivate you. What kind of snacks do you keep around when you do get hungry? Do you generally keep protein rich/healthy stuff i.e, nuts or fruit, or more sugary stuff around? Are you able/have you tried the glass of water to make sure it's hunger and not dehydration? Those are a couple things I've seen/heard, but not sure without learning more. You've still got about 5 months so about half pound a week should be doable to drop those last 10 pounds or even just to tone a few things so you're feeling and looking your best. What's Orange Theory? I haven't heard of it.