Hi everyone! My name is Adia and I weigh 340 as of this morning. I am 33 mother to a 9 year old and can't use baby weight as an excuse. I gained all of my weight after pregnancy. I'm so backwards. lol I've always been tall and healthy, but I can't kid myself that it will stay that way. I'd like to get to 299 as a mini goal. I'm focusing on 10 pound goals right now. I look forward to meeting everyone!

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Hi everyone! I'm Katrina, 26, and a mom to two amazing little girls - one will be 2 next week and one will be 6 months next week. Yikes! I weigh 290 right now but was 312 a month or so ago. I switched my soda to diet soda and decreased the amount (baby steps... Goal is to quit it entirely.) and started drinking water again... I hadn't more than say 6 oz a day if that and not every day, in years. Now that the water weight is gone though I'm stuck. Joined mfp for the meal tracking, didn't realize there was a community here. I don't have a lot of support in my every day life so I'm hoping to find some here. Having trouble finding an exercise I can do that doesn't kill me in the first 15 minutes. I have hypothyroid (my first pregnancy tanked it, it has not yet recovered), fibromyalgia, and right now I am fighting my way through my second bout of post partum depression. I most struggle with my "why" and thinking that I deserve to be healthy. I am constantly sabotaging myself. I'm posting all this because I don't have anywhere else to I guess. Anyone is free to add me as a friend I welcome every ounce of support I can find

Hi outspoken
Like u l have problems with excersizing due to osteoarthritis, but 3 wks ago joined a gym and I'm a gym convert.
I take it 10 mins at a time. Give myself a break n go back at a different exercise.
The exercising will be good for depression which I have.
Add me as friend.

Hello everyone. I'm Jenny, 37 years old, and living in Leicestershire, UK. I've lost 86lbs over the past year, but still have another 150 or so to go.

As my user-name suggests, I'm autistic, so replying to messages and the like can be difficult for me, but I would welcome new friends if you would care to add me.

Hi Jenny and Nassi -- I'm Patty. Welcome! Glad you're both here!

Hello! My name is Valerie I'm 29 and I struggled with weight issues all of my life. I was always the fat kid. I'm currently at 301 lbs. I was at my heaviest 332 lbs and I've lost a bit of weight and I've been struggling to get below 300. I'm so close and I've been yo yo-ing between a little under 300 and 310 lbs now for about a year and a half. I want to take it more seriously and keep to my target calorie intake, and I want to go back to the gym. I'm just looking for people in similar situation as me and could use a little support and encouragement! I wish you all the same

Hi! I'm Jennie from Washington State and just discovered MFP groups! I have used MFP off and on for a couple years and was up to 369 lbs (if not more, avoided the scale for a while) at my heaviest. I am down to 320.5 and have been on track for the last month and feeling very good and motivated this time around. I welcome any new friends and I look forward to getting to know you!! Have a wonderful night

Hello to all the new members

Welcome Becca. So sorry to hear of all the trouble you have had this year. You made the first and hardest step...own it...one foot in front of the other. No matter the number on the scale, take it in small chunks and just whittle away at it. You are worth your efforts. Sometimes thats the hardest thing of all for us to learn.

Heya.

I'm Rhonnda. I'm 54 and from the fair isle of Bermuda.

I live with both chronic depression and anxiety disorder for which I am medicated. My wonderful husband is the one who suffers from it, but he loves me anyway. No children, though we have cats, birds and fish. (Yes, I do consider them family.)

I work full-time evenings for our daily newspaper as a proofreader, a job that I love regardless of the major frustrations at times.

I'm presently around 425 (guessing from my scale which is iffy at best).

I'm have not been diagnosed with any medical disorders, aside from the depression and anxiety, though I'm making myself go in to see my doc within a couple weeks because I suspect I am showing signs of diabetes.

I've lost before so I know I can do it, and how to do it. I just really struggle with the mental aspect. Because of this I'm only going to be getting on the scale monthly and focus on day by day doing what I know I need to do.

I've been around MFP for a number of years, but haven't been doing much of anything for the last couple.

You're welcome to friend me.
I tend to be pretty quiet, though when I get going it's another story. I can be fairly blunt, and a bit of a smartass.

Hi! I'm Bridget from WV and am happy to find a group of folks who are facing a similar struggle to me! I've been heavy pretty much my whole life, especially from my teens on. I managed to loose a little weight in college, but my weight ballooned up bigtime after that, until I hit my heaviest at 380 in 2012. I was diagnosed with PCOS in 2005, and that coupled with thyroid problems has made it incredibly difficult to lose weight and keep it off.

I've tried many diets, from weight watchers online to slim fast, but the only thing that I found that worked for me was calorie counting. I managed to get just back under the 300 mark in 2012, but had to have my thyroid removed because of cancer in 2014, and ended up regaining all but 5 lbs by 2016.

I've found that there is some mental aspect to it definitely - if I can't align my willpower with my desire to lose weight, I am hopeless at sticking to a diet. And aligning that willpower is extremely difficult! But something has seemed to click this time around because I started dieting again as part of my new year's resolution, and so far, I've dropped 30 lbs and am down from 375 to 343. So here's hoping whatever clicked keeps working!

Hello friends. My name is Sean I live in Bremerton WA I am 456lbs and I've been on here since December last year. I logged, ate less, lost 30lbs and realized this would work and put it down and picked a fork. My life is insane. I'm a recovering addict that isn't going to overeat today. We can do this. I feel that as long as I keep putting in the effort someday it may happen for me. I do stepwork in a 12 step program for overeating. I love everyone in the world and I want the best for everyone. I'm a single dad of two teenage girls that support me in everything I'm trying to accomplish.

Hi Sean and Colin, hope you enjoy our group!

My name is Melissa and I've struggled with my weight my whole life. (short intro story)

I'm a fat Canadian woman married to a thin American man, and my life has sure changed over the last 7 years. I've always been big, but shortly after I married in 2010, I fell down a flight of stairs which left me bedbound for almost a year. I've developed back issues due to my accident + gaining weight, and am now at my heaviest ever, over 400 LBs.
As I've been getting older, I've noticed my body giving me signs of "hey it's time to make a freaking change". I've tried and tried and tried to lose weight over the years. Nutritionists, dietitians, personal trainers, fasting, yoyo diets, you name it. Nothing ever stuck, and I always fell back into bad habits and not caring.
This last new years something changed though, I made a lifestyle change and strangely enough.. it's stuck. I've moved to eating a vegetarian diet, something I've never before had an interest in. I didn't even do it for health reasons, I just made the decision and ever since Jan 1st 2017 I've stopped eating meat. I wasn't very good at it at the start though (macaroni and cheese is vegetarian right?), so I didn't see any difference in my weight. I was still bingeing and eating tons of junk food.
What brought me back to MFP is funny actually. I was doing some research because I was told Parmesan cheese is not vegetarian (wow it actually isn't *mind blown*), which lead me to MFP. Decided to start back up again, with no real goals in mind. I figured I'd probably just drop it again like I always did in the past, but strangely enough I've been really having fun logging my food every day. I'm on my longest MFP streak ever, and since I started looking really hard at what I'm consuming every day to not only log the food, but be sure I'm eating vegetarian meals, I've started seeing progress.
Switching to a vegetarian diet really made me take an extra minute every day to plan my meals, and even when I go out to eat, I'm more careful than I've ever been in what I order.

tl;dr 400 lb meat and junk food junkie switches to vegetarian diet, starts using mfp daily. Goal: lose 200 lbs.

Hey all! I'm Clare. Here's a little about myself so we can get acquainted.

Like many here I've always been overweight. I've never really dieted before though. I was too perfectionistic to give it a try! Lately it's all been clicking and I finally know how to approach this. I've been of MFP since Feb and am trying to build a community of people who are moving towards the same things. I am looking for friends! I'm super positive, librarianesque about data, a lover of many sports, and a giant nerd. Not in the hot way. In the "i need to look up the name of the kid who played the son of the Equalizer on the 80s tv show because I think he was the evil kid in karate kid 1". It's a sickness.

So hello and hope to hear from you!

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StopThatKitty wrote: »

I was doing some research because I was told Parmesan cheese is not vegetarian (wow it actually isn't *mind blown*), which lead me to MFP. .

WHAT???? All my illusions are shattered!

Right??? lmao