New to MFP from Milwaukee/Chicago area...

Hello everyone!

I've only been using MFP for the past 2 days but I feel like this is going to be one of the more useful tools I've tried.

I have struggled with my weight for a very long time. I can remember being in grade school and having a sleepover at my friend's house. She had bunk beds and she told me that I had to sleep on the bottom and she would sleep on the top bunk because I was fat and she was skinny. That is the very first time I remember feeling self concious. The sad part is I have never been extremely obese. But I have also never been in the shape that I have always wanted to be.

I've done the fad diets... slim fast... only oranges... the sacred heart soup diet... juice cleanse... etc... Obviously none of it REALLY worked.

Then I read a book called Body for Life and realized that I needed to make the concious decision to make a life change. I had quit smoking a few times in the past but this time I was able to just stop without the normal struggle. it was then that I knew I was ready to make an honest change.

I started a Couch to 5K program last week and before that I had been jogging every morning for several weeks. I'm finally starting to feel a change MENTALLY. So I'm hoping I'm there... starting my journey for REAL this time.