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!

pnece wrote: »

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

Head hung low been MIa for a while . On shaky grown I come once again to try and succeed in this journey . Taking small steps. Will weight I. The morning and go from there first goal is 10 lbs . And adding water lots of water .
Kat