Hello. My name is Walt. I'm 6' 7" tall and started my journey to lose 110 lbs 29 days ago. I started at 360 lbs, and am currently 340 lbs. I do deep water aerobics 45 to 90 mins a day, 6 days a week. I also am restricting my calorie intake to less than 1850 per day. I gained most of my excess weight in my late 30's. I'm 64 now and retired. I now have the time to exercise and watch what I eat. I posted here because I'd like to give support to others, and get support when i need it. I'm open to both and look forward to sharing
the journey with others.

Hello everyone. My name is Erica and I too need to lose weight. My starting weight is 267.4 lbs and I am 5'4". Career minded girl who has been using the excuse that work travel is the reason I couldn't lose weight. Well, my job is changing and I am not traveling anymore so no more excuses. My boyfriend has begged me to stop drinking pop (about a 1 liter day addiction) and I have been "clean" for 68 hours now. Hoping to combine healthy eating, low impact exercise and lots of water to make a change.

Kool, we now have 230 members!

The nice thing about this group is that everyone is here for the long haul (hopefully), since it should take us 1-2 yrs to lose 100+ poundage. Plenty of time to become friends!

Hi everyone,
I am so discouraged. I also have been slightly overweight since my teens. In 1999, I lost weight and went from a size 14 to 8 and I felt great. Then I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia and I stopped moving because of the pain. Now I weigh 217 lbs and I am only 5'2 so you all get the picture.

I started using MFP 45 days ago and have logged everything. I have been very good for the most part. Have probably had 3 days where I ate horrible. I have only lost 7 lbs. While others of MFP have lost 12 - 16 lbs. I started doing aerobics two weeks ago. Today, I got on the scale and gained 1 pound!! I am really discouraged and ready to give up but a small part of me is saying stay with it. So I thought joining a group would help. I need some advice please!!!

Hi all -
My name is Phil, and I've loved reading through many of these intro posts.
I have always struggled with my weight. I distinctly remember being over 200 pounds before starting middle school, and having to start wearing 2XL shirts before I hit high school.
I ballooned to over 400 pounds by this past January, when my coworkers started a friendly competition for weight loss (we are all more than a little overweight, working primarily desk jobs.) Since January 1, I have dropped to about 350 pounds, but I would love to eventually be down to between 200 and 250... I've recently hit a roadblock at that 50-pound mark and am now finding it harder for the weight to drop. I'm an emotional eater (I accept that, but also try to avoid it), and have totally changed my lifestyle in the kitchen. I used to be huge on comfort foods like my mother used to make (she's on her own weight-loss journey).
My primary workouts right now are to the "Just Dance" video game series, because I'm embarrassed to be at a gym. I live in a small city, so I also walk the mile to work (and the mile back) 2-3 times a week, on top of the dance/aerobics.
I'm just looking for a group to support me on my journey.

Thanks for having me here!

Hi! I'm Rachel. I would love to lose 135 pounds, which would put me down to less than I weighed in middle school. I'm not sure it is possible, but I sure am going to try!

I am a serial diet failure, but I'm hoping that good ol' counting calories (which I detest, btw) is going to work this time.

When I opened my account, I set it up to lose 2 pounds per week, but I had to change that today. I went down to 1 pound per week because I couldn't stay under my calories. Perhaps slow and steady will win this race!

I have a membership to the YMCA, but I have yet to utilize it fully. Mostly, I just take my kid swimming there. But the fees are outside my tight budget, yet I keep paying it (because our location's pool is awesome and summer is coming!) I need to really use my membership to help my new healthier lifestyle and make that monthly fee worth it! Maybe tomorrow.....

mistyjazz929 wrote: »

Hi everyone,
I am so discouraged. I also have been slightly overweight since my teens. In 1999, I lost weight and went from a size 14 to 8 and I felt great. Then I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia and I stopped moving because of the pain. Now I weigh 217 lbs and I am only 5'2 so you all get the picture.

I started using MFP 45 days ago and have logged everything. I have been very good for the most part. Have probably had 3 days where I ate horrible. I have only lost 7 lbs. While others of MFP have lost 12 - 16 lbs. I started doing aerobics two weeks ago. Today, I got on the scale and gained 1 pound!! I am really discouraged and ready to give up but a small part of me is saying stay with it. So I thought joining a group would help. I need some advice please!!!

Hi Misty. Please don't get discouraged. Everyone is different in their weight loss journey and some lose more than others and at a faster pace. Take a look at what you are eating and try to eat higher protein, lower carb foods. I learned in the first couple of weeks of logging that I was staying within my calorie count but eating more carbs than I should. Since then, I have not cut out all of carbs, but try to eat only the healthy ones now. This has made a world of difference in my weight loss and how good I feel. I have lost over 40 lbs since January 20th and this site has helped me so much. The people on here are very helpful with motivation and great advise to succeed. Keep on keeping on. It will pay off.

Rhonda

Hello. My name is Pat. I am a father of a great 11 year old daughter and have a lovely wife. I live in Japan but work for the US gov. I guess my weight issue started when I got out of the USMC. I twisted my ankle really bad during a run. So bad that the arch of my foot almost touched the inside of my leg. I ended up needing surgery because after that my ligaments became I guess "stretched out" would be a good term. Most stability gone until the knife and then a pain after.

Well being a block head I didn't change my lifestyle much besides not exercising. So fast forward 15years and I was just at 300lbs at 5'10" and 45 years old. My goal weight is 200lbs but with a 10% body fat. This is the weight and fat percentage I was when I injured my leg.

I didn't start MFP until I was a month or so into losing weight when I came to conclusion I wouldn't hit goals without calorie tracking. I hit 288.36lbs this morning and hope to get as close to 284 before June 1st as a mini goal. Have an appointment with doc and he's been harping on me to lose weight for years. I want to walk in and give him a *kitten* eating grin when he asks about my weight. 284 in important because I'll be under 130kg for first time in like 5 years.

How I have been trying to lose weight is simple. CICO is so basic it works. Eat less calories than you burn. So I eat less, and gave up beer altogether. Now I love good thick stouts and strong ales so it's likely my biggest sacrifice but calorie dense foods screw up my net calorie totals. I weigh and measure foods as I suck at guessing amounts. I also walk every other day. That is screwing with my leg but pools open soon and I'll swim instead.

Hey all, my name's Amber. I'm 23 years old, 5'3, and 212lb. I've been overweight since senior year of high school. Obese since college. I wasn't really allowed to eat fast food growing up, but once I got a driver's licence... it was downhill from there. I did Eat to Live for two months in college and dropped down to the upper 160s. Obviously, gained it back, plus some. It's been a year since I graduated college, and I'm trying to get back to how I was as a freshman/ sophomore in highschool.

SW: 225
CW: 212
GW: 110

Good luck to everyone!!