Military wives unite. :)

Hello all proud USMC wife here. Married to my highschool best friend since kindergarten, who has been a Marine for 4 years. Currently stationed in Yuma, AZ. As is common we did the small secret wedding and will be doing the real wedding soon, so I joined this site hoping to lose some weight before shopping for my gown. Oohrah!

Yay, a military wives topic! I'm Kim, 26, married for almost 5 years but known my husband since we were four. My husband was in the MC for seven years before he did an interservice transfer to the Navy. BIG difference between branches. We've been stationed in Pensacola since '07 and will be here (as long as all goes well) for another couple of years.

Hi Susan, I am married to a retired SF ARMY guy, spent years and years at Bragg, taking off all that weight I put on over the deployments and stress of the last ten years. url=http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker][/url]
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Hello from the Land of OZ!

I'm an AF Spouse currently stationed (alone) at McConnell AFB, Kansas. I've been married for *stops to count*...almost 2 years. In that 22 months of marriage, my husband has been deployed for 11 months of it. We're in the midst of our second deployment.

I'm a Type 1 Diabetic and have been overweight since insulin was introduced to my life in 2004. Prior to that, I was in training to be a Marine - so big change. Now I'm living a healthier lifestyle, getting back in shape and losing a few pounds to assist in the process.

Feel free to friend me!

Hey guys!!! Please do friend me. Us MILITARY WIVES/SPOUSES need to stick together. Don't you wish we could all have relationships like the spouses on Army Wives(the Lifetime series)?? It sucks being away from home and not knowing anyone. It's no wonder we are looking for support on forums. But anywho, I'm Julia. My husband is Active Navy for 8 years now. We have been married for over 3. I love my life and I love the amazing people I meet and places I get to go. All the happiness I have found has also found me 80lbs extra. So here I am struggling to take it off. I want to take the weight off so I can start planning our family and getting my health back in line. I want to be a well rounded mother who teaches her kids the right way to eat and take care of themselves.

So I hope to meet lots of amazing wives on here and get to know you all. Send me an invite. I'm very friendly.

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I'm Loryn, 23. From Los Angeles,CA. I do hair & I study Psychology. Yet, the part of me that dictates most of my life is my husband is a Marine. We've been married a year, and I gained about 40 lbs in that year. He is now in Afghanistan, and I've lost 25 lbs about, and have no much more to go. Being a military wife is very hard, especially in a desolate place in like Twentynine Palms,CA. My husband being in Infantry, he's always gone. So I guess I just run to food as a comforter, plus it's easier to get McDonald's then make dinner for 1. We plan on having children within the next 1-3 years so I'd like to be at the healthiest I can be for that.

i'm an AF wife. we got married in march. we are in south florida (he's eod at homestead afb). i have 2 boys (ages 5 1/2 and 3) and we are trying for one together (we were preg but i had miscarriage in may). i started mfp this wk and i love it so far! i lost 70 lbs following my lapband surgery 3 yrs ago but have been stalled for about a year. i have 70-80 more to go!
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Air Force wife here. Will be married 8 years this December to my TSgt husband. I have three grown children, and two grandchildren (4 and 1).
Met my husband online. He knew from the start I was older than him, but he insisted on meeting in person before he PCSd to England about six months later. Two months into his new assignment he proposed over the phone and we got married almost ten months later. He became the instant father of a 13 y.o. girl (who hated the idea of moving). Oh the joys.....NOT!
Sadly I have gained quite a bit of weight since we got married, but he loves me nevertheless. According to him it doesn't matter what I weigh. It matters to me though, so I'm doing something about it....finally!
My oldest daughter invited me to this site, although I am on the Weight Watchers Plan. I figure it can't hurt to cover all bases.

Husband came home today with news of deployment next summer :ohwell: (Army national guard) Which is right after I graduate college and will be starting law school. The most frustrating thing about the whole evening was that as we are sitting there discussing it, I ate 2 chocolate donuts right after we had finished dinner. Seriously?? :noway: Two years ago while he was at basic and AIT, I gained most of my weight and got up to my heaviest weight (164) besides when I was 9 mos pregnant (168). I just got back down to almost my goal weight (2 stubborn lbs away) and here I am emotionally overeating again.

Have any of you guys struggled with this? I know lots of MFPers who deal w/ emotional overeating but I wanted to know if you guys have dealt with it specifically in emotions related to missing your husband while gone for training/deployments? This will be his first deployment and I just don't want to let myself go again while he is gone but I'm already scared of it and it's still 8 months away.