Hi All,

Im Shel from Te Awamutu.
Im 163.5cm (recently discovered - thought i was a cm taller!)

Weight when i met my partner (5yrs ago) - 73kg
Full term pregnant 102kg with both kids (2.5yr & 1yr)
Prebaby weight & restart weight - 84-85kg
Currently - 72.6kg (hopefully lighter tomorrow!)
Goal weight - 65kg or maybe a lil less, not sure.

I have a large bone frame also.
To me this goes into account on what i should weigh.

Hi all,
It's nice to see so many kiwis on here that are doing so well! I'm Ashleigh and I am from Christchurch, studying ECE teaching at Canterbury and working weekends. I have lost about 20kgs on MFP so far, with about 10-15 to go, I love cooking new dishes and finding healthy recipes and am learning so much on this journey! Looking foward to summer, and wearing some clothes that dont have to cover everything! Best if luck to everyone

Hi everyone

I'm Emily, I'm 26 in three days and live in west Auckland. I started on MFP at the beginning of the year and was doing well until I went to Europe for a month and then came back and started working huge amounts of overtime (late night takeaways anyone?).

Anyway, I weighed myself today for the first time in ages and I've gained back all the weight I had lost as well as an extra 8kgs!

I've definitely got my work cut out for me but I'm up for the challenge.

Hi
I'm from Auckland and been using the site for just over 3 weeks. Its helping me control and understand what I eat. My weight loss is slow but thats ok. Happy to add more 'friends' as I find its a good motivator seeing how others are doing. Not a facebook user - this is as close as I get to social networks.
When I add an ingredient, I put NZ after the title/description. I noticed someone else was doing this and thought it was a good idea for us Kiwis.

Hi all, I'm Rebecca and I live in Wellington. I have recently changed from full-time work to part-time while I start up my own proofreading and editing business. The purpose of that is to be able to get by while I pursue an acting career. I'm doing ok with that, but a bit limited by my appearance, I think!

I really enjoy running and completed a half-marathon in July. Unfortunately, I have been ill with a chest infection for the past 6 weeks and only coming right now. I couldn't even walk up a flight of stairs without gasping for breath!

So I weighed myself the day I joined MFP last week and I had finally reached the forbidden milestone - I was over 100 kgs (101). (I'm 173cm tall).

I've been really loving the ease of keeping track of foods and the fact that so many of the foods we have in New Zealand are actually ON the database! I'm sure I have a lot of you to thank for that, and I've been adding ones as I go, as well.

I love being able to eat whatever I want, as long as I keep track of it. And it's been really making me think about making healthy choices when I'm hungry - I'd rather eat a substantial amount of something healthy than a small amount of something unhealthy and use up half my calorie allowance for the day!

I've also started swimming - I used to find it dead boring, but I bought an underwater MP3 player (pretty cheap - only $80!) and I listen to audio books while I do it. Before I know it, it's been an hour!

Anyway, I've rambled enough - if anyone is in Wellington and would like to meet up - do get in touch, and anyone who wants to should feel free to add me as a friend.

:bigsmile:

Hi! I'm Caity and I just moved to NZ this year. I am from New York but I married a kiwi!

I am going to be teaching math starting in January here and I'm really excited! We are living near Motueka now but will be moving to the West Coast in January!

This week I've been on MFP for a year. I've lost 60 pounds / 27kg!
I still want to lose about 20 pounds and tone up!

Nice to meet you all!

I'm Cindy, aged 30 and a mother of 3 children, 2 boys aged 11 and 9 and a girl aged nearly 2!
I have gained 26 kgs since falling pregnant with my 1st child back in 2000. I have since lost 5.4 kgs and hoping to lose another 10 kg

I grew up in Makarewa which is just near Invercargill. Me and my family moved to Australia in June 1995, so we have been here a fair while BUT I will always call myself a Kiwi

Ha, I feel like I'm really late to a party and everone is staring!

I'm Hay. Istarted MFP in Feb this year and credit it with helping me lose over 50kgs. I'm trying to do the maintenance thing right now, but trying to find that elusive sweet spot between losing and gaining is tough!

I live in Hamilton, am married and have four girls who I homeschool.

I am into running mostly, which I supplement with some strength work in the form of Ripped in 30.

Add me if you like, happy to support everyone :-)

<--- Oh good, I was right - it was March this year :happy:

Hey ya. I just came across this site this month and I love it. Ive had a fair bit of support from people from around the globe since I started, but was also looking for something closer to home so stoked i found this group:) I live in Tauranga and want to lose 20kg. I have two daughters aged 5 & 7 and study part time. My motivation, when I first started trying to lose weight was summer.. which is pretty much here so that ship has sailed. So now I just want to be fit, healthy and at my goal weight for my 29th birthday in May. I would love to be able to compete in a marathon or something too.