My name is Beth and am 32 years old. I only have one child he is 8 and if you include my husband (who sometimes acts like one) I have two. I work full time and go to school full time. I am graduating in December and then the job hunt begins. I will probably go get my masters, but I will need a break after the holidays. We had a flood in September and our community is still recovering I unluckily work for a heating company right now so for 2 months I have been working 60 hour weeks and then school for around 20hours ( I go to school online). As you all know it is difficult and I am crazy enough to try to have another child. With all this I am trying to drop pounds (I have a lot to go) and give my family the attention they want. Its a long road but we will all get their eventually.

Hi, I'm 27 yrs old married to my highschool sweetheart and a mom to two wonderfull little boys ages 4 and 15mths. I am a nurse and I work full time for a surgeon. I am ready to shed some weight and get toned...as you know its just hard finding time in our busy schedules. I am hoping with mfp I will be able to stay motivated.

Hello! My name is Shannon and I am a single mom of two children, 17 and 12 years old. I work full-time and attend an accelerated part-time bachelor's degree program that is intense with writing. I love that I'm finally on a path to finish my bachelor's and I graduate in 2013, yippee!!

In regards to my weight, I am an emotional eater and I love processed food (muffins, pastry, snacks...anything tasty) BUT I have recommitted myself to losing weight on MFP again. Right now I am at my heaviest weight ever (I never even weighed this much when I was pregnant)--disgusted! I figure it's not worth educating myself if I'm not going to keep a healthy body to push me to the next level.

I'm grateful for this group!

Yes I am an emotional eater also and I am a bored eater. If I am home alone and just watching t.v. I will raid the kitchen whether I am hungry or not. I love anything salty and crunchy, chips, pretzels, crackers. I am also addicted to cheese and I love ice cream. I didn't weigh this much either when I was pregnant. It is really upsetting, but I just try to stay busy and not think about food.

Hi! My name is Tammy, I have a 9 month old baby girl, I work 32 hours a week as a researcher and am going for my Master's in Public Health (one class at a time right now, it's all I can handle). I'm always struggling with my weight and don't have very many working mom friends. I would love the support and would love to give support where I can

Hi my name is Jessie. I am 23 years old and i have a one yr old named Deanna, which u can tell from my sn. I just applied to 4 yr college, and since i went to a community college in my state i am guarenteed admission and will be pursuing my degree in secondary education as an english major. !!!! i am so nervous about it, but i know that it will be better for my daughter if i have my BS and will help my bf out because then i can have a career and not just a job. Plus the chances that my daughter will go to a four yr college or above is higher is both parents hold a four yr degree (or so i have heard.) i am not working right now, but it feels like i am because i have to drive back and forth from hartford to bridgeport ( which is an hour) due to the fact that my bf and i don't really live together right now because i have to go to school. I hate having to depend on people to watch my daughter for me, but at least i HAVE people who can watch her, because then i don't know what i would do!

Hi! I'm Kiki and I'm 27 years old. I have two daughters ages 20 months and 6 years. I'm in my capstone course for my bachelors degree and I'm also active duty military. I'm married and currently in line to test for for next rank. My oldest now has cheerleading 4 days a week and starting in Jan..5. My youngest is all about play!

I'm working to lose 54 lbs to get back to where I was before having two kids. I look forward to chatting with all of you.

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Hi everyone. My name is Cindy. I am 33 years old. I have two boys ages 14 and 9. I work full time at a college and go to college full time. I am working on my Bachelor Degree in Business Administration. I have been in a relationship with a friend from my high school years for 12 years. Hopefully, I can reach my goal of losing 60 more pounds. I have lost twenty total in the past month. Hard work and determination. I am tired of being tired all of the time. I want to look and feel good about myself. I just want to say that there is no better place to get motivation than on this site.

Hi everyone,
My name is Megan, I am a mother to a 2 year old daughter and 3 month old son. I work full time and trying to get a good work out schedule has been a real challenge. I am hoping that if I find a group of people or at least a work out buddy it will help to keep me motivated. I am going to try a new schedule of working out before work which means getting up at about 5am, yuck!

Hi Ladies, I'm Lyndi. I'm a 33 year old busy working mom to a 5 and 2 year old (and a 40 year old if you count my husband). I have a long commute (45 minutes plus one way) to a job I love. But with that commute comes limmited time to get things done at home and spend time with my family. I'm finding I'm always making plans to carve out time for myself and work-out, but that's about as far as I get. My actual follow through needs work. I would love to loose the 15 extra pounds I've packed on haveing two kids but with kids, work and well life - it's been been a challenge to say the least. It's nice to meet a group of ladies who are in the same situation as me.

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Hello all! I'm Tonya. I'm 39, married to Mike, and have 2 teenagers, 19 and 17. My Son (the 19 yo) just moved out and my Daughter is a junior in high school and on the cheerleading squad and golf team. Thankfully, she's old enough to drive herself to practice! LOL I am currently on break from school, but have been doing 18 hour semesters for the last couple of years so that I can get my bachelors in exercise physiology and minor in nutrition. Thankfully, I only have one semester left and all I have in this coming semester is my 12 credit hour internship in the cardiac rehab department of one of our local hospitals. This is a really good thing not only because I will graduate in May, but also because I only have 10 weeks of internship so I'll be done in March and because my internship site is half the distance from my house then the school was so my commute will only be an hour now instead of two. I have also already been accepted into the masters in exercise science program at the University of South Florida so I will be moving there and beginning classes in August. For work, I do private personal training about 10 hours a week.

Hello my name is Sheila Parker and I'm a mom to two very beautiful active boys, ages 4 years and 15 months. I am a stay at home mom and attend college full time. I have been overweight for probably the past 10 years and it got worse with each child. I put so much of my time and attention into my family, ate too much and didn't exercise. About 4 months after I had my second son I decided it was time to get myself back on track and get the weight off.

I started out by joining Curve's and it worked and I love it but when I made the decision to go back to school it just wasn't working out for me anymore. So I finally decided to buy a workout program that I could do at home and have almost stuck with it for 30 days. At first it was hard, I had the motivation but just the thought of how much weight I had to lose scared me. There were days that I was mentally trying to talk myself out of doing the work out but pushed myself because I know how much better I felt when it was complete.

Thursday, 01/05/12, will be my 30 day point and now my work outs have become like second nature. I'm excited to see how much weight I have lost during the past month. I look forward to keeping my motivation through this group and offering what I can.



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I'm Cheryl, a 31 year old single mom of a 9 year old boy. I've been overweight since I was a teenager, and now I work in IT which means sitting and staring at a computer screen all day. Not a lot of chances to exercise in that job. I went to the doctor for an ear infection one day and during the dreaded weigh in, watched the nurse push the weight on the scale from the 250 mark to the 300 and decided I had to fix this. Can't believe I'm almost a third of the way toward my goal. It still doesn't feel possible.

Hi! I am Summer. Married and 3 kids. 9 year old daughter and 4 year old twins. I am a SAHM and a FT student. One of my daughters is special needs, so that in itself is a lot of work. I am also married to a cop who works crazy hours which can be hard on the family. I was running a lot in early 2011 but then my husband got really sick for 3 months and I stopped. I just ran a 1/2 marathon in 3 hours with ZERO training and it's really jump started my motivation. So in addition to running I am doing 30DS. I am hoping to lose 35 lbs this year.


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