Hello! I've send invites to both of you. I lurk in /loseit and am based in the land of red dust and venomous animals (aka Australia).

I'd be surprised if there AREN'T a couple of hundred Redditors around MFP, lurking away.

My story: Currently two and a bit months into losing about a decade's worth of weight gain and am pretty stoked with the results thus far - by my best estimation I'm down 13kg since starting with MFP and about 16kg from my peak weight. It's been hard fought yet satisfying; still some ways to go (I'm now aiming for a goal weight of around 85kg which is 15kg away) but I've been able to drop back into a low-cal diet easily enough after the Christmas / NYE break.

Hello redditors! My username on reddit is tigerdactyl. Glad to see there's a group here, small as it may be. I'm down 51 since joining MFP, and down at least 96 overall. My scale threw an error at 350+, so I'm not sure where I started.

Hey Redditors.

Name's Darryl, I've been a long time lurker of /loseit. Really glad someone decided to make this group, and even though it's kind of dead right now... hopefully we can make this work and have fun with it.

Before I get into my story... progress pics!

Older: http://imgur.com/a/bIMEn
Most Recent: http://imgur.com/a/EdPVJ

I'll give my history in a timeline:

Elementary School: Super chubby boy. Lost it towards Gr.8 by running around a lot and eating healthier.

High School: Concentrated on my studies. Got fat again. Discovered online gaming... got fatter.

Post Secondary: Met Erin, my ex who is now my best friend. She shared the same passions of online gaming and food... OH GOD WHY.

2008: Flight of stairs defeated me. Realized that it probably wasn't healthy to be gasping for air when all I did was walk to the 2nd floor washroom.

2009: Went to the gym, lost weight. Yoyod here and there, no big. Wasn't too focused on losing weight but it was happening.

2010: Depression. Diagnosed with osteochondritis dissecans in my right arm making my arm pretty much unusable. Couldn't bend it, couldn't grip things, it sucked. 6 year relationship with my girlfriend ended mutually.

LIFE CHANGE TIME. Worked around the injury, ran a 10k every other day. Developed pains in my legs, but dismissed it as shin splints or just some other pain that I probably just being a ***** about.

2011: Started new work, and had surgery on my arm! Started weight lifting and slowly increasing my strength, muscles are nice.

After speaking with two doctors about the leg pain which was now debilitating I decided physio was not an answer and got an MRI done. The pain was so bad at one point that I could only walk for periods of 10 minutes at a time, and if I were to stand up from a sitting position my legs would shake like crazy, as if I carrying 1000 lbs. on my back.

MRI came back with a notice of "URGENT: HIGH PRIORITY" and after a back and forth of rescheduling appointments (the latest one being December of 2012) I managed to get a surgery for my sciatica on January 23rd, 2012. The procedures being done are a lamenectomy and discectomy. The neurosurgeon said that running at such a heavy weight and being flat footed contributed to the disc herniations in my spine. So basically, in my attempt to get healthier I severely damaged myself. Talk about life being unfair sometimes lol.

2012: Patiently waiting for surgery, maintaining my weight by eating properly but I'm really sad cause I can't work out at the gym, the pain is way too much. On the bright side, I just got converted for full time status at my workplace so now I'll be covered for short term disability while I'm recovering for the next 4-6 weeks with 100% pay.

That's about it, but if you have any questions I'd be glad to answer. I promise to update my album with new measurements and pics as soon as I can start exercising again.

Peace!

hello all!

Hello fellow Redditors!

It's great to see such a positive group developing. MFP has really helped me in the last few months and all of you are great! Good luck and great success to all. :-)

hi! Setter928 here from reddit!
Thought I should get in on this action! Too bad there isnt any karma from losing weight, eh?

Feel Free to add me. I frequent r/trees, r/loseit, r/askReddit, and r/UNLincoln

Greetings fellow redditors and visitors of r/loseit!

I first started using MFP because none of the other calorie counting websites held the food from my local supermarket (Tesco, UK). Since then I've fallen off of the MFP wagon a couple of times... the last one was pretty bad. One month in I was craving a hamburger so bad, went out and got one and the shame of logging it was too great!! Haha, I am sure you know where I'm coming from.
Well, since then I've been off for a couple of months and for usual reasons I've gained a bit more *facepalm*. BUT I am back on the wagon now. Here's hoping to greater success with fellow MFP redditors...

*raises glass of low calorie beverage*

Hi guys, new here, want to lose about 50 lbs. My reddit name is the same as it is on here. Feel free to add me,

I've been on MFP for a couple months now, and I've only recently discovered r/fitness and r/loseit, mostly lurking right now (username: quarkenstein).

I'm a 20 year old college student, graduating in May, and hoping to attend graduate school starting in the Fall.

I've never been overweight, but I lack a lot of endurance for sports, and never went to the gym. Freshman year, we were required to purchase a dining hall meal plan, which was all you can eat. At that point I quit swim team because I wasn't good enough to compete at the college level, and that's when things went downhill. After that, fast food became the norm, my kitchen would very often be unused.

Now I cook more at home, but still go out with friends, I just make healthier choices while going out. So far I've already felt much healthier, though the weight loss hasn't been dramatic; my migraines have gone away and I've had no back pain after working out, so that's a great step!

These last couple weeks have been hard, I've been gaining and losing the same two pounds over and over and can't get through one barrier, which is frustrating. I'd love some reddit friends who are active to motivate and who can motivate me back!

Hello reddit! I just joined this fabulous group, so I may be adding some of you - and feel free to add me! It's always easier to lose weight when you have people sharing the same goal, so here's to shedding the pounds!

Hi Redditors,

I've been on MFP for a while but Reddit only since Christmas (username: zloty). I am hoping to add a few folks to my MFP buddy list and make it more interactive - so feel free to friend and I'll do the same. I am aiming to track more consistently instead of writing days off, and see more consistent progress in my weight loss as well.

A bit about me: overweight since high school, but it really got out of control with pregnancies. Now I'm trying to shape up for a return to competition fencing! Lost about 10 pounds since Christmas and feeling good about it. I'm in the pacific northwest but I have lived all over the US. Hope to see you on the boards!

Dknothere... here,

Just saying wassup to all the Reddit peeps in here! But the other one... what is a keto?? I probably should have googled it before writing this, and will have to do it now afterwards!

So, I guess through my life I was pretty round, except for when I was in highschool and I went through that weird growth spurt stage and I got fantastically fit. But since then, especially since I am out of highschool and in a desk job, I can feel my weight collecting on my rump, which is terrible.

Now I am on a personal quest to get back to my highschool self, and beyond. I dont want to be the guy that peaked in highschool. This app makes it so easy to follow your diet, there really is no excuse to not get thinner,except that you dont want to be thinner.

Uhm.. thats it as far as introductory posts go, I suppose..

Feel free to add me to your friends list and lurk around my username on Reddit, I dont mind

AWesome-sauce cool beans,

over and out

Howdy there, Redditors!

Firstly, my Reddit name is the same as here, tahoe5280, but IRL I'm Mike. Stats are as follows: 38 yr old male, living in Houston, TX but a California resident at heart. Lived there 95% of my life and can't wait to return. At my peak, I was about 370, and am currently about 335. My goal is to get down to about 175-185 and be as active and fit as I was when I was living in Lake Tahoe when I was 25.

I've always struggled with my weight, but it wasn't until I saw the famed Youtube video, "Sugar: The bitter truth" from Dr. Robert Lustig MD that everything fell into place for me. I've been very susceptible to compulsive eating, and it was always foods that were loaded with carbs and sugar. After watching that video, I decided to try and cut out sugar from my diet and switch to a very low carb, high protein high fat diet and see what happens.

Well, that video changed my life. After cutting out sugar and carbs from my diet, my compulsive eating went away. I was awestruck when I lost 20 pounds in 2 weeks. Since that time, I've been losing about 5 pounds a week (which I hear is too much, but I figure its only because I am starting out and a really high BMI).

I know I don't have a profile pic yet, but that's because I was avoiding cameras for the last 10 years of being a big fat guy. I plan on adding some soon, however. Good luck at being losers.

Hello all,

I've used this app before briefly until switching phones and then kinda just dropped off and started using another calendar to just track what exercise I did that day. I have a problem trying to reach the 1200 calorie minimum which I guess I need to work on. Cut out soda (my biggest weakness), and if I feel the need for it, I just grab a diet coke. Stopped eating fast food altogether and doing the whole running/biking thing (with a few weights thrown in) and have seen minimal changes, I keep fluctuating (grrrrr). It's getting aggravating. But I figured I'd give this site another try and alas, there's other redditors here. So thank you for starting the group!!

So, I'm 5'7 and fluctuate between 205-215 depending on the day. I would like to get back down to my 140 weight that I was like 5-6 years ago. Also, I'm in Seattle, if there's any locals that want to team up.

Also, feel free to add me, I have no friends on here and kinda just going at it alone which can suck at times.
Take care,
zoe1328 (I go by the same name on reddit too).

I thought I *was* in the Reddit group when I joined the Loseit group in November. But this one's bigger! As Patrick would say: Why don't we take THAT group and put it with THIS group so that there's just one?!

Anyway, hello! I am female, 31, 5'4" and presently 196.6 lbs. I'm down from about 290, which I was back in 2006. In 07 I lost a bunch, then got stuck for a while while my life turned into a movie with a complicated plot for a few years. Then, 109 days ago, I decided to finish what I started and began logging on MFP and became a dedicated participant in r/loseit, r/keto, and r/vegetarianketo. In those 109 days I've lost 35 lbs.

I have just been devouring health and nutrition information and have made it my mission to not just lose weight but to become as well-informed as possible and give my body what it wants and needs as perfectly as I am able. This is about so much more than getting thinner. I want to be a super-healthy badass.

I am highly, highly motivated and totally unflappable in my mission.

I'm becoming pretty knowledgable about how to maintain a diverse and delicious ketogenic diet as a vegetarian *without* ODing on soy (which I eat no more than once a week). Truthfully, my version is slightly adapted, I think, from what some of the purists might say is "real" keto. But my trusty Ketostix assure me I'm staying in ketosis and it's been working!

I have PCOS and the resulting insulin resistance and changing to a high protein, low carb diet has been utterly life changing. In 109 days nearly all of my symptoms are gone. I don't take any pharmaceuticals at all. After a lifetime of blood sugar issues, mood issues, and all the other awful stuff that comes with hormone imbalance, this is miraculous to me. It makes me want to seek out women with the same condition and say "LISTEN! I MUST TELL YOU THINGS!"

So, truly, if you want to discuss vegetarian keto or PCOS related issues, please feel free to ask me questions and share your own experiences. Also, add me!

Best wishes on your own journey. This community has proven to be remarkably valuable to me and I thank every one of you for being a part of if.