My name is Linda and I am 50 yrs old but I don't feel 50. I have been fat all my life, I currently are the biggest I have ever been, I was 324 lbs in Nov. 2011, I am now at 305 lbs. I want to get to about 140-150 if I can I know that that's not 200lbs but it is close to it and I need the support. I have hypothyroidism, and PSOD so my metabolism is almost nothing. I work a job that I sit alot at work and I work till about 630 at night and its hard to get any exercise in before bedtime and I am not a morning person that can get up at 5 and exercise. Any suggestions? I have a gym membership but I have trouble getting myself motivated to go. I am just so tired all the time. I lost 75 lbs about 9 years ago and got down to 218 lbs. but I let life's stessors but it back on me and more. I have got to get this off or I am not going to live very long! I lost the 19 lbs. by just watching my calerie intake, I stopped drinking soda pop, and logging everything I eat even the smallest thing. Now I need to get the exercise going. can someone give me a kick in the pants!

thanks for the input. I'll give it a try.

Hello,
Im scheduled for Gastric Bypass March 7. I am currently 352 . I was as high as 377 . I'm 52 and looking so forward to enjoying life .:drinker:

Hello everybody!

My name is Rachel and I too have been overweight my whole life and have decided that this is my year to make positive changes. I have been married for almost 3 years and desperately want to have children before "the clock" starts ticking. In january I started at 381. Currently Im at 359. It hasn't been easy. i work all day in childcare and am whipped when i get home. I do have a gym membership, but it is so hard to find that umph when you get home from work. So currently I am using our nintendo wii system and doing the Just dance game as exercise. My mini goal next week is too return to the gym. Fingers crossed!

I did however make a list that has been encouraging to me and also brings a little humor into my new life change. I call it my 'DIRTY THIRTY" list. i sat down at the end of december and compiled 30 reasons why I hate being fat. I probably could have made it 100. Some of which are, Sweating doing nothing, air supply being cut off in restuaraunt booths, fear of breaking lawn furniture with my ars, airplane seats to small, riding rollercoasters again, going down a waterslide without fear of flying off or getting stuck...etc etc. So anyway, how I use this list is every time I lose 5 lbs i get to cross one of the items off the list. After 30 cross offs i'll be down 150 lbs! Trust me, I have taken great pleasure in crossing off 4 of them already, 26 to go!

Anyway, friend me if you would like, i'm not perfect and I have my bad days too, but i always need encouraging day by day and i would love to encourage you. Food is my drug, and unlike any other drug addiction we have to take our drug everyday to live. We just have to make wise choices and not beat ourselves up for the unwise ones! Day by day we can do this!!!!

Thanks Acacia! I have the list posted on the wall above my scale. It seems to help. I'll look at it when I really want a naughty snack and then that usually helps me curb my appetite into something a little more healthy. hey, whatever works right? :happy:

Hello all
My name is Evette I am 34 yrs old I have one daughter that is my world.
Yes I am a single mother and she is the reason why I want to be healthier.
I am physically healthy and I want to remain that way.

I have a Bachelors in Criminal Justice and im unemployed I have filled out applications
From Subway to Social service, but nothing yet. Somedays I want to give up, but I look at my daughter and mom and know I have to keep pushing.

I am a very active person, I love meeting new people and shopping. I am truly a shopaholic, I love fashion I love looking cute, and feeling sexy even if I am over weight, and no I am not in denial about my size I just believe sexy equals confidences.

Hi Everyone My name is Liset

I am 26 years old and I am currently at my highest weight at 375. Ideally would love to get down to 150.

I am a full time grad student getting my masters in Social Work.

I am tired of missing out on things because I know that my weight will be in the way. For example, my family went to Cancun and I said that I couldnt go because I didnt have the money to pay for it. That was untrue, I was simply mortified by the fact that I knew I would never fit in an airplane seat and might be asked to purchase two tickets.

I hope we can all support each other on this journey!

Nothing wrong with McDonalds job as a temporary thing they have around here anyway a pretty decent benefits package, I've been tempted just to make use of the dental coverage to take it on for a bit, but I'm holding out for something in one of the fields I'm trained in

Hi!!!

My name is Melissa. I live in Wisconsin where bigger is better right? Ya... No! Anyway, I think I'm adopted because my parents are tiny and short as is the rest of my family and then there is me. Haha. 5'8'' and bigger than ever. I'm at 368 now, (was 384 at one popint) and want to get under 200 lbs because I honestly can't remember when I saw the scale under 200. I set my goal at 180 because I remember weighing that in 5th or 6th grade in gym class one time. Eek.

I've been marred for over 11 years already. I married my high school sweet heart. We lived in sunny San Diego for several years where we had our first boy, now 9. Then we moved back to the woods of Wisconsin to eat cheese and I gained a lot of weight. From there we moved to Bosnia, (yes the one in Europe) for a year. I felt my best there, eating all local fruits and vegetables. Of course though I ate chocolate so while I walked everywhere and felt great I never lost much weight. Then I got mad and left and left my husband there because we Americans like privacy, and moved into a house just around the corner from my parents. Stupid, because then mom and dad were bringing food over all the time that was always terrible and I was greatful daughter and ate it. A few years later my husband came home and he had been eating terrible food while he was working in Iraq and I cooked all his favorite things for him everyday. I got pregnant with our second baby boy. The doctors freaked out because I was 345 lbs and did tons of tests. Oddly enough our insurance didn't cover them. So were left broke and 7 months pregnant. Turned out II was healthy and I was able to birth at home with the greatest midwives around and they kept telling me I was extremly healthy for my size. Crazy, so that meant I didn't have to hurry up and lose weight, right? Well I stayed 355 lbs until I stopped breastfeeding and added up a lot of pounds since.

Anyway, I enjoy a fairly active lifestyle, but my husband wants to go backpacking this summer on the Ice Age trail and lets be honest, my frame pack isn't going to buckle. Nor would I be able to survive the 10-15 miles he wants to plan per day with the hills. Eep! I can't keep telling him and the boys to go by themselves because this is something they want to do as a family. And by golly I really want to go too. I live for that sort of thing, I used to do it all the time. And camping in a tent in a crowded camp ground just isn't the same.

Please feel free to friend me.

Here is to our future and losing that 200 or more pounds!!!

Hello all! My name is Tanya. I am 28 years old from Pennsylvania. I am currently a full time cashier at a gas station. I have just signed up to this site today. Looking forward to meeting new people on my journey to become thin for the first time in my adult life.