2 years today

On March 12th, 2010 I overheard a co-worker talking about this site. I checked it out that day and have been here ever since. On that day I weighed ~285 pounds and had been 'dieting' for nearly six months with only a nine pound weight loss to show for it. Signed up on MFP, set my goal weight at 220 pounds, and reached it in a couple months.

Happy to report that I am still below my goal weight. MFP allows me to positively change my lifestyle on several levels as it gives me the guidelines I don't otherwise have when it comes to calorie accountability. Besides the weight loss I am in much better physical condition as I've incorporated daily work-outs into my everyday life. For example, I can do more chin-ups now at age 59 than at any other point in my life. That would not be happening were it not for discovering MFP two years ago today.

Bad news is that I had to come to realize that I can indeed put weight back on. I still have issues with what I call 'head hunger'; cravings and eating too much of something when not really hungry. I was lulled into a false sense of skinniness last fall and put 15 pounds back on while traveling and over the holiday period. I was kidding myself and figured that once all the holidays and trips were over I could jump back on the scales and would only be up four or five pounds. So I got back into reality and realize I have to work at proper eating and calorie accountability every day.

I don't know who is behind this website, how it come to be, or what makes it go, but I do want to say 'Thank You! for giving me the tool I needed to change my life.

P.S. One of the bucket list things that I got to do because of my weight loss was to do a free-fall jump with my son. It is a memory that I will take to my grave and I tear up just thinking about it as it's one of the 'Top Five' things I ever accomplished in my life. He had invited me to jump with him several times but I had become too heavy. It was one of the motivational things that pushed me while losing 60+ pounds doing the daily experience with MFP.