Hello everyone!! My name is Becca and I will be 31 next month and live in Phoenix,AZ. I have been married for 3 1/2 years and have a 2 1/2 year old daughter who is my world. I signed up for MFP a while back but just got serious about it on January 1st. I changed my diet and started working out. Right now I do P90X in the morning before work. So I am at the gym at work at 4:25 AM! Then after work some days I go to Zumba. I try to stay active doing C25K on the weekends. I have lost 26 lbs so far this year and have about 65 more lbs to loose! I am looking forward to being active in this group!

Welcome, Cuz! Glad you joined!

Hey there...I'm Big Joe...well hopefully soon to be medium Joe. I've been overwieght most of my life and just feel like this is one hurddle I need to tackle before I can move on. Played football and any other sport I could join, but was still bigger than everyone. I joined MFP about 1 month ago, but really started to log everything in about 10 days ago. I've lost a little (3 lbs). Before this I did Atkins and lost 50lbs...got tired of the "not having things", so I'm trying to learn to eat right and live my life. Thanks for your time and I hope all that are here much success. I'll be around doing my thing. Jeah!!!

Hello, I am 36, female. Looking to lose around 30lbs. I was going strong on MFP for a couple of months, but for some reason the last week has been a drag and I see my will slipping and food choices not so great. So here I am looking for more groups and new friends to help light a fire under my @ss again.

My short term goal is to be stronger by end of June because I am doing a volunteer/vacation that has potential to be physically demanding. I am almost finished with NROL4W stage 1 to help with this. I have no criteria to judge stronger, but have noticed that I have less back problems than usual, and kicked my b-friend's butt on a kayaking trip this past weekend, so I must be getting somewhere.

Hi everyone,
I'm Emily (I just wrote a post on the 6/13 daily). I signed up on here about 12 days ago after canceling my WW account. I love the community aspect to MFP. I'm 34, have 3 sons, and am a teacher. Still a long road ahead, but for the first time in a long time I feel excited to work toward my end goal. Thanks for the encouragement!

Helloooo all! So glad to have found this group. My name is Lauren, I'm a 32 year old new mommy. Can you tell by my ticker? My goal is to get back to my prepregnancy weight, about 20 more pounds. I thought this would be a lot easier being that I'm still nursing my daughter, but no....I'm actually struggling to even mantain my current weight.
I was a heavy kid, lost it just before high school (I was the youngest one in my local WW meetings). Then i gained the freshman 40 in college. I stayed pretty heavy until about age 28. Since that time I've been relatively happy with my weight. I gained too much weight during my pregnancy, and now it's like I'm back to square one. I'm full of self-consciousness, self-doubt, and frustration.
I joined to keep myself accountable with the food logs, but also to have a place to vent with others who share my frustrations. Feel free to add me as a friend, I have a background in nutrition and obviously some experience with sucessful weight loss in the past. If I can help I'd love to!
Cheers

Welcome to all the newcomers! I encourage you all to join our weekly challenge and daily threads

Hi! My name is Sandra, 39 years old, 2 kids of 3 and 2 (roughly) and I need to drop off some pregnancy weight, weight I gained pre-pregnancy and weight I gained post-pregnancy.

Debbie motivated me to join and I've only been here 1 day but I am really liking the food diary! I also started a 12 week running programme (yesterday, in fact ) and I hope to lose about 20kg at least (45lbs). And then my closet needs a make-over!

Hey all. I'm Mike. I was using MFP consistently until the end of February and then kind of let myself go. I've stayed in good shape, but have put on a lot of extra weight which is making the activities I enjoy, tennis and running in particular, more difficult. I'd like to lose twenty pounds or so. The last time I used MFP I had a few friends that were inspirational and got me off the couch. In my time away they've moved on to other things. Anyway, look forward to hearing from you.

:laugh: I didn't notice this the other day, guess I was really excited to see was a 30 something group !

I'm Dee. Married with 3 sons. Ages 15,12 and 3 1/2. My husband and I own a farm in western SD. I work evenings in a long term care facitiy. I'm very busy being a mom, helping on the farm and caring for people who can't care for themselves.

I need to be help accountable for what I put in my mouth. I'm a person who likes to just snack/ graze all day and think..."Ahhh, I start eating better on Monday.... ok, what? wat... a real yummy goody.... ummm I'll start Tuesday. On and on that is how I got to be where I am.

If you look at my join date.. I joined in January... but I haven't used it until this past week. I need someone to pull me in and ask me what the heck have you been and what are you doing. So hopefully gettiung to know some of you on the forum will do that for me.

I don't think I ever introduced myself, but have popped in to the group a few times lately.

I'm Cynthia, 38 years old (I'll turn 39 next month so I suppose I won't be a thirty-something for too much longer). I have three children - a 6-year old girl, a boy who will be 3 in a couple months, and a 7-month old baby boy. I work FT and travel for work sometimes, which makes the eating challenging.

In the past I've been a runner and avid exerciser for losing weight and staying in shape, so with my busy life right now I can't seem to fit it all in so I'm trying to do this with eating habits.

I got to my goal weight with Weight Watchers in 2011 and immediately got pregnant, so I never got to shop for the new clothes, etc. This time I'm trying MFP to just be accountable with tracking and implement the good eating habits I developed then, but I'm constantly struggling!

I lost 8.5 pounds, then gained several back when I weaned the baby, went on a big international business trip to South America that was crazy stressful, and also my daughter had surgery out of town right after - it was a nutty month of June. So now I'm trying to lose what I gained and am 19.4 pounds from my first goal of 150. It stinks I was only 14-15 pounds away and now I have to re-lose 5-6 pounds!

I haven't gotten completely back into the healthy eating since my crazy month and need to take a look at my calorie goal to see if it's at the right level. I had just weaned when I went away, so without "nursing calories" I am still not sure what I'm doing.

I know Debbie and Sandra already and am looking forward to getting to know others.

hi i am james i am here looking for friends that may like to help me lose some weight and i also help others .hope that i can have some fun doing all of this.

Hi,

Sri here joined MFP just today. I did a biggest loser competition a couple of years ago with a few friends at work and lost 26lbs. But I realized that I gained 15 of them back and we have a vacay coming up in November. I want to feel good in my bikini and look good in the pictures. So here I go again! I am looking for friends who will be honest with me and yell at me when I fall off the wagon.

A little bit about myself - I am a software engineer, so I sit on my butt all day. We have a (almost) 6 year old boy....With our commute and life style we do have quite a bit of stress. I try to workout one hour 5 days a week. I either walk on the treadmill at home or go to a Jazzercise class. Eating seem to be my biggest problem especially at the end of the day.

Hello,
I'm Meg,
I've already lost 40 lbs with Weight Watchers, but i hit a plateau and after my wedding and got burned out with it, heard great things about MFP and decided to try it. I would like to lose at least 40 more. Looking forward to chatting!

Welcome to the newcomers!

Tamaryn - we have another South African here, Sandra (leeloominai)

Well, such a good thing couldn't stay a secret from me forever. Better late than never I guess. I'm a 38 year old male enjoying the journey. My goal is to get in the best shape of my life, which would be quite an accomplishment as I was a 3-sport athlete who regularly ran 7-10 miles for college baseball conditioning in the late winter/early spring at my peak. This is not a diet for me, it's a complete lifestyle change. Nice to meet everyone and thanks for starting a group for those of us in the twilight of our youth.