Treebeard2012

Wow, that was quite a day! I'm glad it took a good turn in the end.

Welcome to the site, Sabrina! This place has been a great inspiration and help for me. I'm sure that you'll do well along the way if you use the available resources here. Just remember to log in every day and friend some people on here to give you encouragement and for you to encourage along the way. Good luck!

I appreciate your frustration, and am sorry that this site doesn't really have a way to block comments from one poster. I love this site, too. It definitely has room for improvement with added features, like, for instance, gettting a notice when someone replies to you post on the blogs, etc. But all in all, this site is…

Is your heart rate monitor set for your particular weight? How much you weigh makes a tremendous difference in the amount of calories consumed during any weight bearing exercise. I'm not an expert on HRM's, but I just thought maybe that might impact the values your are seeing.

Welcome to the site, Elizabeth! I'm new here, too. I think the ability to diary regularly and have support of friends you can make on this site can be be a great help in reaching your weight loss goals. Best wishes in your endeavors to lose weight! Feel free to friend me if you would like. Chris

Hi Jess, and welcome to MFP! I'm new here too. I've already found a lot of encouragement here and hope to be able to reach my goals with help of the tools on this site, and the encouragement of the friends I've made on here. Good luck and feel free to friend me if you like. Chris

Sorry, double posted by accident!!!

Hi, I'm fairly new here too. I've already found lots of encouragement of this site. I'm afraid I can't help you too much with you 1000 calorie question. I've always heard that it can be very counterproductive to starve your body too much. You can start metabolize muscle and organ tissue, etc. when you do that. I'd be very…

Congratulations on making the changes in your life to help you be what you want to be. Best wishes in your endeavors. If you ever need help just be sure to post about it, and you're sure to get lots of responses. Feel free to friend me if you like. Good luck, Chris

Hi and welcome to MFP! I'm new here too, but have already found lots of encouragement from individuals and information on this site. Get yourself some friends on here to help support you, do your daily entries, and you should do well. Feel free to friend me if you like. Good luck, Chris

Welcome to the site and best wishes! There is lots of help available on this site, so just take your time and look around. Take advantage of the daily diary and you should do well. If you have need any help, just give a shout out in the forums, you should get lots of responses. Feel free to friend me if you like. Good…

Welcome to MFP Oakie! I wish you the best in achieving your goals. Feel free to add me to your friends if you like. I'd offer to take you under my wing, but I'm just getting started here myself, and I'm afraid I wouldn't be that much help to you. I'm sure someone will step up though to give you the support you are looking…

Welcome to this site and best wishes! Chris

Hi, and welcome to the sight. Good luck and I hope you find all the success you seek in losing weight. I'm pretty new here myself, but have already found this sight very encouraging. Feel free to add me to your friends if you like. Chris

Hi, and welcome to MFP! I'm fairly new here, too, but this site has already been an encouragement to me. Good luck and feel free to add me to your friends if you like. Chris

Hi, and welcome to the site! I'm new here too, but have already gotten lots of encouragement at this site. Best wishes and feel free to add me as a friend if you like. Chris

Welcome and best wishes!

I agree with everyone else. I am new here, but have been losing weight off and on my whole life. I would like to take a little different tack than everyone else and ask you about your depression. Remember that depression is not something that comes from outside of you. Everything that has happened to you in your past has…

Thanks to all of you for your words of encouragement! And for adding me as a friend!