tnjrichter

YOU GOT THIS!!! The want to change is the first step! Do not look at the BIG picture, rather break it down to small pictures and focus on one goal a day. You goal can be simple as 1 less soda a day, 10 wall push-up a day for a week, walk for 30 minutes a day for a week or better choices of what foods to eat. When I started…

Oh my goodness!!! I NEEDED that laugh!

k9education -- thank you for the advice and the site, I will definitely check into it. HD Stretchman -- the price was right on this unit... I am sure one day I will out strength it and will upgrade. I am excited to be building my muscles and toning up. I will check out youtube.

Over the last few years I struggled with the scale never going down and I stuck with a strict diet with exercises. In fact I gained some weight so then I would give up completely due to being so frustrated. I had my daughter hide the scale as I would literally cry when I would step on it. Recently I read an article about…

Love meeting new friends...please feel free to add me! :)

wmartin852, Welcome to MFP... this has been the best site as far a support goes! I have met many great people and have learned from so many people on making wiser choices and sticking to my lifestyle. Please feel free to add me as a friend :smile:

Awesome job in taking the first step of becoming healthy! I am one of the biggest emotional/depressive eaters you will find. BUT I have and still am learning to turn those behaviors towards healthier choices. It is great that you have broke your weightloss goals to smaller amounts than the overall goal. This is one area in…

WOW!!! I could not have picked a better post to read this morning than yours!!! YOU ARE AWESOME!!! You were the inspiration I needed this morning. I loved reading your entire posts and even seeing your pictures gave me chills. What an awesome woman you are! Congratulations on the weightloss and NEVER be ashamed of…

Hi, I sent you a request. I have learned how important it is to have support from others and when they are going through similar situation it is even better. Welcome back

Hi JillianLH, I have to say after joining other sites MFP is the best! I have met several new people/friends on here and I have found that I constantly stay encouraged. I have been trying to find some tasty and easy recipes to try as I do not like to buy the pre-portioned and pre-packaged foods. I still eat many of the…

Hi Jess, Feel free to add me. I love encouraging others. I have found this site to be the best when it comes to our personal diary and conversations between friends and in the community. I have met several great new people and love the chance to meet more! :happy:

Hi Colleen, Feel free to add me. I love chatting with positive people also, keeps me motivated on my own mission of taking back my health! :happy:

Each person is different, start a photo diary. What I did was wore the same clothes in the same area of my house. One lesson I had to learn was to determine the right calorie intake with the right calories burned per day. When I first started my weight loss I was extremely strict with myself and I found I was struggling. I…

I have found for myself that if I do not eat back some of the exercise calories I do not see any positive changes in my weight or inches. It was not until I joined MFP that I found that is what I was doing wrong. I was supposed to eat 1500 calories and burn around 600 per day. I became very frustrated as I stuck to my…

Although I struggled reading this article at first I sure wish I would have read it last year when I started my running regimen. I was really frustrated at I ran and ran and all I did was gain weight and inches! I was running outside every day for an hour minimum and could not lose a damn pound. I became very frustrated…

Thank you for the kind words and the offer of support. I also would like to be encouraging to others. MRSHHJONES -- I have been feeling the urge to throw in the towels and then I have been reminded by a few people how far I have come and to focus on that more. I look forward to the daily encouragement :smile: Ann -- I am…

HI Wildworld88, Congrats on the 7lb weight loss! :happy: If you would like to friend me I will accept your request. I also am looking for motivation to get rid of my last 30 lbs. tnjrichter

Hi RamonaMoon, My profile says I joined in 2010, which I probably did but have never used this site until about 3 days ago when a friend recommended it to me. So really I am new to here also. I am still exploring the site but so far I like what I have found, except for I cannot find how to update some information. I have…