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02-21-2012, 12:08 AM
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#301
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Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 2
S/C/G: 228/222.5/115
Height: 5' 7"
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First name: Linda
Geographical location: New Jersey
Age: 43
Marital Status: Separated/ soon to be divorced
Children/Ages:2/9 &4
Occupation: Stay at home mom
Pets: Going to get a goldfish this weekend - we will name him Oscar
Hobbies/Interests: Interior Design, Reading, Writing
Height: 5' 7"
Eye/Hair Color: Brown/ Brown
Starting Date of Weightloss Journey: 2/14/2012
Starting Weight:228
Goal Weight: 140
Biggest hurdle to overcome in weightloss: Not eating everything
Following any specific plan: Still deciding
What is different this time in your weight loss efforts than in the past: I am older, and more determined to stay the course
Anything else you would like to share with us:
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02-21-2012, 10:10 AM
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#302
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Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Maryland
Posts: 7
S/C/G: 236/202/165
Height: 5'5"
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First name: Laura
Geographical location: Maryland
Age: 49
Marital Status: Married for 27 years
Children/Ages: 21 and 25
Occupation: Licensed Mental Health Counselor
Pets: 2 dogs, 2 cats
Hobbies/Interests: singing, yoga, walks on the beach, swimming, reading, hanging out with friends
Height: 5'5"
Eye/Hair Color: Brown
Starting Date of Weightloss Journey: 1/6/2012
Starting Weight: 236
Goal Weight: 160
Biggest hurdle to overcome in weightloss: Quick carb urges
Following any specific plan: Ideal Protien
What is different this time in your weight loss efforts than in the past: Husband and i doing the plan together- makes it much easier,no small kids to feed so can focus on myself
Anything else you would like to share with us:
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02-27-2012, 09:04 PM
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#303
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Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: south dakota
Posts: 2
S/C/G: 175/142/130
Height: 5'2"
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First name: thinminded
Geographical location: south dakota
Age:49
Marital Status: married nearly 27 yrs
Children/Ages: 21/16
Occupation: social worker
Pets: none currently, just lost our english bulldog last month
Hobbies/Interests: gardening, home projects
Height: 5"2'
Eye/Hair Color: brown/hazel
Starting Date of Weightloss Journey: which time?? currently, 2-6-12
Starting Weight: 175
Goal Weight:130
Biggest hurdle to overcome in weightloss: sticking with it; not becoming bored and discouraged
Following any specific plan: ideal protein
What is different this time in your weight loss efforts than in the past: tired of carrying this "baby fat" on and off for the last 21 yrs. just plain sick and tired of it.
Anything else you would like to share with us: enjoy this forum, have learned a lot.
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03-11-2012, 02:32 PM
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#304
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Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2012
Posts: 3
S/C/G: 217/158.5/150
Height: 5'9"
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First name: Linda
Geographical location: New Jersey
Age: 44
Marital Status: married
Children/Ages: 2 kids/15&13
Occupation: RN
Pets: 2 doggies!
Hobbies/Interests: Reading and excerising
Height:5'9"
Eye/Hair Color: Browm/brown
Starting Date of Weightloss Journey: 10/18/11
Starting Weight:217
Goal Weight:150
Biggest hurdle to overcome in weightloss: I love my sweets!
Following any specific plan: Ideal Protein
What is different this time in your weight loss efforts than in the past: Eating the foods I like to eat!
Anything else you would like to share with us: Glad to be here with all of you! ;o)
Last edited by anjsmom; 03-11-2012 at 02:33 PM.
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03-12-2012, 11:55 AM
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#305
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Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Michigan
Posts: 1
S/C/G: 220/220/130
Height: 5'2
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new and improving daily
I am old to the weight loss battle and new to online support, blogs or posting. I apologize in advance if I make errors in how and where to post.
First name: Danielle
Geographical location: Michigan
Age: 41
Marital Status: married
Children/Ages: 14 & 11 (both boys)
Occupation: jail case worker
Pets: wheezie (dog)
Hobbies/Interests: On a personal level I am still trying to figure this one out. I love spending time with my boys & husband doesn't really matter what we are doing; I enjoy the time.
Height: 5'2
Eye/Hair Color: blue eyes/brown hair and every 5-6 weeks gray hair mixes in
Starting Date of Weightloss Journey: about the age of 13 but this time around it starts today 3/12/12
Starting Weight: 220
Goal Weight: 135
Biggest hurdle to overcome in weightloss: myself and my never ending list of excuses.
Following any specific plan: not yet, I am considering Jillian Michaels body make-over. I have been on a number of programs in the past and they all have worked when I worked them.
What is different this time in your weight loss efforts than in the past: by being on this site, I am hopeful of having ongoing support will help me stay motivated.
Anything else you would like to share with us: my mind is swimming with possibility right now.
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03-13-2012, 10:42 AM
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#306
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Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2012
Posts: 12
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First name: Kris
Geographical location: Oklahoma
Age:41
Marital Status: Divorced
Children/Ages:two boys...12 and 17
Occupation: Teacher
Pets wo dogs (Max and Maycee), a cat (Mallory), two guinea pigs (Blossom and Buttercup), a hamster (JoJo), two sugar gliders (Leonardo and Amelia), and a tank full of nameless guppies..ha. Between personal pets and classroom pets, I have a small farm!
Hobbies/Interests: My children, paranormal research, geocaching, reading J.D. Robb books in the bubblebath..ha
Height: 5'4"
Eye/Hair Color: Blue eyes, brunette hair...today. Next week? Who knows!
Starting Date of Weightloss Journey: March 12, 2012
Starting Weight: I don't know for sure. I'm not weighing yet, because I know I will be disappointed in myself, and depressed. I'm a size 16 tho.
Goal Weight: Size 6
Biggest hurdle to overcome in weightloss: Snacking, and my boyfriend who has no concept of how to support me in this.
Following any specific plan: Taking Phenobestin, going gluten-free and just cutting out unhealthy foods. I eat a lot of tofu and use soy milk instead of dairy. I also walk in the morning and evening.
What is different this time in your weight loss efforts than in the past: This time I think it will be harder. I'm older, I have had a partial hysterectomy, and I still battle depression somewhat. The Phenobestin should help with that, along with Wellbutrin.
Anything else you would like to share with us: I'm very excited to be here, and know that without support, I just won't make it. So, I thank you already for just being accessible!
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03-19-2012, 12:31 PM
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#307
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 701
S/C/G: 230/149/138
Height: 5'6
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Hi everyone!
First name: I don't like to give out my name online, I just go by Lunula
Geographical location: North Carolina
Age: 40
Marital Status: Married for almost 15 years
Children/Ages: Unfortunately, no kids
Occupation: Marketing manager at an accounting firm
Pets: 2 greyhounds
Hobbies/Interests: TRAVEL! Lots & lots of reading (mainly historical fiction), genealogy, photography, charity/volunteer/community work, jigsaw puzzles with my husband, computer stuff (websites, tinkering, gadgets) and keeping up with my beloved Tar Heels & Green Bay Packers (and Carolina Panthers, when they cooperate)!
Height: 5'6
Eye/Hair Color: Blue/Blonde
Starting Weight: 230 lb is my highest recorded weight
Goal Weight: 139 (though I'd be SO happy with 145)
Biggest hurdle to overcome in weight loss: Compulsive binging.
Following any specific plan: I am on Weight Watchers, lost some on my own, then joined online, now going to meetings to lose that last 20.
What is different this time in your weight loss efforts than in the past: When I hit 40 last year, I had a mid-life crisis...but I decided to make it a positive and not live another decade wanting to shrivel up and die because of my weight. I've spent so many years fat and unhappy, in physical and mental torture, that I just decided I'd had enough.
Anything else you would like to share with us: I have become a "no excuses" person regarding my health and fitness over the last year. I have had multiple knee surgeries after multiple injuries, beginning in high school when I was an athlete, that my weight only exacerbated. My ortho-surgeon told me 4 years I needed double knee replacement. I've also had back surgery and surgery to remove a large fibroid (nice huge scar on my abdomen). So, my body is pretty beaten up, but I do push through the pain. I don't hurt myself more, but the weight made it all so much worse, so that is goal #1! When my knees are swollen up like balloons and my back is aching...I still work out. When I binge and go over my daily points by 50, I still track all my food. NO EXCUSES!
Last edited by Lunula; 03-19-2012 at 12:32 PM.
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03-31-2012, 10:37 PM
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#308
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Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2012
Posts: 8
S/C/G: 197/197/129
Height: 5'3"
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Excited to be here!
So excited to have found this forum!
First name: Periwinkle
Geographical location: Midwest
Age: 39
Marital Status: Married for 13 years
Children/Ages: Daughter, 11; daughter, 9; son 6; son, 5
Occupation : High school teacher
Pets: 2 mutty dogs, 3 cats
Hobbies/Interests: Movies, hiking, camping, board games
Height: 5'3"
Eye/Hair Color: Blue/blond
Starting Weight: 197
Goal Weight: 129
Biggest hurdle to overcome in weight loss: Giving up.
Following any specific plan: I am on a very low calorie diet, as prescribed and monitored by a doctor.
What is different this time in your weight loss efforts than in the past: My husband has given me a (gentle and loving but very real) wake up call.
Anything else you would like to share with us: I have high triglycerides, worrisomely high blood pressure, and 50% body fat. It's time to get serious about my health!
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04-05-2012, 03:43 PM
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#309
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Member
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: New Hampshire
Posts: 35
S/C/G: Afraid to look/135
Height: 5'4"
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First name: Katy
Geographical location: Massachusetts
Age: 47
Marital Status: Married
Children/Ages: One Son/Age 13
Occupation: At Home
Pets: 1 Dog/German Shepherd & 3/Cats
Hobbies/Interests: Reading, Television, Cooking, Hockey/GO BRUINS!
Height: 5'4"
Eye/Hair Color: Brown/Brown
Starting Date of Weightloss Journey: April 2, 2012
Starting Weight: 148
Goal Weight: 128
Biggest hurdle to overcome in weightloss: I love food
Following any specific plan: No.
What is different this time in your weight loss efforts than in the past:
Summer is coming and we have a small beach cottage. Felt lousy last
year going because of weight. 128 is my comfort weight.
Anything else you would like to share with us:
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04-07-2012, 11:52 AM
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#310
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Member
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: NY
Posts: 98
S/C/G: 198/tracker/160
Height: 5'5.5"
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First name: Finny
Geographical location: NY
Age: 42
Marital Status: married
Children/Ages: 20, 17, and 14
Occupation: CNA (and a LPN student in the fall)
Pets: bassett/beagle dog, and four cats
Hobbies/Interests: Reading, walking, internet, school, Disney World
Starting Date of Weightloss Journey: Which time? I started Wonderslim 3/22/12
Starting Weight: 198
Goal Weight: 150
Biggest hurdle to overcome in weightloss: thyroid issues and boredom, I love to cook and eat
Following any specific plan: Wonderslim
What is different this time in your weight loss efforts than in the past: My thyroid issues are being treated and I'm not going to remove any food groups.
Anything else you would like to share with us: Hmm, not off the top of my head.
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04-16-2012, 08:28 AM
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#311
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Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Ontario
Posts: 1
S/C/G: 228/205/160
Height: 5' 7"
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First name: Deb
Geographical location: Ontario
Age: Just turned 46
Marital Status: Married for 23 years to a wonderful husband
Children/Ages: Daughter - 21, son - 19.
Occupation: Dairy farmer and work off the farm full time as an accounting technician in a CPA firm to help make ends meet.
Pets: AQHA gelding, 3 house cats, 1 dog, 1 barn cat, and 55 registered Holsteins.
Hobbies/Interests: My horse
Height: 5' 7"
Starting Weight: 227.8 but I was 230 at my highest weight
Goal Weight: 160
Biggest hurdle to overcome in weight loss: I am a hardcore stress eater. I need to learn to make my go-to reaction to stress something more healthy, like exercise or meditation.
Following any specific plan: Weight Watchers
What is different this time in your weight loss efforts than in the past: Our youngest went away to school last fall. I find it easier to cook for two and my stress level has dropped since I no longer have to worry day-to-day about the kids. They are good kids, but I was always worrying for their well being.
Anything else you would like to share with us:
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04-18-2012, 01:55 PM
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#312
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Member
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: WI
Posts: 91
S/C/G: 215/142/130
Height: 5'1"
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Hi everyone!
First name: Christina
Geographical location: Wisconsin
Age: 42
Marital Status: Widowed 8 years and 3 days
Children/Ages: 3 kids. ages 18, 16 and 14
Occupation: Childcare
Pets: 2 Cats
Hobbies/Interests: Hiking, Biking and swimming ( more like splashing around ). Camping and boardgames
Height: 5'1
Eye/Hair Color: Blue/Blonde
Starting Weight: 212
Goal Weight: 130
Biggest hurdle to overcome in weight loss: Stress and boredom eating
Following any specific plan: I have a meal plan from a dietician that follows mainly food groups rather than calories
What is different this time in your weight loss efforts than in the past: I saw all the health problems my mom was having in her 60s from being overweight her whole adult life and deicded I did not want to live like that if I could at all help it.
Anything else you would like to share with us:
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05-10-2012, 08:23 AM
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#313
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Miral Paris
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Midwest
Posts: 33
S/C/G: 191/140
Height: 5/5
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Hello everyone!
I have had life-long eating issues, including anorexia and binge eating, from emotional abuse. I went through a binge eating program and seem to be binging less. Most of my adult life I have been of average weight, but two or three years ago some traumatic things happened (which are now over) and now I weigh 190, the most I have ever weighed. Just to keep things interesting, I also have fibromyalgia and have had three shoulder surgeries.
I feel like a whale and am really ashamed to have people see me, especially those whom I have not seen since my skinnier days. I went to my brother's wedding, which was very hard. Seeing myself naked is hard. I have kept gaining and how have clothes at every 10 pound mark between 140 and 190.
I went through a pain management program and was exercising quite heavily until my shoulder surgery and healing, which took a year and a half. I routinely exercise at least three times a week. But that's not really a weight loss thing.
I have a great husband and since I work for myself, plenty of time to work on this. My downfalls are not taking the time (fibro makes me exhausted) to prepare meals. I eat pretty healthy; just more than I should. I have to be sugar free or I binge.
First name:Miral
Geographical location: Midwest
Age:49
Marital Status: Happily Married
Children/Ages: none
Occupation: writer
Pets: 1 cat
Hobbies/Interests: Science fiction, singing, reading, intellectual pursuits like history and anthropology, GLBT activism and left-leaning
Height: 5.5
Eye/Hair Color: brown
Starting Date of Weightloss Journey: yesterday
Starting Weight: 191
Goal Weight: 140
Biggest hurdle to overcome in weightloss: hunger
Following any specific plan: My dietitian gave me one
What is different this time in your weight loss efforts than in the past: I have this forum
Anything else you would like to share with us: I would like to meet someone like me and have a one on one relationship accountability thing.
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05-18-2012, 09:25 AM
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#314
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Member
Join Date: May 2012
Location: TX.
Posts: 82
S/C/G: 211/ticker/150
Height: 5'3
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hi all,
1st name- Nancy
area - Tx.
age-42
marital status- married -19years
children- 1 girl 12 years old
occupation- nurse
pets- 1 dog, dachshund
hobbies-shopping!
height- 5'4
starting date-may2nd 2012
start wt-211.3
goal wt 150
biggest hurdle for weight loss- have sweet tooth
Last edited by enr20707; 05-18-2012 at 09:26 AM.
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05-20-2012, 01:52 AM
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#315
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Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: chiang mai, thailand
Posts: 4
S/C/G: 247/146/150
Height: 5'9"
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Hello
First name: Monica
Geographical location: I currently live in Northern Thailand. I grew up in Texas and we own a home in Colorado where we plan to return in 4 years.
Age: 41
Marital Status: Married - 20 years this year
Children/Ages: 3 - 18yr old boy, 15 yr old girl, 12yr old boy
Occupation: tag along spouse and mom. I've also recently become a trainer at my gym - which has been incredibly helpful in keeping me on track.
Pets: two dogs - a Thai street dog named หวาน (Waan, sounds like a lot like Juan. It means sweet.) and a shih tzu named S'mores
Hobbies/Interests: knitting, crossfit, excercise, nutrition, reading, attempting to learn Thai
Height: 5'9" (175.25 cm)
Eye/Hair Color: green/brown
Starting Date of Weightloss Journey: Jan 2011
Starting Weight: 247
Goal Weight: 150
Biggest hurdle to overcome in weight loss: keeping the weight off
Following any specific plan: paleo
What is different this time in your weight loss efforts than in the past: I'm truly focusing on something I can do for the rest of my life. Not just to lose weight, but to be healthy and fit.
Anything else you would like to share with us: I actually joined 3 Fat Chicks as I started my weight loss, but didn't take advantage of it as a support group. Now that I've actually lost the weight, I've discovered that I really need some support and understanding to keep it off. Hoping to find that here.
Last edited by thaimon; 05-20-2012 at 02:00 AM.
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