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Old 03-29-2017, 11:23 AM   #1  
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Thumbs up Hi! I'm new.

Hi, I'm new but I've actually been reading this website for a while now I think! I have memories of looking at it as long ago as highschool- I am 24 years old now. It seems whenever I google search diet or weightloss related things, this site comes up, so today I figured...I might as well join already!

I've struggled with my weight for most of my life. I was always really sedentary (favorite hobbies were sitting on my butt reading or sitting on my butt using a computer...perhaps still are, if I'm being honest) I overeat for comfort as well which I am trying to stop doing. The first time I lost any significant amount of weight was about 2 years ago, I had been taking a medicine for a while that caused me to get to my highest weight ever 245 through a mix of being very appetite stimulating and also very fatiguing. I remember seeing pictures of myself and thinking: I don't even remember this happening. I don't even know how I got here, and I was the one who did it!

Stopping the medicine and eating less helped me drop 32lbs. I was so close, for the first time since I was a teen, to being under 200lbs. Then I let good habits slip, started eating for comfort again, and went back up to 220lbs I was also put on ANOTHER medicine that caused increased appetite and water retention. I voiced concerns to my doctor, but he dismissed them, and when I started creeping up to 230lbs I said enough was enough and switched doctors.

That was all about a month ago, I am on a better medicine now, I have gotten the overeating mostly under control and am back down to 215lbs. Now that the side effects are off the table it's just me, myself, and I left to solve this weight thing. Really my goal right now is just to get under 200lbs, and then figure out from there what a target "healthy" weight would be for my height and lifestyle. I also want to work on eating better, and have been tracking my meals with a phone app which has helped a lot. So far my main kinds of exercise are just walking a lot (I try to do 2-3 miles every day of just walking, around a park or around my neighborhood or something) and lifting small weights at home with guided online exercises. I know I'll probably have to increase that, or find a more regular/strenuous routine, to see any real results from it though.

WHEW, so there's my life story! Thanks for reading it, if you got this far.
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Old 03-29-2017, 04:46 PM   #2  
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Hello, I'm new too

My weight gain started with over eating/comfort eating too, then I went on the pill which made me gain a lot of weight. Then it sort of went downhill from there!

I so wish I was at the weight I was when I first thought I was fat!

Good luck on your journey!
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Old 03-29-2017, 07:11 PM   #3  
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Hi Celeste, welcome to 3FC officially!
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Old 03-29-2017, 07:40 PM   #4  
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Hi Celeste! Welcome!
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