Hi everyone!
I am really excited to have found this forum. I've posted a bit in other places and lurked a whole lot, but I decided it was probably a good idea to stop creeping and to make my introductory post.
I'm 20 years old, and I live in Northern California. I'm moving out in a few months with my boyfriend to attend a university. It will be my first time moving out, so I'm trying to get myself in some suitable eating habits so I'll be good while I'm living away from home. Why must Velveeta mac n cheese be so convenient?
I'm currently at my highest weight ever. I'm 5'3.75" (that .75 matters!). I've lost about 5 pounds so far in my days of lurking about this forum, having started at about 164-165. I am now in the 150's officially (wooooot!) at 159.5.
I'm limiting myself to between 1,200-1,500 calories per day, depending on whether or not I exercise. My main form of exercise is DDR (Dance Dance Revolution, the video game). Don't knock it til you try it! I may look ridiculous doing it, but that ridiculousness will morph into sexiness in time (with the weight loss, not the crazy DDR gyrations. Although it does spice it up a bit if you add in your own hip thrusts here and there...). A few years ago, I played about an hour of DDR every other day, and without doing much else as far as counting calories goes, I lost around 20 pounds, putting me at my smallest at 120 pounds. I'm willing to look silly if it means I can get myself back down to that size. Perhaps a video of myself playing DDR once I'm at goal will be in order. Hahah.
I have an extremely small bone structure, so I've set my goal at 120 pounds. Hopefully by then I'll be wearing around a size 4 (dream of dreams)! I also want to, ultimately and most importantly, be healthy. I'm at high risk for a couple of different kinds of cancer, and it's my main goal to do as much as humanly possible to prevent illness.
That was one long introductory post. I can't wait to get more involved with this community and to give and receive support from the people here. It's a long and strenuous journey, but it's definitely nice to know there are others out there going through the same things as me. Good luck to everyone, and I look forward to getting to know you all!