Hey, I was born in upstate NY!
My family fell off the boat from Germany and stuck in upstate NY, so I have lots of family still there. They're all in Elmira, Syracuse and Buffalo.
This is a great and supportive place! It's extremely informative. You'll learn so much about yourself and about how your body works. I think you're off to a fantastic start!
I want to share my own little "secret" to my success. My problem with weight loss was never that I couldn't lose weight but that I the weight was always too slow for me so I'd quit. Then one day I got really curious about where I could be in a year's time if I just didn't give up. So I made a commitment to be on plan for one year without any excuses. Once I did that, the scale lost all its power and the weight loss was relatively easy.