Hi fom Chicago
 

Hi all. I have been lurking in theses forums for the last month and finally decided to register. You all have already been sooooo great with all the information and personal stories (alot sounds familiar).

A little about me.......
I began to gain weight about 5 years ago while going through infertility treatments. During the course of treatment I was also diagnosed with hypothyroidism and then due to the stress of infertility I developed anxiety and of course was put on meds that controlled the anxiety, but also generally cause weight gain. I'm happy to say that as soon as my son came to us (via adoption) my anxiety and the meds disappeared, but the weight gain didn't. Two years ago I began tackling my weight gain through exersize---I've always been a runner and generally active. My starting weight was 280 and in the past 2 years I have lost 50 pounds mostly through exersize. I can't wait another 2 years to lose the next 40-50 so now I'm tackling my diet through calorie counting that I started officially on 1/11/2010. To date I can feel the difference in my clothing, but I'm scared of the scale so I have yet to weigh myself. I hope to make new friends and continue to learn from everyone. :D

Welcome, I live in Wisconsin but I am from the suburbs of Chicago. Are you bracing yourself for the snow storm?

This site is really awesome, I used it a long long time ago when I first started dieting and trying to lose weight. It's a great resource! It helped me to lose 50lbs!

However, I've put back the 50lbs...

I was trying to get pregnant back in Summer of 2008 and I did but then miscarried at about 6 weeks, I was pretty devistated and depressed so I put on a lot of weight quickly and then a few months later I became pregnant again with my daughter who is now almost 5 months old. I feel like I am pretty active and I have been working on eating better so I hope I see some results.

Good luck to you and congrats on your son!!!

ChloesMommy26- Thanks for the welcome. I'm actually in the Chicago suburb of Antioch-----right on the Wisconsin border (I can walk over the border in 5 minutes).
Congrats to you on your new daughter. I too was blessed with a daughter and my children are 1 year and 12 days apart. The kids alone keep me active and now I just need to work on the food part.