3 Fat Chicks on a Diet Weight Loss Community

Hi all! I just signed up today although I have been trying to lose weight since early November 2010. Going at it alone is hard!! :o

I'm 25 years old and have been overweight for most of my life. I had very unhealthy eating habits as a child and only managed to lose weight as a teenager when I starved myself completely. Most of my teenage years and early 20s were spent battling severe clinical depression and in that time I steadily gained weight and felt worse and worse about myself. In the past couple years I've poured effort into changing my thoughts and outlook on life and now I'm ready to lose this weight and finally LIVE! I feel like I've wasted too much time being unhappy with myself and my life. I want to have the energy to do anything I'd like and I want to feel healthy and beautiful.

I'm 5'8" and at my heaviest I weighed almost 300 pounds. I was too ashamed to weigh myself when I started making changes in November but as of now I'm 260 pounds. I plan to make 160 lbs. my initial goal then push to 150 or 140.

I've already read through so many inspirational posts on this forum and can't wait to be part of the community!

I finally feel like I'm worth working so hard for and I want to see my goals for weight loss and life become reality. :)