Hello!
I am a Texasn newbie that has been lurking the boards for a fewy days untill I decided to finally join.
Well, I am 5'7 and would like to weight 143-163 however I am about 95-80 overweight. At my biggest I was almost bursting out of a size 18, yet size 20 has NEVER really fit me....so I was in between....but now I am good at an 18 but my goal is to be a size 8 (which was 10 years ago).
Almost a year ago I took phentermine and water pills with a friend @ through a weight loss program at a clinic, however I lost about 27 pounds in about 5 months, but I didn't feel good, and I was fitting into my 16 pants again and a size L shirt almost med (I am small at the tope and big at the bottom). A lot of people told me that I looked tired and sick. Then after quitting phentermine I ballooned up a bit maybe gained half of what I lost....my muffin top is back to haunt me....
No I wish to re-start loosing weight, but without pills or anything that is not healthy for me.
I decided that this is it, I am young with no kids and I can do this. Not for looks, but for my own health. (I am 26).
It took one look in the mirror at inside a dressing room to realize that "yes that big girl is really you! we need to work on this hon!"

Welcome! It's great you decided to get healthy -- you CAN do it without those pills!

Have you started anything specific like calorie counting or exercising yet?

no plan yet. Im working on figuring something out

Welcome Makeup! I'm new here too and also had a similar realization after looking at some photos of myself and my size 6 friend! We used to be about the same size and now I look like three of her! I'm trying to do clean eating/calorie counting but am currently living overseas so it's a bit difficult but I am determined to make it stick this time! Good luck on devising a plan that works for you.

BTW, I love your pic! hehe

Hello pochamma10 and Ana Chambers!!
thank you so much for welcoming me!!
you know now I have a positive look on this. I am not going to give up like I usually always did on previous attempts. I took a blood pressure test and it came out high but not for medication, but that scared me enough to give me motivation to live healthy.