hello everyone i hope you are all well, am new here so i thought i'd come introduce my self to everyone am maxine how is everyone??

We both have 60-something views to our posts, and no one has said a word. I am now speaking up. Good luck with your goals on this site. Welcome!

Welcome and good luck with your weight loss goals to you both

thank you good luck to both of you to

Welcome to you both and good luck. There is not as much activity on 3FC on weekends and holidays , don't give up on us.

After you introduce yourselves, look into all the different group discussions, you will find one that suits your personality or needs. This is a great place to make new friends, so just dive in and go for it. Good luck and God bless.

Not only are weekends and holidays sometimes a little slow, people use the forums in different ways, and there really isn't a formal "welcome wagon."

The introduction forum generallly doesn't generate much commentary, probably for a lot of reasons, but it really boils down to that's a lot of people don't even see the introductions, and even those who do may not say anything if they don't have anything interesting to say. I know that I don't spend much if any time in the introductions forums, so I usually don't even see the introductions.

Instead, I meet most people through the discussions forums. Even then, I tend to look for posts that are discussing a topic and try to only respond when I think I have something to add or something interesting to say. If "Hi," "nice to meet you," or "I (dis)agree," are all I can think of to say, I usually don't say anything.

I usually check the threads I'm posting in, or will check new posts or today's posts and only post in threads that are extremely interesting/important topics to me - because as it is, I end up devoting several hours per day to just to READING posts.

If I responded by posting to every thread I read, I would have to spend 24/7 doing so. Instead, I read all I find interesting, then decide how much time I have to post, and decide which posts I'm going to respond to, because I don't have the time to respond to them all. I don't even have the time to respond to even 10% of what I would like to.

Discussion threads do tend to get a lot more views and posts than threads on common or frequent topics (and that includes general introductions).

So you'll get and give a lot more support on the discussion and topic threads than in introductions - but even so it can take a while and you may have to occasionally repeat yourself. I've posted threads that got few or no responses and then days, months, or even years later gotten more responses - so I've learned to be patient and to repeat myself .

welcome!!! this is a great site, really motivating...you will meet some great peeps on your journey. :-)