1. What's your top weight, current weight and target?

Top weight: 164 Current Weight: 132 Goal Weight: 118

2. How tall are you? 5 feet and 2 whole inches

3. What's your family situation? Happily married with no children

4. Where do you live? Georgia

5. One GOOD book. Hmm I love so many! The Quickie by James Patterson was great though!

6. One GOOD song. "Undo It" Carrie Underwood

7. One GOOD TV show. I love trashy "reality" shows, so I'd have to say Teen Mom

8. One awesome food you don't want to live without.

Cheesecake is my weakness for sure!

9. One weightloss lie you've heard.

I consider any diet that makes you live off one thing, like the cookie, cabbage, or grapefruit diet a lie. Yeah you will lose weight but you will gain it back fast too!

10. The best tip you've received with regard to long lasting slimness.

Slow and steady wins the race.

1. What's your top weight, current weight and target?
134/134/115
2. How tall are you?
5'4"
3. What's your family situation?
Living in sin, hopefully getting married eventually!
4. Where do you live?
USA, mountain region
5. One GOOD book.
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
6. One GOOD song.
Anything U2
7. One GOOD TV show.
Glee
8. One awesome food you don't want to live without.
greeek yogurt
9. One weightloss lie you've heard.
breastfeeding makes you fat
10. The best tip you've received with regard to long lasting slimness.
send in your race registration and you will train because they are SO expensive!
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1. What's your top weight, current weight and target? At this period of my life: 157, 142, 127.

2. How tall are you? 5' 7"

3. Family situation: They are all well.

4. Where do you live? zone 7B

5. One GOOD book. Sunset Garden Book

6. One GOOD song. Lead, Kindly Light

7. One GOOD TV show. I don't watch television anymore, but my all-time favorite was Ding, Dong School with Miss Frances in the late 1950s. It was for those of pre-school age.

8. One awesome food you don't want to live without. Sea salt.

9. One weight-loss lie you've heard. "If you exercise, you don't have to watch what you eat."

10. The best tip you've received with regard to long lasting slimness. "You have the keys in your hand. All you have to do is use them."

SusanB, I so enjoy your posts. Did you post your answers to the questions?

1. What's your top weight, current weight and target?
175/146/135 Maybe 125
2. How tall are you? 5' 4"
3. Family situation: Married 33 yrs. Lost Love of my life to Prostate Cancer in 04. (Be Sure All of the Guys in Your Life Are Checked!) Re-married in 07.
4. Where do you live? Stilwell, Oklahoma
5. One GOOD book. Any Gardening Book
6. One GOOD song. Busy Being Fabulous Eagles
7. One GOOD TV show. NCIS
8. One awesome food you don't want to live without. Cheese
9. One weight-loss lie you've heard. 'You can eat whatever you want....Just Take This PIll!'
10. The best tip you've received with regard to long lasting slimness. The MUFA'S....Yummy!
Here is a list of foods containing MUFAs:

•avocado
•oils — olive, canola, flaxseed, safflower
•nuts and seeds — almonds, cashews, peanuts, macadamia nuts, pecans, pine nuts, pistachios, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds
•olives

1. What's your top weight, current weight and target?
192 pregnant, 150 not pregnant/134/125 Maybe 120
2. How tall are you? 5' 4"
3. Family situation: Married 6 years to my college sweetheart, I SAHM with our 1 year old DD
4. Where do you live? Southern California
5. One GOOD book. The Thirteenth Tale
6. One GOOD song. Water Brad Paisley
7. One GOOD TV show. Mad Men
8. One awesome food you don't want to live without. Coffee
9. One weight-loss lie you've heard. Muscle weighs more than fat (duh, they weigh the same, but muscle is smaller than fat)
10. The best tip you've received with regard to long lasting slimness. Eat 5-7 servings of fruits and vegetables a day!

1. What's your top weight, current weight and target? Highest ever: 180. Top for this weight loss: 160. Current: 131 Goal: 130-125

2. How tall are you? 5'7"

3. What's your family situation? I live with my mom when I'm home from school and I can't wait to graduate from grad school so I can get a place with my boyfriend of 7 years

4. Where do you live? Pennsylvania

5. One GOOD book. The Time Traveler's Wife

6. One GOOD song. Jason Mraz- I'm yours

7. One GOOD TV show. LOST (so mad it's done!!)

8. One awesome food you don't want to live without. Granola bars!

9. One weightloss lie you've heard. That no carb business.

10. The best tip you've received with regard to long lasting slimness. "Remember how you felt when you were at your heaviest....now RUN."

1. What's your top weight, current weight and target?
I guess the highest I've ever weighed is the high 120s, although I've never really weighed myself in the past so I'm not sure. Currently I'm weighing in about 123/124ish. I haven't decided on a target weight yet, but I would really like to be firmly a (UK) size 8 (I think that's US 6?). I'm thinking my target will be somewhere in the region of 110 - 115lbs.

2. How tall are you?
5'3" (plus a little bit!)

3. What's your family situation?
I live at my dad's house partly with my dad and my sister -- though my dad is often away visiting his girlfriend and my sister is often away visiting her boyfriend! The rest of the time I live in a rented house with close friends/housemates. I have a boyfriend of over two years but we don't live together.

4. Where do you live?
UK

5. One GOOD book.
'The Chrysalids', John Wyndam.

6. One GOOD song.
'Devil's Dance Floor', Flogging Molly.

7. One GOOD TV show.
Firefly.

8. One awesome food you don't want to live without.
can coffee be a food? I couldn't live without that. Most other things I think I could live without. Coming up with one off the top of my head, sun dried tomatoes. Oh, and chips (fries) haha.

9. One weightloss lie you've heard.
That it's 'just' calories in vs. calories out. I know that's a large part of it, but our body is far too complicated to claim that it's definitely 100% that simple.

10. The best tip you've received with regard to long lasting slimness.
I don't have one yet!

Oh! I didn't see this I deleted mine when I regained and was ashamed of myself

1. What's your top weight, current weight and target?
165-127.2-125

2. How tall are you?
5'3"

3. What's your family situation?
I live in a small town with my DH of 31 years and our youngest son 23.

4. Where do you live?
Southwestern Ontario

5. One GOOD book.
Just one? Naw! I just read an Ann Rule that was fabulous.

6. One GOOD song.
Just one? Naw! Although I heard Clapton's Wonderful Tonight in the car yesterday and loved it again.

7. One GOOD TV show.
Criminal Minds

8. One awesome food you don't want to live without.
Coffee is about the only thing I've never given up.

9. One weightloss lie you've heard.
An awful lot of stuff they sell in a grocer is not food!

10. The best tip you've received with regard to long lasting slimness.
Whole, natural foods! Move your body and lift heavy things. But I guess that's a small collection of the best things I've learned.

1. What's your top weight, current weight and target?
163, 154, 120

2. How tall are you?
5'4"

3. What's your family situation?
I live with my boyfriend.

4. Where do you live?
A beach city in southern California.

5. One GOOD book.
Moral Disorder, by Margaret Atwood.

6. One GOOD song.
Colin Meloy's acoustic cover of Morrissey's "Jack the Ripper."

7. One GOOD TV show.
30 Rock!

8. One awesome food you don't want to live without.
Chocolate ice cream made by Double Rainbow.

9. One weightloss lie you've heard.
"Sit on the couch and lose pounds! Carve abs in bed!" haha...

10. The best tip you've received with regard to long lasting slimness.
It's not really a tip, but my mom always insisted that we all eat at the table together, and she fed us nutritionally balanced meals with lots of veggies. After all, I was skinny throughout my childhood - it was only after I left home and mom's cooking that I blew up

1. What's your top weight, current weight and target?
Top weight: 185
Current: 173
Target: 165

2. How tall are you?
6 foot

3. What's your family situation?
Live alone

4. Where do you live?
San Antonio, TX

5. One GOOD book.
Networking Fundamentals and Protocols... Im at nerd

6. One GOOD song.
Nothing Else Matters - Metallica

7. One GOOD TV show.
Good Eats!

8. One awesome food you don't want to live without.
BBQ Brisket

9. One weightloss lie you've heard.
Sauna Suits Work

10. The best tip you've received with regard to long lasting slimness.
Work hard!

Hey all I'm new and decided to see how this website could aid in my weight loss.

1. What's your top weight, current weight and target?

Top weight: 165 (i think? i was too scared to know back then) Current Weight: 143 Goal Weight: 120

2. How tall are you? 5'5

3. What's your family situation? I'm too young to have a family

4. Where do you live? Utah

5. One GOOD book. My favorite is The Town & the City by Jack Kerouac

6. One GOOD song. anything by Neko Case

7. One GOOD TV show. I love Dexter and The Walking Dead

8. One awesome food you don't want to live without. Cheese!

9. One weightloss lie you've heard. diets

10. The best tip you've received with regard to long lasting slimness. always keep busy!

1. What's your top weight, current weight and target?
Top weight: 165lbs / 75kg
CW: 140.2 lbs / 63.6 kg
GW: 127 lbs / 58 kg but i might change it to 120. i'll see when i get there
2. How tall are you?
5'6''
3. What's your family situation?
married to a lovely man. we have the cutest little boy in the world

4. Where do you live?
Croatia

5. One GOOD book.
Michael Newton- Journey of souls (this book changed my life)

6. One GOOD song.
the whole 'The Hair' (movie) soundtrack

7. One GOOD TV show.
america's next top model. i love watching it on youtube

8. One awesome food you don't want to live without.
mac and cheese. i LOVE pasta, i LOVE cheese.
9. One weightloss lie you've heard.
that dairy products are bad
10. The best tip you've received with regard to long lasting slimness.
diet should become your lifestyle not something you toss away when you reach your goal. i like that all this process of losing weight lasted a couple of months because that way it becomes a habbit and there's less danger of getting all that fat back on

1. What's your top weight, current weight and target?

Top weight: 196 Current Weight: 130 Goal Weight: undecided

2. How tall are you? 5'5 1/2

3. What's your family situation? Single

4. Where do you live? UK

5. One GOOD book. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

6. One GOOD song. Amazing by Aerosmith

7. One GOOD TV show. Frasier

8. One awesome food you don't want to live without. Yogurt

9. One weightloss lie you've heard. Fad diets

10. The best tip you've received with regard to long lasting slimness. "Weigh yourself daily" and "Eat less and exercise more"

1. What's your top weight, current weight and target?
176/148/128

2. How tall are you?
5'6"

3. What's your family situation?
Married

4. Where do you live?
Northern Ontario/ Canada

5. One GOOD book.
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb

6. One GOOD song.
enything by Eric Clapton

7. One GOOD TV show.
Gilmore Girls


8. One awesome food you don't want to live without.
cheese

9. One weightloss lie you've heard.
Lose 20 pounds for 20 dollars

10. The best tip you've received with regard to long lasting slimness.

eat every 2 hours