Hi! Can't wait to get started!

Name: Fran
Location: Md
Age: 42
Approximate Starting Weight: 240 on 9/1/06, down to 220 in mid-Dec
What I Hope To Lose: about 40 pounds down to 180, for now
Why Do I Want to Lose: I got tired of the energy it took to maintain my unhealthy body.

Name: Anne
Location: TX
Age: 38
Starting Weight: 258
Hope to Lose (during 12 week challenge): 20+ pounds
Why? To be healthier, but just as important to feel better about myself

Looking forward to accomplishing our goals together.....

Name: Geri
Location: Vegas
Age: 30
Birthdate: 2/4
Approximate Starting Weight: Currently 226
What I Hope To Lose: 20 pounds
Why Do I Want to Lose: I want to be FINE!!! LOL

Name: Summer
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Age: 21
Birthdate: 05/20
Approximate Starting Weight: 188
What I Hope To Lose (during the challenge): 20lbs
Why Do I Want to Lose: I want to start off a new chapter in my life (grad school) healthier. I want to have more energy to do things too.

Name: Stacey
Location: St. Clairsville Ohio
Age: 31
Birthdate: 5/19/75
Approximate Starting Weight: Currently 210 according to last WI
What I Hope To Lose: long term goal 65 lbs
Why Do I Want to Lose: To become a healthier person and to feel better about myself and to live longer for my hubby and son & family

Name: Angelina
Location: MD (DC Metro)
Age: 31
Birthdate: 5/25/75
Approximate Starting Weight: Upper 250s
What I Hope To Lose: Maybe 20 lbs
Why Do I Want to Lose: It is part of my long journey of weight loss

Weight Loss History:

I have a long history of weight loss but I've lost over 100 lbs in a little over 2 years with many stops/plateaus along the way. I need to keep myself motivated to continue my weight loss.

Name: Andrea
Location: Ontario, Canada
Age: 32
Birthdate: 7/28/74
Approximate Starting Weight: TBA (hopefully 5lbs less than I am now)
What I Hope To Lose: 20-25 pounds
Why Do I Want to Lose: I want to feel comfortable in my own skin again; feel healthy and wear and bikini this summer. My daughter is also a tremendous runner and I would love to run a 5K race with her by the end of 2007. Not to mention my husband and I would love to have another child which I don't want to do until I drop at least 25lbs.

Weight Loss History: Though I have always been super athletic, my weight has also been up and down. I would say my heaviest ever was just after my daughters birth. I was a single mother, very stressed, tired and really started on my path to emotional eating. One day I had my "A-HA" moment where I started to really focus on my weight and took it all off; though I would always have my up and down moments. I met my husband in the spring of 2001 when I was at what I consider my perfect weight. We spent all summer at the beach and I felt great in a bikini. We ended up getting married in the bahamas the winter of 2002 where I have pictures of me in a fabulous strapless wedding dress, and wearing a bikini on the beach.....I felt and looked great. Based on my wedding dress measurements I know my waist measured 28.5 inches and I weighed 155lbs. Once we got home from the honeymoon it has been a 4 year and one child gradual process to my weight now. We had a lot of struggles conceiving our son and I know the 2 year emotional rollercoaster did a number of me in terms of emotional eating. I hate the way I feel and am so angry at myself for feeling this way and allowing myself to get to this point. My husband and I are going on vacation in February and I want to have a great time and not worry about how I look. We have also been putting off having another child because I wanted to wait until my weight was under control - I have been saying that since February and I don't want to wait much longer. So my goal om 2007 is to drop this weight, run a 5K with my daughter and become a new mom again.

Name: Roni- formally known as: DivaLicious0467
Location: Gatlinburg, TN
Age: 39
Birthdate: 4/15/67
Approximate Starting Weight: 196.2
What I Hope To Lose: 8 lbs per month or more...
Why Do I Want to Lose: Because I am Type 2 Diabetic, and I am tired of being fat, having no energy and having to shop in the Plus sized section.
Weight Loss History:
I was always thin and healthy until the birth of my second child in 1993. I had post-pardem depression, and have been sufering from Chronic depression everysince. I am an emotional eater and when depressed I have no motivation to get up and move, thus making me overweight and very unhealthy. I am sick of it and long to be my thin and healty self again. I hope that by my birthday in April, I will be halfway there.

Name: Tina
Location: Illiniois
Age: 27
B-Day: July 1st 1979
Current Weight: 139
What I hope to lose: About 15 pounds
Why Do I Want to Lose: I have been stuck here for a while and want to get to the maintance stage of my journey.

Weight Lose History: I started this at 207.5 about a year and a half ago. I have dieted many times in my past but this is the first time I finally got it that this is not a diet this is how I have to live. I am aiming to be about 125-130. I joined 3FC this year and love it. I find so much inspiration and advice here. I look forward to sharing my journey with everyone and hearing all of yours.

Name: Jennifer
Location: New Jersey
Age: 36
Birthdate: 12/3/70
Approximate Starting Weight: 203ish
What I Hope To Lose: I'm not putting any goals on myself. I just want to lose, lose, lose!!!!
Why Do I Want to Lose: I just feel like I am in my own way. I feel better physically and mentally when I eat right and exercise. However I really want to be at my goal (right now 160) by the summer.

Name: Kathy
Location: Delaware
Age: 41
Birthdate: 11/10
Approximate Starting Weight: 156
What I Hope To Lose: 25 pounds
Why Do I Want to Lose: To improve my health, keep up with my son, and drive my teenage daughter crazy when I wear her jeans.

Weight Loss History:
I am a yo-yo person. If I become less active even watching my diet the weight creeps on since the birth of my first child. I have tried WW 3 times, Richard Simmons, Suzanne Somers, Lowcar, lowfat, slimfast, fat smash. They all worked but when I stop exercising I gain like crazy.

Name: Sharon
Location: Michigan
Age 51
Birthdate: November 18
Starting Weight: 214
What I hope to loose: 18 pounds
Why I want to loose: I decided shortly after my 50th birthday that I needed to drop the weight for a healthier, happier me. Both of my parents died in their 50's from heart problems, I want to be around much longer than that to enjoy my grandkids. I already feel much better than I did with the 60+ pounds I've lost and I want to keep it up. I do have a one week vacation planned in January and I hope by joining this challenge, it will help me get back on track as soon as I get back home. I've been over weight most of my life, I've done my share of yo-yo dieting, the most I've ever lost is 70 pounds. I joined WW a year before my son's wedding and was 70 pounds lighter when I bought my dress for the big event. That was the end of my loosing weight, could not loose anymore after that. In five years I've gained it all back, rejoined WW 10 pounds heavier than the first time. This time I joined for me. not for any other reason than I want to look and feel better and be healthier, hopefully for a longer life than my parents had.

Name: Chrissie
Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Age: 24
Birthdate: 8/31/1982
Approximate Starting Weight: 238.6
What I Hope To Lose: 20 pounds
Why Do I Want to Lose: To become a healthy person and to be smaller for my wedding in September.

Name: Megan
Location: WV
Age 29
Bday: 5-11
got kicked off the challenge. so my goals dont matter. good luck to the rest of you.

Boy, am I ever ready for this!

NAME...Cristina
LOCATION...Kansas
AGE...47 years young!
BIRTHDATE...May 12
APPROXIMATE STARTING WEIGHT...200 (gained 2 lbs. since DS was home for R & R)
WHAT I HOPE TO LOSE...well, I am going with 20 lbs. but so hoping more.
WHY DO I WANT TO LOSE...because I am tired of being this big. I don't want to get real skinny, just a place where I feel comfortable with myself.