Hi my name is Joy and I am sixteen. I have been fairly "hefty" most of my life, with the exception from a few phases Ive gone through. I have been working out some and losing some weight and it has been a great experience (my exercise of choice is walking and whole-body strength training). I would like to keep up my progress and share in other's. I hope to make many friends here who will have great tips for me to lose weight and KEEP it off. I have a discovered that I want to be a nutritionist because of my keen interest in it. So my goal is to be healthy. I hope to here from you all soon.

Hi Joy -

Its wonderful that you have recognized a problem, and better yet, taken HEALTHY moves to fix it, at 16! Lots of people your age don't have the maturity to think about keeping the weight off or doing things the healthy way.

I took Nutrition classes at UC Davis - so interesting. Its a great field to get into, and you can really help people.

Keep looking around! You might want to check out the Whole Foods forums - they seem likely to be in line with your health goals.

Welcome!!! Im Hailey, and im glad that you found your way over to this site. Its a huge encouragment. and i hope you find tons of support.

We have a teens thread going on heres the link.
http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=118949
Feel free to drop in and join in on our conversations! Id love to get to know you!

we also have a challenge going on for the school year, and if you want to join us that would be awesome!
http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=121721

anyway, welcome to the site!!

~HaiLeY~

Thank you all for the support. I was doing really well but this week has been so hectic with family that I hardly had the time to exercise and with so much family coming down all we did was EAT!

Brilliant that you are tackling this at 16...youre at the habit forming and metabolic peak of your life at this point, so go go go!!!

emily
xxx