So ladies & gents confess yoru sins. what did you eat and indulge in that you can say played a big part in getting you here?

I would eat an entire pint of haagen daaz in one sitting. mmm butter pecan. It was so darn good and this was maybe every week or more than once a week. Even if i ate 1/2 of the pint at one time i went back later in the day for the other 1/2. I would buy the entenmanns french cheesecake and would eat most of it myself. Have you ever seen the entenmanns pineapple cheesecake? its a bit smaller than the french but i would eat the entire thing myself, it was so good. This was when i was a teenager and i never cared about gaining weight or even thought of the fat and cals in those things. If i had to choose something that played a big part in getting me here today i would say it was definitely those 3 things and add in fast food & chips more than twice a week and here i am a big fat blob. Oh how can i forget about 3-4 glasses of soda a day. Ugh i was such a pig.

So lets hear it, what got you here?

Pasta, rice and bread are the cause of my dread!
Portion size is of fault and from where my hips result!

There was a time when I though if I was eating a bowl of rice with butter I was "dieting" or I would make a 1/2 bag of egg noodles with chicken broth, butter and pepper and call that healthy! I still have to mostly avoid rice, pasta and bread because if I have a little I cannot stop myself going back for more.

Junkie cereal... like cocoa puffs, trix, corn pops, etc. I would literally sit down in the morning when no one was around and just eat like 5 bowls in a row. Can anyone say empty calories???

Bread, definitely bread!

And non-food related was the fact I couldn't fit in misses clothes anymore, and had to buy women's. There is so much less to choose from, not as much variety!

My problems started after I had my kids and started my business. I really didn't have any time for myself and things like making sure we had healthy suppers was time consuming.

we ate fast food at least 2 times a week, or ate pre-packeged meals that are heated up in the oven. Fast but filled with fat and calories and who knows what else.

5 years of doing that added up to over 50 extra pounds. I never really tried to lose the weight after I had kids so that didn't help at all.

My biggest cravings were breads, cakes, cookies, baked goods and big hearty plates of pasta with cheese on top. Mmm good but bad for me.

So after realizing that none of the clothes in regular stores fit me anymore I decided that I wasn't going to have this for too long. I went 2 years in plus sizes and thought enough is enough!

I lost weight on my own a bit before starting LAweight loss. All together I am down almost 20lbs, I still have much to go but I'm working on it every day.

I have friends from highschool who want to meet me and I am too embarassed to see them right now. I am pushing the meeting until the summer in hopes to lose some extra weight before then.
So that's a good motivator for me too.

I wish I had the energy of this dancing carrot!

Well, being an overweight adult started with bad genes (not prone to being naturally thin) and parents that obsessed over what I ate and made me feel terrible about being pudgy. So, when I got married at 18 I had the "I can do whatever I want!" mentality with everything, including food. Got married at a size 18 then my highest weight was just over 270. Not sure why that number hit me so hard, but I still remember the annual doctor visit when I stepped on the scales and saw it. I was stunned.

My major weaknesses are sweets - primarily ice cream (store-bought, Cold Stone, milkshakes) and cake or cheesecake. Pre-LAWL, my husband and I had a nightly dessert date in front of the TV. I still save one of my Lites for night time - just can't kick that TV and sweets connection yet! And carbs like bread, crackers, etc. I used to stand at the kitchen counter and down a few fist-fulls of Cheez-It crackers like it was nothing.

Eating out was and still is a major contributor. I'm just not a cook/homemaker. I love to offload that dinner chore to someone else by going out!

For me it started with hitting puberty early and in a new town without friends. My mom started working days and evenings, so we had fast food nearly every night. We were eating junk, and my depression had me eating too much of it.

For example, I'd eat an entire Totino's pepperoni pizza in one sitting, for dinner, or make one of those Chef Boyardee homemade pizzas (when I became an adult), and eat four or five pieces. The next day I'd eat the other half for lunch, then have a full dinner (which I know now is horribly high in calories). Everything was processed and/or fried.

My biggest weakness, though, was mozzarella cheese sticks with ranch dressing. I'd get a cheeseburger, large fries AND cheese sticks with two packets of ranch dressing, because I couldn't say no and loved them so much. And a medium Dr Pepper. Adding it up now, that meal totaled out at 1,654 calories, at least 79 grams of fat, 100 mg of cholesterol and 3,445 mg sodium. With the normal two packets of ranch dressing, it'd go up to PLUS dinner or lunch or whatever. And snacks. It's a wonder I only hit 220-ish.

I've been craving cheese sticks recently, and according to chowbaby.com, they come in at 382 calories, 19 g. fat, 50 mg cholesterol and 1,300 mg sodium. So I just tell myself that if I ate those, I couldn't have lunch. Or my normal, healthy afternoon snack.

So..never again!!!!!

Ice cream, breads and anything rich and creamy made me fat. Along with poor choices, grazing and an inablility to control my portions. These are the things that made me obese.

What brought me here is the need to get healthy. To find support and people who can offer advice, motivation, encouragement, sympathy, knowledge and a kick in the butt when I need it.

About a week or so into my wight loss journey I read an article in "People" magazine. It was a short one page story about 3 woman who had been successful on their weight loss journey and had met in an online wieght loss support group. I don't remember if it was 3FC or not...but 3FC was mentioned in the article. The article also said people who had some form of support....weather it be weekly meetings, or online group, or whatever a much more successful. So I decided to check out 3FC....and I am sooooo glad I did!!!