hiii everyone. i'm natalie, 18 and trying to enlist active duty in the us army. i can't find an effing job and my rents can't afford to send me to school so, i'm working my butt off to enlist! my only problem is i'm way over the weight standards lol. i lost about 50 lbs to get in on WW but i ditched that when i found myself binging every now and then still, eating too much crap, and being hungry all the time.

i'm on south beach now and i really like it. i can't believe how awesome it is but i miss bread so much oh well. my best friend lives with me... so we support each other (she's trying to lose all the weight she gained back from WW!). we wake up at 5 every morning and run, i make breakfast for my me her and my dad, and then i work out some more. i've never been thin my entire life and so it's pretty weird to be doing something fat natalie would have avoided like the plague: the military. i think it's for me, and it will help me break my fat-girl mentality. because i can't live the rest of my life in this shell.

anyway, i just wanted to say hi. i've been lurking a while and this place really motivates me and keeps me on track. thanks for reading!!

Congratulations on finding something that works for you. I have never done south beach but I have done Atkins which is similiar. Good for you to have a friend to work out with you. Once yo get done to the weight you have to for the Military, they will work the rest off My brother came back about 30 lbs lighter just from boot camp.

thank you for replying

i'm very excited to enlist. boot camp will be so crazy but it seems sorta fun in a way. i'll probably be singing a different tune once i get there, but whatever lol