Screen Name: Nett
Age/Age Range: 35
Family Life: Married to Tim { Wonderful} and have 1 yr old Sylvia
Occupation: SAHM
Hobbies and Interests: Reading, playing with Sylvia and meeting other SAHM's.
Favorite Music: Vivaldi, Tom Petty, Roger Miller, Toby Keith - anything but Opra.
Favorite Color(s): Blue
Favorite Exercise/Workouts: Yoga, newly Body Pump, sex, and walking.
What are your fitness/health goals? Be Healthy and more comfortable in my body.
What was the "trigger" or incident that made you decide it was time to lose weight and become more fit? I was almost back up to my delivery weight of 237, and my husband and I were both going to be quitting smoking 1/17/06 (We have YEAH)!
What do you struggle with the most on this journey to health? Binge eating. Or over eating: I'll be full, but it tastes so good.
What are three things in the area of diet/exercise you need to improve? Binge eating and over eating.
(Evil motivation ) Who do you want to look better than? : Myself when I graduated from Hightschool. I weighed 215 when I graduated and I've been down to 170 prior to marriage. My goal is 190, smoke-free, and good healthy diet.
What can you not wait to wear when you are at goal weight or size? A brand new teddy that my hubby & I are going to pick out!

Screen Name: lakynsmom

Age/Age Range: 35

Family Life: Single mom

Occupation: Accounting Technician

Hobbies and Interests: Reading, movies, gardening, playing with Lakyn

Favorite Music: R&B, Country, Rock, pretty much anything but bluegrass

Favorite Color(s): Green

Favorite Exercise/Workouts: water aerobics, treadmill, nautilus

What are your fitness/health goals? To be able to ride bikes with my daughter without feeling like I'm dying this summer!

What was the "trigger" or incident that made you decide it was time to lose weight and become more fit? I had to go to the doctor and stepped on the scales and was in disbelief at the number....271!!!

What do you struggle with the most on this journey to health? Late-night munchy attacks!

What are three things in the area of diet/exercise you need to improve? Getting more active, controlling those late-night cravings, portion control.

(Evil motivation ) Who do you want to look better than? Not really better than anyone....just want a better version of myself.

What can you not wait to wear when you are at goal weight or size? Hip-hugger jeans!

Screen Name: chem or chemgurl
Age/Age Range: 28
Family Life: Living with Johnny (my soulmate!) and five year old son, Shamus
Occupation: machinist
Hobbies and Interests: reading, surfing the net, cooking, playing guitar
Favorite Music: pretty much everything, with a soft spot for punk =)
Favorite Color(s): Can't honestly say that I have a favorite colour
Favorite Exercise/Workouts: Budokon dvd - haven't tried much of anything else yet
What are your fitness/health goals? I'm pretty self conscious about everything, so I'd like to be able to feel *great* about my body and have that be one less worry. I'd like to be able to go for a run, keep up with my son, etc. My dad and a couple of my siblings are diabetic and my dad has a couple of other health problems, so with that in mind I'd like to lose the extra weight, eat healthier and be active.
What was the "trigger" or incident that made you decide it was time to lose weight and become more fit? Johnny and I stay around the same weight, so when he weighed himself at work one day and said he was up to 170 I thought, "uhoh, I can't be far behind." I was 164, the heaviest I've ever been, so I decided to do something about it. As an added bonus for motivation - my baby brother is getting married this summer and I'm a bridesmaid. It will be almost a year since we left before we're home again, so I want to look fabulous when we go home for vacation!
What do you struggle with the most on this journey to health? I'm doing low carb, and I was so used to eating something like rice, potatoes, pasta or bread with every meal. I miss them a lot more than things like sweets.
What are three things in the area of diet/exercise you need to improve? Motivation to work out. Drinking my two litres of water a day. Eating more vegetables.
(Evil motivation) Who do you want to look better than?: Not so much that I want to look better than anyone else, I just want to look like a better version of myself. Maybe how I looked before my son was born, only better. I know Johnny loves me to death anyway, but I want to look better for him too.
What can you not wait to wear when you are at goal weight or size? A lot of things. In particular, I have this pair of size 29 shorts that I wore the summer I got pregnant - I'd love to be able to fit into them again! I've been hanging onto them, just out of wishful thinking I guess. Now I'm actually doing something to make it happen.

I'm really glad I stumbled on this site - you girls are awesome!

Screen Name: gremlina

Age/Age Range: 24

Family Life: married, no children

Occupation: Domestic Goddess & Graduate Student

Hobbies and Interests: Reading, reenacting

Favorite Music: Country or Oldies

Favorite Color(s): Blue

Favorite Exercise/Workouts: Walking, swimming

What are your fitness/health goals? To be able to get back in shape like I was in HS so I might join the military

What was the "trigger" or incident that made you decide it was time to lose weight and become more fit? When I start huffing and puffing up the steps and also when I saw the scale read higher than I had ever been before in my life!!!

What do you struggle with the most on this journey to health? Munchies while studying late night etc.

What are three things in the area of diet/exercise you need to improve? Getting more active, controlling those late-night cravings, portion control.

(Evil motivation ) Who do you want to look better than? Well I don't really care who I look better than as long as I am a healthier version of myself.

What can you not wait to wear when you are at goal weight or size? Um..I don't know..something nice for my hubby maybe.