I am new here. I have been lurking all morning and I have decided to join. I am a thirty something - no kids- overweight gal who is becomming somewhat depressed. I have been on more diets than you can name, and I am usually successful for a short period of time until I sabotage myself. I am now ready to do it, but it is not coming to me as easily as it has in the past. I go to the gym almost every day, but I still eat enough to maintain my 230 weight. I would love to talk to others about getting motivated. I read a thread this morning about eating more veggies and I already feel better! I am looking forward to being a part of this neat site! Thanks ~ aholden

Welcome and congratulations on going to the gym. Now what'll we do about your food?? What would you like to do about your food?

Welcome! We're so glad you're posting.
Like Susan said, what do you want to do about the eating? There are so many options. Eating more veggies is a great start!!

aholden
Great news on going to the gym. When I started off I had just the opposite problem. I had a hard time with the exercising part. It will come to you and you will find on this site alone that there are a number of different "diets" or as I would rather refer to it as Eating styles that you will find.
I would continue to look around and ask questions. There are a lot of people here that are more than willing to help.

Good Luck to you!

Food is a problem. I don't have any trouble going to the gym. I have this strange problem with food, however. My husband is very small, and is in control of his weight. He eats small amounts and stops when he is full. I want to eat everything that is available to me. I have pinpointed the problem but I don't know how to stop it. My parents and brother were very large, and we were in competition for food. If there were any lefteovers, they wouldn't be there long. I couldn't "save" anything for later. I would eat more food than I needed because I knew that if I enjoyed it so much, it would be short lived. Now, I have the issue that I cannot stop eating comfort foods, candy, etc. Even though I know that my husband won't "steal" my food, it seems that I cannot stop. I don't know how to solve this problem. Mind over matter, sure. But it just seems very hard for me. I know what I'm doing when I am doing it, but I excuse it. Ugh.

Thank you for your replies. It really is nice talking about this.