Hi, I am Jamie. I am 28 years old and mommy to two wonderful little boys. I am also on a weight loss journey. I am currently 180 pounds and trying to get back to my pre children weight of 130 pounds. I was in a bad car accident on February 27th of this year, so I am restricted to just dieting for now, I cannot exercise yet. I suffered a broken pelvic bone, and my orthopaedic doc says no exercise, and not even too much walking for at least a few more months. So for now I am just cutting back on suger, and fat intakes. I am not following any strict diet plans, just trying to reduce. I also quit smoking the day of the accident, so I am climbing two mountains at once, LOL. but I am doing good with the smoking, yesterday was 8 weeks without a cig. and yesterday also started day one of my diet.

I'm so sorry to hear that you were in a car accident bit it's great that you aren't using it as an excuse to not eat well. Best of luck!

Welcome Jamie! Sorry to hear about your accident Congrats on quitting smoking, i know how hard that is! Good luck with your weightloss!

This forum has been so valuable to me in my weight loss journey so far. I hope you find it just as helpful.

Thanks guys. So far the smoking thing hasn't been too hard. I was in the hospital for 3 days after my accident, and they say that the first 3 days are the hardest. I was super drugged up (morphine and oxycodone), and don't think I would have even known what a cig. was, LOL. I think that is the main thing that helped me quit.

Welcome to the board Jamie. Sounds like we have the exact same goals for weight loss.

Glad to hear you're here & have quit smoking! That's a hard thing to do in itself. Congrats on that!

hi jamie and

you will get heaps of support here - it is a great board with great people

i quit smoking this month - this coming saturday will be the 3 week anniversary. i know its hard too, but i came to the conclusion of whats the point in trying to lose weight and get healthy, when i continue to smoke? no brainer in the end - but took me a while to admit it.

hope to see you around heaps