Hello Blue Team !!
Welcome to the 2012 Spring Into Summer Challenge !! I'm very excited to get started and see how our returning challengers have been doing and to meet all our new challengers.
A little about me. My name is Leslie and I'm 46. I have been very overweight since grade school. The earliest recollection I have on being weighed was when I was about 18 and weighed in at 310 lbs. At one point I'm sure I was close to 500 lbs. but would never have stepped on a scale back then. In 2009, with a starting weight of 425, I lost 135 lbs. in 9 months then gained 110 of that back the following year. In May of 2011 my husband and I joined a program at our gym that was sponsored through his work and in the past 11 months we've lost a combined 288 lbs. so far. It's been an incredible year. I could never have imagined how my body feels now and can't imagine how much better it will feel in another 100 lbs. My husband has now reached his goal weight and is looking forward to running his first full marathon in June and has his eye on doing an Ironman next year. These challenges are great as the more accountability the better... it's not easy staying onplan when there are so many factors out there tempting you to go off but WE CAN DO THIS !!
Please take some time to introduce yourself this week and tell us what some of your goals are. We're here to support and encourage.
Don't forget to sign up to the weekly weigh-in thread here: http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/bigg...gh-thread.html
We have a Nutrition thread here: http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/bigg...9-05-06-a.html
We have an Exercise thread here: http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/bigg...9-05-06-a.html
If you have any comments or suggestions please don't hesitate to ask.
Inspiration of the day: You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be - David Viscott