Ready to lose

  • Hello forum go-ers!
    I'm very excited to be here, and I hope to meet some wonderful people and get support !

    A little about me:
    I'm 21 (well, will be in Aug), and I'm a college student, and JUST graduated with my A.A. and am moving on to a B.A.
    I was always skinny when I was a kid, but something happened along the way and by middle school I was over weight.
    My parents started mentioning my weight problems (nothing negative just suggesting I should start eating better, but I take what they say VERY seriously) and when I was 15 I literally just decided one morning that I would lose weight to get them off my back. I lost 20lbs (from a starting weight of 160) in a few months by counting calories and exercising (Richard Simmons tapes... oh yes.)
    After that, as it happens so often, I fell off the wagon. 5 years later I weigh 210lbs, I'm 5'4", and for the life of me I have not been able to keep a diet since.
    It's really aggravating because it was so easy when I didn't care, and now that I REALLY care it's like climbing a mountain! (hmmm, mountain or a mole-hill?)

    I also deal with anxiety which doesn't help, and live in a dessert :/ nothing like exercising in 110 degree heat xD !

    Help!

    My goal is to get back to 140lbs, or a size 10 (which is what I was at before).
  • Welcome and good luck!

    Dhani
  • Your story sounds like mine.
    Good luck.
  • Hi and welcome to 3FC.

    Good luck with your goals.

    Hugs
    Michelle
  • Welcome taffeta

    Good luck with reaching your goals! you can do it!
  • Welcome
    We are glad you are here. My advice is to just start eating healthy (cut out all junk food, fast food and soda), this is what i have done this first month. It gives you something to work towards but not overwhelming. Good luck and let us know how it is going.

    Quote: Hello forum go-ers!
    I'm very excited to be here, and I hope to meet some wonderful people and get support !

    A little about me:
    I'm 21 (well, will be in Aug), and I'm a college student, and JUST graduated with my A.A. and am moving on to a B.A.
    I was always skinny when I was a kid, but something happened along the way and by middle school I was over weight.
    My parents started mentioning my weight problems (nothing negative just suggesting I should start eating better, but I take what they say VERY seriously) and when I was 15 I literally just decided one morning that I would lose weight to get them off my back. I lost 20lbs (from a starting weight of 160) in a few months by counting calories and exercising (Richard Simmons tapes... oh yes.)
    After that, as it happens so often, I fell off the wagon. 5 years later I weigh 210lbs, I'm 5'4", and for the life of me I have not been able to keep a diet since.
    It's really aggravating because it was so easy when I didn't care, and now that I REALLY care it's like climbing a mountain! (hmmm, mountain or a mole-hill?)

    I also deal with anxiety which doesn't help, and live in a dessert :/ nothing like exercising in 110 degree heat xD !

    Help!

    My goal is to get back to 140lbs, or a size 10 (which is what I was at before).