I have lofty weight loss dreams. They haven't become "goals" yet as I have performed very little action to justify that term. I'll admit it- I'm afraid of failure. I googled "afraid to lose weight" and found 3fatchicks. I looked around a bit & now I'm dipping my toe in the weight loss pool.

Welcome! I think you'll find this place to be very encouraging!

Hi! I just started on this forum today too. Hoping to make some great connections on here!

You should check out the "Goals" thread to see what some others have achieved. It's super-inspiring!

Maybe the beck diet solution book would be useful for you as you head into this journey.

Its a psychological approach. I haven't read the book but i know about CBT and we can all learn useful things by understanding more about that approach to problems.

There's a forum on this site about it. Check out my weightloss diary below for other tips and ideas and strategy. I'm suggesting you do everything i do but there are things in it that should help anyone. Its certainly working well for me.