[MaggieShines]

Hi, everyone. My name's Maggie. I'm starting Weight Watchers today. I can't afford to go to meetings, but I have all the materials and I'm going to try to do it at home. I've been having a hard time of things lately, but today I woke up and vowed to:

1. Forget all my past weight-loss failures.
2. Eat no more than my allotted 30 points.
3. START ... even though it's not Monday or Saturday.
4. Take my vitamins.
5. Take my thyroid med.
6. Drink 80 ounces of water.
7. Do some sort of exercise.
8. Avoid calling myself names for being overweight.
9. Check back in here tonight and post my points and daily food log, and offer support wherever I can.
10. Not think past today.

I hope it's OK that I join you ladies. I have a sneaking suspicion that this is one **** of a support group.

[MistySeptember]

Nice to meet you Maggie I look forward to sharing ideas and support with you! You are right, this is one **** of a support group! You've got a great plan, I think I may steal some of your ideas already

[MaggieShines]

Just kind of updating this for myself, mostly. I thought of a few more minis to add:

262 - Starting Point
252 - 10 Pounds Lost
248 - Pre-Falling of the Wagon Weight
239 - Less Than 100 Pounds to Lose
235 - First 10 Percent
232 - Lowest Weight from My Last Serious Weight-Loss Effort
225 - Weight At Which I Really Started to Hate Myself
208 - Second 10 Percent
199 - One-derland
181 - Third 10 Percent
169 - My Last "Normal" Weight
154 - Fourth 10 Percent
145 - Happy Place
140 - Ultimate Goal

[Kitty53]

Nice to meet you, Maggie. You'll like it here, we are a great bunch of sistas. Even better, now that you're here.

I think you can do this. We have a lot of ups and downs, but we're here for each other.

for taking that first step!!!

Hugs

[luflic]

Yeah Maggie! We all need new begininngs!Fresh starts. Go girl!

[Calpurrnia]

Hehe, welcome (back) Maggie!! Glad to see ya here! Yeah, and I gotta say...this place is pretty awesome. There are all these great sistas here who promise to support ya no matter the outcome of your WI. Of course, that's not to say we won't occassionally chase each other with burning torches.

Love ya, Maggie! I'm really happy to see you here!