so i've been on this site for over a year now...and I've noticed...

I made my first account here in oct 2007. i've lost weight, learned a TON of stuff about nutrition, and I've also noticed some really interesting and amusing site trends.

I mean, come on..hasn't anyone ELSE noticed that the site is sloooow lately? In the forums, I mean?

right after Christmas, we'll have a massive surge of new users. They'll all want to lose their holiday pounds as well as make new years resolutions to lose weight. anywhere from 2 weeks to a month after that, they will start dropping like flies... but a new slower, yet equally powerful wave will roll over us starting around late march, when people start thinking about bikini season. The influx will continue for several months, but the forums will still not be as fast as january and febuary, since most of the new years resolution dieters will have given up or moved on.

November has to be the slowest month I've seen! Which makes sense..people are all bundled up now, showing less skin, and feeling warm fires and hot chocos calling. The "back to school" crowd has either lost the weight or gotten busy with studies.

and now there's just us... the hardcore calorie counters... and the smattering of newbies that just chanced here... and the strongest individuals of each of the groups mentioned who have managed to stick it out...

I don't know whether I like it more or less!

That's so true.  I always get an influx of new friends who disappear after a few weeks or months.  Every so often I review my friends list and take off the ones who haven't logged in for a year. 

Those of us who are serious are still here and we do help each other a lot.  I don't know if I could have stuck it out this long without my CC friends.

"Jolt" I clean forgot this site was about losing weight !

I come here for the good company that can be found, but yes some who started with me on my friends list have long since gone!

Don't forget, though, the economy sucks.  A lot of my friends can't pay for internet now.  Hell, half of them can't pay for a bus to the library to send me an eMail every so often.  I imagine it's the same for others.

I know last year when we hit really hard times, being on Calorie Count with all the people talking about the foods they were eating was the last thing on my agenda.

i started about 8 months ago and i have been glued to this site everyday. if its not looking up food or logging food it im scanning the forums. i love cc ^_^

i never thought about the influx of people though. i can't wait till the forums pick back up though!!!

I've thought this recently too.  I know that right after Christmas is going to boom with new people.  I find it sad when people who were losing disappear.  I like the people I meet.  But yes, summer months were mad crazy compared to now.  With all the holidays and good food, I don't think many people will join right now.  And everyone's busy.

I'm busier now and don't log as I used to.  I never thought to delete old friends who never came on anymore but that's a good idea  I still like a couple of forums, recipes/foods mostly.

I lurk but havent posted as much as i did ...whcih wasnt much before but still..

For me, especially for holidays, its weird to come and post/log on CC when I'm "not on the wagon"....kinda like cheating...Im strange...I think its part of the "all or nothing" mentality I have

I also 2nd what CD said, as when I move from a too expensive for rent house to a smallerr apartment, I'm debating whether to even connect the internet at all...I'm not sure if its worth around $70 for 2 cable channels and slow-as-hell internet.....yeah the cable company here has a monopoly and there isnt any other choice :(