New member and very excited to be here...

Hi everyone,  I just found this site earlier this week and I am really excited about it!  I have struggled with being 10 or 15 lbs overweight most of my life.  I always felt that if I just had some way of tracking my intake vs. output it would make all the difference... and now that's just what this site has been doing for me over the last few days.  It has made it so easy to just maintain or lose the weight at a fairly slow rate, rather than always yoyoing back and forth between either losing or gaining it. 

Anyway, glad to be on board, and I'm sure I'll have lots of questions as I go along.  I look forward to connecting with some people on the same positive path.

I just explained on another new post that if you track what you eat daily here on CC and just get a healthier food selection. The pounds come off. It took a year but I lost 20lbs yet it was easy and gradual. Now I am very comfortable with eating out etc. This site works.

Thanks for replying, miket53... yes, I'm really in awe of it... since starting, I feel like a switch in my head has turned on, and it's going to make it so easy to choose exactly what size I want my body to be and move slowly and healthily toward it.  It's a bit of work, especially with logging home-cooked meals (I don't eat much prepackaged food), but its fun and the rewards make it so totally worth it.  My only regret is that I didn't find something like this when I was 18 yrs old!  Better now than never though.

Hey, congrats on your 20 lb. weight loss!