Welcome to the Group

Welcome! We would love get to know you, so please tell us a little bit about yourself. You can choose any format you'd like, but most of us here share some or all of the following details:

1. History with weight loss:
2. History with Calorie Count:
3. Reason for joining this group:
4. Some interesting details about yourself, such as your job, your family, your pets and your interests:

And now just go ahead and make that first post!

I have just started my first real fight to get healthy, I joined Calorie Count because it seemed like a good idea and it has been working great these first few days. I joined this group because tonight i realised that when i cook a healthy meal and my family turns around and orders disgustingly fatty foods, it makes it so hard, I want to go back to when i didn't count and i just ate whatever I wanted to whenever. I have to try to avoid this nasty pizza tonight...It is so upsetting and difficult i don't know what to do to avoid eating it.

Hi everyone,

Well my history with weight loss is that I got all the way down to within 3 lbs of my goal weight about a year ago, then I had some surgery's done and became slack with my eating habits and gained back about 6 pounds. I am desperately trying to make an earnest effort to at least lose the 6 lbs. I could be happy with that, and still be healthy. I am actually in a healthy weight now, but it is not enough for me.

I joined calorie count early in 2008, but stopped using it for a few months. I just started using it again yesterday and am loving it again! I really want to start tracking everything I eat again. I know that makes a big difference for me.

I joined this group to get some support with eating healthy with others in the house that don't. I try to eat healthy, and I fix healthy food for myself and my two toddlers, but my husand and teenage exchange student don't eat so healthy. Evenings are a really hard time!

Mmmm, interesting details about me? I am a young"er" mother to two toddlers and an german exchange student (for 10 months), I am happily married for almost 8 years now. We have a cat (I love cats!), and I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE working out at the gym, cardio and especially weights. Just wish I didn't have such bad knees so that i could do more leg and butt exercises!! no squats and lunges here. Oh and I also love to play basketball at the gym. Don't really know how to play the actual game, but have a great cardio workout with myself and my ipod shooting baskets, from one end of the court to the other.

Anyway, I look forward to getting involved in this group and getting and giving support with our not so healthy eating family members! lol.

Hi there. I'm newly joined to this group, though I have been a member of Calorie Count for what seems like forever.  I am about 50 lbs overweight, and I struggle with many food issues.

The reason I joined this group is for support for myself and my daughter, especially. I look at her, and I see myself when I was her age (8). I don't want to project my food issues on her, but I can't not be concerned when I see what she wants to eat, and battle with her on making healthy choices. She unfortunately has less that ideal examples with myself and my husband.

I would love to know any resources to find healthy family recipes and any advice from members who may be able to help me approach the food issue with my daughter in a way that is loving, and not setting her up for the same battles I had.

About me: I'm a newly 40 year old with three children; oldest is 8, youngest is a year and 1/2. I love love love to read. And garden. And travel

I look forward to getting to know this group better.

Hi, I'm Kerrigan. just joined this group, but have been on and off CC since june. i have a long history with anorexia, bulimia, overexcercising, night eating. whatver. I've been hospitalized, done residential treatment, you name it, ive probably done it. after a pretty intense relapse ive come to terms with my situation and am trying to find a healthy relationship with food, my body, and excercise. im 18, 125 lb, 5feet 4.5inches.

I joined this group for two reasons. I live with my boyfriend and his family. they are wonderful,  but have a very different way of interacting with food then myself. I mean lots of carbs, lots of sugar, lots of pastries, and always more more more food. when i first moved here, it was kind of insane, i gained a LOT of weight (i was coming down off drugs mind you, but the quality of the food i was eating was on the carby sugary fatty side). i have had to get used to it (been here 2.5 years now), and lost all the weight, (still getting down to 118, but im back to a a semi-normal weight). but the real issue for me is his mom. She has clearly had undiagnosed anorexia for a very long time. if not anorexia, at least EDNOS if she didnt qualify weightwise. shes super high stress, and does so many of the things i remember doing in my earlier years with my ed. granted shes mellowed out a lot and stopped running, and eats better now, but she brings home food and forces it on people, is constantly baking, and trying to feed others while "depriving" herself. it can be so frustrating! I can feel for her, but its also a huge trigger for me. if anyone else has or has had a similar situation i would love to hear about how they deal with it.

I have never been concerned with real weight loss (aside from 5-10 lbs here and there on occasion) until now. I am trying to lost 60 lbs that crept up during a period of over-working and over-eating. 

I just joined calorie count today.

Our whole family is trying to eat healthier, but it's going to be a long-term commitment.  My husband has moments of healthy eating, and moments of unhealthy eating (as do I).

I am 33, work part-time in a very demanding job, and love exercising (when I'm physically fit/not overweight and it feels good instead of painful - as it does right now).

i am so happy to find this group!

1. never overweight, but always felt self conscious about my flab: i'm the biggest in my family of girls, and i married a very lean guy.  i'm seriously inspired to finally do something about it.  SW: 135.  current: 123.  GW: 115

2. Just started at Calorie Count, about 5 days ago.  love it so far.

3. This group is perfect for me.  My husband, Josh, and I have been married for almost two years.  He has an extremely high metabolism, lean muscle (tennis player), and has to force calories down even after he's tired of eating.  *guys, he gets tired of eating!  wtf?!*  anywhere we go, crackers, candy, fried food, bread, chips & dip, everything loaded with flavor and fat, he stuffs his face as much as he wants to.  downs a box of cheese-its in bed.  eats a box of donuts with our friday night movie.  consumes a bag of corn chips and hummus in one sitting.  and it never shows on him.  i'm so far past jealous.

one other thing.  he not only hates exercise, he disagrees with it.  he doesn't value it.  and he still has a muscular build.  they just pop up on him.  when i go to exercise, he often tries to talk me into doing something else!  i have to explain to him that i need his support, even if he doesn't think it's important.

4. i'm 23, work at a coffee shop, live in the arts district about two blocks from my job, have a 6 m.o. puppy named elly.  <3

Hi there everyone. This definitely seems like the group for me. My name is Kira, I'm 25 and I have a son who will be 3 in January. I gained 65 lbs when I was pregnant and have lost it all and then some! I'm in the best shape I've ever been.

This is the one time in my life I've felt devoted to heathy eating and exercising regularly. Right now, I'm at a very healthy weight and would love to keep it that way. I've made huge lifestyle changes and I feel great! My family is not exactly supportive... Fast food addicted, pre-diabetic , late night snacking, processed food loving, overweight family. I'm trying to be a good influence on them but they are resistant at best. Not only am I "too thin" and "overdoing it" but my efforts are sabotaged at every turn. (By the way, my BMI is 21.3 so I am most certainly NOT too thin.) While I'm trying to set a good example for my son, his grandmothers give him chocolate milk, juice, and ice cream without any limit! (His grandmothers live with us and watch him while I work so I have little to no control of his diet all the time.)

This is an incredibly frustrating situation and it's good to know I'm not the only one!