Hello again everyone!!!!

Welcome to Lacy, Holly, Janna, Irma, Liz, Myah, Josh, Elizabeth, TJ and Winter!!! I love newbs...

Lacy: Personal Trainers are great, I have one myself. I call her Jillian Michaels in disguise! LOL Good idea about the scale, however, I weigh myself everyday which yes can be completely the wrong thing to do but I've been doing it about 4 years so I don't get all messed up like some people have from doing it. 75lbs to lose will soon be a thing of the past. The traininer will teach you that it's so NOT about the scale # and the one you want to focus on is the body fat %!!!!

Holly: I love the biggest loser. I don't get to watch every episode but when I don't see one episode and watch it the following week it's like wow look at the change in some of them. I also like the Australian version too, it was good while I watched it. So emotional eater huh? I hear you on that. I've just decided that I need to curb my emotional eater classification and make it emotional exerciser! LOL Welcome to Slim.

Janna: Black labs are sooooooo cute. When I get my house I plan to have a dog and so far, black or chocolate lab seems to be top of the list! Don't get discouraged by the amount of weight you need to lose. Look at it as the amount of weight you want and will lose and break it up into 4 goals (8 if you need to) and focus on that. Focus on say 25lbs and look at it as that's all you need to lose and go for it. When you get there, cause you will, then you focus on the next 25lbs and go from there. Smaller amounts = soooo much less intimidation!

Irma: Go on girl, 60lbs already? Way to go!!!! And all 3 months before you originally set your goal for. That's awesome. You obviously know what you want and you are on your way there...good for you!!!

Liz: 50 on WW? That's sweet! 10lbs back on, well not what we want, BUT, you still have that other 40 gone right?!?! Look at the positives and then keep on motoring along. You know how to do it, you have the loss from before as proof, just get going again and that 10 will be long gone before you know it!

Myah: Welcome. Can I start by saying that 50lbs in 5 months can be done I'm sure but majority of the time it's not in the healthiest way possible. You are 178 when you started this weight loss journey and 50 will put you at 128. While that might be a great weight for your height/age etc you need to know that the less you need to lose the harder it tends to get. My suggestion would be to aim for 1% of your body weight per week to lose and go from there. In 20 weeks (approx 5 months) you could lose about 32lbs safely and it's more realistic for what you want. I'm not trying to discourage you at all I just don't want you to be hard on yourself if you don't get 50 in 5!

Josh: Hello, welcome welcome. So 22lbs is what you want to lose huh. I see your mini goal says basically about half way...my suggestion, try breaking it up into 4 increments, that way it's a lot less intimidating and from the sounds of your post you are here, but you are doing it cause you should, could, would, as opposed to cause I want to and I'm ready. We are all here 100% behind you so if you need a kick in the pants just let us know!

Elizabeth: Listen to you! LOL Aren't you just a whole bunch of motivation piled into one post, I love it. Keep it up and way to go on that 2lbs, before you know it you'll be at your goal and maintaining your heart out!

TJ: WW Online I heard can be really great or really bad, it totally depends on YOU. Some people need that physical support of meetings and others are great at just being accountable to themselves and others online. I am biased for the online version as the way I see it is if I can't be accountable to myself each day by myself how am I going to be accountable to myself once I don't have the meetings anymore right? But that is just MY opinion. Definitely talk to others about it. I am an online WW subscriber and that's just my 2 cents.

Winter: You know what you want, you know how to get there, thus, you will! You sound like you have the right attitude for it and heck, with a blackbelt you can always just kick your own arse if you need to! LOL Welcome again and your coach will be in contact with you shortly!