Hi Everybody!

I'm AJ and I'm 2 days old (that's my Traineo age, so don't worry too much!)! It's great to see such an active and positive site encouraging people to achieve their diet and training goals. I decided to join after my husband, who is also a member here, joined and told me how great this place is - he's right!

Anyhow, a little about myself. I'm in Sydney, Australia and being overweight is somewhat new to me. I'm just not used to it. For years and years I was able to eat what I want, and do nothing fitness-wise, and still maintain a great, healthy weight of 55kg (121lbs) - 58kg (127.9lbs). With a rather tall height of 172.5cm (5'8"), it wasn't bad at all! I enjoyed all of this until I turned 22. When I was 22 I got married and that's when I packed on the weight. Five years and 31kg (68.3lbs) later, I was in what I call 'unchartered territory' when it comes to dress size. Was in a department store and just grabbed some semi-decent looking 3/4 length pants and walked into the change room. It was then that I saw something I had never seen before: my body from multiple angles. Like four different angles! I was totally shocked and lost interest in the clothing. Just as well - even the huge sizes I was trying on weren't big enough!! Quickly I put my clothes back on, returned all of the clothing to their rightful place in the store and hot footed my way out of there! I was totally disgusted with the rolls of fat and cellulite! I was really crabby and angry with my husband saying I wouldn't be leaving the house looking like this again. Not until I had gotten back to my normal weight of around 58kg. Seriously I felt like putting a blanket over myself as I sat in the car on the way home!

Once I got home though, I decided to take action. I'd watched my husband lose weight throughout the week, since starting a new lifestyle, and I was going to as well. Sure I was exercising a little and eating somewhat better foods, however now I knew that rather than putting a blanket over my head and hiding at home for months until I shed the lard, I'd have to take affirmative action. Not a crash diet, not a quick fix, but a real lifestyle change.

So, two days ago I joined Traineo and what a site! I've lost 1.2kg since joining - that's 2.6lbs! Not bad at all, but I know I won't lose weight this rapidly along the road to weight loss. I'm watching what I eat and I'm exercising about 2 hours a day. I like the exercise and have no problems with it. I know now, after seeing what I saw on Saturday in the mirror, that positive lifestyle change is the only way!

I look forward to hearing from you soon!

Cheers,
AJ

Welcome to Traineo AJ ! Now that you're on the right track this site will only make things better. I've made some really good gains that I attribute to reading Traineo forums and articles while I chart my progress. Stick with it and the people here can really help !

Hi AJ,

You know me because I'm your husband.

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Graeme

Hi All,

My name is amanda, and i have been on traineo now for 5 day and i am loving what i see so far it is so good to see so much positive people on here. you all seem to be doing so well.

Just a little about myself, i come from NSW (Aust) and i have been over weight all my life starting weight was 125kgs and now i am at 114.8kgs. Since joining Traineo i have have lost a 1kg in 5days.

any way hope every one is doing well and hope to get to chat to most if not all of you eventually

Welcome! I'm a newbie myself - I've been on for a few days - and while I have managed to make some major changes to my diet, I find it hard to get the motivation to exercise. I'm hoping the forums and topics like this will make it easier to stay on track. I'm at my all-time high of 150lbs (68.03kgs) and would like to get back down to my ideal weight of 130lbs (59 kgs)

I come from the land of the fat (The US, where else?) and I find it difficult to deal with the overwhelming preponderance of junk food, ridiculous portion sizes, and general bad nutritional choices that we have! Good food is available here, but a lot of it is either overpriced or requires extra time and effort to obtain. It's difficult to find the middle path between the quick and dirty junk food habit and the time-consuming all-natural diet.

Always great to see new faces around here. Welcome and good luck!

Welcome aboard... from abroad!