Hello! I'd like to join, please! I've been losing weight gradually since April. I started at 214 lbs (my heaviest ever, I think, although I've never really been one for weighing myself regularly until recently).
I'm now at around 190lbs, so I've lost 24lbs so far, which is great. I've done it mainly by counting calories on My Fitness Pal which has taught me a lot about portion sizes, and I've also cut down on meat quite a bit (more for health and environmental reasons, but has made meals less calorific as a consequence).
It hasn't been too hard so far, I've been sticking to around 1600-1700 calories per day, aiming to lose 1lb per week (I'm just under 5'9). While I'm a a pretty healthy cook, usually all meals from scratch, but I do eat out about once a week and don't deprive myself from the odd bit of chocolate or junk food every now and again (but now tends to be small amounts within my calories, whereas before I'd eat the whole pack of chocolate digestives :/).
The pace of my weight loss has slowed quite a bit in recent weeks, because I've lost a chunk of weight and now expend less calories. Rather than cut my calories further, I want to step up my exercise, both for my health and because I love food too much to go to low calorie! I also want to build a lifestyle I can maintain long term and low cal diet doesn't fit into that. But I really struggle motivating myself to get moving, I'm a really lazy person when it comes to exercise. I walk a lot and swim a bit, but hate running and don't do the gym. To top it off, my foot is still a bit delicate after a stress fracture, so I'll have to ease into it. But no more excuses, I'm going to start doing regular exercise this month! I just need to figure out what....