Hi
My name is Maureen. I am 51, and married with one child. I am about 20 lbs over my goal weight and have been stuck here for 3 years. I got to my goal weight once, but it never stuck.
I am currently reading Gretchen Rubin's book 'Better than Before'. She talks about the success that comes when someone feels accountable. So I came searching for a buddy. Ideally it would be someone in a similar situation to me, but I am open to buddying up someone with more or less to lose, or who is older or younger than me.
I would like to commit 10-15 minutes to helping each other at least 6, if not 7 days a week, almost as if we were paying $250 per month for an online coach. I promise to enter my food and fitness into my tracker by 7 pm EST and by the time I woke up the next day I would look for a feedback email from my buddy. And every day I would help my buddy by looking at her tracker too and by sending a feedback email.
Does anyone have any comment about having time zone difficulties with their daily contact buddy? I wonder if there would be issues if I got a buddy from a more western time zone than me because I am looking for giving and getting real time feedback. Perhaps a buddy from the UK would be better for me: Their day would be finished before mine so I could give feedback in my evening, and they can give me my feedback in their morning and I will get it before I wake up. Just thinking out loud - maybe this would be a non-issue.
Because this team mentions Christianity in the introduction (but that all are welcome), I feel that I should say up front that I am an atheist. It wouldn't matter to me in the least if my partner turns out to be a very religious person, but it might bother my partner that I am not.
I have browsed a few of the previous posts in this section and responded to a couple of them, but I wonder if the posts are getting too out of date as they seem to be months old now, so I decided to post my own plea. i hope to hear from someone soon as I am getting desperate.
Please reply by private email.
Maureen
Edited by: LESS_IS_MO at: 3/26/2015 (08:51)
PBs in running:
5k 30:19
10K: 56:44
half-marathon: 2:14:50
Dec 07: 212.5 lbs
May 08: (-20) Joined Spark
Jul: (-30 lbs)
Oct: (-40)
Jan 09:(-50)
Maintenance did NOT go well and I have been 20lbs over my goal weight since 2010
current weight: 24.8 over