Wow you guys are all great! I was so excited to see all the responses and such encouragement from you all! Thanks so much!! I'll go through and answer your questions:
1) Pashta, I gained a lot of weight after my 2 kids were born, went from about 120 to 180 (at the highest) so there started my journey to lose the weight. The first 35 lbs came off from breast feeding over a few years total. Then I did Atkins for the next 15 lbs over 5 weeks and have been around this ever since. It doesn't help that I'm addicted to carbs.. give me a piece of bread over steak any day!
So I've tried everything from pills to exercise but I haven't really budged. So my goal is to get rid of those last 15 lbs (but I will probably be happy with less if I can get my jeans down from an 8 to 6 again). I'm very disportioned, small upper body and large thighs/butt so I'm trying to even that out. Also, my problem is overeating and I need to correct that to be happy with any program.
2) falisamarie, my goal is get rid of my bad habit of stuffing myself..especially when we eat out which is just way too often. I have found that I was so successful on Atkins because I wasn't crazy about the food so I eat less but as soon as I started to add more carbs (per the program) I lost control again. After I hit the plateau I couldn't find the motivation to eat the food again. Even though I'm still getting on the treadmill almost every day (even if for only 15 mins) I can't get my weight any lower. I know I can do more exercise, but it's a lot easier said than done.
3) MusicalMomma, thanks for the idea of WW. I thought about it and the whole counting points and the such seems like a hassle for me. I have seen all the WW frozen foods, etc, but haven't really looked into it enough to know if it's right for me. Maybe I'll check it out. I started out looking for something like Nutrisystem since there was no brain work involved, but stumbled across Medifast as I was doing some research and saw everyones great results and thought it might be for me.
4) dede4wd, I was thinking a couple of shakes might do it for me too, to get those snacking tendencies to go away... another one of my many faults. I think I will try the program as written and go from there.
5) Jan, I'm glad to hear there are others that actually did get the last lbs off. Those are always the hardest, aren't they!?
6) Diana, sorry to hear about your sisters troubles, but it sounds like the thyroid problems are not helping the situation. I tried Lipovarin and one of their programs includes a thyroid booster. A lot of the ladies on their message board are happy with their results. It gives you a lot of energy but I personally didn't get any overall results as soon as I went to Phase 2 of Atkins (adding back carbs). I hope I'm not destined to never eat carbs again.
Thanks again everyone for the great info and best of luck with everything. I think I will check out WW and if it's not for me, I will be placing my Medifast order soon and start a new thread on my results.