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10-27-2008, 10:24 AM
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#61
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Canada
Posts: 15,006
Height: 5'-2"
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Welcome, Dan!
Yes, I know what you mean. I feel great every five pounds, and when I move down to the next 10 (ie: 180...170), I feel that I've really accomplished something.
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01-27-2009, 08:15 PM
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#62
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2009
Posts: 26
S/C/G: 179/160/whatever feels right
Height: 5'7
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Here is my favorite!
There is no passion to be found in playing small; in settling for a life that is less than what you are capable of living- Nelson Mandela
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02-05-2009, 06:54 AM
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#63
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2009
Posts: 20
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Great thread!
how about this one I think from oa.
It works if you work it.
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02-17-2009, 08:08 PM
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#64
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Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: UK
Posts: 9
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I love this poem...
“Autobiography in Five Short Chapters”
Portia Nelson
I
I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I fall in.
I am lost… I am helpless.
It isn’t my fault.
It takes me forever to find a way out.
II.
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I pretend I don’t see it.
I fall in again.
I can’t believe I am in the same place
But, it isn’t my fault.
It still takes a long time to get out.
III.
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I see it is there.
I still fall in… it’s a habit.
My eyes are open
I know where I am.
It is my fault.
I get out immediately.
IV.
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I walk around it.
V.
I walk down another street.
Hope it helps inspire you folks too :-D
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05-15-2009, 09:40 PM
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#65
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2009
Posts: 191
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So, decided I need to quit buying raspberries as I eat carton after carton of them. Also, every evening I am defeated and eat eat eat which keeps me from making a bit more progress, which I want to do. I feel so good that I have been able to maintain my 18 pounds so far bu ned a bit more progress. I want to stay with this site. it helps. When someone tells me how much wt they have put on it makes me feel so good that I haven't yet. Reminding myself every day what I am supposed to be doing and why is so important. Yea oa.
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05-19-2009, 04:27 PM
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#66
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Princess in gym training
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Nkhotakota, Malawi (Africa)
Posts: 144
S/C/G: 228/190/130
Height: 5'9"
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I like all these quotes!
"I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep but I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion." Alexander the Great
I think this is one of my favorites
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05-20-2009, 01:52 AM
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#67
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Purpose + Bucket
Join Date: May 2009
Location: DFW, Texas
Posts: 81
S/C/G: 206/153/130
Height: 65.5 inches.
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Too Cuddly - Who wrote that? That's a great poem!!
Here's my favorite motivational quotes:
"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. That surrender, even the smallest act of giving up, stays with me. So when I feel like quitting, I ask myself, which would I rather live with?"
"I have not failed 1000 times, I have successfully found 1000 ways on how to NOT make a light bulb"
"Nothing is IMPOSSIBLE. The word itself says "I'M POSSIBLE."
"A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape."
"Your day is every day!"
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05-23-2009, 12:32 AM
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#68
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Princess in gym training
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Nkhotakota, Malawi (Africa)
Posts: 144
S/C/G: 228/190/130
Height: 5'9"
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Just found this one today on the back of my brother's graduation program handout:
"Don't tell me the sky is the limit when there are foot prints on the moon."
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05-26-2009, 02:14 AM
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#69
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Junior Member
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Carrollton Texas
Posts: 3
S/C/G: 265/265/135
Height: 5' 3'
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This is a very encouraging thread. Keep up the good work, everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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05-30-2009, 08:43 AM
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#70
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Bringin' Sexy Back!
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Desert
Posts: 138
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All quotes are really inspirational! thanks for sharing them
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06-16-2009, 04:01 PM
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#71
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2009
Posts: 2
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Goodbye Chubby , I love one of your quotes!
"Don't give up what you want most for what you want now". Repeating this in my head will surely give me strength when I am craving that candy or cookie! Thanks for the inspiration.
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06-16-2009, 05:26 PM
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#72
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keto on
Join Date: May 2009
Location: WV
Posts: 122
S/C/G: 288/ticker/180
Height: 5'4"
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"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall"
- Confucius
"they can because they think they can"
- Virgil
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit."
- Aristotle
"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."
- Robert Collier
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will."
- Vince Lombardi
"Impatience never commanded success."
- Edwin H. Chapin
"You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind."
- Author Unknown
"He who hesitates is lost."
- Proverb
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose--
a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."
- Mary Shelley
And my personal favorite...
"We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls."
- Winston Churchill
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07-05-2009, 11:04 AM
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#73
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2009
Posts: 25
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Don't you just love a quote that reveals itself to you when you need it the most???
Your mistakes do not define you now; they tell you who you're not.- 3 Doors Down
also inspiring to me from the same is:
You hide behind your walls of "maybe" and "nevers", forgetting that there's something more than just "knowing better".
If you're afraid to fly then I guess you never will.
You've got to live this life your given like it's the only one you've got!
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07-05-2009, 12:01 PM
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#74
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Eyes on the Prize
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Midwest
Posts: 549
S/C/G: 350/ticker/160
Height: 5'7"
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Some very inspiring quotes here!
My sister used to be an athletic trainer for a college football team. Just above the team's entrance leading onto the field there was this and I have never forgotten it - it is so true:
"If you always do what you've always done, you will always get what you've always gotten."
I am not sure who said that, but it really made an impact on me.
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08-12-2009, 02:46 PM
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#75
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making a new me
Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 3
S/C/G: 210/180/155
Height: 5'10"
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HotWings, I love that quote! It rings so true for me; if I keep up my old habits, how can I expect any change in myself?
I just finished reading Walden by Thoreau and found a few quotes I really enjoyed:
"I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
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