Two pictures of areas where I run, You can see the small river and the paved tracks next to the river. One picture was taken in April of this year and you can see the cherry trees blooming. In another picture you can see 4 herons in the water.

Darius... You're awesome, thank you! So these are in Japan? Have you always lived there? Beautiful pics! Love the trees.

darius - those are wonderful pictures and what wonderful views to behold while exercising! I love it! Thank you so much for sharing

JillNicole - We have 3 kids (2 teens and a preteen) added to the mix, so a big dining table that can accommodate 8 for when my folks are here :)
What a great chart! I forgot to tell you the good news this week apparently though, am now down to 210.4 :) Now that the face is narrowing a bit and not a round ball, I even felt confident enough to get in front of a camera.. so now have an actual pic as an avatar :D What a good feeling! I like progress! LOL Hope your moving today goes real smoothly!!!!! *hugs*

Weigh in: BIG, Fat 0 :mad::mad:

Aug 1st I will measure and hope something came off. TOM is coming ofcourse, earlier than usual. I swear I get it just to mess with my plans.

Darius: I love the pics :)

Itsmyturn: Do you mind me asking about the surgery with your daughter? I hope all goes well.

JillNicole: You are doing an August challenge right? B/c I REALLY need it and you know I'm in :)

Good luck to everyone with the weight loss!

Originally Posted by jillnicole03:
Darius... You're awesome, thank you! So these are in Japan? Have you always lived there? Beautiful pics! Love the trees.

Yes these pictures are of Japan. I'm a US citizen and I've lived here since Nov 2003. I was stationed in Okinawa and mainland Japan some years ago when I was in the marine corps and I always liked it. It's a very interesting place to live.

Originally Posted by ItsMyTurn:
Now that the face is narrowing a bit and not a round ball, I even felt confident enough to get in front of a camera.. so now have an actual pic as an avatar

That's a terrific avatar and I like the photo in your profile; you're very photogenic.

Darius - you are such a sweetheart... usually I run from the camera though, not gonna lie, lol. Let me also say - thank you for being one of our many brave service people! Being a marine is a proud thing and I am grateful to you for the service! And wow... Okinowa I have heard some amazing things on culture there... lots of history. :)

sheramama - of course I don't mind, I'm an open book. She is going for surgery on her right knee. She has severe polyarticular juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (genetic) that effects all but 2 joints in her body. Well it is also an immune deficiency disease, with that being said, it caused her to be susceptible to lots of other things...in her case osteoarthritis in that knee and osteo-necrosis (growth of dead bone). We have tried all the meds to help it with no success, so now the last resort is to go in and scrape the dead bone (or as much as possible) out. There are no gel packs left in her knee, so she is total dead bone on dead bone. We are hoping after rehab this will provide her with some kind of pain relief :) DD is looking forward to it, it's been the only prospect of being able to be "somewhat normal" 15 yr old as far as pain levels.

It's MyTurn: Aw, your poor daughter! Much love and hugs from PA. I hope all goes well so the only problem she has is what outfit to wear and which boy to date :)

ItsMyTurn.. great job! Glad you added a pic, great smile :D

Sheramama... :hug: You did lose it just hasn't shown up yet :) & you still have done GREAT this month so don't you let it play with your head!
Yes, I will start the new challenge today so it's already for you guys!

Darius.. that is so awesome! One of my friends in the Air Force says he wants to go back to Japan to live for at least a few years when his tour is over too :)

FINAL JULY WEIGHT CHART, GREAT JOB EVERYONE!
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...yChallenge.png

Here is our new August Challenge for all chat link, which is also located in the same spot (Chicks up for a Challenge) :yay: :

http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/chic...ml#post3966283

sheramama - thank you so much! That would be a really nice adjustment for her to make :)

JillNicole - Thank you so much, your super kind words made me smile huge.

Moving over to August thread - Hope to see ya all there! LOL