I’m sorry to hear about your friend. Don’t be sorry about the story. Sharing things that happen in life help us deal with it. We’re here to help you so share, ((virtual hug)) just know we are here for you. I find sign language fairly easy. I haven’t worked much with the ABC’s of it more with words. I am truly loving it! Not only will he be able to complain about his parents he may even give away some of their secrets to me. Like for instants what I’m getting for Christmas!
Well as far as the was and walk/jog it was in place and I believe it was more walk that jog. Humm Mez = Marathon! LOL not sure that could ever go together. (maybe because I was always last/second to in school for running time) Your friends/family are in my prayers. I hear it is terrible there are people trapped and they can’t get to them because there are others robbing! They are calling off some searches because they need the man power other places! It’s horrible!!! It makes me so angry! WHY do people act that way!!!! I can grasp someone taking water/food but car stereos and stuff like that!! Come on!!! Red – I’m happy to hear your doing better. I’m sending good vibes your way! I am going to Google dyslexia on the net. Funny I’ve never thought to look it up. LOL
I guess I’m a right brain person for I love working with my hands, I do all kinds of crafts my most recent self taught almost talent is Balloon Animals. I even got asked to do a friends birthday party. I made $60.00 and the kids had a great time!
I’m going to look into Japanese or Chinese maybe it will click!
Chaps – Congrats on day 6! Your just burning them up!
You can do this! I was reading a book on image training yesterday (grabbing bits in the bookstore) and they were talking about seeing the failures too. Most people think it's all about seeing you sitting there as the perfect, in-control person, but it's not. Use imaging to see you at the races, reaching for the soda, or thinking about it and then ordering something non-caloric or whatever you ARE allowing yourself. Take a Thermos bottle with you with iced tea or something. The best thing is to plan, not just try to see if you "can hold out." As for Katrina, I am Google News(ing) things and reading all about it. It is truly horrible. However, being far away here I see it as very close, as we are in an earthquake zone and the big one in Kobe is not long ago. I don't want to think about it. At least with hurricanes there are warnings, but even so, would I have run, I ask myself? We forget that the forces of Nature are all-mighty.
on getting through Day 3! Please realize, that the rules of this challenge are that you have to do something every day and if you don't you start over at Day 1 or take a pause day if you have one. Read the first post of this thread and it's explained there. So, right now, the applicable part of your challenge is water and not eating after 8, or you could make the exercise everyday. We have to stick to the rules just for the challenge part so we can maintain coherence on the thread and make it easy for people to cheer you on. So many other challenges allow people to kind of lose focus and after a while, anything goes and the thread and one's challenge lose momentum. This challenge is different. It's very cut and dry, black and white. Of course, you can do what you want with your goals, but they are what many of us call "bonus goals," not part of the official declared challenge. Oh, wow, Looking, did you realize this was such a tough place to be! 
Good luck! I am glad you are here with us!! 
) mez, I am up and down. My only ups these days are because I am made of pretty tough stuff, but not because great things are happening in my life. Talk about knowing how to crawl. My "Never give up" under my name is not something I take lightly. It has been my way of life for years. 
Situations like this call for holding together and if everyone is drinking, then often it helps to join in and I just said that because I wanted to show you I understood. And, it's not for me to sit here and tell you to stick to your challenge and life goes on and all that. I am not a heartless person! And I know what it's like to lose close ones. I hope you are doing okay. As for eating too much...I don't really know how I do it either but I must (in fact I am really good at it!) because my weight doesn't change. Of course, being just barely over 5 feet doesn't help. I absolutely despise counting calories and with all the other restrictions I place on my eating, don't want any more tedium. I am allowing white rice in my diet and there are just as many calories in that as bread. The giving-up the white flour is mostly so that I cut out the snacking, you know, bagel chips and the likes that are easily had at the convenience stores. Remember, I am in Japan and bread and flour doesn't figure big here. Having been here so long, I am quite happy eating rice for breakfast and don't have any focus on bread whatsoever. I don't, however, eat rice for breakfast, I make slow-cooking oatmeal. I am thinking of switching to rice though, because the oatmeal is expensive and I have to cut back on food expenses! About dyslexia, I was reading that there are a lot of myths about it and some of those were about the backward letters and so. I was surprised because I had thought that it was it was mainly about. But apparently not, now that they understand it much better. It seems like it is mainly about sounds. But yes, you are right about the Chinese tones. Hmmm. Still, Chinese must have dyslexia and they learn to speak. It's probably just that it comes much harder for people and if it's a second or third language, most people would give up before they learned. Well, your trip into Onederland once again just shows that you are definitely heading in the right direction! Keep it up!
. I still haven't lost anything and I'm officially declaring myself plateaued at 205, at least for now. 
<--- you have to have this one to because there is always one in every crowd!! Congrats on legs! 
