Hello. The name's Lissa. I am seventeen years old and a freshman in college.

I am hoping to move to Colorado permanently in the future, whether it be during my college career or shortly after. I am currently living at home with my mother, father, fourteen-year-old sister, and two cats in Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey. I am heavily involved in two youth groups, one of which I am pursuing an Adult Leadership position when I turn eighteen. I am currently the only college student in my High School Sunday school, and I am not currently allowed in any of the college church activities.

I am hoping to find a career in writing for a Christian Teen audience. I am planning on writing some books, although my main career dreams include a career in writing for Brio Magazine, a magazine written for Christian teen girls. I also hope to be involved in youth ministry on a volunteer basis. I would also love to be involved in adoption by adopting children in addition to having my own. I am currently investigating various freelance writing job offers as a means of earning more money as I search for a full or parttime job position.

I have been writing for fun since I was about six years old. I currently write for a blog that is featured on my church youth group's website. In addition, I have my own personal journals and poetry collection. I have written a number of fanfictions and short stories which are in my personal collection or posted on Fanfiction.net.

In addition to writing, I also have a love for singing and the electric violin. I played the violin when I was in fourth grade, and I plan on relearning how to play when I am able to get the strings replaced and an amplifier for the orange electric violin I purchased.

I just started the Weight Watchers program a couple days ago, and so far it's been working out well for me. I'm hoping to lose a little under 60 pounds in all. My entire family is overweight (both parents are obese). My friend and I are doing Weight Watchers together, so hopefully we will be able to stick to it. I decided to join here for extra support and advice.

Hello there, Lissa. How lovely to see some royalty... I'm wondering the queen of what




Since you mentioned, there are some Faith Based support groups that might interest you. There are also a few writing-interest based threads around under General Chatter and Weight Loss Support. I'm a Weight Watchers member and have been for coming up on 2 years now, so I know the program is sustainable if you work it. Keep at it, and those pounds will come off There's a Weight Watchers section under Diet Central.

Best of success!

loyalty? or royalty?

Ha it was a typo Fix'd it now.

Hi Queen Lissa! Welcome to 3FC! You have a lot going on---I know you can balance it all. We just started a writers thread in General Chatter and you're welcome to join us. That's great you have a friend doing WW with you. Now you have about 60,000 friends on your weight loss journey too!

I was just messin' with ya. When I first read it, it felt like something wasn't right, but I could not put my finger on it! haha. Then I was like, oooooooh! lol.