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YOU GO GRRRRRRLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy to see you so excited, I can tell YOU ARE PUMPED!!!!!!!

Diane

Congrats to Britt Leigh
 

Yay, yay , yay :cp: It is great to hear how excited you are.

You are going to be able to make your goal by graduation. You have such a sensible plan too. That is a great plan. After your graduation you will stay at your goal too because you are changing your whole way of thinking. :idea:

So glad we are all here together in this. It would be lonely and difficult doing this alone. I think April must have been the greatest time to get on this site because so many awesome people started then.

Take care! :D

FM April chick

Water is a good thing
 

Ok Diane. Water Water and more Water. That is actually hard for me. I drink way too much diet coke and it is very bad for me. So, for one week huh? Okay I will have to go back and look at the calculations you did to come up with your water needs and figure mine out. Right now I drink about 6 8 oz glasses of water per day. So I should go for 12! Slosh Slosh Slosh :p

I can do that.

Okay I will have to go in and change my signature. It might be painful though. It could scar me for life :fr: . In fact I don't think I have recovered from my scale experience yet :yikes: But I will change it. I guess I can't be in denial forever :p .

It is just great seeing so much support. I feel warm and fuzzy all over :goodvibes

Talk to you later I have to refill my water glass

FM

Question for April Chicks
 

What made you all decide now was when you were going to get serious about your weight loss goals? I was just thinking that it is good to know what the turning point is.... Then if there are times you want to give up or feel discouraged possibly going back to remember your original motivation might reinspire?

I think the biggest thing that has made me think I am not living like this anymore is the look on my little boys face everytime he asks me to do something with him and I make up an excuse not to. He wants me to go rollerblading and swimming with him like I use to do. I have given him every excuse in the world. I'm out of excuses and he must feel very let down.

So, that is what has done it for me. And I know without a doubt I am not going to give up. I am not going to quit. I may have bad days or weeks but I will just keep on going.

Hope everyone has a wonderful day tomorrow. Take care of yourselves

That is a great challenge, Diane. I NEVER drink enough water a day. You wouldn't think that drinking water would be that hard but it is for me so I am off to gulp down a glass or two.....My goal will be 16 oz because i dont drink any.

I think the thing that made me decide to start now is a mixture of things mainly my health, I was diagnosed with lupus about two years ago, and in order to keep it under control I have to eat healthy and take care of myself, well I have been putting it off (I am a HUGE procrastinator) and I finally decided that I am not going to give up and die young. I plan on living a long life (I am 23) and I want to live it as happy and as healthy as I can be. here comes the superficial part, I also love to go out dancing with my boyfriend and friends, and it would be nice to dress like some of the smaller girls, not trashy, but classy!!! :^: I don't think I am ugly but I think I could look better and feel better out there on the stage or out in the middle of the dance floor! I am already the life of the party (without a drop of alcohol) I can only imagine how I will be when I am a little lighter.

4 down 8 to go
 

Okay this is bad, I have only gotten 4 glasses of water in today I am going to be drinking like crazy for the rest of the day :coffee:

Hi April chicks....

I am drinking water as i type this...
Fmyself...I am proud of you girl and I think you have a wonderful little motivator in your little guy.
Hchic..I love to dance too, and now that we have built some more room onto this house now I really can dance as if no one is watching..lol

I started reading last night about this fat and fiber plan I'd like to get into...wow, its pretty simple and sounds very doable, out of your 21 main meals a week you get 2 free ones, and he says you can have unlimited fruit and veggies and grains but as far as the protein and fats go stay at 20 grams or below.
He really doesn't advocate eating meat...just fish twice a week.
So I may modify a few things...I'm not a big meat eater anyway but do enjoy throwing something on the grill a few times a week.
I am going to post a recipe on the food board...lemon torte with berries. Its so easy and is perfect for summer, 80 cal. 0 fat.
Also will be adding what I eat for the week in my journal, anyone may view it if they like.
Hope everyone hangs in there, we all sound really revved up and rarinn' to go.

Now drink some water......

Hey everybody, I joined a loooong time ago, but I just refound this website in April so I think that counts I hope! hehe Anways, I want to lose about 15 pounds and become more toned. I am hoping that staying on this board will give me some tips, support, and motivation. I don't really have a set goal, but I'd like to lose a good chunk of my weight by the end of June aka the start of swimsuit season, yikes! Talk to you guys later!

Welcome Gillian
 

You joined in April and are returning in April. It must be a good month. Hope you are into your swimsuit soon. Good luck to you. Glad to meet you.

Hi Gillian,
Happy you're here.
It is cool we have 2 people who are past April joiners.

Fmyself you asked what was our motivation...
Well as some of you know I found my husband again after 27 years, what you don't know is that I met him on communal land up in Vt on the Canadian border when I was 12...I had run away from a foster home (mom died when I was 7 dads an abusive drunk) and had hitched up to NYC and met up with some people from Earth Peoples Park commune there in the city...they had been able to purchase 600 acres up in Vt and I rode up with some of them to a concert they were having to raise money for land taxes...I was walking down one of the roads there and I saw him...love at first sight, KNEW I was supposed to be with him, alas he was 25 and had a girlfriend(his high school sweetheart) so we just talked a little to each other over the next 3 weeks.

I left the park, and went back to NYC...I was taken off the street and held by 2 men for 5 days and sold to numerous men,I was beaten repeatedly, but one night I managed to get away when there was only one man there and he drank till he passed out. I took 400 dollars out of his pants and went to a place that helped runaways,
They got me on a bus back to VA.
I stayed there for awhile and tried the school thing but didn't fit in, ran away again when I was 13 and went to Ca. with a girlfriend, I stayed outt there from Jan. 1971 till May 1971...I left and thumbed back to VT. I had never been able to forget Larry....I got back up there and he was there ALONE...but the winter came and we had to leave..him back to OHIO me back to VA....

Anyway I tell this cause I got a couple of e-mails asking me more about myself and sorry if this is too much info.
If you would like to know more of the story let me know...however this actually does have a point....uuummmm
Oh yeah the point...
My life has had some screwed up parts and I let some of it get to me and screw my self image up of myself....I started feeling sorry for myself and escaped into the corners of my mind for awhile. I lost myself...didn't like me...and became real good at ignoring what I really needed.

When I found Larry again a few years ago I was embarrassed at how I had let myself go, thats not the way to be a spiritual person, we are supposed to recieve this gift of life and do the absoulute best we can with it..and I was not doing that.
When we moved out here to the woods I realized that being natural is important to me.
I have been given a second chance at life and love and I recieve that gift in reverance and appreciation.
That is why I am ready to be the best Diane I can be.

Self Respect
 

Britt,

I agree with you. Those are definately great reasons to reach your goals.

And you are absolutely right. There is no tomorrow. Even if I have a bad day, it is only a detour, I'm not going to make myself pave a whole new road.

Take care.

Heres to Diane
 

Diane,

You are awesome. You are going to achieve whatever goals you set for yourself and inspire everyone.

I am so glad that you were able to reunite with the love of your life and now you can spend the rest of your life with him. :love: Very cool.

I'm glad you are now giving yourself what you need. You deserve that.

Have a good night. Take Care