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Thank You, Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!
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</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto">
It was predicted that the Web
would flip us into an isolated modern society of bleary-eyed hermits who shun human
get in touch with and subsist on a diet plan of information feeds, climate updates, and cyber porn. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto">
“They” had been incorrect, at the very least for me and
a couple of thousand other individuals I “know.” The Web released me to a globe
of individuals I’d by no means have satisfied in the actual physical globe. Individuals who have produced a
long lasting influence on how I believe and reside. Individuals armed with compassion, snark,
empathy, and difficult adore.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto">
<i>“But
the beginnings of issues, of a globe particularly, is always imprecise, tangled,
chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How couple of of us at any time arise from this kind of
commencing! How numerous souls perish in its tumult!” </i>from <i>The Awakening</i> by Kate
Chopin </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto">
Getting into
the globe of excess weight decline is all that: imprecise, tangled, chaotic, disturbing, _______
(insert adjective). And the actuality is that most of us do not journey in the
initial, fifth, or tenth time with a cohesive strategy and the correct gear. We assault
excess weight decline with dogged dedication and inspiration for about a working day, perhaps a
7 days, occasionally – if we’re blessed – a thirty day period or lengthier. The issue is that we generally
go at it on your own, and inevitably we are unsuccessful simply because, let us encounter it, the self-dedication
and self-inspiration of excess weight decline is difficult to preserve for the lengthy haul. But
it can be sustained with a small assist from the correct buddies. The buddies who’ve
been there, are there, carried out that, performing that. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto">
Some
of my very best buddies are the individuals I have by no means by no means satisfied, or at the very least did not satisfy
correct absent in the conventional encounter-to-encounter way. They are the individuals I have satisfied
via the Excess weight Watchers a hundred To Shed information board and via running a blog.
With out their assistance and occasional ass kicking, I’m fairly certain I’d nonetheless be
in that “Gotta shed excess weight. Crap, this is difficult. Oh what the hell, consume a donut.
Now I really feel responsible. Beginning tomorrow, I’m consuming only celery” cycle. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto">
More than
the many years, I have experienced the great fortune of conference encounter-to-encounter the Person Names who’ve
supported me on this journey of dieting, sustaining, running a blog, and studying
that excess weight decline is not fairly, it is not simple, and it is not a route to
joy. 1 of the initial individuals to teach me on that latter component was
Marcia, or as I initial realized her: Aging2Perfection. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto">
When I
joined the WW information board in February 2005, I discovered rapidly that Aging2Perfection
was not susceptible to delusion. She was firmly grounded in the actuality of the excess weight
decline globe. But she also experienced the innate capability to adore herself, some thing I
floundered with, tangled up in that sticky internet of self-acceptance. It was Aging2Perfection
who challenged me to stage again and breathe and be a much better buddy to myself.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOHqYJASWiYMcZn1q-wjW5k0w_kk84W1FblmJ42gcnVEqXdg2YIyrSVctYu8xU-zgczfStAwjlniUsv-MD7j23ePSHEEiukO5_9k7iIen6mwjXruuBksHlW6nfOjS6XWW2z5HoE0RIbrI/s1600/IMG_0837.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left float: left margin-bottom: 1em margin-right: 1em"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOHqYJASWiYMcZn1q-wjW5k0w_kk84W1FblmJ42gcnVEqXdg2YIyrSVctYu8xU-zgczfStAwjlniUsv-MD7j23ePSHEEiukO5_9k7iIen6mwjXruuBksHlW6nfOjS6XWW2z5HoE0RIbrI/s320/IMG_0837.JPG" width="240"></a>Lastly,
final Sunday, I satisfied Marcia. We satisfied at <a href="http://www.pamelasdiner.com/" target="_blank">Pamela’s</a> in the Strip. I purchased the crepe
pancakes and she purchased the banana walnut pancakes. Our server established a plate in
entrance of me and a plate in entrance of Marcia whilst we had been speaking. We began
consuming whilst speaking. It was not till I little bit into a walnut midway via a
pancake that I understood that she was consuming my purchase and I was consuming hers. We
laughed, swapped, and stored speaking. And if it was not for the reality that individuals
had been ready for our desk and she and her partner experienced to go house and I experienced to
view Mae, we’d nonetheless be speaking. Speaking about every thing, especially about how
our life as moms and grandmothers have operate parallel the final a few many years.
Excess weight did not truly enter into our dialogue. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTcYwA_SITi9NtclOtkYIgz3tUIwPyB9wtu9AB3Sqs-FavA-dSgq92Y5TXrluRYj1TPnCTrdFFt7Xu0ZFSdneoX37rQMptmN3dxK27nBYITBTu5AgVy6O_1N-TlKUBcBaliOxNyk3FSTU/s1600/subset.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right float: right margin-bottom: 1em margin-left: 1em"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTcYwA_SITi9NtclOtkYIgz3tUIwPyB9wtu9AB3Sqs-FavA-dSgq92Y5TXrluRYj1TPnCTrdFFt7Xu0ZFSdneoX37rQMptmN3dxK27nBYITBTu5AgVy6O_1N-TlKUBcBaliOxNyk3FSTU/s1600/subset.png"></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto">
Excess weight
is a component of our life, not our whole life. Excess weight (A) is the correct subset to
the superset of lifestyle (B). I frequently neglect that and make excess weight the be all and finish
all of my working day. I allow it established the tone of my temper and intentions. It is individuals like
Marcia who deliver me again to actuality, and for that, I’m eternally grateful.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto">
Some
individuals have a Bucket Checklist. I have a Encounter-To-Encounter Thank You Checklist. I want I could
be like Jeannie and blink each 1 of you who have supported me and been my
lecturers these final 7 many years to a encounter-to-encounter pancake (or egg white omelet
or oatmeal or smoothie) breakfast. We could even chat more than leftovers! Or trip
bikes or consider my daughter’s spin course. Wander or hike. Consume espresso. What ever. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto">
I just
want to say: “Thank you.”</div>
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Thank You, Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!
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</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto">
It was predicted that the Web
would flip us into an isolated modern society of bleary-eyed hermits who shun human
get in touch with and subsist on a diet plan of information feeds, climate updates, and cyber porn. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto">
“They” had been incorrect, at the very least for me and
a couple of thousand other individuals I “know.” The Web released me to a globe
of individuals I’d by no means have satisfied in the actual physical globe. Individuals who have produced a
long lasting influence on how I believe and reside. Individuals armed with compassion, snark,
empathy, and difficult adore.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto">
<i>“But
the beginnings of issues, of a globe particularly, is always imprecise, tangled,
chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How couple of of us at any time arise from this kind of
commencing! How numerous souls perish in its tumult!” </i>from <i>The Awakening</i> by Kate
Chopin </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto">
Getting into
the globe of excess weight decline is all that: imprecise, tangled, chaotic, disturbing, _______
(insert adjective). And the actuality is that most of us do not journey in the
initial, fifth, or tenth time with a cohesive strategy and the correct gear. We assault
excess weight decline with dogged dedication and inspiration for about a working day, perhaps a
7 days, occasionally – if we’re blessed – a thirty day period or lengthier. The issue is that we generally
go at it on your own, and inevitably we are unsuccessful simply because, let us encounter it, the self-dedication
and self-inspiration of excess weight decline is difficult to preserve for the lengthy haul. But
it can be sustained with a small assist from the correct buddies. The buddies who’ve
been there, are there, carried out that, performing that. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto">
Some
of my very best buddies are the individuals I have by no means by no means satisfied, or at the very least did not satisfy
correct absent in the conventional encounter-to-encounter way. They are the individuals I have satisfied
via the Excess weight Watchers a hundred To Shed information board and via running a blog.
With out their assistance and occasional ass kicking, I’m fairly certain I’d nonetheless be
in that “Gotta shed excess weight. Crap, this is difficult. Oh what the hell, consume a donut.
Now I really feel responsible. Beginning tomorrow, I’m consuming only celery” cycle. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto">
More than
the many years, I have experienced the great fortune of conference encounter-to-encounter the Person Names who’ve
supported me on this journey of dieting, sustaining, running a blog, and studying
that excess weight decline is not fairly, it is not simple, and it is not a route to
joy. 1 of the initial individuals to teach me on that latter component was
Marcia, or as I initial realized her: Aging2Perfection. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto">
When I
joined the WW information board in February 2005, I discovered rapidly that Aging2Perfection
was not susceptible to delusion. She was firmly grounded in the actuality of the excess weight
decline globe. But she also experienced the innate capability to adore herself, some thing I
floundered with, tangled up in that sticky internet of self-acceptance. It was Aging2Perfection
who challenged me to stage again and breathe and be a much better buddy to myself.</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both text-align: left">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOHqYJASWiYMcZn1q-wjW5k0w_kk84W1FblmJ42gcnVEqXdg2YIyrSVctYu8xU-zgczfStAwjlniUsv-MD7j23ePSHEEiukO5_9k7iIen6mwjXruuBksHlW6nfOjS6XWW2z5HoE0RIbrI/s1600/IMG_0837.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left float: left margin-bottom: 1em margin-right: 1em"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOHqYJASWiYMcZn1q-wjW5k0w_kk84W1FblmJ42gcnVEqXdg2YIyrSVctYu8xU-zgczfStAwjlniUsv-MD7j23ePSHEEiukO5_9k7iIen6mwjXruuBksHlW6nfOjS6XWW2z5HoE0RIbrI/s320/IMG_0837.JPG" width="240"></a>Lastly,
final Sunday, I satisfied Marcia. We satisfied at <a href="http://www.pamelasdiner.com/" target="_blank">Pamela’s</a> in the Strip. I purchased the crepe
pancakes and she purchased the banana walnut pancakes. Our server established a plate in
entrance of me and a plate in entrance of Marcia whilst we had been speaking. We began
consuming whilst speaking. It was not till I little bit into a walnut midway via a
pancake that I understood that she was consuming my purchase and I was consuming hers. We
laughed, swapped, and stored speaking. And if it was not for the reality that individuals
had been ready for our desk and she and her partner experienced to go house and I experienced to
view Mae, we’d nonetheless be speaking. Speaking about every thing, especially about how
our life as moms and grandmothers have operate parallel the final a few many years.
Excess weight did not truly enter into our dialogue. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTcYwA_SITi9NtclOtkYIgz3tUIwPyB9wtu9AB3Sqs-FavA-dSgq92Y5TXrluRYj1TPnCTrdFFt7Xu0ZFSdneoX37rQMptmN3dxK27nBYITBTu5AgVy6O_1N-TlKUBcBaliOxNyk3FSTU/s1600/subset.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right float: right margin-bottom: 1em margin-left: 1em"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTcYwA_SITi9NtclOtkYIgz3tUIwPyB9wtu9AB3Sqs-FavA-dSgq92Y5TXrluRYj1TPnCTrdFFt7Xu0ZFSdneoX37rQMptmN3dxK27nBYITBTu5AgVy6O_1N-TlKUBcBaliOxNyk3FSTU/s1600/subset.png"></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto">
Excess weight
is a component of our life, not our whole life. Excess weight (A) is the correct subset to
the superset of lifestyle (B). I frequently neglect that and make excess weight the be all and finish
all of my working day. I allow it established the tone of my temper and intentions. It is individuals like
Marcia who deliver me again to actuality, and for that, I’m eternally grateful.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto">
Some
individuals have a Bucket Checklist. I have a Encounter-To-Encounter Thank You Checklist. I want I could
be like Jeannie and blink each 1 of you who have supported me and been my
lecturers these final 7 many years to a encounter-to-encounter pancake (or egg white omelet
or oatmeal or smoothie) breakfast. We could even chat more than leftovers! Or trip
bikes or consider my daughter’s spin course. Wander or hike. Consume espresso. What ever. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto">
I just
want to say: “Thank you.”</div>
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