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Hey CJ - that hat is part of my SparkGuy thing. SparkGuy is a modern day adventurer out to help people reach their goals. I got this hat on vacation at a small shop/small town in California while on vacation.
Note that it's SparkGuy and not SparkMan. SparkMan would be more like a superhero, while SparkGuy is more accurately like a regular person :)
Sounds like we have a problem with our current spellcheck solution, so are looking for a new one now.
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Guess I'm just jealous because I didn't get to be offended. I missed it.
As to spell checker FIRSTPLACE, you can go here to get a great little gadget that lets you check spelling in your browser and it's freeware. Just copy and paste what's inside the quotes "http://www.iespell.com/". As with any visit to freeware sites, make sure you have a pop-up blocker running, but the program really works great. I've been using it for several years with no complaints.
As regards the hat CJ, we've got plenty of them here in Amish country.
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FIRSTPLACE
3/3/06 12:05 P
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I just want to give kudos to you and your staff for doing a excellent job monitoring this site. I was offeded by the post, but was glad to see it was taken care of. Thanks again for caring about your members, and giving all a chance to change after being told, and warned. Unfortunately some do not heed warnings! By the way, when are we getting spell check back? I loved it, and as you see I need it.
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SG... where can I find one of those hats?
CJ
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Thanks CJ! I'm with you!
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FIRSTPLACE
3/3/06 11:36 A
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| P.S. I'll get out of your boys conversation, I thought I would just let you know what was going on, so there wasn't so much bewilderment, and puzzling questions. Good luck in your future weight loss ventures, and kick some butt!
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Well Done! Now can we alll get back to the business at hand!! ;-D
Take care
CJ
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FIRSTPLACE
3/3/06 11:20 A
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| I read a certain post where he intentionally called a certain race down and had nothing positive to say. I didn't report it, but saw it got taken off.
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Hi guys - fair enough, I'll chime in. In cases like this, it's tough to strike a balance between not publicly talking about someone (which I dislike) and the interest/fairness of the community in knowing something. Since so many people are asking, I'll share the basics of what happened:
1) This member set a record for the most number of times our members used the "report inappropriate post" button for in our community.
2) We had to delete several inappropriate posts that were made by this member - probably prior to any/most of you seeing them because they were reported to us by other members.
3) This member received multiple private email warnings from our team saying that these types of posts will not be tolerated.
4) We emailed this member a "final warning" stating that any more inappropriate posts would lead to a termination of his account.
5) Within 24 hours of sending this, this member proceeded to copy and paste a negative post about SparkPeople on many boards on the site - including ones completely unrelated to anything he had posted on in the past.
6) As a result, we closed his account.
A couple of notes:
- I want you to know how rare this is for us. We've had hundreds of thousands of posts in our history and have closed the accounts of about 5 normal users in that time - almost always as a result of complaints by other members.
- We do want this to be a free and open community, but for the protection of our members and their experience on the site, we do sometimes have to remind people that this is a private company and not a public open space so we need to enforce our guidelines.
I'm a very positive person, so these issues are my least favorite thing to handle, but gotta do it sometimes.
I hope you understand.
Chris/SparkGuy
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SparkGuy... you need to chime in and clarify before this gets way out of hand. JMHO :-D
CJ
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SKINNYMINNIE25
3/3/06 7:12 A
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Heard that. Some folks just got to set themselves up for failure  I thought he was funny and inspirational. Too bad.
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Somebody said he posted a rant that was pretty abusive and said he was done with Spark People and that was the post that was deleted?
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SKINNYMINNIE25
3/2/06 2:33 P
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| One of his other boards was stopped w/an explanation from Spark Guy that it was way off base. I just wondered if he's gone completely. SK
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Hes off the #1 slot on leaderboard for points too. Strange
CJ
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SPOOKIESBOY
3/2/06 12:50 P
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SKINNYMINNIE25
3/2/06 12:36 P
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| Hey Doc, are you still on the boards?
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The DR. is in
Call me crazy get out the white coat pull up the liltle padded truck.........Throw me in the back.
But I am going to say it even though the fitness experts say otherwise. water adds wieght to your body. I have only found this out by accident since I spend alot of time alone on the mountain lately and have time to think. Now I changed the way I ate. I changed the way I exercised. I gave up caffein. I gave up smoking. And I started writting.
I decided to change my ways and started with my food.
This was great but gave me extra energy so I started exercising buy running up and down the mountain. This was a change from just turning over on the couch. Not a bad exercise but does not burn very many calories. Next I gave up my cokes and coffee
( OMG what did I do) because the fitness experts said that caffein would make you pee to much. Now I did not want to get cramps from all the falling down and getting up I was doing. So the cokes and coffee where out and extra water was in. Now I was feeling pretty good and decided I was quitting smoking since I could not breath after exercising. So I quit smoking and started drinking even more water. Up to twelve 20 oz bottles a day. Now water weighs 8lbs a gallon and there is 128 oz in a gallon. So I am adding 11 pounds everyday to my weight. Hmmmmm
I got rid of 4lbs this week though. Hmmmm
How did I do it you say/ well I had two cups of coffee before going to bed each night this week. Now my thinking was if coffee made you pee I would get rid of any water weight I did not sweat out that day.
Now I want to tell you I went to the bathroom 16 times a night for a week to get rid of that four pounds.
Hell I dont know if it was the peeing or the extra exercise from getting up and going so many times.
All I know is I am not going to drink anymore coffee and I am cutting back to 10 eight oz glasses of water a day. Even though exercise is essential peeing will never be an Olympic sport. If it was I would be a contender for the gold this week. Now all of this led me to writting. Who knew that if you stopped putting junk in your mouth and took the smoke out of your hand you could see threw the haze enough to get up and do something that made you feal so good you did a Jig. I am so happy that it made me just want to write it all down. I never thought that I would be doing all the things I am up to these days. In the end the experts were right but, to much water is not good either. It is the correct amount of water that will help you get rid of weight. So keep up the water bottle and keep down the weight. (Hey I like that)
I am glad I got the SPARK I needed.
I hope this will help you get the SPARK too!
Rmember we are changing our lives as well as our shapes. Hope to see a little less of you latter.
DR.B
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DR.BANGER
2/19/06 10:01 P
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The Dr. is in
After much to do about nothing, nashing of teeth, bitting of nails and cleaning everything that smelled odd except the neighbors. It is only the ludicrous pinko laws that keep me from jumping the fence with a fire hose and a gallon of Pine-sol to get at them.
Anyway mayby it will rain this week and I will just throw Pine-sol balloons at their house.
Anyway I know I have made it to the land of Nervana!
Have not had one smoke and I feel great!
I have also helped another P.O.W. escape from Marlboro prison this week. His name is Robert and he is on day three today. I will be going by to tie him to his porch for the night. He said he was going to turn into a wild animal if he didn't get a smoke. Now I have never seen a Werewolf so I am going to put a lit smoke just out of his reach after I tie him up. JUST FOR SCIENCE! Well ya never know mayby he is a Werewolf. He looks like bigfoot already.
Mayby he will go nuts and I will take pictures and sell them to the National Enquire, cause people want to know. All kidding aside I am proud of him and myself day ten or eleven for me wooo hooo. Cool beans! Remember we are changing our lives as well as our shapes. Hope to see a little less of you latter.
DR.B
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Dr. Dr, Give me the news
Yes round is a shape, However do you remember the formula for the area of a circle?
Pie R square. Hence eating pie you r really square
not round. Do tell.....you really can't find the area of a circle to be correct it is a little off.
Ask a math professor if you don't believe me. You eat pie you get fat you are a square. Any of the four sides you turn to you are fat. So four equal sides are a square. Look at all four sides, all are fat so all are equal. Square not round is a better shape to describe someone who let pie r square get the better of their shape. I call it the Geobigbut
math problem, that will win me the Nobel Peace Prize
in mathmatics I am sure. If not I will feed them pie
till they agree that if they were round they could roll and since they are fat all they can do is plop over and over just like a box( which is a square) so they will finally agree the Dr. is correct we are not round we are square shaped. Ta dah...
Remember we are changing our lives as well as our squares. Hope to see a little less of you latter.
PD
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Hey Doc... round is a shape...right?  whats that smell? hehe... yer thread had me cracking up... coworkers think I'm a loon now cause I was gigling as I read yer post...everytime they turned there head to look...all they saw was the spreadsheet on the screen, so they are trying to figure out whats so funny about a xls spreadsheet!!!
Never smoled so I can't relate to the "natural" tint enviroment you've established. Take care
CJ
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DR.BANGER
2/16/06 10:53 P
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The Dr. is in
Day eight....
Can you believe you can say hell on here but you can't say sh#tty so I have to say poopie!
I think thats just poopie.
I smoked enough cigerettes that you would think I would have flashbacks or something.
I was wondering about it today when I smelled something funny. Oh my God, everything stinks all of a sudden. I must live next to the dump or something!
Oh it was flashbacks alright sense of smell flashback.
I was spraying air freshener everywhere. Oh and Fabreeze sucks. I could make the same thing out of dish soap and water and spray it around and it would last longer. Well the wife thinks I really have cracked this time. But I am convinced that the whole house stinks. And I started cleaning house. Now I am glad that it is a chilly 72 here today cause I was sweating. I must have even cleaned some wieght off myself cause I am 2 lbs lighter now. Did you know that smoke puts film on you windows. Hell I just thought my windows were tinted. Guess not!
I am proud to say my home is spring time fresh.
I started a lil pot of gold with my smoking loot.
Went and got those gold looking dollar coins looks like real pot of gold. Dam thing getting full will need to buy a bigger pot.
Yea think I need a bigger pot.
Remember we are changing our lives as well as our shapes. Hope to see a little less of you latter.
PD
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LOL Dr.
I lost those same things but somewhere in the Wisconsin Snow about 47 days 12 hours, 32 minutes, and .....hold on.......ah yes 30 seconds 
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| Oh yea I was looking for that option today because I would have gone over it with today's workout. Now I understand what happened.
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DR.BANGER
2/15/06 10:52 A
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THIS IS MY NEW AD IN THE PAPER
LOST
CANCER ASSISTANT
SOMEWHERE BETWEEN
ROSWELL AND MOUNTAIN
TALL DARK AND DEADLY
ANSWERS TO POISON
COFFIN NAILS OR
CANCER STICKS
KNOWN KILLER IF
FOUND PLEASE CONTACT
LOCAL HAZMAT FOR DISPOSAL
REMEMBER WE ARE CHANGING OUR LIVES AS WELL AS OUR SHAPES
PD
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BILLYS_SILLY
2/15/06 10:50 A
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I was 100 minutes away from getting the bonus 50 points. I worked so hard.... I can't believe the option is gone...
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Thanks Dr.
I thought I was really slacking in my points and could not understand how people were getting all these points. Not that it matters where I am in the standing but I was wondering if I was missing anything.
Thanks for the investigation
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DR.BANGER
2/14/06 11:24 P
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For the honest people that are mad at me for the SparkPoints bonus points being deleted (50 points for every 1000 min) All I can say is it had to be done, I think bonus points are great but I think a limit could have been put on them so you could not claim more minutes then where in a day. It really mad me mad that people passed me with 600 point days.
So I started complaining. Got me nothing. So I had to prove it so the truth could come out. Now in reality there are 1035 points on my totals that are not mine but the rest I did earn. Most the hard way.
Up and down the mountain. Judge me if you must.
Remember we are changing our lives as well as our shapes. hope to see a little less of you latter.
PD
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I have a treat for you.
A first look at a book I am working on.
Not alot though just a sample. Mayby you will like it. The book is called IT MIGHT BE TO SOON.
I am also working on another book (humor) called
BRAIN ESCAPE Think I told you about that one.
Well anyway here is a sample from IT MIGHT BE TO SOON.
I remember feeling very small...Waking in a place I could not find in my mind. It all seems very odd,all at once so harmless. Erie disguise of time and place my soul advances to find myself here.
I remember, I think I remember,this sceen,
this life or mayby dream. The reality I have always known. This memory it must be true, it feels so familiar. We all have felt it at one time or another.
That feeling of something we can't understand.
Like we are made for a certain destiny. Something more to our lives a question not answered.
You have the same feeling or is it a feeling?
Wait, what if it is a memory?
I guess it only matters if what I tell you is true.
Mayby the point is do you want it to be?
We all want the answer to our trivial lives.
This is mine.....I was baptised as a child and cried a new life. I was about to embark upon my journey.
I have no recolection of my childhood years. Except what has been told to me from my grandmother.
I started to believe it or some part of the stories.
So many times the stories felt more like something fiction more than memories. Memories made just for me. Pictures I have for self edification, the purpose of telling the story. Funny how the pictures don't tell the truth. Only part of the story is told from the ghost that they catch. A whisper of time that defines who you see. What you are is the mirrors
reflection. We judge what or who we think we are
by illusions of what we want to see. False memories feed me not. Apart from pictures and reflections I am lost. No life preserver these flat memories can not help. It makes no sence to me, what do I believe?
The voices of my past the haunting of time lost.
Mayby they are the future, a begining caught in time.
Or a lost breeze of a future long past. A loop in time for me to see. Is it not strange how part of me has past this way on the journey to correct my life or is it my story? I was in the youth of life. Eighteen To be exact,clear eyes strong back and full of adventure. I stood on the rolling deck looking at the horizion as the sunset painted the sea with colors I have never seen before. The clouds folded in almost magically. Yes this is a good place to start my first real memory. The deck rolled to starboard I pulled on the ropes trying to shorten the sail. I was wrapping the end around the cleat when the last ray of light touched my hand.
Deja vue It has started it has begun.
Light is late when silence falls
Thoughts of what you believe come crashing down
Tales you told selling tickets for this sold out show
So many times you have told the story
Someone elses memories are your best lines
How you play the part
Tell yourself what you want to hear
Devious words just for me spoken into time
Not just meaningless I feel between the lines
Pain is not for me it is forgetable
Dam the dreams they bring crying outloud in the night
Remember this is who you are who you are ment to be.
Is this real or make believe am I dreaming I know I have been here. I turn to soon the image fails.
Only what was that? The door opens with a bright light through mist I can't see. I can feel it coming
the very thing I am here to see......
PD
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A big HURRY for all of you who rid yourself of blubber this week. My self included 4 lbs While quitting smoking. YES BLOWING YOUR OWN HORN SOUNDS GOOD. For those of you who did not rid yourself of any unwanted pounds of butter. GET UP AND DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT TODAY! Enough said!
Now I tell it like it is. Yeppers the Dr. will give you the medicine to treat your disease.
I am not politically correct. I don't tell little white lies to make everything feal better.
Do you lie to yourself? Of course you do we all do!
But we our changing our lives. You have to stop the little lies to change your ways. I got in a debate with someone about smoking when I first started this program. How can you try getting in shape you can't even quit smoking? Well it is true I started the sparkpeople program two weeks before I quit smoking.
I will tell you I won the debate. I just took one step at a time. I am working on not being a jerk now!
Wow is that hard!
But that guy I was arguing with was myself.
I even caught myself telling myself just sneak out buy some smokes no one will know!
Now when I noticed what I was thinking I laughed!
I told my wife on myself and I told her can you believe I was trying to cheat on myself. Or should I say lie to myself. To me the suffering was nothing more than an excuse. The truth, yes we owe it to ourselves. Now don't go saying the Dr. is nuts.
Hell everyone already knows that.
I am just saying if you listen to yourself you do say the right things. You just have to listen.
And if ya can't well then listen to me.
Stop the lies you tell yourself.
YOU CAN DO IT
YOU CAN REACH YOUR GOALS
YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE
YOU CAN YOU CAN YOU CAN
TELL YOURSELF THE TRUTH
Oh by the way since my last post I noticed the sparkpoint leaders slowed down to around a 100 points a day. HMMMMMMMMMMMM
And now on with the BRAIN ESCAPE!
I have not been myself in the last couple of days.
SHEEESH! And the understatement of the year award goes to DR. Banger, CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP ONCORE ONCORE
The crowd goes wild! While going thru nicotine detox.
Aggravation set in. Like the feeling you get when you want to talk to the phone Co. and a computer puts you on hold for 45 minutes. Then thanks you for waiting and tells you all the lines are busy and the wait will be another 45 minutes. Why don't they just tell us to go to hell we are not at work today and don't care if our service sucks. The truth!
Anywho I was feeling that kind of aggravation and decided to go for a drive. I pulled up to the light next to a big blue caddy. I hear arf arrrr arf arf arrrr arf arf. I look over and see eleven white toy poodles lined up in a row on the window of the caddy.
They were yelping at me. I looked at the driver and busted out laughing. It was an old lady with big blue hair. The dogs had just come from the groomer and had little blue bows I guess the lady loves blue.
Well I could not resist and let out a ROUGH ROUGH at the dogs. Now we have all barked at a dog or two to make them mad. So I don't want no hate mail for what I did. I know it was wrong. But I laughed my ass off
when the dogs went nuts. They started jumping and barking like they were defending a castle. Vicious pom pom dogs from hell. They looked like pop corn popping in that caddy. lol The lady was trying to calm them down and I kept barking ROUGH ROUGH.
The lady finally fliped me the grand hailing sign of distress. And smoked her tires leaving the intersection in a cloud of smoke.
The truth is that is the only smoke I inhaled in the last five days. And it was not refreshing I can tell you. Yes after 24 years of being a chain smoker I HAVE STOPPED SMOKING AND FEEL GREAT!
Remember we are changing our lives and others as well as our shapes.
Hope to see a little less of you latter.
PD
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Good To see other guys here too. Love the women though..
Funny thing happened 2 months ago, a magazine that I had subscribed to call low carb Living, become Sheknows.com Like WTF, guys dont cook or want to loose weight and look good? Sheesh.. And they call me the sexest.. lol
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PS to Doc;
Please don't tell us how they do it.. let us succeed in our ignorance. And... congratulations on doing it the honest way in the first place.
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Imagine that! I came here to congratulate you and find your post. Isn't it sad that folks always find a way to cheat. Thanks for the detective work Doc!
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Fair play
Even playing field
Rules
In some instances you are on your honor!
Like when you play golf. You keep your own score.
You can cheat if you want. Do you really want to cheat yourself?
Rules are made to be broken it seems. Since not a lot of people play by them.
I thought we were all on a even playing field here at sparkpeople.
I guess I was wrong. You say DR. what ever do you mean?
I am real big on truth and I don't like folks that think they can pull the wool over my eyes.
I was leading the points in the sparkpoint area from day one! Until to my surprise some people did not want me to be first ( not naming anyone) Now these folks jump ahead of me with an unheard point total of 325 points a day for six days straight!
I was beside myself. I have been doing everything by the book and couldn't figure out how to get more points than 124 in a day, And then that was only when you moved up on the program. Average daily totals are about 89 to 101. Well I started tracking these pole cats and noticed some of them got 600 points in one day. Well I am on to their game and the field is now even. I am in first place today!
BECAUSE I CHEATED JUST LIKE THEY DID!
Remember we are changing our lives and others as well as our shapes.
Hope to see a little less of you later.
PD
PS. I put up 1035 points today! now is that fair?
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DR.BANGER
2/10/06 10:36 P
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Yes today I can't believe I have not killed anyone!
Stupid is the only thing that there is no limit to
around here. You see a half crazed 272 lb man who has just quit smoking. He is cracking his knuckles and rolling his eyes while saying something in a strange language you are not sure about.
You.....
A. Ask if he is all right
B. laugh while lighting a smoke.
C. Run as fast as you can.
Well lets just say I am home alone today. ALLDAY
The wife left after I yelled about the fact that she drank the water that I put on the second shelf of the fridge on the right side.
She was in a good mood when she left though she must of just finished her nails because she was proud of the middle one. She showed it to me as she was leaving. Well she did come back and showed me her hand this time. It must have been lonely cause she suggested I talk to it instead of her.
Now I don't talk to hands cause the worst form of rejection is when your hand goes to sleep on you.
And I don't deal well with rejection. No kidding!
I had lots of rejection letters from people who know alot about music who say I don't know alot about writing it. I right songs they tell me they suck.
Well I am ranting good thing It was the first time I didn't think of how burning food on the stove and inhaling the smoke wouldn't really be smoking.
ARRRHHHGGGG I must be losing my mind.
I am still winning though and my floors look great.
The floors got polished when I was laying on them cause they are cold. This made me feel better or gave me pneumonia. I even built a replica of a hot air balloon out of toothpicks.
Remember we are changing our lives and others as well as our shapes.
Hope to see a little less of you latter.
PD
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2/10/06 1:58 P
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Hi Dr,
Quick chick interruption here:
Just had to say hello! You are so very funny, and your posts brighten my day. You really should be seeking out a career in standup comedy...
I also have tried the quitting smoking thing, oh, about a gazillion times!!! After a day or two it usually looks a lot like this:
Me, on all fours, crawling, as I recite Psalm 23..Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil...
My husband, can usually be found cowering and rocking in a corner somewhere repeating over and over Col 3:19... Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.
We are not overly religious people, however it is amazing the prayers you can pull out in moments of desperation!!
I still haven't quit, but I am not sure if I am ready. That is the key, to be ready! Mostly I fear that I will substitute my butts with food! I am proud of you...You inspire me in a lot of ways...Thanks!
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Gotta agree with Wile E. I've quit most everything over the years and smoking had to be the worst. Well... the first few hundred times I quit weren't bad, it was just that last one that gave me the problems. It was about twenty five years ago and it was still a pretty common practice, so everywhere you went you could smell it, which made it worse. After a while, it stopped smelling good and went the other way, which was a big help in forgetting about it. I always said if I ever made it three days I'd naver do it again and I haven't. So hang in there, it gets easier. I wish that like you, I'd had the foresight to watch my diet and exercise at the same time and I wouldn't be worrying about getting rid of seventy or eighty pounds today. Ain't hindsight great?
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2/9/06 6:35 P
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GOOD MORNING DAMMIT
First of all LADIES you are more than welcome in here
Just be warned I say stuff sometimes you might not like. But then again have no complaints yet. And don't get started on me I am changing as fast as I can. Well day three no smoking lost another pound
and I really don't have any cravings. I am so happy never knew I could live like this. If you never smoked it is hard to explain. I felt like a slave.
Now I am free! I will not go back. Would you?
No Island guy never tried zyban and I kicked the caffe thing cause it is a bad thing too. But thanks for your support.
Now I do have a gripe today. The wife went looking for a job a while back. Thanks to the people in Washington there are less of those jobs here then they think they know. Well since the Nafta agreement NOT ALL FOREIGNERS TRADE AMERICAN But, we will take their jobs. Well just a few to mention we lost the Candy Factory, NOVA BUS, LEVIS, two airplain manufacturing plants all went to Mexico. Lost 4 trucking co. 16 restaurants mine being one of those.
Now in return we got 4 new big chain restaurants a super Wal Mart ( to clear out the rest of the Mom and POP opperations) And 6 new hotels. Now the jobs we get to choose from ironically are service jobs.
ARRRGH...Crazy is it not? Well it is funny when you think about it. Well the one job that is open is doing testing next week. The wife and I both are going. I told her to sign me up since I had anger issues and I do own a weapon. Yes my friends the Postal Service, it is the one place where you can be rude, crude and you don't have to be polite or speak Spanish. I found my dream job!
Remember we are changing our lives and others as well as our shapes. Hope to see a little less of you latter.
PD
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CARIBBEANSUN
2/9/06 7:36 A
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Hey Doc - have you considered using Zyban for a month or so. It really helps take the edge off - been there, done that, bought the watch to prove I haven't smoked in 5 years!
You really need to mess with your routine to make it more effective IMHO. The hardest one to give up was the one with the morning coffee - so I eat breakfast in a different room, in a different chair, made tea instead of coffee or drank water. Once that became more routine I went back to eating in the kitchen and drinking coffee because that broke the new routine.
After dinner, I went for a walk instead of for a smoke. Any time that I'd normally smoke I'd find something else to do to take my mind off of the death sticks - I'd replace the urge to smoke with activity.
After awhile, much like dieting, it became easier and easier.
Good luck to you!
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2/9/06 7:11 A
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Another puss in the doghouse... but I keep coming back to read Banger's posts. I don't care who you are, he's funny.
-Rach.
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BILLYS_SILLY
2/9/06 7:08 A
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Don't mean to intrude, but just wanted to say congrats to the Dr. for the major changes he's making. Amazing man, amazing thoughts, and amazing humor. Such a refreshing change to the posts you see on the rest of the site.
Me....exiting stage left...
~Lisa~
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Ahh!! another incursion, only joking.
Dr don't hold back now lol, take it thats called shooting from the hip or punching from the shoulder.
Food for thought and entertainment neatly rolled into one. Straight talking with none of the delusions.
Good luck in beating the Tabs as well (evil weed) been off 15 years now myself.
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Hi, guys. The topic caught my eye and I just had to stop by and see what it was all about. Dr., what a great sense of humor. I'll have to stop by and see your journals some time.
Didn't realize there were so many men around the site. I'm really glad that y'all are there to support each other.
Pam
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Hell has a new ice skating rink.
The devil has invited skating with the stars to appear next week. All because I quit smoking.
Thats my story and I am sticking with it.
Furthermore,since so many people tell me to go to hell I am sure I will get to see the show. Now some say I am just lying but I once smoked next to a forest fire and they tried to put me out. I am probably the only person who smoked regularly in the shower. Hey I want to tell ya this is a big deal.
Now I have not found any weight since I quit. And I did get a call from the newspaper about my ad. They had a lot of calls about it. Wanted to know if they could give out my phone number. I ask them did they want me to write an article for money. They said NO so I did too. HE HE HE mayby they will change that answer after a few days. We will see! Wait till they get my stop smoking ad. ( still in the works right now) I will post when I get it right. oooooooo the suspence. My first cliff hanger!
Well I always wanted to quit smoking and this site has enabled me to do so. I took the motivational stuff I was reading and applied the same principles of getting rid of weight to the problem.
Alacazam poof*.*.*.* I am a wizard Muaahahaha.
Well yesterday was hard and today I went crazy.
I started the day by telling myself you are a nonsmoker! This was followed by breaking all my ashtrays. 32 in all. I don't think I own 32 of anything except my teeth. So I will brush my teeth everytime I think I need a smoke. Only brushed my teeth 49 times today. This is not going to work though even though it smells like mint everywhere I go. Now a dear friend of mine suggested I chew gum. So anyone interested in making a few bucks in the stock market buy Trident gum It is sure to go up.
Everyone in the house has told me how proud they are
that I quit. I Was the only smoker. Yes they are proud that the house is smoke free. I can smell better for some reason whew thats not a good thing. My dod needs a bath and a Tic Tac. By the way, I went to Kmart to spend my new found loot $24.00! The people at the store must have thought I was on crack I was ooooing and ahhhhing all over the jeans. Cause now I can buy jeans that don't come with a map to find the pockets.
I bought a new pair of jeans size 38 thats down from a forty. Boy I look cool.
On the other front...no smoking, I have seen a great benefit of quitting. I have done the math and have come up with a figure including lighter fluid flints and ciggeretts. It adds up to 4074.87 in funds a year from today. I plan on buying new tools for my shop. A big thank you to all for your support. Trust me I will keep telling it like it is. So check in when you can. You never know what I will do next. And to my friend Soupgirl I plan on dedicating my first book to you.
The Title is BRAIN ESCAPE
No it is not ment at you. Just that is the name.
Thought you would like to know. So you could say you knew me when I was a chunk and a butt.
remember we are changing our lives as well as our shapes. Hope to see a little less of you latter.
PD
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Bkautza,
Congrats on the weight loss... especially doing it while throwing another monkey off your back!! I quit about twenty five years ago and weighed around 165 at the time. I think my high of a few months ago was 269. You have chosen your path wisely. Stop one and control the other and you'll be grateful to yourself tenfold in a few years. Keep up the good work!
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Dr.
I started my road to change at the end of December and gave up cigarettes on Janurary 1 only because my employer put a surcharge on our health insurance if you were a smoker. Well best thing that could have happened to me. It has been over 5 weeks and I hardly think of them anymore. As the days go by the less I think about it. WHat I think of more is how I can better myself by logging what I eat and making sure I get some excersize in every day. I feel worse now about not working out a day than I ever did lighting up a smoke. My life is changing and only for the good.
Bart
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Watch out shootin straight today.
You know that when we gained weight that it didn't happen over night. Although, You also know that you can lose or gain weight over night. Now I spent alot of time thinking about what I was going to say today.
First of all I am having a tough day. First day of stop smoking. Three to four pack a day habit.
CHANGE! Yea when I clean house I move all the furniture. My wife says she is glad not to be me.
Can't eat what you want and no smoking at the same time. Now my wife has never smoked but she knows how I get when I don't have a smoke. She must have asked me over a 100 times today what is wrong? Or why don't you try this or that. Believe me when I say I have a few less hairs in my head today.
I wan't to change! In the bottem of my post you will see you deserve the truth and so do I.
I do not know if most people think about this much.
They should! If we are honest with ourselves there is nothing we can not overcome. And if we are honest with others they will see the truth and be able to help us to our goals. You see you can't help someone who does not want help. You can't help someone if they wont help themself. And you can't help someone if you don't know what is wrong.
After seeing so many people say the same thing yesterday about reaching or staying at a certain weight. Or others that they could not understand why they are stuck now and the weight just does not want to come off. I have this to say.
Your body is changing. That is the truth. Think about it for one minute. Your body is adjusting to the change. You need to take ACTION. You need to be HONEST. You need to ask yourself. HAVE I DONE ALL I CAN? HAVE I GIVEN 105%? DO I WANT TO CHANGE?
You know the answer thats why your here. You know there was something wrong. How many times you have fought the fight only to lose.
FAILURE....Should really be fail your learning.
If you want to see someone that is successful look at someone who has failed alot.
Ask anyone that you think is successful about failure. They will tell you if they had not failed they wouldn't know what to fix. So here is a little something to think about.
Sometimes in our life we come to a rough and rocky road. There is not much light and it is all uphill.
There is always a path next to it that says it leads to where we want to go. But everytime we go down the easy path the rewards are the easy path.
Nothing else.
So we must try with all our hearts. Or how will we ever reach our goal. If we give up at the start we have not done our part. Tell the truth to yourself. Have you failed because you gave everything? You can do everything right and fail! So what is the answer?
Faith in yourself! Faith is the hope of things not yet seen! HMMMMMMMMM
Do you believe you can do this. Do you believe you have no hope? I believe that if I fail I will learn something that will help me win this battle. I hope you believe in yourself enough to want to overcome your hardest battle.
YOURSELF!
Don't take the easy path pull yourself up and tell yourself the truth. This is not going to be easy!
You know what you want. You know how to get it.
Why are you still sitting here reading this?
Remember we are changing our lives as well as our shapes. Be good to yourselves. I hope to see a little less of you latter.
PD
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| There is nothing like a good laugh, sure don't want to see mine again. Off for a well person check up later on, MOT for the body, what with the diet change and increased exercise so we'll see.
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Well I guess I should just be myself in here too.
Hi Bigyin
Hi irish
Well when I stared writing in the journals I had no idea anyone would ever read the ramblings of my mind.
But, I guess some people like my stuff and some don't
Can't please everyone. Now my other journals have a lot more humor. My opinion. Others seem to like them also, So mayby just mayby you will too.
Losing weight?
Why or where did this phrase come from?
Do we really lose weight? I sure don't want to find mine. But, just for science sake, I looked around to make sure I didn't lose the 15lbs so far.
I went to the gym, nope not there. Five people there told me of their weight loss. I said you too. I am looking to see if I lost weight too. Almost everyone asked if I had been on a scale. Except one guy who asked if I was nuts. He he he. So I went home and looked under the scale. My son caught me and asked what are you doing? Told him. He laughed and said you must have lost weight at the track. You go there almost every day. So I went to the track. Not there either, but I found other people looking for their weight. They were running around looking on the ground anyway. I even searched the house yard and all over my shop. No lost weight anywere. Hmmmmm
So I must have gotten rid of it. Ah the mountain!
Yes I went! Not there and by the way didn't find my mind either. So I am going to place an ad in the local paper.
LOST 15lbs
Sometime in the last
three weeks between
Roswell and mountain
Round pudgy marble
looking compond it
answers to FAT if
found please don't
call I have my own
REWARD
So, my new campaign will be to get rid of some more weight. Never will I say I have lost weight. Because I sure don't want to find it.
Remember we are changing our lives as well as our shapes. Hope to see a little less of you later.
PD
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Evening Dr. just checking in, seems quiet or has every one been watching the bowl.
Good day, weather grand out for a ride and meet, some people need to toughen up taking their cars, never mind, passed the site on to a couple of lads who I know are struggling so well see.
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Whats up Doc
Hey DR. I see that you started another thread.
Was wondering why you dont tell any of your funny stories in this one? You crack me up! You seem to be a little more serious in here. Whats up? you ok?
Anywho cant wait to see what you post next. I told my friends about your grocery store chicken beating and they laughed so hard they wanted to know were I saw you. I told them on here. maybey they will join.
Laters
MAX
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Evening all, day two and things are grand on the meal planners and dont find them too bad, re education.
Any how "flabby chest", man boobs what ever, obviously exercise helps with definition, to tighten the skin and muscle up, but seemingly what happens is that as we gain weight one of the contributory factors to the condition developing is that, our testosterone levels drop and estrogen levels increase and the condition develops as a side effect, with the diet balanced it should help restore things back to normal.
This was gained from a programme where two doctors put a bloke on to the right path (25 1/2 stone), monitored him for 3 months.
It was there approach that had me interested, as they used the condition of his tongue, mineral tests etc, it was a whole body thing not just eat less and exercise.
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Good morning all
When I first found this site I was very happy. I thought that the site was made just for women. Let's see what would give me that Idea? Well, mostly women,the men did not post much and all of my post at the time were answered by women. Heck even the work outs had all women. Wife was wondering if I was doing this to talk to women or lose wieght. She never saw me get so interested in something before.
I am not trying to be cute just myself. I think people will understand that as they get to know me.
Now, I am glad that ya'll women folk came back to see we are not pigs. Well mayby sometimes. I was just trying to let it be known that there will be times us men say things you don't like. I would like to be able to say stuff just like I do when I play poker with the guys. I think I talk to enough women in a day round here and at home. 7 women in this house with me and my son only comes home to sleep it seems.
I am bombed everyday with who did what... oh no they did not... you better never do that. Hell I have been married for 22 years now. I know how to behave around a women. And there are just things you don't want to talk about with them.
Women don't always see things from a mans point of view. That can be a good thing but, to much of a good thing can be bad for you too. Hell I got pink curtains in my bedroom I mean come on. Pink?
Remember we are changing our lives as well as our shapes.
Have a great day.
PD
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guys, guys,
please don't think i was in any way offended or put off by your site. quite the opposite i think it is a great idea. women have long known the benefits of talking with other women without the men around, so why shouldn't you have the same benefit? i don't feel as if i can never pop in to say a quick hello - but i was just saying that i respect your right to some privacy for some good old fashioned complaining about us girls. after all, we complain about you boys sometimes so fair is fair :)
enjoy this opportunity you have created and let it help you in your life changing process. i wish you all the best and remember... laugh at least twice daily if not more.
your friend!
laurie :)
ps. lots of hugs to you all for taking the first step, and for claiming your own space!!! enjoy !!!
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CARIBBEANSUN
2/4/06 9:51 A
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Couple of comments:
- I too wondered if there were any guys on this site hence the paltry # of posts
- technically round IS a shape
- Big guy comments - are you sure it's not that you are taller than them (just a possibility, maybe, kinda - you never know
- scales measure one thing but it's not the only measurement since muscle weighs more than fat - I use the waistline of my jeans as the "real" measurement
- just curious - I prefer doing upper body workouts much more than lower body and find it difficult to motivate myself to do the lower body stuff. Anyone else have this issue?
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Man! Poking around the message boards led me to think I might be the only guy who ever registered for this site. I'm joking - but you know what I mean.
hey GJWEAGLE - this is for you. When I read your post, I had to answer. I peaked at 225 a couple of years ago, realized I was WAY too big and decided to do something about it. I starved myself down to 190, then when I started eating again - surprise! - I went back up. When I hit 215...again, I started starving myself...again. This time, though, I stumbled across SparkPeople when I was about 195. I realized how crazy I was being trying to lose weight the wrong way. With SP, I started losing weight by EATING MORE! How cool is that. I made steady progress until I reached my goal weight of 180. That was five months ago. I'm still here....and keeping the weight off. So - your starting point and goal weight are the same as mine were. There's hope for you, buddy! Luckily, you found SparkPeople now and can use this program to reach your goal in a smart manner.
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I must say I like being able to talk to other guys when I need to. Often times I find my weight loss and weight gaining issues are very diffrent from our female counter parts. When I think of over eating for example, I would eat steak, potatos, mac and cheese, meatballs, wings, etc. Where as a lot of the ladies contend with sweets and snacks. Also being a man and having man boobs, and being to ashamed to take your shirt off in front of anyone is something only a man can understand.
Anyway I think this is a great idea and is of course open to the ladies. The good news is I have lost 7.5 pounds since starting 4 weeks ago.
Good Luck to all
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| I had to peak too..lol. I think guys lose faster too and must have higher metabolisms. I know one of the nice things about my guy is he's like a furnace...always hot when I'm cold. It ALMOST makes up for him telling me dumb things like "when I wanna lose weight I just shut my mouth" LOL (he meant it as encouragment tho he got smacked on the back of the head) Bye....have fun in your room fellas!
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THEGOODLIFE
2/4/06 7:48 A
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He is cute.
Crap, his wife's gonna see that... oh, wait, like she's gonna read anything in this area of the site...LOL
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WILE_E_COYOTE
2/4/06 7:46 A
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I started the year at 226 llbs, CW 209 and GW 180. I've been stuck at 209 for a week. I think mainly because of the strength exercising 3x/wk has started turning fat to muscle. I agree that men lose faster than women. I am walking with several women and one other guy during my lunch hour who are all trying to lose weight and they maybe lose 1-2 lbs/wk. He and I are losing 2-3. I also have noticed that the females snack more throughout the day and several don't log everything they eat "because its a hassle when I just had one thing to eat"
My biggest challenge is watching what I eat. I have a wife and four kids and my kids certainly would prefer other types of food than what I do. So we have been making two meals 3-4 wks and trying to get the kids used to eating healthier the other nights.
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Lets be honest, those of us with wifes, may not like to admit it but she generally is the boss, who lets us out to play sometimes even unsupervised if we are lucky LOL.
Hence this is our little escape.
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Hope you're not waitin' for any of us to tell you you're cute!
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Glad someone understands
Take care and don't use the ugly thing.lol
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Totally hear where you're coming from. Guys need to be guys sometimes. :-) My post was just so women would understand they're welcome here, but just be forewarned they may not like what we talk about.lol
I also hear ya on the Big Man comment. People still call me big guy, but I'm one of the smaller guys at my work now. It's not like I look at the guys and say "not much happening here, how 'bout you ugly?" hahahaha
matt
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Whoa people
I did not mean for you to think that women are not welcome here.
I just think we should be able to talk to each other about stuff men go through.
I know there is stuff I can talk to my male friends about that I am not going to talk to a woman about.
Now my mother raised me to respect all people, and that includes whatever gender, color, race or lifestyle. I started this so I could let off steam give support and be supported. If for some reason people dont like what is said they can complain and let the SPARK Gods decide. Although, I do obey all Sparkpeople guidlines... sometimes things might be said that you might not like. For instance, I don't like how people try to be nice by calling me Big man.
Sorry I am not fooled lets call it like you see it I am FAT. But that is why I am here.
Remeber we are changing our lives not only our shapes.
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| Hi guys whats up? Well my wife has lost 50lbs on sparkpeople and tybo. She is my inspiration so I would always welcome a womens view.
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Laurie,
You're more than welcome to hang out here anytime you want. It's not necessarily JUST for guys, it's more of a warning to women to expect man talk if they come in here...lol. Thanks for stopping by, I hope you don't avoid this area!
matt
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hi,
my curiosity got the best of me and i had to peek. i think it is great that you started a guys chat line and i promise to leave it alone from now on. as the one women in a 2 male household, i can say that i am happy for you that you have your own space to fart,burp and tell jokes that is all your own. you are right, men do lose weight faster, life is not always fair but it does have meaning - you guys are also better at shoveling, lifting heavy objects like trash cans and cat litter :) then we women are, so that's our fair trade hehehe! enjoy your site as much as we enjoy ours and let the laughter begin!
won't c-ya (i don't want to invade)
but you're welcome over to our site for visits anytime :)
laurie
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You're right, guys do tend to lose weight faster, not always, bu usually. My wife got all flustered when I was losing 2+ lbs per week to her 1-2 lbs. Our metabolism is often faster, and we usually have more muscle too. Muscle helps burn fat!
There are some great women around here though, I'm sure we'll get a few to come visit us :-)
matt
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Well high fives all around!^^^^
Women think that men don't know how to talk to each other and I hope this will prove them wrong.
I will do my part to be here for any reason I can find. To make you laugh, help you up when you fall
or just listen when you need an ear.
I have two journals The Pickle Jar and Fat people are harder to abduct. Check them out if ya want.
Just between you guys and me, men seem to lose wieght faster than women. Wife is doing this with me and I am finding she does not want to work out as much as me. Nor does she want to talk about it.
Now I have been in chat rooms before and women do tend to take control of the sites. Tend to treat us with contempt Cause we can't spell. Hotk on fonix werkt fer mi. But I don't let that bother me when they correct me I just tell them I have a wife to tell me I am wrong and that is enough. Well I am rambling again, I am sure we all have our own little complaints about the women folk. But I am not trying to start the he-man woman haters bashing club or nothing. I just know that a woman is going to say something about us having our own site and we will be invaded. So everyone fart, burp and scratch as much as you can and mayby just mayby they will retreat in the other direction.
Remember we are changing our lives as well as our shapes.
PD
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