Introduce Yourself!

WELCOME HARTNESS!

Great to have you on board. Sorry I haven't been around, busy and getting used to the different hours of my hubby.

Hi, Nonconformists! I'm trying to get my weight and my life into shape without having to be something I'm not.

Happy to be part of the team.

Welcome to all new members. Sorry I haven't been around but I am now!

looking forward to getting to know you herkimerangel

Hello everyone! I am a married mother of three living in Central NY, and in addition to my fitness and nutritional goals, I also have spiritual ones. I consider myself Unitarian Universalist with many Wiccan/Pagan/Buddhist beliefs. I look forward to many interesting discussions in this team! :)

hi molly, ....looking forward to knowing you. welcome to the team!

Hi! I'm Molly, and this team looks so interesting! Looking forward to being a part of it!

Welcome Deby! So happy to have you join the team.

...i also loss 30 lbs this year...isnt it amazing how you feel once to get rid of all that weight....oh, and welcome to the team. looking forward to getting to know you and sharing our secrets to weight loss.

Hi

I am Deby...

I have been on this Weight / Health journey going on 5 years now....
in 2009, I weighed in at 220 lbs..... I was so disgusted with myself
and decided time to change... and NOW...

So here I am 2013 down to 158 lbs...
I am on the last round with just 20+ lbs to go..

I am looking forward to Meeting and sharing with the team

Wishing everyone all the best on this journey to a healthier you ~ Deby

Glad to have you on board! Welcome to the team.

Edited by: WOLFSPIRITMOM at: 3/16/2013 (09:41)

hi gang...been on sparks for awhile and now am branching out looking for new teams to join. this one sounds interesting. looking forward to getting to know you all.

Mathmagician, welcome to the team! Glad to have you on board!

Hi! This seems like a place where I can enjoy some interesting discussions. After reading the previous introductions, I can see that I have some things in common with most of you. I have found great amusement in confounding people my whole life. It just seems to be my nature.

I look forward to getting to know you all!

Hi TESLASILK , glad to see you! Wow, writing a children's book! Love that you are using wolf characters. For me, I have always loved wolves and as I have gotten older, I see how they are a mirror image for the human family. I have found a lot of images from some of the facebook friends I have. Also, have many framed pictures around the house and always get calendars every year with wolves.

Thanks for telling me about this team. Looks like my kind of place. I am writing a children's book with wolf characters. Would love to hear about folk's fav wolf behavior books, film or websites. Photo refs for drawing from would also be great! Thanks.

Hi Shanon,welcome to the team. Glad to have you on board!

Wow, just reading the posts has blown me away. I'm totally inspired and glad to be here. My name is Shanon, and I live in Northwest Florida. I'm a homeschooling mother of four who likes to quilt and farm. Kind of boring I know, but my goals are much bigger. I would like to loose over 100lbs, and yet any loss will be great. I want to be able to go canoeing, hiking, and keep up with my grandkids when, way down the road, I get grandkids. I have big plans for myself.
I'm glad to be here.
Ttfn,
Shanon

Welcome to the team Russell. You have been a fighter from the get go. Love the low carb way. Feel free to post, message, join in!

Hello! My name is Russell, and I am 38. I was diagnosed with CHF at 27, and told I had 6 months to live..then diagnosed diabetic at 28, put on cholesterol meds that same year, and had my first ICD put in at 31.

Now I am 137 lbs lighter, my BP is low with the meds I take, my cholesterol meds are about to be gone( July ) if #'s continue improving, and I have been off diabetes meds for 2 full years, and my A1C is 5.4.

All of my improvements started 3 years ago, when I finally realized none of the things they were doing fixed any of my problems, they treated them. I read Dr. Atkins New Diet Revolution, and started in May of 2009. My doctor's maoaned that I was going to kill myself.. low carb was dangerous. Now they see a 10 lb drop every 3 months, and low BP, low cholesterol, and a normal A1C, and congratulate me.

Of course, they can't recommend what I did.. its still unhealthy. I think what doctors don't know is much more than what they do. No one ever believes that 50 years from now, we will look back and laugh at what was common knowledge, as being completely wrong, but 75 years ago, they presribed a cigarette in K rations ( WW2 ), to help dry out the lungs.. a health benefit! I am sure in 50-75 years we will be laughing about the things we thought were correct today.

Welcome AFOOT61, glad to have you on board!

Hi. I've been with SP for quite awhile. I'm also my own worst enemy. My short term goal is get below 200 and never look back.
This looks like a great team. Please visit my SparkPage.

Welcome Ellen, so glad to have you on board!

Hi. I'm Ellen and I have been on SP for almost 1 1/2 years. I lost 30 lbs but haven't lost any this year. I believe that true health is physical, mental, spirtual and emotional health. Looking forward to getting to know you all.

Nice to see you hear, thanks for joining!

Hi Gang,

It's just me dropping by to check out this new and POSITIVELY exciting group.

If you check my page and history you'll find that PMA is what it took to get me where I am.

Thanks for the invite.

Stay healthy and Stay In Touch

Big Dave
We're In It For The Finish,
I Can Go The Distance

Thanks for joining! I love your blogs and joined your team too!

Bright Blessings

I am new to the Team and want to give WOLFSPIRITMOM BIG for the info on the Team!!

I'm a baby boomer, old hippie, so that pretty much tells you where I'm coming from. My family refers to me as The Terminator, because I can get all head up and going on about anything that is not right, or just down right stupid, much the same as Julia Sugarbaker did/does.

I'm a Celtic, Eclectic, Hedge, Kitchen Wise Woman. Hence the name Enchanted SilverBroom, which is my magical name. I practice an Earth based religion and am an Elder in the Celtic Rowan Circle, member of W.O.R.T. Being part Irish and Native American, a bad combo there, I have learned to think for myself in all things and to question all things. Not just take what someone says about anything as being the final word. I have been a skilled Tarot Reader for more moons than I care to count.

Just wanted to share that with y'all. I look forward to being a member of the team.

Love and Light

Anni

Thanks hon!!!

Thanks for joining, love your attitude! Feel free to post, reply, hug. We are here for each other!

Hello I have been a member of SP for about 3 months now and just found this place.

I am definitely a different thinker. I am a liberal republican and a very open minded Christian. I hate to have anyone tell me I can not do something cause I will respond, oh yeah, watch me!!!

I do not fit in with my own family but I blend well with my husband and his. His family are very much outside the box. His father and step mom lived in a communal living community and they go to faery conventions. His mother lives for free where ever she can and does gardening and things like that for a living but she does not have a business per say. She just loves gardening. They both play Celtic instruments and the entire family is very musical. His parents are divorced but stayed friends. I am older then my husband but his family does not care, they love me anyways.

I love to dream and don't want to be told to grow up. I am grown up enough, I have a fairly good job though I don't make tons of money. I believe life is for living and enjoying. We go to Medieval events in the SCA and love it! We love archery and dressing up and living in tents.

Anyways I would love to join this group and be an active member here. If you will have me!!!

Edited by: VANALADIEL at: 3/29/2012 (06:36)

Thanks for joining, jump in whenever! Will check out the site too!

hi, I'm Barbara. I love to BS about anything. I talk to anyone anytime about anything. I'm not very passive in a conversation. I will argue if I feel like it. :)

Check out this site. I think the you would all appreciate it.
http://www.discordian.com/

Thanks for joining and happy you did! Love the fact you are an environmentalist and a green architect. Feel free to post - we love to discuss!

Hi, I'm Ren. Wow, I love the concept of this group. I have always strongly valued free thought and love to discuss things that I know little about. I started SP about 4 years ago, and then fell off. Now I'm back with a vengence. I am a spiritual atheist, a vegetarian, an architect, an environmentalist and a grandfather, among many other things. I look forward to getting to know you all.

Great to have you on board!

Hi all...I was born a free thinker and a non-conformist....I don't like too many rules...lol.

Look forward to getting to know yall!

Thanks for joining, love free thinkers wherever you are from! And yes, I used to be a team leader for one of the smoothy teams but just didn't have the time to be the leader for 10 teams! Now I am down to 3!

Edited by: WOLFSPIRITMOM at: 1/14/2012 (23:59)

LOL!

I joke about the south, but sometimes it really does feel like a collective thought pattern is shared by everyone down here.

LOL @
"Oh, I guess I should add that I am a free thinker from northeast Louisiana. Yeah, I know you thought we started somewhere around the Mason-Dixon line but there are some of us down here too. "

Yeah sometimes Yankees move South to escape the cold!
: )

There's a green smoothie team?
Might not join that one but it could be useful recipe poaching grounds!

Welcome to the team...

: )
Mzzchief

Saw the name of the group and I had to join. I am not as active on spark as I want to be but that will change soon enough. Followed you Wolfspirit from the green smoothies team.
Glad to be here.

Oh, I guess I shoud add that I am a free thinker from northeast Louisiana. Yeah, I know you thought we started somewhere around the Mason-Dixon line but there are some of us down here too.

Edited by: MFTAGGFREEZE at: 1/13/2012 (03:04)

Great to see you SergeantMajor! Will love to have your input!

Actually it is even worse than you thought, it is the rank at which I retired from the Army.

Too funny, Sarge.

LOVE your sig pic, too!

Sergeant Major... hmm? My association with that moniker are those striped marine fish that hang out on the reef in the Florida Keys ... which I presume your "swim in the mainstream of the river of life"... alludes to.

Let me see if I can find a photo for those that haven't heard of them:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergeant_major
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Thanks for the giggle!
: )
Mzzchief

Anyone who is familiar with my posts in response to questions on the Fitness Forum know that I am a free thinker when it comes to fitness and training. I believe in a minimalist approach and resist buying into the latest flavour of the month technique and the self promoting fitness "superstars". The teams I lead and belong to are another indication that I do not swim in the mainstream of the river of life.

Feel free to chat me up with comments or questions. If I do not have an answer to your question I will probably make one up to maintain my status as the all knowing all seeing guru I aspire to be.

Thanks so much Mzzchief, love to have you on the team. We can have some great conversations here!

HI, I'm Mzzchief
I don't just think outside the box, sometimes I like to throw a few firecrackers in there and blow it up!

Of course the irony of joining a team of Non-Conformists did not escape me... it made me laugh, which is a good thing.

But the deciding factor was that Wolfie leads this team... read some of her blogs and posts and like the way the woman thinks.

Let the games begin!
: )
Mzzchief

Hi members! Use this post to introduce yourself!