I just heard of this 7 year old girl that weighed 420 pounds. When she was only 5 she weighed 200 pounds.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=YUbSvt-gGq0

Look what this miraculous girl accomplished with the help of child services (the mom has her back now, but was taken away due to the child's health--- she is quoted saying that she made mistakes and was slowly killing her daughter and feels ashamed for that)

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She now weighs 100 pounds (SHE LOST 76% of her original body weight!). She needs to have surgery to lose about 20 pounds of skin and she'll then be about 20% of what she was! She does physical therapy 5x a week and is on a strict diet, ironically enforced by her mother now.

WOW.
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On an unrelated note (as you know now, I am the most random person ever), I told my DG that I *just* realized I should be eating more fruits and veggies. Then the veggie said, "YOU THINK?! And don't be one of those that think that CORN is a vegetable?!" WHAT?! She meant rice (her hubby thinks that) lol. I laughed SO hard because of this. No, but in all seriousness I decided that really need to reevaluate my veggie/ fruit intake. So, that's my new mini-goal.
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Also, I need to mention something that I think ROCKS.

Ashrian at nottie2hottie.blogstream.com got me into this blogging thing. She ROCKS. I still remember the day that I met her. She was 6 months pregnant and I asked something completely embarrassing like oh you must be due NOW?! Nope, three more months (I started in the beg. of July and was due on Halloween but came a little later so I guess lil' John-John was only 5 months in the whom then). But she is theeeeeeeeee sweeeeetest person EVER and wasn't offended by my comment. Not gonna lie, we hit it off from the get-go. It was like we knew each other for a very long time and she always has been a constant in my life and a very very very positive, bubbly person AND positive influence in my life. She has lost a miraculous 80 or so pounds (sorry, Ash I don't know the exact number), nonetheless SHE IS AMAZING!

So, thanks to Ashley Rian I started this blog. And it's cool, too, because now my DG started one at whatsaraeats.blogstream.com (Can I stay on track? ps. all of these are in my favorite blog links.)

And one day I randomly was looking at other health-related blogs and sent some random messages. Only ONE wrote back. She hadn't written for 2 years or something like that and claims that she forgot about the blog! So, not only did she start writing again, but she is holding herself accountable with food and exercise. She's losergirl at losing the lbs for good.

And even cooler is that the beautiful Rubble at RubbleRoadToHealth... well, losergirl apparently wrote to her (I gather that from the shout out on her blog) after not writing for a month. And now Rubble is encouraging all of us. The cycle keeps going.

So THANKS for the support, encouragement and kind words to everyone. And even if you don't comment, I still enjoy that people CONTINUE to read my blog (still can't really wrap my head around it!)... okay, off to work!