Good afternoon phen family!! Wow, I am thrilled to see so many new folks who want to join us in our weight-loss challenge!!! It's always fun to meet and chat with new folks, and want to take a moment to acknowledge each of you:
Krissy: Hi, welcome to our group -- I see you have been posting a lot, and feeling right at home with us, and that's just how you should feel!! Happy to meet you, and looking forward to reading about your progress!!
Adele: Welcome also!! Glad to know you, and so happy that you have decided to join us!! The Valentine's Challenge was my very first challenge that I joined since starting phen, and I have never looked back; being part of a challenge is the best; you meet new folks, get advice, learn about new ideas, get challenged to do your best, and have fun all at the same time!!
I also have sort of a disability as well; I have very bad knees, and another thing that no one knows here is that I also had a total hip replacement about 7 years ago on my right side. The hip feels great, but the knees hinder me from doing things like jogging, step aerobics, things like that, I just have really bad joints, so I rely on my stationary bike to get my workouts in. We all understand that some of us have limited capabilities, so we encourage each other to just do the best we can in our exercises, and to incorporate great eating habits for effective weight loss -- welcome to our group; so happy you are here!!
Velvet Slipper!! Hi Velvet, looks like you are interested in being part of our phen family as well; welcome aboard, glad to see you, and I wish you all the success in the world in your weight loss journey!! We are a great group to join, look forward to seeing your progress!!
Elliesmom: Hi, welcome to our new challenge, and not to worry, you're right on time to start with us as we continue in our weight loss journey!!
I see that you have two little ones at home; and even though my two daughters are grown, I remember when they were little (you never, ever forget that!!). And I see that you want to be out of the 200's by the end of this challenge; sounds like you are planning to step right into "Onderland" (199 pounds or less) -- it's the greatest place to go, I'm pushing to get there myself so we're gonna encourage you every step of the way!!
A New Laurie: Welcome to our challenge!!! Excited to have you with us, and I'm so glad that you have decided to join us!! You said that you were a "lurker" before; no need to lurk any more, we want to embrace you right into our phen family. As you have no doubt seen, we are great for giving encouragement, sound advice, and I think we give the loudest yells, yodels, etc. in the world for weight loss achievements!!
And I see that your goal is to also step into Onederland - you can do it, we know you can!!!
Hello to all my other phen family!!! I'm so glad to see that a lot of us moved from the Valentine's challenge right into this challenge!! I have so many personals to do to you guys, so I'll post later this evening. Thanks for asking about my finger; it is doing better today, not as sore, but I was really scared yesterday, it was not a pretty cut, and I didn't want it to become infected ... So I am about to write our motivational comment for the day; I'll be back shortly!!