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Name: Denise - Sazyredneckmama

URL or homepage: Diet Diaries.com (sasyredneckgirl) Extrapounds.com (sassy girl)

Hometown: Southern IL

Turn-ons: Hearing my son laugh in his sleep at night.. Hearing Him tell me He loves me.. Catching my hubby looking at me and knowing he's been caught.

Turn-offs:1. People that won't look you in the eye when they are talking to you cause you are heavy!! 2. Rude people.. 3. People that don't understand that you are still a person even though you are heavy.. 4. People that are not overweight by any strength of measure that can fanagle their way into weight loss surgery.. 5.People that give up .. IF I CAN DO THIS anyoneeeeeeee can!!!!!!
(( Please dont take any of that judgemental because I dont mean this to be aimed to any person on the website.. These are turn off that I have directly been affected by in real life..))

Diet you're following: I see a nutrionist once a month.. have been since July06.. I cut out my white stuff sugar, flour, pasta, rice, and NO SWEETNER!!... Since the beginning of last year I have slowwwly lost 65ish pounds.

Exercise of choice (list as many as you like): Ski Machine.. 2 Mile Walking Dvd ( Leslie Sanson) .. Have a Bangari Dance Vidieo  I LOVE!!!!

Online weight-loss resources you use: Anything I can find...

Your motto for this challenge: I am moving this Mountain with a shovel..... (( I am the mountain and just slowly shoveling away the fat))


Name:  Mel aka ShrinkingMom

URL or homepage:  http://shrinkingmom.clubmom.com

Hometown:   Pacific Northwest

Turn-ons:  Sleeping in, Diet Coke with Lime, a stack of novels, movie theater popcorn, meek children

Turn-offs:  Slamming doors, pee on the toilet seat, raw tomatoes, C-SPAN, taxes

Diet you're following: Low-glycemic index diet (aka no more sugar, white flour, white potatoes or white rice)

Exercise of choice:  Riding recumbent exercise bike at home, walking.

Online weight-loss resources you use:  Nothing in particular other than fellow weight-loss blogs.

Your motto for this challenge:  No cookie is worth being fat forever.

Name (or online nickname): Jaimekristen

URL or homepage: n/a

Hometown (region or state is fine): Milton, NH

Turn-ons: chocolate, a really good book, spring cleaning, 50 dollar gift cards and skinny clothes that fit!

Turn-offs: cold weather, really bad books, waiting in line, traffic, and the last 5 min of a good workout when a crappy song comes on and you can't find a good one!

Diet you're following (be as specific or vague as you like): I'm doing a combo weight watchers and no milk products diet. Not exactly by choice, my son has a milk allergy and I am nursing! So no chocolate or anything with milk in it. I'm doing weight watchers flex points on my own so that way I keep myself in check.

Exercise of choice (list as many as you like): Walking outside in warm weather! But until it's warm, the elliptical machine

Online weight-loss resources you use: sparkpeople.com

Your motto for this challenge: Days go by whether or not I eat right, so why not eat right and be skinny in the end?


Name: Missy (Misheru)

URL or homepage: http://www.misheru.com

Hometown: Tucson, Arizona (originally from Idaho)

Turn-ons: massage, a man that cooks and/or does dishes, the smell of rain, running in said rain, and Arizona sunsets

Turn-offs: A man with hair on his neck, beer bellies, bad attitudes and guys who think they are smarter than they are.  Also chauvinists, and I mean that.

Diet you're following: slow-carb

Exercise of choice: running, swimming, biking, occasional aerobics/weight lifting.

Online weight-loss resources you use:  Have given up on all but used to use Selfdietplan.com

Your motto for this challenge:  I have to think about this...I'm coming up blank.