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June 4, 2005

Chart 5/30/05

This weeks charts!

We've added PrettynPink who just started. See her pink dot, soon to be a line?

If anybody else wants to join up, just email her@hopefulloser.com and put something like "Charts" or "Progress Charts" in the subject so that I can easily sift through all my email to find it.

There is NO PRESSURE here. Well, I certainly hope no one feels it. This is just a way for us all to support eachother and cheer eachother on. For the most part there is a lot of positivity going on here. I really hope that people feel like they can still turn to this site when they are having a difficult time too. Although the chart below shows some pretty good progress for me, it hasn’t been easy. It has taken me 3 months to lose 18 pounds (only 6 a month). There are weeks that I don’t lose and the chart doesn’t reflect the week that I gained. (We didn’t have precise data for the first two months and we used averages, except for Martha who had written stuff down.)

In the past I have fell off the wagon a bunch of times and I think to myself, what if things go bad for me would I just abandon this site? Right now, I really believe I wouldn’t. I’ve said this before, but I have never been honest with anybody about my weight like I have been to this website. I don’t even look at myself in the mirror but for flashing seconds to make sure nothing is too amiss. I have never seen myself to the extent that I see myself in the progress pictures that I post here and I’ve never shared my weight loss experiences and struggles with so many people before. So I attribute a lot of my success to this and if I were really starting to regress I would talk that much more. It was you guys who really got me motivated in the first place, I’m sure it would work again.

Anyway, I was trying not to be so long winded (no such luck, what else is new) and really just wanted to stress that I don’t want anyone to read this site and think “I just haven’t flipped that switch” or “well, I’m just not there yet” then leave and not come back. Don’t go. I can assure you that no switch has been flipped and I’m certainly not there yet either.

Posted by hopeful @ June 4, 2005 1:47 AM