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#44038 - 02/05/05 01:57 AM
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Registered: 01/06/03
Posts: 2196
Loc: Tampa, FL
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Dotsie, here's my entry. I've always been overweight. But in the last few years, the weight crept up higher and higher, with nothing stopping it. I tried shakes, powders, power bars and more, but nothing seems to break the barrier. Then, along came BWS and a little forum for dieters. Little did I know I'd just found the secret to my weightloss. Accountability. We wrote every day what our food intake was, careful to watch what we ate as we knew we'd be reporting it soon to the others on the forum. Little by little, my intake decreased and my feeling about my body increased. Month after month went by, I noted little changes here and there. Losing a pound here, a few pounds there, the weight came off almost consistently. Three months turned into six months and six months turned into eight then nine. Before I knew it I had lost 50 pounds. My success was a success for Dotsie and her BWS forum. Without the support of the other women on the diet forum, I wouldn't have had the courage to stick it out. Thank you BWS, thank you Dotsie. For giving me a life back that I thought I'd lost forever.
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#44041 - 02/06/05 08:23 AM
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Registered: 06/03/04
Posts: 2830
Loc: Massachusetts, USA
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Wow, Vicki: Yours is such a success story! I'm so glad for you. Well done, Vicki.
Hmmm.... Hey, who knows? Maybe there is some hope for me too. I'm gonna have to stick to the diet forum too!! [ February 06, 2005, 12:23 AM: Message edited by: Songbird ]
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#44044 - 02/08/05 07:12 AM
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Registered: 12/21/04
Posts: 483
Loc: North Carolina
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Brenda, thanks. For reminding me. For reminding me that no matter how old our children are, some *truths* don't change.
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#44047 - 02/08/05 11:29 PM
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Registered: 12/10/04
Posts: 106
Loc: usa
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Dotsie, I had 3 children's poems accepted from a site I found on this site, that will be in a poetry anthology. The editor is very sweet! From Canada, I know a lot of you know her, thanks! www.allbookreviews.com
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#44050 - 02/09/05 11:48 PM
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Registered: 03/12/04
Posts: 1177
Loc: Decatur, Illinois
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Through this site, I have come into contact with E. Dian Moore and through her have several articles published on-line and will have print article come on in Penwomanship in May. Thanks for allowing us to make contacts through this wonderful sight.
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#44051 - 02/10/05 05:44 AM
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Registered: 11/11/04
Posts: 3503
Loc: Colorado
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Hi Dotsie, how has this site helped me? Let me count the ways. I appreciate that women on this forum have allowed other women a peek into their lives. What we learn from each other is that we have more in common than not. When we share with each other, we help each other, and like a spiral, the help reaches out to others, even on invisible loops. We may have laughed a little, and carried that joy into the world for others to get an uplifting smile. We may have cried a little, and carried that sadness into the world for others to learn they are not alone. So the many ways that this site helps is infinit, because healing through sharing has infinite possibilities. I had no idea there were so many like-minded women in the world! My only regret is that I didn't come upon boomer chicks sooner! Love and Light, Lynn
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#44052 - 02/10/05 05:58 AM
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Registered: 11/11/04
Posts: 3503
Loc: Colorado
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Oh Vicki, I'm so glad you have your life back. Congratulations. And Brenda, your site is so clean and to the point. Here we have Caged Birds and Song Birds! Great screen names, Lynn
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#44058 - 02/13/05 03:16 AM
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Registered: 12/21/04
Posts: 483
Loc: North Carolina
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Awww, gee, Chatty. I just thought it meant that you really, REALLY, loved us!!
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#44060 - 02/15/05 12:44 AM
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Registered: 09/02/04
Posts: 12
Loc: Yucaipa, California
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Hi Ladies, good to be back online at least for the moment. Went to Hollywood last Monday to see THE VIEW. Left my house at 2:00 a.m., arrived at 4:00 a.m. and stood in line in the cold until 7:00 a.m. but it was definitely worth it. Wish all of you could have joined us in California for the show. BWS is like having lots and lots of sisters to share life's joys, sorrows, accomplishments, good news as well as heartaches. Thank you Dotsie for caring enough to start BWS.
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#44062 - 02/15/05 06:06 AM
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Registered: 03/18/03
Posts: 332
Loc: Australia
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The BWS site means one word to me -
encouragement.
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#44067 - 02/26/05 05:36 AM
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Registered: 11/11/04
Posts: 3503
Loc: Colorado
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Silly girls, THE VIEW is a day time show started by Barbara Walters. The premise of the show is that 4 diverse women discuss what's up: Meredith was a journalist who now hosts Who Wants to be A Millionaire too, Joy is/was a comedienne, Star Jones was a lawyer who wants to be and is a celebrity, and I forget her name...but she's the young one. Then there is Barbara. Sometimes they all talk at once and I have to shut them up, othertimes they are entertaining. Can you tell I have the TV on all day long? Love and Light, Lynn
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#44071 - 03/10/05 05:29 AM
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Registered: 01/17/05
Posts: 152
Loc: Kansas City Kansas
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Sunshine how awesome for you I love looking in on the view. Its a cool show and the stories are intersting to say the least. As for BWS site and all of you have given me tons of feed back and support when I brought up my idea about the disability magazine , although i am still looking for the right place to contact, your support means alot to me, you have no idea. I am looking to print out some ideas and look at them in front of me, now to find the perfect way to write a proposal.
I dont remember who i needed to contact department of congress ? on naming my mag and getting the business started ,,, so now a silly question can i write the magazine can i take it to the local printer and have it bound and distribute it that way , cutting out a middle man , (person) Deb
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#44072 - 03/10/05 05:14 PM
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Registered: 01/27/04
Posts: 1423
Loc: Warrenton, Virginia
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#44076 - 03/10/05 07:53 PM
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Registered: 05/24/04
Posts: 6123
Loc: Arizona
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#44078 - 03/10/05 09:39 PM
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Registered: 07/09/08
Posts: 23647
Loc: Maryland
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Ladies, please send me your addresses and sizes. Speaker, the update is that my agent sent my proposal to eight publishing houses. I got six rejections and two interested with a little work. This ratio is apparently awesome. From what I understand the rejection rate is often 100% the first time around. The general concensus is TMI (too much information). Why does that surprise me? That's the story of my life. Anyway, both editors asked me to cut back on topics and narrow the focus. I'm working on it. Thanks for asking. I'm living and learning every day about this book business. When the first book is behind me I'm going to write lots of articles to help other writers on their journeys, but I've got to get there first.
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#44079 - 03/15/05 08:16 AM
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Registered: 11/11/04
Posts: 3503
Loc: Colorado
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What? I won something? My gosh, how lucky! I never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever EVER win anything ever never ever! And I want a tee shirt! Yeah hooray! Yippee Skippee! Can you imagine all of us wearing our Boomer tee shirts when we go on Oprah as a group? Dotsie, the publishing business is so much a part of being an author, isn't it? Two publishers are interested? Anything WE can do to help? I'm glad you said "when the first book is behind me" because that means there will be another book! Love and Light, Lynn
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#44084 - 03/20/05 04:54 AM
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Registered: 01/27/04
Posts: 1423
Loc: Warrenton, Virginia
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Ditto here Dotsie.....LOVE the tee and the gorgeous card too.....TWO treats when I only expected one! Thanks again...HUGS
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