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Just Shoot me!

April 29, 2007

I saw this picture on the web last night and at first i though wow!!! what a great success story…

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…but then I read the fine print…this is not depicting weight loss but weight gain! she went from the first picture to the second picture in 3 years…Oh MY GOD. Talk about motivation…there is no way I want to be moving in the opposite direction. For some reason this picture saddens me if I had a body like that one there is NO way I would let myself go to become like the second pic…or would I?

This is my quandary. Will I ever be OK with myself and my body or will true contentment prove illusive even once I have reached my goal! Will I have the motivation to, not only, loose the weight but to keep it off! The work doesn’t stop once you reach your goal and sometimes I wonder if I will have the stick-ability to keep it off.

I haven’t always been big…infact I was quite slim at around 19years here is a picture to demonstrate:

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But depression and bad relationships hit and I went from that to THIS:

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It has happened before….please just shoot me before it happens AGAIN!

A pensive moment

April 29, 2007

I know it has been awhile…I have been laying low for awhile due to some personal issues…my boy has gone for his first visit to his dad for 5 days…and I think it has been harder for me to let him go then for him…anyway on a serious note I got sent this tonight and I thought it was very appropriate for my mood at present so I wanted to share it.

Update 6 May 2007: The music constantly playing was driving me crazy so I have moved it HERE…so as not to disturb the peace.hehehe Enjoy!

The Lighter Side of Large on YOUTUBE

April 20, 2007

The Lighter Side of Large on YOUTUBE
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Here we go again…I have gone YOUTUBE crazy…and decided to put my cartoons up! Enjoy!

Flabuless Does YouTube

April 20, 2007

Hi guys…Well I have crossed over to the land of the insane and created my own you tube video…check it out!…if only I could get rid of that darned FAKE american accent…I tried…and tried I cant tell you how many takes I did but still came out the same…GRRR My apologies to ALL americans watching this!

Minding My Own Business

April 19, 2007

If you had of told me 2 years ago that I would be actively pursuing a online ebusiness concept I would have laughed in your face…This from a girl who’s total knowledge of the web was how to get email, and search google, needless to say, I had absolutely no idea how it all worked really…Terms like SEO (which I intermittently refer to as CEO…hehehe) ROI, CSS, were like japanese to me…and, yet, 1 year after, a single mom on a pension…yes thats me!…stumbled across an idea that she thought just might work..I have learned so much even to be able to develop the ‘Finding Flabuless’ website myself. You might have noticed the adds on the site for
SizeXchange.com
Yes, I know you probably guessed that it was mine…and it is. Not half obvious am I?

It was born out of my own biggest dilemma, standing in front of my wardrobe, wondering what the heck I’m going to wear.  The clothes that used to fit, now hang limp and lifeless, hiding the weeks of hard work I had already put in, sculpturing the new me.  

I knew it was time to go shopping, but I didn’t want to pay pay full price for clothing that will only fit for a month or so as I continued on my quest to my ultimate dress size.

This got me thinking…if that was my dilemma, chances are it is other dieter’s dilemma as well. So I then started wondering, how one could provide a service to fill that need. It was then the concept of SizeXchange started unravelling and since then it has evolved into something much bigger…however, the basic idea is that it is a clothes swap auction…working similar to ‘feebay’ (hehehe!) but instead of auctioning for money the clothes are actually auctioned for points. The more of your larger clothes you put up for auction that are successfully exchanged the more points you accrue which you can use to bid on items in the size that you need when you need it. Simple really really but quite complex when you are in the position I and my web-developers are in trying to customise the programming to work that way. I had hoped that we would be up and running closer to the beginning of the year but now it is looking like we could be waiting a bit longer…The response I have received to this concept even before we have launched has been exciting and quite overwhelming…who would have thought that dieters are virtually crying out for such a service.

I’ll let you in on a secret though…If you sign up for our pre-launch newsletter you will be not only one of the first to know when we are approaching launch but all our newsletter subscribers will get access to a 60-day free period to try the service out for themselves.

Anyhow, enough plugging for today.

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