Hello my ‘adoring’ fans!

I have set up this page as a sort of guest book…Please DON’T leave the site without shouting here!

…Tell me who you are, what part of the world you’re from, if you like my site, tell me what you like about my site…tell me about your own weight loss journey, about your cat!…TELL ME ANYTHING…JUST SHOUT!

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

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.

Oh bloody hell I have gone and done it again…I have changed the structure of the blog around…I am using a different system now…one where everyone can see the comments of others without having to look at a pop up box. When you post it will come up on the main page under the blog posting itself…

I am trying here guys…I want to hear from you all!!! NO excuses! But the bad side to me ‘playing’ with the site is that the RSS feed address has changed some…it is now:
http://www.findingflabuless.com/Blog/index_files/FRSS.php or alternatively through Feedburner:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/FindingFlabulessRssFeed

I promise NO more playing from now on…I will leave things as is.

I was going to blog it out tonight but it is already 1am and I am exhausted…so I am off to bed…alone…with my dreams…and my 3 year old, crawling into bed with me in the middle of the night …I can hear all you saying Ohhhh isn’t that cute…well it would be if he didn’t snore so bloody loudly…I thought I was BAD…sleeping next to him even I have to put MY head under the pillow and even then I can still hear him….GRRR I haven’t had a decent nights sleep in what seems like 3 years hehehehe that and having to wear PJ’s to bed considering how uncomfortable they are when they twist and scrunch up between the sheets…before my boy came along my bed dress of choice was ‘what you find in an empty box’…hehehe I will leave that one to your over active imaginations. The funny thing is that I snore like a trooper myself…and others snoring never used to bother me but my son…well…he can snore with the best of them…I guess he takes after his mama! but ssssh don’t tell anyone…I wouldn’t like any future partners to find out that little bit of information too soon…about me snoring I mean..hehehe.

Ok guys…just out of interest, help me out here…of my ‘The Lighter Side’ cartoons so far, which ones do you think are the funniest…You can select multiple.I am in the process of developing more and I am kind of keen to know what hits your funny bone! hehehe!

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What ‘The Lighter Side’ Cartoons do you think are the funniest?

Tub Dam Belt Find Water Jam G-String Seduction Chair Stuck Cafe Crash

Wow Guys…I know its been a couple of days since you have heard from me…I have been busy…if you haven’t noticed already. The website has had some major upgrading and restructuring…but we still live at the same address…due to some root file changes your RSS and blog links might be out of whack now…so if you get a error page when you go to your bookmarked site link! you will know why!!! Well actually, it just occured to me you probably WONT know why because you wouldn’t still be subscribed to this feed…ooops oh well hopefully you will come and track me down… hehehe

Ok so notable changes to the site include:

eCARDS yes you asked for it here it is…you can now send ‘The Lighter Side’ Cartoons direct to your friends and families inboxes…I had been searching for an eCard system that didn’t mean receivers have to ‘pick it up online’ (I hate those! half the time I don’t even bother)…finally, after much research I found it…so lets get this party started! Feel free to start sending the cartoons to your friends so that they can forward them to their friends and hopefully we can start a ‘The Lighter Side’ REVOLUTION all around the world…I will KNOW I have succeeded when I in turn get forwarded my own cartoon from Iran! hehehe but we won’t go there now will we…Hmmm…say no more.

I also put a lightbox feature on the blog pics so if you wanna see something really cool click on the cartoons in this blog and you will see what I mean…

In my next Blog I want to tell you a bit about the artist behind ‘The Lighter Side’ - the incomparable, Eric Jones…so stay tuned, in the meantime you can visit his website www.giveacaricature.com from my FlabFav’s Page. I plan to be releasing new cartoons every couple of weeks (it depends really on how fast Eric can draw them up)! so there are exciting times ahead…I have 44 more conceptual babies where those first 5 came from so there will be PLENTY of more laughs ahead…

Ok so a boring post from me today…but what d’ya expect it’s 1.37am in the morning for me…so when y’all are waking up I am going nun nies…dreaming of y’all. hehehe well maybe not. Be Good and don’t do anything I wouldn’t do! Heheheh.