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[Diana]

lol, Kim!! He's already got a couple (actually, rifles, not shotguns -- I didn't know the difference until he bought ME one for my birthday! lol!)

Hope to see you at the fair!!

[Janae]

Diana-

I just want to say...
...you do look just beautiful!
...I enjoy reading your journal and your posts very much!
...I think it is so great that you and Mike can be "in this" together! You will have the sweetest before and after pics to testify to your journey!
...I wish you a great time at the fair...with much exposure and success for your TSFL business.

I have worked fair and home show booths for our business and it is usually a real experience!!!! Some of your best prospects will be your fellow exhibitors!

Well...thanks for all your wise and encouraging words.

[SharonR]

Some of your best prospects will be your fellow exhibitors!

I personally hadn't thought of that. But it's true, I have worked fairs before selling crafts with my Mom. Fellow exhibitors seem to be the best buyers. Should be interesting a learning experiance...can't wait to see the booth!

[Diana]

Many thanks, Janae!

Well, so much for my wallflower intentions, eh?? This is such a justifiable way to avoid everything else and exercise procrastination, though!!

But now I really am just stalling. The gates to the fair open in half an hour for vendors, etc., to sett up. Mike put up the big stuff last night. My job is the fun, frilly stuff today. Then the curtain officially goes up tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. -- with make-up!

I really don't think I could have gotten this done without Mike, the heavy lifting and building notwithstanding. "Ok, make a list. Alright, where are you? What's left? How ya doin'?" The last one is code for "I'm not sure you're on track right now." And I KNOW I couldn't do this without my friends and family chipping in and taking shifts!! Twelve hours a day for ten days in a row. This is going to be a real test!

The position of our booth couldn't be more perfect!!! There's no airconditioning in the building (it's the Bay Area, folks...I'd never lived in a house with AC until Mike and I had one installed 4 years ago), and most booths get some kind of sun during the day. BUT NOT OURS!!! PLUS, because of where we're positioned, we've got a little extra space AND an outlet!! We're set!! I AM going to bring some air freshener, though, since we ARE right next to the men's room.

Prayer requests: Our energy and safety (and prosperity), and that we'll be true ambassadors. Please pray specifically that I'll get through the entire run without a flattening mirgraine attack. I've scheduled at least one other person to be with me in the booth at all times as a back up. But I really want to get through this without going down...at all. (Nonetheless, not my will... and all I can really do is set up the right conditions to the best of my ability.)

Alrighty, then! See you in a about a week and a half. It's off to the fair!!

[Diana]

Greetings from the Solano County Fair! We've resisted the funnel cakes, the cotton candy, the foot-long corndogs, even the popcorn. We did, howsomeever, succomb to some sugar free fudge -- big mistake. My GI tract voted unanimously against the artificial sweetener and moved the vile stuff, and everything ahead of it, out post haste! So, I'm not sure if the 0.6 is dehydration or an actual loss. No matter, and lesson learned!!

It's so easy to post on here, all you who read my filtered yet still intimate thoughts and share in the journey. (And I am aware that I've changed my whole stance and sense of audience since starting this journal. My first post really was just to see where the fingers went. Now I feel like I write letters to friends...well, sort of. it's not like I reference your life often or ask how things are in your arenas -- but taken all together, that's what the sum of the posts throughout the forum become. So, Hi, all. thanks for having an impact and bearing on my life...and taking an interest in my ramblings)

Mike and I had signs made and one of them has a shortened version of my story stating I was over 300 lbs, with accompanying picture. The first twinge of ... stage fright? exposure?... came when we dropped them off at the copier's. The second one came when we put up the 24"x32" laminated print in the booth. I guess this is as close as I'll come to understanding what it's like to come out of the closet. (Like everyone who looked at me didn't KNOW I was incredibly heavy.) Nonetheless, it's a little scary, emotionally revealing, like I'm on display here with the 3-legged chicken.

We're getting some resonses...some definites (mostly people I know who haven't seen me in a while), some who want to attend tastings, some who are just curious. It's hard to let others come to the realization themselves that they would really benefit from this program.

alrighty, back to the front table.

[Diana]

I am so unbelievably tired that it's nuts that I'm even up, much less posting.

Last night was so exciting, though, and I don't want to let it get away.

Dayna and I rode RIDES at the FAIR!! It was wayy too cool!! There's this one -- the Tornado -- that's a cross between the Teacup ride at Disneyland and the traditional swings on a turnythingy. We laughed the whole time. We also went on this one ride -- Mike called it a somethingerother carpet -- kind of a bleacher set up that rotates like a ferris wheel, but facing out instead. For some reason, it was absolutely the most terrifying thing I've done in a long time (the gondola ride in UT notwithstanding). We went in the fun house, down the giant slide, on the Scrambler, and I introduced Dayna to the Tilt-a-Whirl! Apparently, she'd never been on one before. Holy toledo, that was fun!! Unfortunately, I was too hot and nauseous to continue after all of that.

I just can't get over the fact that ALL of the bars went down; and not ONCE did I get asked to disembark. Amazing. It's happening. I'm getting myself back. And I'm so grateful and delighted, I have to post.

(Not only that, we both looked really good in our jeans and way too cool tops...and make up, including eyeliner! heehee)

3 more days of fair. Mike's going in in the morning so I can sleep, do laundry, run errands, etc.

[SharonR]

Di!!!!!!!! You went on Carni rides?? You are the coolest! How fun, I can just see it, you are going to be hitting every fair now just to ride the rides...hehehe.

I'm glad you get to have some down time this morning. Sorry we won't be seeing you. We will stop by and visit with Mike for awhile this morning after we drop off Desiree. I figure we will be getting there between 11:00 and 12:00.

I'm so proud of you for sticking it out this whole week with the HEAT...not sure if it's been as hot over there, but it's been close to a 100 everday this week here here. San Fran here we come! Suppose to be in the 70's there.

Give me a call Monday or Tuesday, after you have had some time to recover!

[Diana]

Holy Toledo, I'm beat!!

I couldn't get to sleep last night, and I had a class that started at 8:30 this morning. (I would have been on time, too, if I had read the email correctedly and realized WHICH city it was in... ) I think I got a grand sum of about 4 hours last night.

I'm deeply encouraged by the fair experience, despite the fact that it was, at one point, 108 in the vendor hall. (Mike took over completely and let me go home during the hottest hours. To my amazement, that's when we got the most business and interest. What an incredible partner--in every essence of the word. I am so unbelievably blessed!!!)

I'm on track to shed 60# by Sunday. I'm going to try to walk at least 3 times this week. This should put me on track to be down 80# by September 16th. In the end, we didn't do the complete plan at the fair. I'm still making peace with the Vanilla RTDs (because cocoa is a migraine trigger for me). I know I could have mixed up packets like Mike, but it was just too gosh darn hot to bother! (I don't do heat......at all.)

Looking forward to a little R&R with the hubster this coming weekend (well, week, really -- we plan to be gone a full 7 days) -- Monterey, Gilroy Garlic Festival, whale watching, probably the Aquarium, no doubt a beautiful drive down along the Carmel coastline, and SLEEP!!!

Speaking of which, I hear my pillow calling...

[Diana]

To continue my thoughts from another thread only because I have more thoughts in my head, not because I want to bring the angst to terra firma... (http://www.makemethinner.com/forum/view ... 0659#80659)

To be honest, I think the topic -- fully compliant or not -- speaks to a deep philosophical debate that's very much alive and kicking on this forum, and perhaps in the larger Medifast community as well.

As long as we can come at the topic objectively and approach each other respectfully, I think it's good to acknowledge it and get it out in the open. No hidden agendas. We have a lot of experience and knowledge on this board -- I think we can all benefit from the examples of others. We all need someone with whom to identify, whose path is similar to our own. (My favorite anecdote is my friend SharonR who needed people to talk to because, as much as I want to, I can't say I know how she feels or understand really what she's going through on this program.)

The problems arise, perhaps, from the pseudo anonimity provided by this medium. It's a lot safer to react in the confines of our own environments. We use a completely different filter when actually looking into someone's eyes and hearing the words come spilling from our mouths. (not to mention the benefit of dynamics provided by body language and SPOKEN tone -- none of which precisely translate here)

[SharonR]

I hear that loud and clear! And just for the record, you aren't going anywhere missy...*ask Mike he will tell you*

Can't we all just get along?

[Unca_Tim]

ask Mike he will tell you*

Can't we all just get along?

Wasn't that Rodney?

[Diana]

ask Mike he will tell you*

Can't we all just get along?

Wasn't that Rodney?

lol, was indeed, Unca, was indeed.

[Mike]

ask Mike he will tell you*

Can't we all just get along?

Wasn't that Rodney?

It was Rodney, but that wasn't what Sharon meant. Kind of an inside understanding thing with Di, Sharon and I I think.

Anyhoo....

[Diana]

We're off to Monterey for 7 days. You know, I can't even remember if we went anywhere for spring break last school year or not. (wracking little used summer brain...) This has been a busy summer so far, and it's going to pick up and keep going the day after we get back. I mentioned last night, tongue firmly planted against cheek, that I kinda miss the days when we had no energy!! Part of the problem is that now I have more energy to STRESS about things. That's gotta change, and organization will help...not that we've had time to get to that.

I'm so motivated this morning -- I was kind of discouraged last night, but I'm ok with that now (what's the wriggly guy's name in Veggie Tales' "Johan"?) I'm a scant half pound away from the 60# club. I didn't get 4-month pictures taken. Maybe I'll just wait 'til Aug. 16th and skip Month 4 all together pictorially.

The one thing Mike brought up about this whole weightloss phenomenon is the changed in (ahem) intimacy. So, those comments in Ascicles' thread about weight loss improving men's sex life...COMPLETELY TRUE!!! But, I have to say, it's not just for the benefit of the men. *winkwink* .::sighandswoon::..

[Mike]

Hmmm.... thinks perhaps the Spring Break trip to Yosemite was forgettable?? (Also understands the stress the wifey has been under, so understands )
No comment on the intimacy thing....