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LOL, oh my God! I want to be your buddy too!!! I can't belive this, so many people with similar things going on.

I just quit smoking in JAN!!!

I'm turning 30 this summer too!!!

I'm a mom not of two, but of 5 kids! This is baby weight, a lot of baby weight!

I used to be a size 5 once upon a great while.

Yeah I have a lot more weight to loose then you but who cares. I make you look good!

Just so you know I think from what I've read, here and other sites 1200 calories are way to low for you. It's borderline starving, through exercise into the mix and you have a bigger defiset then you want, and you could be seting yourself up for a big problem. If you loose the "diet" idea. And think life change, and read the sticky threads on this board etc, you will be suprised that everything you thought you "knew" is well wrong..lol... I found that for me I needed to eat more to loose weight, sounds dumb, but it's true, my calories were way to low so my body hung onto the extra fat.. Now that I'm feeding my body properly I'm loosing weight, and lots of inches. Last week I lost 8 inches in my stomach!!!! I use a calorie caculator online, and it makes it totaly easy. If your interested I can tell you more.. I am working out about 7 day's a week allso. Pilates, Taebo, and some other tapes. I use the stationary bike at home, and an old eliptical machine. I also jump rope, and I weight lift, oh and I'm using the balance ball... BUT, It's all doable, I've ajusted very fast to working out every day and it's something I look forward to now... Oh and I drink water all day long! I eat mainly health food, but I don't worry about it, if I want a cookie I'll have one, as long as I have enough calories to spare, and I want to waist them on a cookie, which most of the time I don't want to. This is a LIFE change, so it has to be able to be maintained, for ever.

Anyway , glad to see two others on the exact path I'm on, quit smoking, and now we can work on getting smokin hot!!lol

Hope2

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