It's Love In Friday!!

Let's spread  the Love and give a shout out to someone who has influenced, guided, inspired, or supported you through this weight release journey! (New phrase! We know where the weight goes, it isn't "lost", we release it from our bodies! Also if we don't lose it, we can't find it again)!!!

My shout out is to Ms Gina this week! She is one of the first people I ever met and it was at the coffee house meetings which are now the Rise and Shine meetings! I wasn't even on line yet! She was so warm and inviting and her story so inspiring. Gina held my hand through all the chaos of getting to my surgery and all the crap after my surgery and helped me keep smiling with her wicked sense of humor!!

Thank you Ms Gina for lovin me and I'm glad there is nothin I can do about it!!

Meggie

Awww.thank, MEGGIE..it does seem like I've known you forever (back when you were still MEGAN, even..lol)....Your eyes/smile/personality are the same, but the "outer package" is oh so different. A wimpy person would have given up when the insurance was giving you hell, Dr. Dirk left town on you, etc. but YOU hung in there!!!

It's difficult for me to "name names", but since we're going to be doing it every week, I'm more comfortable in "sharing the news"

My pick for the week is PAIGE E. If she had not decided to do the White Rock 1/2 marathon in December, I would not have started boot camp and started exercising, etc. She wanted to get involved in something big, and I wanted to help HER....forget THAT...SHE wound up helping ME and alot of others who have already signed up-She has done an awesome job of working her band and is just, in general a really neat lady!

Awwwwwwwww thanks Miss Gina!!!  I am so excited that we have been able to get others to jump on the bandwagon and join us at White Rock!!!

Good Morning!!!

My shout out is to Vivian!  For taking the time to do the grateful post and reply to others, most importantly because she lends support not only here but on other boards on OH. 

Blessings,

Nina

 Awww.....Thank you Nina.   I am so honored !!!!    My shout today is for Meggie.    All that she has gone threw and is still so very positive about her WLS.   Love ya Meggie !!!

Hugs and blessings ~~~ Vivian

Awe honey, you are so sweet...and you have been right there for me through it all!!! you are so sweet! Thank you!!!

Meggie

My shout out is going to Tawnya Hendricks.  She was/is such an inspiration to me.  My mentor and my friend.  I am in awe at her disicpline and determination and have learned so much from her.  Last year she was one of the ones that reached out to me and gave me a shoulder or should I say jet ski, ;) to help me move past a very hard time in my life.  I don't tell her enough how much I have appreciated that and how much I have missed her.  Girl you rock!  Love you bunches!

I'm kind of with Gina on this.... I hadn't posted on this thread in the past because there are just so many people out there that I just didn't know how to narrow it down.  However, since this is going to be a regular thing I will start with the first person (well second person... because #1 isn't here anymore) I met here at OH. 

This would be Donna... aka Bumblebug.  We were introduced at my first OH conference 2 years ago and have become the best of friends!!  I am 100% sure I would not be where I am today without her!  She has been a friend, a mentor, and a counselor to me and hung around through thick and thin!!  A true friend!

I promise to keep this going, I have a lot of people to give shout out to also! So many people here on Oh have done so much to help me on my journey and I have a method to my madness! Miss seeing Bumblebug around these parts!!

Meggie