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My Life and Weight Loss Through NS: October 2006

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Friday, October 20, 2006

My Friends and Me in FIRST magazine... Scanned Pics

Hey guys!

I'm so excited. I don't know how many of you read the newsletter a couple months ago about the "NS Sensational Six", which featured a story on Tracie (mrsgeonice), Susan (candlesusan), Emily (emilyliz), Sharon (Hope4Me!), Brenda (willeyway), and me (amysmithr), but if you didn't you can go back and see it HERE. Anyway, it includes info I think about how we all got to go do this article for First For Women. If not, you can read more about that on my blog post, and see some VIDEO from the trip and photo shoot HERE. The article comes out in stores on Oct 3oth (and is the Nov 20th issue date, I believe).

ANYWAY, Tracie is a subscriber to First magazine and got it in the mail today. She scanned the pages in and sent it out to the rest of us girls and I posted them side by side so we could see the "real version". Sorry the pics are so big. I figured that was the only way to be able to read the story. Anyway, you can get the REAL magazine article if you go buy First in stores on Oct 30th. I do believe according to Tracie that our very own Susan and Sharon even have small pics on the front of the COVER! Awesome, eh? Way to make the cover women! You all rock! Love you all.

Nutrisystem is amazing for helping us to lose all this weight, and even more amazing for providing these support boards for us all so we could form these close friendships and have such great weight loss support along the way. Don't you all agree? :)



Amy
Start Weight 180
Goal Weight 130
Now trying to maintain between 120 and 125 lbs
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Close-ups so you can read it hopefully:



Yes, they got a few things wrong on me here. My age- I'm 28, and was when they took the photo shoot pics too. LOL. My start weight and lowest weight should be 180 and 120. Also, they mis-quoted me on the "Amy's Top Tip". That should read 1 TEASPOON of peanut butter, not 1 TABLESPOON. Oh well. You all know that anyway. Whatcha gonna do? LOL.


That top left pic was pre-makeup and hair for all of us the morning of the photo shoot. We were just fooling around taking "before" pics without any hair or makeup done (they make you come to those things with little to no make-up and no product in your hair... YIKES). These were pics from one of our own digital cameras, so we never thought it'd end up in the magazine! Susan was funny and said we should all do "Jazz Hands". LOLOL. There's the story on that one. :)



And here are some of my own personal pics from the photo shoot. I actually have a couple of really great individual shots that the photographer took of me, but I don't have the rights to post those here, so I'll just post my pics from my own camera instead.


Almost ready


With the wardrobe stylist


















Wednesday, October 04, 2006

My visit with JannyAnne :)

OK, so it's been a little while since Jan visited, but I wanted to put up these pics. My dear sweet friend Jan (JannyAnne on the NS boards) came out to Colorado with her husband Rob for a visit on Sept 9th, just over 3 weeks ago. We had such a blast!!! We've been good friends on the NSBB since Spring of 2005 when I was still in the process of losing weight and Jan was losing weight for her wedding. (She looked so beautiful on that day)! We started e-mailing daily last Dec (2005) to help eachother lose weight and maintain. Not a day has gone by since (well, except for when she was here visiting, LOL) that we don't e-mail eachother a gazillion times about anything and everything. She is one of my very best friends, and when Chris (cygnet2), Jan, and I get together, everybody just better watch out! LOL.

Here's a few pics from our time together. It was so amazing to finally meet in person, even though it feels like we've known eachother for a lifetime already anyway! Love you Jan!


Jan and me at Garden of the Gods




"Holding up a rock" at Garden of the Gods, LOL


Awwwwwww


at Seven Falls


Seven Falls


The one thing you must know about Jan... she takes pics ANYTIME and ANYWHERE and of ANYTHING she wants. LOL. Here's Rob (Jan's husband) and I hiking in front of her at Seven Falls


OK, SERIOUSLY Jan, one wasn't enough? ROTF...


REALLY now, are you coming or what???


You've GOT to be kidding me?!?! Can we just walk already? LOL


STILL on our hike at Seven Falls... ANOTHER photo op. LOL
HEY! She said the "fence was cute". hehehe


Jan: "Oooo. Ooooo. Look at that rock! Let's take a pic there!!!" hahaha


Jan and Rob at "Inspiration Point", top of the Seven Falls hike. Aren't they just SOOO cute?


She even takes pics of me videotaping!!! LOL


Pic Jan took of the sunset one night from my front porch


Jan joining me at my house, checking out the nightly NSBB posts


Are you KIDDING me??? I can't even come out of my bathroom without a flash going off in my face!!! ROTFLMAO


Best friends

Well obviously, you know Jan now and know there are a GAZILLION more pics than that, but that's all I'm posting here. LOL. It was a great time. One I'll treasure for a lifetime!

Jan, you know I love ya! :)

Amy