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Thank you!

I received the following mail today and wanted to get this out to anyone interested. It sounds like a great opportunity!

Hi! I am working on a wellness series for Discovery Health. We are looking for an overweight man or woman from the NYC area who is looking to drop some pounds and adopt a healthier lifestyle.

Our host will work with the person to help him or her find simple techniques to achieve this. Our host has lost 100 lbs himself in the past few years and can personally identify with the struggles of weight loss. It’s not about spending exorbitant amounts of money on a personal trainer or conforming to a strict diet of wheatgrass and lima beans or making yourself miserable and stressed out confirming to a strict regimen. Instead our host suggests simple lifestyle changes and emphasizes the importance of finding a healthy lifestyle that resonates with the individual. Our host is non-judgmental and will treat each individual case with dignity.

If you meet this bill, please respond to christine@engelentertainment.com with a description of yourself, your contact information, and why you are interested in participating.

Thank you, and good luck!

I’ve modified the sidebar a bit, and we have a “regular” blogroll now. I’d like to link to members pages, websites, whatever you’ve got on the web. Members only, please!

If your link isn’t there, leave it here in comments and I’ll get it added to the blogroll.

Grazie!

Four new members to announce today, and my apologies for the delay in getting you guys set up!

Emma, Angela, Sitting Still and Jacque D., welcome! Make yourselves at home!

Hi all! Happy Monday! (I think?!)

I spent some time yesterday removing inactive members (from last week’s sticky post). Those members are listed on that entry.

A lot of people have shown interest in the 6-day mini makeover program, part of Michael Thurmond’s 6 Week Body Makeover. I’ve modified the entry over on the recipe blog for anyone interested, now the “how-to” as well as every other body type menu is linked for you to save/print. The questionaire is also linked there if you don’t already know your body type. The 6-week makeover, if you want to review the whole plan, is here (but if you want to buy it, it’s cheaper here).

I also have a few new members in queue to setup, and I will get to those in the next couple of days. Thanks for your patience!

I’ve just upgraded P2G’s main site to WordPress 2.0.1. You may see some differences in writing your entries, you might not. Regardless, while I was cleaning-house this afternoon I decided to have a look at reducing the size of the site by eliminating some unused features and members who have not been active.

Feedback time, please!

1. Member pages. This has been addressed before, some see it as useful, some do not. Please comment on whether you would like your member page removed. If you do not want it removed, no need to comment. Just send along something to fill it up when you can.

2. Inactive members. There are several. Please review the Members Page, and if your name has been double-asterisked, you have either not posted at all, or posted fewer than 3x during your membership. I tried not to include new members, but in all fairness (and strictly to encourage active membership and progress), I am choosing to ask that members marked either participate or step down. If you’ve been marked and want to maintain your membership, please say so.

I may sound a little bossy in that second request, but I’m the one maintaining things here and it’s a lot of work for me to set up members that do not speak up. It’s also very discouraging to me to have members kinda hanging-out there in maybe-land, when active members are truly doing their damndest to reach their goals. I created this blog to support eachother, so the tighter-knit the group is, the more success there will be. If you don’t have time, that’s fine, you may want to rejoin when you do have the time to participate.

(This is me, stepping down off of the soapbox now.)

Please let me know on these two items. I will delete member pages upon request (from active members) and route your link on the Members Page directly to your log.

If you have any questions or requests, lemme know!

**UPDATE 2/26/06**
THE FOLLOWING INACTIVE MEMBERS HAVE BEEN REMOVED:
Bec, Chrissy, Christina, Crystal, Dale, Janet, Jenny, KC, Kathi, Kristi, Laurel, Mignon, Phoenix, Rebeka, She, Taba, Tara, Tricia, Turtle, Vanesa, Veronika and Zootnarf.

If your account has been removed and you would like to be an active member, please re-apply through the member application. Thanks!

Four new members have been added to the group, I thought I’d put up a sticky for a couple of days to welcome them and give everyone a chance to become familiar with some new names/faces.

Please Welcome Cathy, Slightly Fluffy, Elle and She!

Those of you who just signed up this weekend, please be patient – I will get you set up and send you your info some time Monday morning.

If no one sees a use for the member pages, I’ll go ahead and remove them. There are only a couple of people using that space, your logs are all linked individually on the sidebar, so right now it just links to .. nothin’. Let me know your thoughts on those. Note: You need to use the contact form to submit your info for your member page. It’s the only way that can be done at the moment.

**UPDATE** Please check the RECIPE section, we have a contributor who is filling up the space with some really delish and good-for-you foods!

**MEMBERS** Please be sure that you select your log under “Categories” when posting, it’s in the right column on your posting page. Thank you!

Back to your regularly scheduled weight loss programs!

Some of you may (or may not) notice some jazzy new tools around here. I’m still tweaking the design and features available, but wanted to note to major things at the moment:

1. Spell Check: I’ve added spell check to the post page – the active spell check (while typing) is not active, but the regular spell check is functional.

2. Subscribe to Comments: This is handy when you’re participating in a conversation with an author or another commentor. Just click the box, and you’ll get e-mail notifications when the conversation has continued on.

3. Top Supporters: In the sidebar, I wanted to list members who are the most active – hopefully to inspire others to be just as active, but definitely to note the top contributors! Their names link to their own blogs, in case you’d like to visit them.

4. Inspirational Quotes: I’ve decided to use the top weight display window for inspirational quotes. If you have any to add, let me know. Don’t forget to read them when you stop by, I’ve loaded it up and you know how it goes – it will display exactly what you needed to see at the moment you needed to see it.

There will be other tools, but for now those are the major ones that I felt were noteworthy.

If you have links to add, recipes to share, anything you feel should have a permanent home here, please send it along through the contact form, I will get to it as time allows.

Members pages: Each member has their own empty page (aside from one member, Lindsey, who completed hers already) – if there’s anything you’d like to put in that space – a pic, a bio, a link to your own space – please send that info along as well. If you’d rather not have that page, let me know so I can remove it.

As of this moment, we have 38 members. This is amazing, and I am so excited to see everyone progress and reach their goals!!

I’ll be back around in a bit to chart my own progress for the day!