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!

It’s January 1st, 2006. Pounds2Go is now alive and well, with me (Leanne) as your hostess, I hope to incite and inspire you to join me on my endeavor to permanently change my physique!

Since March of 2004, I’ve been determined to shape up. I lost track over the summer (winter, and fall) of 2005, so it’s time to get back on track! I’ve been at it again since Saturday, December 24th. To date, I’ve lost 5 pounds, I’ve gone from roughly 2000 calories a day down to 1500 healthy calories a day.

Exercise, you ask? I started at 2 miles a day, increasing by one-tenth each day. I am currently up to 2.8 miles with a goal of 5 miles per day.

As for P2G, we’re going to be HUGE. So if you’re in on the grand opening, you are going to be floored with what’s going to be happening here!

I have some tweaking to do with the code, so you will notice some minor adjustments here and there. For the most part, I’m rip-roaring R2G (Ready 2 GO!) and am so excited!

Wanna join me? Check out that top menu. I’ll be working out the kinks as I go with group members on a one-on-one basis. Wanna support me and others here achieve our goals? We welcome your comments! The nice ones, that is.

Grab that button, put it up on your own blog, and dedicate yourself to a healthier, happier you for 2006!