Dollars for Pounds ~ Losing Weight to Gain Awareness for MM
Well yesterday was my Official Weigh in date and I am excited to say that during my pre-diet phase I lost 7&1/2 pounds and 1 inch. I will try and figure out how to add pictures here so you can watch the progress as well as read about it.
As I mentioned before my goal is to lose 120 pounds and to raise $120,000. for Multiple Myeloma Awareness! I am blessed to have the support of the Pensacola office of the Physican Weight Loss Center helping me to achieve this goal and officially documenting my success. Rosemary and Rika are great encouragers.
At my official weigh in I was at 289 lbs. I am not counting the 7&1/2 I have already lost since that was beofre the start date.
I will go in every week and will submit a post to let you all know the progress. Please if you have not read the starting of my Blog’s go back and read my story.
We are hoping to receive donations by 20 pound increments; 20 pounds ~ $20.00.
The webMaster is still planning this out on the IMF website @ www.myeloma.org .
Current donations can be made to the IMF stating “ECMMSG ~ Dollars for Pounds”.
Blessings to you all!
Beth hope you are doing well!
See you next week!
Debi
Regular News | Comment (0)Our Group Meeting Saturday the 25th of August
The Emerald Coast MM Support Group met this past Saturday and what a surprise! We had 7 attend! For a new support group this is great! 5 new people and 1 was out of town visiting family! We send out a special thank you to Andy from the IMF for coming to visiting us and sharing so much with us. It was a very informative meeting! We watched 2 DVD’s, one titiled, “I have Multiple Myeloma, now what?” and the other was on the Kyphoplasty. This was good timing for us as one of our members is considering this as an option in their treatment at this time! We have 2 members that have already had great success with this.
What an honor it is for me to host this group. I look forward to each meeting to see new faces coming in. It is a joy to share smiles, tears, laughter, hugs and just to be there for each other. If any of you are ever in the Pensacola area we meet on the 4th Saturday of every month at 10am @ the West Florida Public Library located on the corner of Gregory and Spring St.
See you next month!
Debi
Regular News | Comment (0)Emerald Coast Multiple Myeloma Support Group
Yes indeedy my first post, my first blog attempt, my first of many things!
I am honored to say I am the host for the Emerald Coast Multiple Myeloma Support Group, based in Pensacola, FL.
We serve the SE Alabama area and well as the Panhandle area of FL. We meet on the 4th Saturday of the month at the West Florida Public Library on Gregory St.
This Saturday is our 2nd meeting and we are pleased to say we will have as a speaker someone from the IMF (International Myeloma Foundation - www.myeloma.org)He is the SE Regional Director for Support Groups. I was fortunate to go to Atlanta and meet with him personally the first of July and was able to attend the Atlanta Support Group.
I, myself do not have MM, but I do have a close friend that was dx’d a little over 10 years ago. It has had a tremdous affect on my life! After moving to the Pensacola area in 2003 it seemed like I kept running into Patients or someone who was a caregiver of MM and there is no Support Group in the area. All of those I came in contact with really felt all alone. So we started the Emerald Coast MM Support Group.
I am wanting to bring as much awareness to the outside world as I possibly can about Multiple Myeloma.
So ~ I wanted to do a Fundraiser deal but wanted it to be kinda unique. So I have thought and prayed about this.
Also it is good to know this; every year my church ~ Jubilee International Ministries~ goes to Africa for a Medical Missions trip and I am hoping to go in the Spring~ we built an orphanage and school there. As most of you know, Aids is the number one reason for the orphaned children.
I know this is all over the place but stay with me for a second..
I am extremely overweight and traveling any distance in the air would not be a pleasant thing.so I have got to lose weight. I hear a fundraiser in this!!!!
Dollars for Pounds have been birthed. With the help of the IMF and Physican’s Weight Loss Center (PWLC) here in Pensacola we have put together a plan for me to lose 120 pounds and to raise money for Multiple Myeloma Awareness and Research! I will track my success here on my blog and you can also follow it on the IMF website @ www.myeloma.org under Events. They are in the process of setting it up as we speak..or as I write ;-)!
So Stay Tuned in .Official Weigh In next Tuesday the 28th of August 2007.
Blessings to you all
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