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I think many of us can relate to the pain that obesity has caused. For me, it made me self-conscious to the point that I alienated myself from friends, and soon, they just stopped inviting me places and I drifted deeper into my addiction with food. I'm ready to change all that.

I am 32 and my entire life sits before me and frankly, I'm beyond fed up with living vicariously through someone else's life. I'm sick and tired of hearing about someone's trip abroad or sky diving adventure. I want to be the one telling those stories, which brings me to the topic of this thread...

Here are some of mine. I'll continue adding as I think of them.

Jog with my 13 yr old son.

GO to disney world with my son.

Get certified and go scuba diving.

Tandem Sky diving.

Try out snowboarding.

Travel, travel, travel.

Run a marathon.

Sing kareoke in front of a crowd full of strangers.

Lay in a hammock under the tropical sun.

Run with the bulls in Spain.

What are your dreams?

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You know I have OFTEN thought about this and I've actually made a huge list of everything I want to do and have done... So I'll copy/paste from my blog:(I know it is really long) :crying:

Goals I Have Accomplished

Move To Colorado, Work in a Veterinarian Clinic, See Scotland, Get Married and be crazy in love, See Delicate Arch (Arches National Park, Utah), See Yellowstone, Get My Bachelor's Degree, Practice Counseling, Play a Musical Instrument, Take Voice Lessons, Sing in Different Languages, Sing in a great choir, See New York City, See San Francisco, Go to Napa Valley and drink wine, See the West Coast, Ride scary roller coasters, Become CPR/First Aid Certified, Took Ballet, Learn to Drive (!), See Montana, Ride Horses, Gone Skinny Dipping, Learn Basic Spanish and French, Do mission work in other countries, To see Phantom of the Opera in NYC on Broadway, See Christmas lights in NYC, See the Empire State Building, See the CN Tower in Toranto, observed the Olympics, Travel on Route 66, Walked across the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Milked a cow, rode an elephant and camel, Took a cruise to the Bahamas (twice), have multiple cats, get lap band surgery

Goals Still to Acomplish

Travel to the Following places: Italy, England, Ireland, Spain, Germany, Egypt, France (See Paris), Fiji, Swizerland, Austria, Greece, Israel, Alaska, Hawaii, India, Yosemite, Austrailia, New Zealand, Russia, Japan, Be a great example to younger people, lead people to Christ, grow in my faith, Go horseback riding on the beach, Do a cattledrive, Possibly, maybe have a baby, drive on the Audubon, Get my nose pierced, get a small tattoo, Buy a house, go skiing, get healthy, wear a size 8, fly a plane, be in a movie, pay off all debt, go whale watching , Hike to the Hollywood Sign, hire a housekeeper, Try Parasailing, learn to really paint, Try Surfing, See the Northern Lights, See the Kremlin and Red Square, Go to the Cherry Blossom Fesival in Japan, Stay in one of those bungalow huts over the ocean Water, See the Pyramids of Giza, See the Eiffel Tower, See the Grand Canyon, Think more before I speak, Take a course in Wine, Float on the Dead Sea and read a magazine, Visit where Anne Frank hid out, Have a small farm with ducks, chickens, horses, 1 cow, and 1 pig, lots of dogs and cats, own a rabbitt, own an African Gray parrott, grow my own herb and vegetable garden, Walk accross the zebra crossing at Abby Road, Walk in the steps of Jesus and the disciples in the Holy Land, Drive a snowmobile, ride an elephant in India, Ride a camel in Egypt, See the Taj Mahal, Learn Sign Language, Walk on a glacier, to not be scared of snakes and spiders, Ride in a hot air balloon, Take a cruise around the world, Go to Prince Edward Island, See Lucy Maud Montgomery's home, Take Ballet again, try Ballroom dancing,

I think many of us can relate to the pain that obesity has caused. For me, it made me self-conscious to the point that I alienated myself from friends, and soon, they just stopped inviting me places and I drifted deeper into my addiction with food. I'm ready to change all that.

I am 32 and my entire life sits before me and frankly, I'm beyond fed up with living vicariously through someone else's life. I'm sick and tired of hearing about someone's trip abroad or sky diving adventure. I want to be the one telling those stories, which brings me to the topic of this thread...

Here are some of mine. I'll continue adding as I think of them.

Jog with my 13 yr old son.

GO to disney world with my son.

Get certified and go scuba diving.

Tandem Sky diving.

Try out snowboarding.

Travel, travel, travel.

Run a marathon.

Sing kareoke in front of a crowd full of strangers.

Lay in a hammock under the tropical sun.

Run with the bulls in Spain.

What are your dreams?

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