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Congratuations @Jenny for being smoke free for SIX YEARS.... Lido Deck6 ... Every year is a huge achievement. Thank your for all your wonderful work around the boards too. The support, advice and insight you give to us all following in your wake is truly valued by those of us following in your footsteps. Please make sure you do something to treat yourself today to celebrate the best decision you ever made.

Hey Mr DJ - Zhane Zombie - The Cranberries

Would this someone also be excited by whips and chains?... there are places they can go to get those needs fulfilled.

^^ don't forget to consider measurements... because muscle really does weigh more than fat, so you may be loosing fat but with all the extra physical activity you are doing you may also be gaining muscle.... so you need to consider your measurements because while you losses may not be big, you may infact be toning up and gaining muscle. Just something else to consider.

^^ Why do I always forget W??.... ok to make transition easy.. cos X is hard.... 1980's Everybody Wants To Work - The Uncanny X-men Switcheroo... and cos its the Switcheroo I can do the next letter in the postings... The 90's....

The Stanley Cup finalists have been decided and the playoffs start next week. So who will you be cheering for, the hapless Caps who have been in the comp since 1974 and have never won a Stanley Cup of the johnny come lately new boys of the comp the Vegas Golden Knights who are in the Finals in this their very first season... or do you not give a shit either way? I'll be going for the Caps... have been cheering them along since the Leafs dropped out... their fans have earnt the celebration, they have been waiting for over 4 decades, the Golden Knights are too new and shiney, they need to know what loosing is about to really appreciate the cup. The poll will remain open until the night before the first play off... so it closes 6pm on 28 May.

Been thinking about this... and here is a tip that I didn't realise the significance of early on.... Don't stress if your quit is different to someone else ... everyone's quit is different. Early on I wasted energy stressing over the fact that my quit was different to other peoples quits.... worrying that what I was feeling and experiencing wasn't the same as someone else. Or that what others were saying would help didn't help me. Its simple, we are all different. We are all individuals. Some of my experiences with quitting may have mirrored tom's and some may have mirrored harry's but none of it was like dick's... so what. No one ever, is going to have exactly the same experience as you. Just because their experience is completely different to yours doesn't mean they will succeed and you wont or vice versa. We are all on the same journey, just some of us are wearing runners and some are wearing heels... so what... the thing is it doesn't matter how we get there, on the nice smooth flat path or the pot hole riddled barely visible track or completely cross country... it doesn't matter, just as long as we all get there. The shear beauty of the The QT (especially with all the wonderful Old Phartes who are still hear to help the newbies) if someone here hasn't been through what you are currently experiencing, they know the story of someone else who has... you are not alone, you may be having different journeys but you are not doing it alone. So some lucky buggers have it nice and easy, some of us get periods of both and some of us have to claw our way to freedom inch by inch... what we all are is QUIT.... what we all share is that we are former smokers. So don't worry if Sally posts about how easy peasy quitting is... because that lucky b1tch is having an easy time, but you know what, she might have the worst foot odour on earth or might not be able to cook a meal that even a half starved dog would eat... basically be happy for Sally cos she is free of nicotine but don't compare your quit to her or to tom or dick or harry because their quit is not yours... your quit is what it is and its a thing of beauty and something to be proud of weather it is easy, hard or somewhere in between... own it just how it is and rejoice in its very existence, warts and all.

hanks @Whispers... I tried the cutback thing too from time to time but always found withing a week I'd be back to my usual and sometimes with and extra one of two added to the amount.

OK... for those diet conscious with their quits... eat strawberries, they are natural appetite suppressants but give you that nice hit of sugar you BSL (blood sugar level) needs, and they taste good.... another good alternative is water melon... the sugar his is spot on but the water content is also really high which fills you up. Another surprisingly good option is carrot sticks and even celery sticks... both (particularly carrots) are high in sugar so hit the BSL brief, both are not super quick to eat so fill the distract the crave brief, both are healthy, and both actually take about an equivalent number of calories to consume and process as you actually get from them.

^^ That's what you think Reci... but I'm sure I could bring back his smile....

Morning fellow NOPErs... today we celebrate Brothers Day .... OH woops, not those brothers, sorry peeps... its the day to celebrate our Brothers.... they may be stinky and smelly but take time today to give ya Bro a shout out and let him know he is loved (unless he is a complete oxygen theif and then you can claim one of the Hemsworths)... Now by some bizarre coincidence it is also Tiara Day.. so not sure if your brother is expected to wear one or you are but rock that bling. To my Bro:... thanks for all the teasing over the years, you were a snot nosed brat who drove me insane and got me into way too many fights with your big smart mouth... but the crays and tuna and abalone and fish you keep me in supply of more than pays up for the annoyance your were as a kid. Luv ya little Bro. So as we celebrate our brothers AND don our tiaras lets us all unite and yell... NOPE ... cos nothing controls my life but me!!! Topic of the Day: The 90's (this ones for our lovely @WeegieWoman)

Yep... um X mate.. need and X... if you don't have one I do

Who Framed Roger Rabbit.... well yesterday was a not a good day on the boards for some. I think I'll give the 80's until your northy arse morning....

... and saw a boost in migration over here and a boost to our union leadership as well... US hostages released after 444 days captivity in the US emabacy in Tehran.

13 tables are awesome.... figure he thought the fact he got a class full of bogan kids to learn anything was an achievement... besides the deal was learn ya 13 times tables and he'd teach us to make marionette puppets... no deal for 14 or 15s ... 3 is the lie.... hmmm.... 2 might be true cos you might have training but you said playing and playing is a game not training so 3 is the lie because you are going swimming tonight and you wont be delayed by not packing your kit cos of some silly numbers game.

@Kate18 you nurture that nice ray of light that is filtering in, keep it protected from the shadows. Protect it and surround it with positive energy and watch it grow. I love this imagery, and am probably going to steel and plagiarize it in the near future... its caught in one of the corners of my brain and I can feel it growing. Saz is right though, keep those blood sugars up... it does help.

OK we have a winner, and an oh so humble one at that.... 1- true, prefer feet n inches for height but all the restvus metric cis the others are history subjects not math... 2- lie.. Although point of order, its a lie because I know my time tables by heart up to and including 13s...everyone in Mr O'Ds grade 6 St Joey's class learnt up to the 13s...and well they still in there. 3- True, check it twice a day for work and use it just as often.

I'd like to start by thanking my sensai Reci for all his expert training. I would like to thank the acedemy for... Oh wait wrong speech... Thanks all for the faith, here's to all the future woohoos, may they be plentiful and in readable English not my usual Strine. ? If any of you mob have a special quit buddy you want to do the woohoo for please feel free, more than happy to share.

Wash your mouth out with hot coffee Sian... While I might pledge VNN (vegemite not now) or TNT (timtams not today) I am not prepared to pledge ever... Uh uh aahhhh...

NOPE .... Definitely not a joke... Best wishes for a good scan and healthy bloods today...

Australia the penal Paradise...home of the TimTam!

1. I only do metric, unless we talking height. 2. I know my times tables by heart up to 15s. 3. I know the current exchange rates for €, £ and us$ to the Aussie.

TimTams are the best chockie bickies in the whole entire world... They a frucking divine... There is even a special way to eat them called the TimTam slam. Im all good, this will be ova before ya know it.

Congratulations @Opah on being 2 months smoke free. Well done on your work with keeping this quit. I hope you take the time to celebrate your achievements and do something special to spoil yourself.