Okey dokey, I'm ready...... Can you see the city of Stockton on the map of California.....I live 12 miles south of Stockton.

I have copied what STYLZ has said below. She is going to track us on this map. Thanks STYLZ....this is going to be fun.... from STYLZ: Heres our map everyone.. Its a walk from Penn Station in New York to Union Station in LA. http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL1609/9234421/16931981/280980629.jpg now from me: Yesterday I logged 5 miles on my pedometer and today I have a little over 4. We went to a New Hampshire fair today and walked 3 miles at the fair! So I am ready for tomorrow. In addition to increasing my walking, I want to set a personal goal to see how much weight I can lose in October. I have lost no weight in the last 3 months. I am going to attempt to have no nuts or peanut butter during the month...but I may not be that strong!!!! Anyway - hope all you wonderful people are ready to get fired up and start our walking tomorrow. I am going to copy off STYLZ's map and post it on my bulletin board so it is staring me in the face. I think each week on Monday we will report in how many miles we have gone in the previous week and then STYLZ will post our progress on the map and we can print it off each week. Good luck walking MARCHers! See ya in Rebeka's living room around Halloween!!!! Rick - you are walking away from CA, but when you meet us at the Mississippi you can turn around and head to Rebeka's!!!! Anybody leaving from the west can meet us and double back!!!!! Have fun - and take some pictures during your month while out on your walks and I will put them all together with a little slide show! Also, don't forget to email me your address so I can send your certificates to you: [email protected]. Hugs to all...Barbara

http://www.fitday.com/WebFit/PublicJournals.html?Owner=MrsKaradas Still have more water to get in and 1 more meal very low in calories, fat, carbs and protein. It will probably be steamed shrimp and jello.

Emil - here is a copy of Laura's Post: About 3 weeks ago, I felt a bump in my groin area and then a few days later felt another lump on the other side. I went to my PCP to have them checked.....maybe it was normal, just something I hadn't been able to feel all the years I had been obese. To make a long story short, I have been through many tests and scans and biopsies.......and yes, it is a stage 4 cancer......which really means the cancer they found in the inguinal lymph node in the groin is not where the cancer originated. Where it originated from the doctors are still not quite sure. The PET scan only pinpointed the lymph nodes. I am now seeing one of the leading gynocological oncologists around..... Dr Jeffery Skilling at Kaiser Sacramento. He will be doing surgery on me this afternoon to remove the lymph nodes and because of my family history, will also doing a total hysterectomy........ and whatever else he can find. Then about the first of July I will begin chemotherapy. She has been undergoing chemotherapy and is quite a wonderful person in our group of MARCHers. I think it is so admiral of her to want to walk with us and she gets double miles for her effort!!!! Rebeka put us on to the OMRON pedometers. I love mine - it measures miles, aerobic minutes and miles, counts calories burned...just a good and I think very accurate pedometer. Hope you had a fun time in Dallas and we look forward to starting our walk across America tomorrow!!!! Barbara

You look gorgeous!! Good for you!!