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Hi Krysti!

Thanks SO much for your kind words! As far as shooting in the raw-LOL! If I was..I wouldn't know it-I am that elementary at it!

Hugs and thanks again!

When I dump, my heart races - that's the first sign.  I can usually head off worse problems if I stop eating whatever I'm starting to dump on.  It happens that quickly.  But early on, I had no idea what was going on, and pretty soon, I'd also be yawning, then needing to go lie down, sleeping like a rock, then the worst was having a bad case of diarrhea.  That last only happened once.  But the whole experience is a little scary.  That racing heart is enough to keep me away from all that carb-y food.  It isn't even tempting when I know what will happen to me physically. 

So, anyway, I read back through what you originally wrote, and it does sound a bit dump-y.  Do you know what you ate?  If you know, and you know how you react to it, it will be no problem to avoid it in the future!  I hope you're feeling better today!

OK, first lesson and this applies to weight loss surgery and our thinking.  I'm sure you've heard me talk about removing guilt/blame/shame/judgment from your thinking.  Here's your first lesson if I may be so bold.  Your work is not pathetic.  It is an awesome representation of your creative work.  It is unique and beautiful like you.  You were even being groomed to be a judge!  That's no small feat.  I think the first image is hilarious.  The truth being that I would be more disturbed about you calling your art, your expression of beauty anything but phenomenal.  Bad impressions, bad words attract that right into our life and when others read this link they will be affected by your words and attach that to your art too.  Again, art is in the eye of the beholder and if you like it or I like it, it is beautiful.  You are extremely talented and I want you to remember that...each person has their talent and you've certainly got yours.  I hope you don't think I am being too harsh on you but it hurts me to hear you say something unkind about something so gorgeous.  Get it?  This is part of our lifestyle change....to be positive and look for the good.  Leave the ugly things behind because they cause us to veer off course and it's important to keep our eyes on the prize.  Even if Sally draws what she calls an ugly stick figure, it is Sally's stick figure and a beautiful stick figure it is because it is drawn by the beautiful person that is Sally.  The world of art is a beautiful place and when it comes from the heart of a person, it is still beautiful.  So my darling, no more or those emotions listed above when it can be helped OK?  As we replace the old tapes, we start functioning like the total highly evolved beings we are and we leave that old thinking behind.  The further out we get, the easier it gets and that's when you will stop hurting yourself by eating when you shouldn't or eating things you shouldn't eat.  It is so important to start to love yourself and respect yourself so that you love and respect your surgery.
OK my beautiful lady??
hugs, Y

 Oh boy...  some of mine are pathetic compared to yours, but I too was totally addicted to Worth... was actually being groomed to be a judge and you are right, it was soooooooo political that I just stopped!  That and I was so addicted to it!!

Here are a few...

And if you feel this is inappropriate, feel free to let me know and I will delete it, but this was just cracked me right up.  The first one I did was disqualified and I was asked to redo it...  The theme of the contest was to create an ad that failed...



This contest was for misplacing a landmark...



This one was colorizing a black and white...



~laughing~  This one was for Create a Greeting Card for a new holiday...



Had to turn a celebrity into Manga... I chose Kirsten Dunst



Okay, stopping now... but I have a bunch of them on my flickr site... http://www.flickr.com/ny-rain if anyone wants to see more!

OH MY GOD!  Worth 1000!  I was addicted!  I SOOOOOOOOOOO apologize for the walk down memory lane but I just had to show you.  For those that don't know, some are real pictures and some are digitally manipulated like the one below.



I won with the rose/pearls (real picture)



Again these are MANY years ago. Another of my winners



4th place on this one



This one didn't rank so high but I loved it




Lots of photo manipulation of my niece....again didn't rank so high. Obviously digital imaging.



This one did OK.



A Dallas Skyline



Kinda funny ....digital imaging



Our Dallas loft a few years ago



A shadow of myself



The cutest cat mom and baby picture I ever took



This one was a second place winner



I spent so many hours competing and it was fairly political.  It's funny I did the image below with some basic tricks and it did really well but yet I spend hours on the one of my neice and it didn't do that well.



thanks Krysti for the walk down memory lane and thanks everyone else for putting up with me doing it.  Krysti I'd love for you to share yours too!  My other big fun thing I do is put people in the picture that were never there or take them out.  I can put you in a picture with someone famous and you'd never know it was fake.
hugs, Y