We each got one plate and one person got a lemonade.

Needs to go on a diet.

As much as i hate to, if F4F doesn't call me tomarrow by noon i will go to my awesome bank- but still a bank and hope they will give me the credit I need to secure this place and begin participating in this amazing market, and no more rationing food by the 15th of the month while my wife Drs. hound her for higher protein in her diet.  

I'm glad to hear that you made lemonade out of lemons. 

I've been on strict diet since August and have already lost close to 30 pounds and almost at my target weight.  

It's been a long journey in different places for you, and you turned that into sweet, sweet lemonade!!!!

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I'm so bad at buying into the hype and end up buying whatever people are selling whether it's the latest get rich quick scheme, diet fad or the newest blender!

Even with the deals I slightly regret, I do my best to make the lemons into lemonade.

Thanks @Wayne Brooks and @Chris Winterhalter I have run about 12 Half Marathons in the last 6 months, and have measured performances based on diet especially juices - the juice bar is going up.