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I found the perfect dress to wear to Ryan's award banquet. The banquet is themed 'Retrograde Amnesia'; you're supposed to dress in a different decade prom type attire. They suggest dressing in the decade you were born. My sister has the perfect 80s prom style dress, but I have to lose about 5 pounds to fit into it. The awards thing is April 24, so I'm hoping I can lose 5 pounds in 18 days. I think I can reasonably do that. Ryan placed one stipulation; if I do anything stupid to lose weight we're not going to the banquet. Reema told me about this site http://www.sparkpeople.com it looks like it may be really helpful. I wish I lived alone so I could plan my meals by it and do my own personal grocery shopping. I guess that would require having a stable income though. So, the loving your body thing is coming at a really good time because I need to focus on loving my body as I do this to avoid doing anything dumb.