As of January 1, 2019, we have closed our forums. This is a decision we did not come to lightly, but it is necessary. The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk. The server software itself must be updated, and it cannot be without removing the forums.
So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.
And a very special thank you to our Guides (moderators), past and present, who kept our forums a happy place to be. You are the glue that held everything together, and we are forever grateful to you. Thank you aliceinwdw, Caldercup, MrsM, WillCAD, Fortissimo, GingerJ, HiddenMickey, CRCrazy, Eeyoresmom, disneyknut, disneydani, Cam22, chezp, WDWfan, Luvsun, KMB733, rescuesk, OhToodles!, Colexis Mom, lfredsbo, HiddenMickey, DrDolphin, DopeyGirl, duck addict, Disneybine, PixieMichele, Sandra Bostwick, Eeyore Tattoo, DyanKJ130, Suzy Q'Disney, LilMarcieMouse, AllisonG, Belle*, Chrissi, Brant, DawnDenise, Crystalloubear, Disneymom9092, FanOfMickey, Goofy4Goofy, GoofyMom, Home4us123, iamgrumpy, ilovedisney247, Jennifer2003, Jenny Pooh, KrisLuvsDisney, Ladyt, Laughaholic88, LauraBelle Hime, Lilianna, LizardCop, Loobyoxlip, lukeandbrooksmom, marisag, michnash, MickeyMAC, OffKilter_Lynn, PamelaK, Poor_Eeyore, ripkensnana, RobDVC, SHEANA1226, Shell of the South, snoozin, Statelady01, Tara O'Hara, tigger22, Tink and Co., Tinkerbelz, WDWJAMBA, wdwlovers, Wendyismyname, whoSEZ, WildforWD, and WvuGrrrl. You made the magic.
We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.
There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
And we are no longer charging for the Live Guides. If you have a subscription, it's yours to keep for the lifetime of the Live Guides at no additional cost. The Live Guides will stay online, barring server issues and technical problems, for all of 2019.
That said, PassPorter is not going away. Most of the resources will remain online for as long as we can support them, and after that we will find ways to make whatever we can available. PassPorter means a great deal to us, and to many of you, and we will do our best to keep it alive in whatever way we can. Our server costs are high, and they'll need to come out of our pockets, so in the future you can expect some changes so we can bring those costs down.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support over the years. Without you, there's no way us little guys could have made something like this happen and given the "big guys" a run for their money. PassPorter was consistently the #3 guidebook after the Unofficial and Official guides, which was really unheard of for such a small company to do. We ROCKED it thanks to you and your support and love!
If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
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After realizing I'd forgotten my early morning weight check, I stepped on the bathroom scale this afternoon and discovered I'm just a half pound short of my "Lose five pounds" goal. YAY, ME!
I now have a half dozen pair of jeans and two of casual slacks I couldn't begin to zip up six months ago that I can not only wear comfortably, but they're verging on baggy. You know that wardrobe issue, I'm guessing--the too-small pants you've kept around for years and years thinking you'll lose the weight and be able to wear them again "someday"?
Well, I have finally made it to someday!
And, I am going for five more pounds to put my BMI at LOW normal for the first time in over a decade of its being instead in the "low overweight" category. I've lost nearly twenty pounds in a little over a year and, even better, have kept them off but for occasionally backsliding a wee bit. I used those minor lapses to motivate me still more...and succeeded beyond expectation.
Add to that the fact that I've been walking as exercise until I now can easily walk 3-4 miles at about 4 mph the whole way without feeling the least bit tired when done. Yeah! Honestly!
I'm telling you that eating a healthy diet, portion control and regular exercise DO WORK. The catch is as it's always been that you have to start doing them all and keep doing them.
Don't wait as I did for a doctor's "or else." Start now doing it for yourself, for how much better you'll look and feel. You deserve both.
If longtime Ms. Excuses (namely me!) can do it, you can, too. "If you can dream it..."
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Congratulations! I've also found that making a real effort to only eat when I'm hungry & not just mindlessly snack really helps. I also don't keep snack foods, like crackers, chips, cookies etc., in the house because if it's not there than I can't eat it. I've learned that I'm much better off give in to the occasional craving for something & eat reasonable sized piece of cake or whatever it is I'm craving than to deny my craving by trying to satisfy it with other things only to end up twice or three times as much of what I was craving in addition to whatever it was I ate trying satisfy that craving.
I've also found that making a real effort to only eat when I'm hungry & not just mindlessly snack really helps.
Heartily agreed! It takes some mindfulness and self-awareness to determine when you're truly hungry, I discovered, and not emotionally unsettled and wanting a food fixer-upper.
Also, much of the time, you're actually thirsty and will be satisfied with a big glass of water or plain tea or coffee instead of any food.
I've all but quit drinking anything carbonated except a rare Coke when we go out to eat, and then I drink scarcely half of the huge glasses most restaurants have these days. It's been probably 6-8 weeks since I last did that, though. About once in three months for an eat-out Coke or one of those little 7.5 oz. "baby coke" cans does it for me.
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I've learned that I'm much better off give in to the occasional craving for something & eat reasonable sized piece of cake or whatever it is I'm craving...
Yup, I really do have to cheat occasionally myself but have changed my tastes enough to healthy foods that more than a sliver of most sugary desserts will be plenty. Your tastes really can change after having forced yourself to eat only healthy stuff.
My biggest discovery was that about a third of the portion size I formerly ate is actually enough as my metabolism has slowed with age. Having become cheaper to feed is a concern for Disney as huge as portions generally are there. We'd probably do better anymore eating OOP as little as I should eat now, but I'll likely be naughty while there. I typically walk so much there that I never gain more than a pound despite oinking it.
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I walked just about 4 miles to the nearest Starbucks, lingered with coffee for an hour and walked home!
I'm just a wee bit proud of self if the post title didn't clarify enough. < sly wink! >
Barely two months ago, I could have done one way but not round trip. And I wasn't tired to speak of either, just feeling some leg muscle burn that a few stretches resolved.
Mega-YAY for me!!!!
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That's one of our best pics from last trip, we both think. Glad you like it.
I still hate that getting DH's old iPhone 5 when he got the new 6 meant abandoning the case I had on my 4 with that photo on it.
Disney's photo product prices are pretty scary, but I felt the magic every time I picked up that phone. Best of all, I discovered an unused gift card that paid for that case. Sort of free sure felt good!
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Realized this morning that I've lost 25 lbs. gradually over the past year, and better still, am keeping it off. I'd like to lose five more and then my BMI will be LOW normal. BMI is down from overweight 2-1/2 years ago when I weighed nearly 160!
I'm now getting close to a size 8 from a 14 edging toward 16.
How'd I do it? The old standard-- healthy foods (with an occasional junk treat), few snacks, no soda at all, very few processed foods, portion control and regular exercise. Any other diet I tried had the usual disadvantage of my feeling deprived and then when I lost as much as intended, I'd soon put it back on.
The old tried and true works and keeps working longterm. I'm living proof.
I'm happiest that I can wear nearly all my "someday clothes." You know, all those you store for "someday when I lose this weight"?
I DID IT!
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