Hello Folks. As many of you may know, back in April of this year, I took over the administrative functions for LCE from Andrea Mondello, who founded LCE as a personal-help type site in 1999. Andrea ran the site for many years, but eventually found herself ready to move on to other projects.

Andrea's firm commitment to making sure LCE remained here for the community meant she couldn't just sell it off to the highest bidder. That's where I came in. Because of my tech background and work as an LCE moderator, Andrea knew I could and would maintain the site for our members instead of turning our little LC Home into a giant sales pitch for diet pills or something.

Our plan was to give me a chance to "test drive" the site, with the idea that if it went well, I would ultimately purchase the site from her.

And that's exactly what we're doing! I am becoming the new owner of LCE, and share Andrea's commitment to maintaining a safe, friendly community for low-carbers to gather. So while the face of LCE will change, our core values will not.

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you all, for making this the kind of place I'd want to be. I'll do my best to help the site grow and prosper and become an even better resource for those seeking better health through low carb.

Peace out, Gang.

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I'm loving it Goddess!!!
I fully intend to get back in to active status the beginning of 2007.
I'm so glad you and the rest of my LC buds are holding it together.

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Mary Kay
2009 WW - 228 / 199

I want a Christmas Onederland!!

Congratulations Dixie!

I'm glad everything worked out for both you and Andrea, and I wish both of you fine gals the best in your new ventures!

Andrea, please don't be a stranger here...we would miss you to much!

Dixie, onward and upward, madam administrator!

s

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Shelley


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"A goal without a plan is just a wish."
--Antoine de Saint Exupery

I’m SOONER born,
And SOONER bred,
And when I die,
I’ll be SOONER dead!
GO SOONERS!
I be ready for some football!

One little walker-runner Dude for every 10 miles!

Congratulations Goddess! I love the new look!

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Congratulations Dixie! I could not be happier for you and our l/c gang.

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196/135-135

Congratulations, Dixie. We appreciate this site so much. Thanks for keeping Andrea's original idea for a safe place for low carb lovers going.

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Nita

Ohmigosh, Dixie!!!! It's beautiful!!!! What a great Christmas present!! Thanks.

Thanks too to Andrea for maintaining the site for us faithfully for so many years.

I've been here for 5 years starting Jan. 1st. I'm doing some ruminating that I may write up for you all.

Peace, Peg

Thanks, everybody. I'm glad you're liking the new look, too. Makes all that cussing I did working on it more than worth it. Ha!
I'm not complaining, though, for sure. I've learned a bunch of stuff in the last few months. So it's all good, man. And I'm excited about working on the site, too, and figuring out how we might like to use it. That's the fun part for me.

Peg, I would LOVE it if you decided to share your ruminations with us.

Good to see you all!

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You've done a great job, Dixie. Thanks so much for the wonderful Christmas present. This site is home for many of us and now it's even more cozy.

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Donna
238.5/173.4/150
I will see my goal weight again

The new site looks Awesome! I love your work Dixie.

And I really appreciate your dedication to keeping this community together. It has helped me thru some very tough times. It is important to give back as much as I can. Let me know if there is any way I can support LCE and this community.
I assure you I will be much more active in 2008 than in 2007.

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Tom

Wow! Congrats to both you and Andrea!! How exciting.

I was thinking... with the new year fast approaching, is there anything we can do to help promote LCE on the 'net? There will be lots of people out looking for a "home" and wouldn't it be great to invite them here?

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Mada
221.6/193.8 <--- ONEderland! /sz 8

Mada, you'll be glad to know that Dixie has been all over this issue - search engine optimization - making us more likely to "be found" when folks are looking for help.

She's been hard at work for months on numerous "back end" issues just like that!

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Great! (I'd have no idea how to do all that!)

I guess I was thinking more along the lines of if you have a blog, post a link kinda thing... You know... something your no-so-tech-inclined can do...

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Mada
221.6/193.8 <--- ONEderland! /sz 8

that's a lovely idea, mada, and will add to our overall effort to promote lce. i'm taking a few days to work on the bugs, but i'll come back to it to give you the code to help make it easy for people to link to lce if they'd like.

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LOL! Leave it to me to jump to the obscure, skipping all the usual stuff.

Dixie has had me a on a "crash course" of techno-speak the last few months and I still have sort of a concept salad in my head.

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