Congratulation mmelindas! Keep it up, you have made so much progress, you are an inspiration. Now if we would just hear from Shasta...

As for the crunches and neck pain, if you pretend like you are holding a grapefruit under your chin, you will wind up using your abs for crunches, not your neck. (look up, not at your feet). I was taking an aerobics class once, and she said to do this, and "voila". I realized how wrong I had been doing them!