Hello Everyone!!
Im pretty new here, but I wanted to come in and say hi to my fellow TOPS friends! I joined TOPS in December 04 and I have had such a great time going to the meetings... and I had a totally amazing time at SRD! Our group is mainly older ladies, but they are all so very supportive, and they tell my friend and I that they are happy we came and brought some youth to the group.
I really believe that joining TOPS was one of the best things I could have ever done for myself, it keeps me accountable and inspires me to do better. Since I have started, I have almost lost 30 pounds!
Tonight is our meeting night, and since aunt flo showed up today Im expecting a big gain...plus, this week I havent been doing so well with my eating either.
But Im reading my Dr Phil book again, and Im recommiting myself to doing better (like I was when I first started!) so hopefully by the end of summer I can make it to my first big mini-goal!
Oh... and since the bingo thing was brought up, I just wanted to mention the bingo type game we played with our group... It was called "dieto" and it was just a big bingo looking card with pound numbers in the squares... some had 1 pound, some had 1/4th, some had 2, some had 1/2 and so forth. When you weighed in, you could stamp over your squares of how much you lost. Like if someone lost 2 1/2 pounds, then they could stamp off a 2 and a 1/2 or two 1/4 blocks. There were also 3 turtle squares too. By the time someone won, they would have lost 18 pounds total.
It was pretty fun. My only suggestion would be to make it a 10 pound loss because after a while, people kind of lost intrest. I had a lot of fun with it... and I won the totebag prize!
Anyway... once again, just thought I would come say hi! Im looking forward to getting to know all of you guys!