[Eleni]

Bill and I just got back from our walk at the beach. My walkie talkies came in handy. He always stays close by in case I have a problem. He was able to walk the length of causeway and not worry about me. We could walk together but not be together.
I have been over at the TOPS official site. I highly encourage new board members to check out the message board for leaders and the one for Questions. It has a lot of information that is useful to new and old board members. And useful to all members
Well I can't stay long. I have to do Richard and be ready to go when Bill gets home from breakfast. He goes out and I eat my banana or grapefruit here.
Hope everyone has a nice weekend.

[lady06498]

Eleni,

I can see that you are going to get a lot of use out of those walkie talkies. That is great. I am glad you enjoyed your walk this morning.
As far as the tops site I am already ahead of you on that one. I wanted to know where you got the info from that you post here on what to expect from tops. So I went to the main site and found the info. I actually printed it yesterday and I am going to take it to show the new leader when we go over everthing. It had a lot of useful info in it. All of what you post here. But I printed a few pages of different sections of it.

My scale was still up today. But the water is starting to come out today thank god. It didn't yesterday. But I never ate until dinner time. Only drank 5 cups of the green tea. But now that I have eaten and I am drinking water with the tea it is coming out. That will finally bring the scale down. Had one egg with dry toast this morning for breakfast.
The wind blew so strong last night it blew the cover off our pool. Now we have to go and put it back on. But the wind is still blowing 90 miles an hour here. And the rain last night with the wind was terrible. I am glad I wasn't out in it for sure. But today it is nice and sunny out but still windy and 45.
Well I am going to have a low points day today and I did exercise for 30 min this morning. So that is good.
I have a brace for my knee because I got burcitis in it and strained the ligament in it. So now I have to wear it for 6 weeks during the day. I did it exercising. I know which one did it. So I don't do that one anymore.
You all have a great on plan day. Today is the last day of rest for the wicked before we all head back to our busy jobs for the week. If you did terrible this weekend then start fresh tomorrow you will be fine with eating less and exercising to have a loss for the week.
Talk to you all soon.

Sherri

[lady06498]

I added my new position to the bottom of my postings as part of my signature.

Maybe if we all do this that have a new position this year it will be easier to remember who has what position. That way if we have a question or want ideas on how someone else is doing things then we will know who are the new leaders and the co leaders this year.

Sherri

[lady06498]

Hi all,

I have just spent the last couple of hours on the tops.org site. They have a message board for contests and fundraisers. I got a lot of great ideas from there. I copied and pasted them to my word program. That way I can print them out and show them to the leader.

Just wanted everyone that is looking for ideas to know about it. Check it out it is definetly worth your time. There are 5 pages of contest ideas.

Also they list 2 websites that have contest and program and fundraiser ideas also. So I saved them in my favorites and made up a TOPS folder and put all the sites in there.

Let me know if this helps anyone for ideas.

Sherri

[Wild Rose]

Sherri you are a fountain of knowledge and enthusiasm--you are going to be a great asset as co-leader! Thanks for all the help for sites to find contests. What great creative ideas people have!! Fun contests are the sort of thing that TOPS chapters need to keep the members interested and attending.

Good wishes to all on our weightloss journey this week!