An early good morning to all
I went to the workshop yesterday. As usual I learned some new things and also found out some confusing things that I still am not sure of. I found out that some things that I have been doing for a long time I was not suppose to do. Plus I have some things I still have to clarify. I also had some things that I understood perfectly that some of my knowledgeable internet TOPS say they think my coordinator is wrong. So we are both checking it out.

I have been rewarding for quarterly losses by amount lost not by what a person weighs. In other words at times I have rewarded people for losing weight they had lost once before. It was done that way before me and I continued. Personnally I think anyone deserves something for losing 10 or more pounds regardless. So now I have to go thru and make a list so I know at what weight each person was last rewarded.
I thought I had everything organized but have more to do.
But work shop was good and I encourage everyone to go to them. You do not have to be an officer to attend.

I have been doing good. The scale is down and hope to get it down more by Thursday. Hubby and I are going out to beach to walk at 6:30 this morning.
Hope everyone has a great weekend. I will try to get here more often. I have just been very busy this past week. Even if I am not here I am thinking about you all

Way to goal Eleni- sounds like you are on the right track. I'm glad workshop was fun.
Hope you have a great day today

Sherri-how did the Easter party go. Hope you had a wonderful time. I found a place on the web for my shells, and a few other things, (pizza dough) just incase I don't like the ww, hand made. I would have to pay $5:00 for shipping. Anyway, there is a place down from where I work, I can get the stuff there. I just have to find a little extra time to go get it. So that is what we have opted to do.

Penny-take one day at a time. You can do it, Yes you can

Christie, CC, CoCo, MaryAnn, Marie, Bev, Nita, I hope you are all doing well. I hope I didn't leave anyone out.
Went to my luncheon yesterday, and had a great time. We started at 11:30 and didn't leave till 5:00p.m. The lady that went with us, has gone through similar stuff with her father, and gave us wonderful information. We laughed, we almost cried, and laughed some more. We didn't want to leave, but had to cuz of other things going on. I had planned to do the grocery shopping, and getting stuff for Easter. I didn't do that. Today is picture taking time for Brandon, and the grocery shopping. I've gotta find time to get the other Easter stuff now, without the little guy.
I have program tomorrow. I think I have my program, but I'm not sure. Well I probably will check in later to see how everyone is doing. Take care and eat good today. And drink your water.

Good Morning

Eleni, that weight loss issue is confusing. As I understood it, you get an award for each 10 lbs. you lose, only the first time, but you can be best loser of the quarter or month even if it is the second time you lost it. I, too, believe that as we get older, it is harder to lose weight, and members should be recognized for that weight loss, somehow.

Hubby just got up. So, I'm off to make breakfast. I'm an early riser and cannot always wait until he gets up to eat.

Hope everyone is doing well today.

Nita

Good Afternoon Ladies
Hope everyone is doing ok. This may be a dumb questions. But I was wondering what are the workshops that some of you ladies are going too. Are all TOPS groups suppose to have these? The only thing I know about is the Spring Fling and Fall Rally.

Shortstack Hows Brandon, KC and hubby doing? Hope they are all doing better.

Sherri I know about the water thing. Sometimes I feel like a water fountain. All I do is run to the bathroom.

Eleni Good job on the walking. I have to do mine yet. But I may just ride my bike. Getting kinda cloudy here. So don't know if it will rain or not.

CC Hope you are doing ok. I am sure you will be to goal before long. Will your story be in the TOPS magazine. That would be great if it was.

To everyone else. Hi!! And hope you are all doing ok.

Well I will get off here for now. But will check in again later today. Take care.
A TOPS PAL

Eleni,

I am glad you enjoyed the workshop. I heard that ours was very good and informative. They came back with some ideas for us. I really wished I knew about our before wednesday this past week so I could have gone myself. But I had already planned on taking megan to the easter party and someone else was going with us. There were a group of us that went. The kids had a great time and won some great prizes.
You are doing great with the exercise. Glad to hear you are doing great with the eating to. It is all working out for you.

I emailed our leader about the bylaws and told her that we had to update them. She informed me that I was very serious about tops that we shouldn't have so many rules that if we did certain things then people would drop out. I mentioned doing a buddy system a couple of weeks ago. They used to do it in the chapter that is where I got the idea from. You have a buddy for the week then when you come to the meeting you sit with your buddy. That way people can get to know each other and it would break up the clicks we have. Well one girl didn't like the idea and I am sure that is where it is coming from. I told her we don't have to do it. It was only a suggestion. Just because we have ideas doesn't mean we are going to do them. Also she said people want to get there and get out. Well I never mentioned anything about staying longer. I just said the meeting has to be 1 hour long that is all. That is what the tops rules are not mine. So we will see what her response to that is.
As far as the bylaws go I think they are fine except we have to put in them how much the chapter payes for retreat for each member. Also we have to put in the time change. So that is no big deal. I am not going to make up new rules. I don't know where she got that from. I know I have my hands full with all these people but I will make it.

Wendy,

That is great if you can get the stuff there instead of order it so you don't have to pay shipping. Have you tried walmart or your local grocery store. They should be able to stock that stuff.
How is roy doing today feeling any better? How is brandon and KC doing? I said a prayer in church for you all today. Keep up the great work.

Nita,

I don't know anything about what you and eleni are talking about. But I to agree with you that any member should be recognized for any weightloss even if they are losing it for the second or fourth time. It is still just as hard.
We get gold safety pins for weightloss each month. You get a little one for every lb then once you reach 10 lbs you get to replace the little ones with a big one. But if you are over your starting weight you get no pins. They just started that last year. So I have no pins until I get under the starting point.
Are you having a good week?

CoCo,

The workshops are once a year for the members and the officers. They give you info on each of the different officers positions. They are very informative and everyone can go. I couldn't go last year because they told me I couldn't but it was a lie. I wanted to go this year especially because of being co leader and we never knew about it until 4 days before the workshop and me and the leader couldn't go and of course they won't let anyone else go. But next year it will be different hopefully.
You are doing great. Did you get your exercise in today?

I am having a great day. Even though I ate the cookies yesterday my scale is down 2 lbs. The water and eating is really helping the scale to go down. I am very excited now. I know I will have a loss this week for sure.

Christie where are you girl? I know you don't use the computer on sundays but you have been MIA for awhile. You need to get your butt back here.

Sherri

Hi Ladies
Hope you don't mind if I post again. I am wanting to eat. And I don't want to eat. I have doing this for the past few weeks of not eating after 6:00pm. But I am wanting to eat.
I have had a kinda bad food day. For breakfast I had 2 slices diet wheat bread, 2 oz Canadian Bacon, 1 slice ff cheese, and FF French Vanilla coffee. For a snack I had 12 Snackwell cookies. Then I had 7 triscuits. Then for lunch/supper I had a hamburger (6oz), 2 slices wheat bread, with lettuce tomatoe and pickle, and a small french fry. We ate out. But now I am hungry. So here in a little bit I think I will fix me a cup of Hot Cocoa.
We went to our friends house today. They had some stuff. Boy it looked good. Hubby had some. But I turned it down. Just had black coffee. But they had took graham crackers, bananas, and vanilla pudding and layered that. Said was easy to make. Hubby said it was good. So may try it sometime. Could use the sugar free pudding in it.
Has anyone else been having trouble getting on the threads? I was just wondering. I just may have to call my internet company again. Have been having trouble with the company. They are suppose to be making things better. But I think they are making things worse. I have talked some of my neighbors and they are having trouble also.

Sherri I rode my bike for 5 miles today. I know it wasn't as much as yesterday. But my knee was hurting. Didn't want to push it. Because Iwant to ride/walk tomorrow. Just didn't go the 5 1/2 like yesterday.

Well you ladies have a good night. I am sorry I bored you with this. But I just needed to vent. Sorry ladies.
A TOPS PAL

Hi Everyone!

CoCo- I know exactly how you feel about the eating after 6pm. But the Great news is that you came here instead of eating! CONGRATS you are doing great! That is great that you resisted eating at someone's house. I know it is very hard! CONGRATS

I have been trying to not eat after 6 also. It is going better on some days than others. But I need to come here and write also instead of eating.

Nita~ I hope you are doing great! You always have high spirits. I also believe it is harder to lose weight the older we get. I have read medical research about our metabolism dropping as we get older. That is why I want to reach my goal by my next bday!

Eleni~ I am glad you have a good trip! I have really missed you and appreciate all the support you have always given me! It must be nice to walk on the beach! I am so glad your scale is down. It is always encouraging when we are down

Marie~ Hope all is well with you!

Shortstack! Thanks for being there for me! You always are!~ Did you find a program?

Sherri~ I am glad that you got that great Easter basket for Megan. It sounds beautiful. You always work so hard and I am glad that your scale is going back down! You deserve it! Keep in touch!

Well have a great night! I love you all! Penny

Well, I'm almost too late to post on Sunday. (In fact, it is 1:18 AM here, so guess it's Monday.)

Just wanted to drop in and say hello.

I went to a Spring ARD Saturday. We really had a good time. Seventeen members from my chapter went. We got the walking stick award, something we haven't done before. Several of our members received awards and 6 of our 10 KOPS got an award for being under goal since the last ARD!

Eleni, glad to hear you are doing well. Keep up the good work.

And I am so proud of our big AWARD Winner! CC~you are the greatest!

Don't have time to post to everyone, but please know that I am thinking of you and wish you a good week!

Mickey