Posted By: Camile44 on

Saturday, September 27th, 2008, 9:11 pm

It's Saturday evening and despite the aching muscles, I feel great!  I made a list of goals for the week and one by one I am getting them done.  I am so HAPPY because the changes I am making are bringing my family closer together.  We are planning meals together, cooking together, playing catch together, and being active together.  It's been great.  I am finding that posting my goals here for everyone to see REALLY helps motivate me.  I want to be SUCCESSFULL so I am trying hard.  I KNOW I can do this.  I AM doing this! I even jogged to the school where I played catch with my son and back home afterward.  I have more to give in my workouts and in my home life.  I can work harder.  I am going to set an aggressive goal to weigh 173 by Christmas.  That's about 20 lbs a month, 5 lbs a week.  I BELIEVE I can do it.  I hope all of you are celerating your successes.  I still have alot more work to do on getting organized.  I need to ORGANIZE my day.  Find a daily schedule that works, that is balanced, and then make it my number one priority to stick to it.  Wish me luck!  I have struggled with this for years.

Tags: success, blog, camile44

Posted By: feotterson1 on

Friday, September 19th, 2008, 4:03 pm

Today I have been thinking what it would in mean for me to feel succesful with this wonderful endeavor.  Is it losing weight, yes of course but it is so much more than that for me, for all of us.

 It is changing our habits, our thought process.   Finding out what works for you and taking control to make ambitions, dreams and hopes reality is success.  But enjoying, loving the process and embracing it goes far beyond just success.  It is truly knowing yourself and know you got what it takes. 

Be the best that you can be for yourself, your family and others  AND you will bring out the best in them.

Tags: success

Posted By: mellers on

Sunday, August 10th, 2008, 9:53 am

all after my concerns from yesterday and all the wonderful help advice and support I got from my WW girls I managed to stay within my points for the party yesterday.

Not only that, by my calculations I managed to limit myself to 7 points (YES SEVEN!!!) points of food the whole time, by using all the fab techniques the WW girls helped me with:

* Have a Very little of something your REALLY fancy (That was ONE tablespoon of home-made creme caramel and TWO prawn wantons),
* Load your plate with salad and free food (I had about 3 whole platefuls of zero point crudites and salad! lol!)
* Position myself far away from the tempting food when things get tricky (I walked in to another room!)
* try to relax and enjoy the company (REALLY pleased with this one, I stayed for 4 hours which is unheard of for me at a party. I had some lovely chats with some really lovely people - ALL of whom wanted to discuss weight loss in some shape or form! and actually had a NICE TIME!)

I can't thank you the girls from the WW board & my co-cls Angie and Michelle enough for their fab hints tips support and advice

Tags: party, success, weight watchers

Posted By: rictownsend on

Friday, May 23rd, 2008, 12:18 am

Politics... If you don't like it or can't handle it best become self employed! Sounds a bit mean and nasty however it is a reality.

Many colleagues and employees complain that politics seems to play a greater role in career success than does competence to do the job. Research shows that successful managers (those promoted) spend almost half of their time... (this blog facility does not allow cut and paste so the rest of the article is here http://hubpages.com/hub/Politics-at-Work)... if you take a look and want to discuss the issue by leaving a comment please come back and do so. Perhaps my Apple computer and Safari are the problem!?

Ric 

Tags: cliques, resume, job, leave, boss

Posted By: mellers on

Friday, May 16th, 2008, 8:28 am

Blimey - after the amount of cheese wine and chocolate I downed on Friday, Saturday and Sunday of last weekend in my 3-day binge I was convinced that when I went to class last night the best I could have hoped for was a STS on my leader's scales.

OK, I have tried really hard by cutting back on my points ever since and doing LOADS of exercise in the last 7 days (35 points-worth to be exact) to mitigate the worst of my excesses, but I wasn't actually expecting to have done so well as to actually lose weight this week (Thurs-Thurs, according to WW scales). In fact, 4 days ago on my own Monday-Monday weigh-in I had actually gained a pound.

According to WW however, I am now 9 stone 6 - a whole pound lighter than last Thursday and back to my ACTUAL OLD GOAL WEIGHT (fully clothed and on their scales) for the FIRST TIME IN 18 years. Even though I've been at goal on my scales for ages, theirs always weigh me 4 lbs heavier, so it has been a bit of a personal niggle (and personal challenge) for me to get down to this weight and have it written on my card by my leader.

Tags: weight loss, binge, success, weigh in