A Pound of Cure: Hitting the wall!

I am just now beginning week 8 on Weight Watchers. Next week I'll have totals and inches lost to report~I hope! I did not have a loss this week for the first time since I started. I guess I should consider myself lucky that I still lost over Thanksgiving but to be perfectly honest, I was sorta bummed out today because I went up a pound. OK-it's just a pound. Could have been worse. I can tell you though that could feel myself not doing well this week. I forgot my journal a couple times and then had to sit down after the fact and try to remember what I had eaten. That doesn't work well! I had trouble getting in my water this week for some reason. My exercise was off too because of the snow and ice. Very dangerous for running! It just wasn't a stellar week. And it just goes to show you how important it is to do all those little things each week. They add up to a big measure of success. On the plus side, I still went to my meeting even though I felt pretty sure I was up a bit. I got right back up and started doing the things I goofed up last week. So, I know this coming week will be better. It's all about persistence and not perfection. When faced with a mountain I will not quit! A guy I knew from church was just acknowledged today for his 50-lb. loss. He had set a goal to lose 50 pounds by Christmas and hit that mark today, two weeks from Christmas! That inspires me to keep going and to set a goal for myself. I would like to reach my 10% goal before New Years. That gives me three weeks to lose 6 pounds. That's do-able I think! Today we all got to hear about the new program at WW called Momentum. If you want more details than that, you'll just have to join! Let me say this, it is even simpler than what's in place currently. Hard to believe, huh? I already thought the program was nearly perfect as it was but just goes to show you, there's always room for improvement! Well, here's to a better week. Keep moving forward!

Christmas Thought for December 10th

Thought of the day:

Form good habits. They're as hard to break as bad ones.

Weight Watcher's tip for the day:

How has your life changed for the better since joining Weight Watcher's? Keep that thought in mind throughout the holidays!

Lana Says:

Remember something nice that someone did for you and send them a hand-written Thank-you note!

Christmas Thought for December 9th

Thought for the day:

People who belittle people will be little people.

Weight Watcher's Tip of the day:

Having trouble getting up early to exercise? Try putting your alarm clock across the room so you have to get up to turn it off.

Lana Says:

Tell someone you love them today!

Christmas Thought for December 8th

Thought for the day:

What we hope to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence!

Weight Watcher's Tip for the day:

Busy doing for others this month? Make time for yourself and your Weight Watcher's meeting( or how about a massage?)

Lana Says:

Pay someone a well-deserved, heart-felt compliment today!

The sweet sound of Christmas add funny...

You'll need speakers for this one!




If you liked this...there's more Straight No Chaser on YouTube. All are fantastic! Enjoy!

Thanks again to you, Rach, for calling my attention to this~your taste is impeccable

The Path I Walk: Silence

I had to fight with myself this morning to get out to church. I love VPM and I always get a lot out of the service BUT it was cold, brrrrr~ which means some shoveling and scraping and warming up the car first. Factor in that I woke up way early and did some stuff and then decided to lay back down for a cat nap-a real one, complete with cats! Of course, then I overslept and kept trying to tell myself that I wouldn't make it in time so I might as well stay home. I was 5 minutes late, which is early on VPM time, and I got so much out of being there that I'm so glad I pushed myself to go...It's way too early in the winter to be hibernating in the house. Besides, I have this newfound love of snow going on! Well, Steve did not disappoint this week either. We are starting a new series loosely based on Christmas music. Not the music itself but the themes that are repeated over and over in many of the songs. This week our theme was "A Song of Faith" and we talked about how even in silence, God is at work! Steve pointed out that there was a 400 year lapse between the final prophet of the Old Testament and the beginning of the New Testament, basically picking up where Zechariah and Elizabeth find out that they will have a son and they are to name him John. This is, of course, John the Baptist who declared the arrival of Jesus. The message began with Steve not going up to the stage right away after the last worship song. He waited. And there was silence...You could look around the church and see the discomfort that people were feeling with this pause. People were wondering, "Isn't he going to go up there and give the message?" Steve's point was that we all seem to fill our space and time with noise: the radio, TV, talking, activities. We don't handle silence very well. Here was a situation where it appeared that God had been silent for 400 years! Nothing significant seemingly happened for the children of God, the Israelites, during that time. Life went on, people married, had kids, died, the ups and downs of life continued. But no big word, act, or discernable presence from God. A lot of the Israelites became discouraged, forgot about God, went off into other forms of worship, got rebellious, disillusioned, and disconnected. In this time, Zechariah and Elizabeth, both righteous people by God's account, had been longing and waiting for a child. They were already old by the time Elizabeth became pregnant with John. So, during this time when Israel did not hear from God-God was silent-Elizabeth and Zechariah were experiencing silence in their own lives in the area of not being blessed with children as well. At this time, all their prayers of years past were answered in God's time and in His way. Steve reminded us to think of times when we felt God was silent and seemingly absent in our lives. He urged us to remember that even in silence, God is at work! There are situations like that in most of our lives even right now. Sometimes I wonder what God is doing about restoring my children or helping me become completely healed from my divorce experience or solving financial issues or helping me to know for sure what I should be doing and what direction to take in the future...Sometimes I wonder where He is! What's He doing? What's the plan? It was good to be reminded that God is hard at work in my life and my circumstances no matter what it looks like or feels like at the time. Be encouraged, God is busy working on our behalf! Silence really is golden.

Christmas Thought for December 7th

Thought for the day:

It costs nothing to buy a dream...and it's the best investment you can make!

Weight Watcher's Tip for the day:

You need not wait any longer for the gift of new information. Come to your WW meeting this week and see what's new for 2009! (Insider tip: there are some program changes coming-it's going to get exciting-don't miss out! )

Lana Says:

Do something kind for a complete stranger today!