11-07-09............Saturday

WARNING: You are now entering the ''Bermuda Triangle" of weight loss effort.

Is that ever the truth. We've had Halloween, now Thanksgiving and Christmas is coming up and we might as well throw in New Years as well.

So many things we need to remember to do, just to prepare ourselves.

We need to plan.

Don't go to dinner hungry

Get in some Activity

DO NOT wear lose clothing, thinking you can eat more. You can, but do you really want to?

Offer to make a few dishes that are w.w. friendly and bring those along. We have to protect ourselves from the food pushers, and yes, they are out there in full force.

We need to have a goal. Let's not just throw caution to the wind, and wait until we are out of the holidays, cause we all know how much damage we can do between now and the first of the year. Maybe you just want to maintain, maybe you want to actually lose a few pounds, maybe your goal has nothing at all to do with weight loss. Whatever it is we have to first.

1. Have a destination. (where do you want to be after the holidays?)

2. Monitor the flight status. ( tracking your food, getting in activity)

3. Check in with the tower on a regular basis. ( come to the meeting's, talk to your W.W. sister/friends about what is going on, make a phone call, check in through the e-mails). I think right now we are in critical mode, and now more than ever we circle the wagons, and help each other.

4. Just don't get lost in the triangle, as we've said before, ''it comes around each and every year, same time."

We need to reward ourselves as well. We need to be realistic about what we want to happen, and we need to find ways to make sure it happens.

So start today, why not?