Just wondering...

I think we all from time to time have out doubts. For me it is wondering just how much good I am doing with my daily morning e-mails or the times I actually write something in this blog, rather than just doing a copy/paste thing.

I have always thought if people did not want to be on the e-mailing list, then they would let me know that they wished to be taken off. I have had a few to do just that and that is fine. Not everyone wants to hear about weight stuff all the time, but I look at my daily e-mails as a ''little meeting everyday", a way just to let my Sisters' in Weight Watchers know they are not fighting this battle all by themselves. That has been my goal all alone.

Dare To DREAM!!!!!!!!!!!

Discover yourself. Reach for the stars. Expect great things. Aim higher with a winning outcome. Make it happen. D-R-E-A-M You have to have a DREAM.

Good Morning Sister W.W.F.F.,

What are your dreams? Are you working toward them, OR are you getting so close and then doing everything in your power to mess it up? Whoa, now that last sentence was pretty harsh. However, it needs to be talked about.

Are you one of those, have a good week, maybe even have a really good month, only to screw everything up, due to ''this one time won't hurt". I wrote the book on, ''THIS ONE TIME WON'T HURT". Maybe you are within smelling distance of your goal weight, and the closer you get, there just seems to be something that happens that will turn on that ''Inner Child" of ours and we are so focused on what we should not be doing rather than what we should do to finally not only smell our goal, BUT to actually taste our goal. Maybe, just maybe you have seen those magic numbers....which I like to refer to as goal weight.....but for whatever the reason you will just not allow yourself to stay there in the area for very long at a time.

We all have dreams and we all have different dreams. As for myself, my three digit number for a goal was just that a ''dream''. I always set a goal on any ''diet'' I ever went on, but deep down I knew I would never, ever get there, that was just way too much weight to lose, and I also thought I was not worth the effort and yes everything was a ''DIET", but what I do today is what I like to call a "LIFESTYLE CHANGE".

Fast forward.....won't be too long before my dream will come true. Oh, it may not be this week, but it is going to come true. I finally stopped being afraid. What is going to change if I ever get to my goal? I do know my attitude has changed, not only about myself, BUT about so many other things. I found out I don't have to walk in the room now and expect to the biggest person there, I have found that its okay not to go alone with what others think, and its okay to keep on dreaming. Even when I reach my goal weight, my dreaming days are not going to end. I don't want to get to my goal and then go, ''what do I do next"? I can dream, and I know there will be a ''something next" to dream about.

See Everyone Lighter tomorrow, have a wonderful day.

Hugs,

Joan

Blessings....I have many.

Count your blessings, not your crosses. Count your gains, not your losses. Count your joys instead of your woes. Count your friends instead of your foes. Count your health, not your wealth.

Old Proverb

Good Morning Sister W.W.F.F.,

when I wrote the above, ''Sister Weight Watcher Friends Forever", I began to think, how so many people have passed through my life, some have stayed a little longer than others have, and that was fine. Some of those that have not stayed very long, I still miss very much, others that stayed a bit longer, I have wished they had moved on quicker. ha

Sisters'. We are sisters', we try and hold one another up when our sister is down. It maybe nothing more than a phone call, maybe its an e-mail with words of ,''just wanted you to know I was thinking about you". Maybe you saw a cute card that made you think of one of your sisters', and you just couldn't wait to get it in the mail.

Each morning when I put in each name, my thought is this....THESE ARE MY SISTERS' WATCH OVER THEM....keep them safe.

Today, think of someone that has motivated you to get to where you are today. I think of those people each and every morning as I do my e-mail, due to each and everyone of you have helped me to get to where I am today. Thank you.

Here is hoping ALL my Weight Watcher Sisters' have a wonderful day.

Hugs,

Joan

Which category do you fall into?

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen others, MAKE IT HAPPEN.

Good Morning Sister W.W.F.F.,

While looking back at some previous Weight Watcher notes, I saw this quote and thought, today would be a great time to use it all over again.

Here we are already getting halfway through 2009. I just realized this yesterday while writing a check, ''we are already in the sixth month". Where on earth has the time gone. Then I began to think about in six months all the things I have gotten accomplished.

I painted the condo, survived an ice storm without allowing Bob to freeze to death, :>), got lots of closet cleaning done, survived having our income taxes done, which by the way that is one thing I never know if I will survive, ha. Took my trip to see my TISSter, and the one that I have left for last, but may very well be my biggest accomplishment and that is I finally got on track with the Weight Watcher program, and have been able to stay on track.

I think its always good to stop and take a look back, and ask yourself, ''am I really doing what it takes to accomplish that end result"? For me I had to finally decide just how bad I did want to make it to goal or was I just going to be content in losing a pound this week, but then gaining two pounds the next week. That had pretty much for the past year and half been the way I was doing things.

I have to admit, at 215 that was also new territory for me. So I think I had gotten comfortable there, my clothes fit, I was making progress in getting ready for my knee replacement and hip replacement that happened last year. People were telling me how good I looked, and I was believing them.

Then.....for whatever the reason something just clicked with me in January and I knew I wanted more. I was ready to get to my goal, I was ready to take the steps to make this very thing happen. The rest, well, I can't say it's History, due to I am going to always have to work to keep the weight off, BUT, I will say this, I do think I fall into the ''others'' category and I am MAKING IT HAPPEN.

If you are struggling, if you keep losing and gaining the same 5 pounds over and over, maybe it is time to stop, breath, and evaluate what you are doing now and what you NEED to be doing.

Wishing all a wonderful on track day,

Hugs,

Joan

Time to make a plan.

BELIEVE THAT YOU CAN, BUT PLAN, IT WILL NOT FALL INTO YOUR LAP.

Antonia Novello,First female Surgeon General to the U.S.

Good Morning Sister W.W.F.F.,

First off want to welcome Dana back from her trip to England, so happy your home safe and sound and we hope you had a wonderful time while on vacation.

Randy, hope you are feeling better, Summer is almost here, you can't be sick now. :>)

It is all about planning. Here we are graduations, vacations, all those Summer holidays, not to mention all the weddings, birthday's or the one I like so well, ''let's just throw a party"!! All these things take planning, as does our daily lives.

When I returned home from my trip, I knew I would not jumping up to get to the gym by 5 a.m., so I made a plan that I'd get back on Monday. Monday came, and I sure didn't want to get up and go, BUT, I did and I felt so much better after it was over and done with.

I think on our weight loss journey, or for me anyway, when I fail to have my food planned out, that is exactly the times I tend to fall by the wayside. We seem to have no problem planning time for other people, planning vacations or parties, so why not just take the time to plan what will be something to help you get back on track if you have fallen by the wayside.

Today plan to get in just a little more activity, even if it means parking further away from the store. Today, plan to dust off your tracker and write down what goes into your mouth. Today plan to make yourself a priority, you will be surprised how great at the end of the day you will feel.

Wishing everyone a wonderful day,

Hugs to all,

Joan

You have to wonder......

Why some people think they know exactly what your thinking or that they know what is best for everyone. This is one thing I have to say I do dis-like about e-mailing due to you can not hear the tone of voice being used norcan you see the facial expressions. So it never fails somone, somewhere is going to read whatever they want into what you have written. Then when you reply they want to act as if you've done something wrong when in reality it was none of their business to begin with.

Yep, makes you wonder.

Do just a little extra.

Do a Little more each day than you think you possibly can. Lowell Thomas


Good Morning Sister W.W.F.F.,

I hope everyone had a good weekend. The weather yesterday was just about perfect.

Today is my first day back to the gym since my vacation. Today will actually make three weeks since I have been to the gym, but that does not mean I have not been getting in my activity.

The above quote seem to hit home for me when I was thinking about the gym. I thought of the elliptical and how when I first began using it, I began at only 1 minute and thought I might just die from that. When I was able to do a whole 15 minutes, well you would have thought I had just ran the Boston Marathon. <360.gif>

I think our weight loss journey is the same way, we have to go just a bit further each day just to test ourselves. Of course that can also backfire if we decided, ''well, I ate this or that this past week and still lost, so let me see if I can do it again this week". I have seen that get others in trouble real quick, and I have also fallen into that trap from time to time as well. We just have to remember to push ourselves a bit harder for the good things.

Maybe its tracking, if you did not track over the weekend, then how do you know if you have any of your 35 bonus points leftover? If you did not measure out that 1/2 cup of frozen yogurt, then how sure are you that it was really not a full cup? We even have to push ourselves to do better with the things that sometimes do not seem important.

Pushing ourselves to do just a little more each day. In the long run of things it is all worth the effort we put into whatever it is we want to achieve.

Wishing Everyone a Great Day,
Hugs to all,
Joan