Live Life Active Clubs

Hello Weight Watchers Friends,

LAST WEEK - Live Life Active Clubs

We gain a boost by having partners keep us accountable and help us stay the course. Engaging in shared interests with other WW members can help increase motivation levels. Making fitness fun increases the chance of keeping it going. We made great connections with our clubs last week to help us have fun and keep moving.

ROUTINE OF THE MONTH

Walk at Least 5 Minutes Each Hour: This routine was introduced this week an I will continue to check in with you all month on how your progress is with this routine.

CELEBRATIONS

We had some wonderful weight losses this past week. Spring is trying to come and we are going to be ready for it with these great numbers.

The 8:00 meeting lost 29.4 pounds. That's .73 pounds per person. 

The 9:30 meeting lost 16.2 pounds which was also .62 pounds per person. That's such a great, healthy weight loss average. We had great awards to hand out in both meetings too.

Welcome to all of our new members. You will be losing weight to add to those totals soon too. We look forward to seeing you all again next week to join our lively groups.

SALES

We have a ton of things on sale again! All fitness products are $5.00 off. That brings the ActiveLink down to $34.95, the Comfort Grip Handweights to $9.95, the Exercise Mat to $9.95, PointsPlus Fitness Series to $34.95, the PointsPlus Pedometer to $18.95, the Target & Tone Pilates Fitness Kit to $19,95 and The Ultimate Dance Party to $19.95.

This is the last week of this sale so take advantage of it! All Mini Bars, Oatmeal and Smoothies are on sale for $4.95 each too. This is a great time to stock up on all of your favorites.

WW LINKS

Mother, Wife, Teacher, Success Story

http://www.weightwatchers.com/success/art/index.aspx?SuccessStoryId=10711&sc=600

Community Talks: Your Top Reason to Get Active

http://www.weightwatchers.com/util/art/index_art.aspx?tabnum=1&art_id=215481&sc=3405

The Power of Play

http://www.weightwatchers.com/util/art/index_art.aspx?tabnum=1&art_id=87201&sc=3047

TRUE CONFESSIONS

I'm feeling fabulous at this moment. Why? Because I stuck to my points all day. I turned down a roll with my dinner out with girls. I ordered my salad minus the cheese, croutons and chicken salad but added grilled chicken breast. I made great decisions. I've been exercising more than I have in a very long time. I am earning more activity points and making my ActiveLink goal each week. I've owned the ActiveLink for about 6 months and for the first time I am beating my goal week after week. I am feeling fit. My muscles are getting tighter. My arms are flapping as much;) Those are some great successes.

I'm trying to focus on those successes this week because my weigh in was not at all successful. I gained 1.2 pounds. It was frustrating and a huge eye opener. If I want this weight to go, I have to give it my all. I have to stop going over my daily target, weekly target and activity points. To be honest, I used to get away with this behavior and was still able to lose a little bit of weight. It's no longer the case. My body is proving that I need to be more careful. My goal this week is to eat only my target plus my activity points. I know that has been my goal before but it's never to late to set a goal and make it. It's only too late to make that ones that have passed. If I set a new one, it hasn't passed yet. I am truly hoping to report a loss to you next week. If I don't, then I know that I will have to continue to change my habits. As I get older I am finding that there is more to learn about my body. I'm willing to take the time and energy to learn those things.

THIS WEEK - Mix It Up

I promised at last week's meeting that I would remind you in the email to bring in your exercise equipment so here it is. This week we will talk about how to mix it up. If you have any exercise equipment that you are not using at home and would like to temporarily or permanently trade with someone bring it to the meeting on Saturday. It's nice to keep our exercise fun and fresh and this is a great way to do it. You can bring in weights, DVD's, videos, balls, you name it. I would recommend leaving the treadmills at home though;)

See you Saturday,

Corinna

Weight Watchers

Leader

Shorewood Riverclub

Hubbard Park - Shorewood

Saturdays 8am & 9:30am

The WW email Newsletter

Wow!!! I think this is the longest I've gone without blogging since I started this blog. I don't want to abandon this blog but I just can't seem to find the time to do it all either. Now that I am leading WW meetings, working as a WW Location Coordinator, working at Good Shepherd as CF Admin. Asst., I have simply run out of spare time. I am still doing all of the other stuff too....homeschooling, shuffling kids around, washing a few dishes, folding a little laundry.....you get the point;)

In order to keep this blog going and still keep up (or pretend I'm keeping up) on all of the rest, I have a plan. For those of you on my WW email list, this may not thrill you but it's the best I can do right now. I send out a weekly, WW newsletter email to my members each week. In that email, I talk about our past meeting, upcoming meeting, my own weight loss journey and other stuff. When I send that email out each week, I will copy and paste it here for my blog followers who aren't on my email list. Let me know what you think. If it doesn't work.....well, I don't know......I guess I could give up doing the dishes and laundry;)

Here's this week's email. I hope you find it helpful.

Hello Weight Watchers Friends,

LAST WEEK - Make Your Move

Physical activity promotes weight loss an is a key factor for keeping weight off. We all know it but it's necessary to still talk about the reality an practicality of it and we had lots of great ideas discussed on both how we already stay active as well as how to continue being active.

ROUTINE OF THE MONTH

Walk at Least 5 Minutes Each Hour: This routine was introduced this week an I will continue to check in with you all month on how your progress is with this routine.

CELEBRATIONS

We had some wonderful weight losses this past week. Spring is trying to come and we are going to be ready for it with these great numbers.

The 8:00 meeting lost 49.4 pounds. That's  1.02 pounds per person. The 9:30 meeting lost 14 pounds which was also 1.00 pounds per person. That's such a great, healthy weight loss average. We had great awards to hand out in both meetings too.

Welcome to all of our new members. You will be losing weight to add to those totals soon too. We look forward to seeing you all again next week to join our lively groups.

SALES

Last week was a great sale week. This week is even better! All fitness products are $5.00 off. That brings the ActiveLink down to $34.95, the Comfort Grip Handweights to $9.95, the Exercise Mat to $9.95, PointsPlus Fitness Series to $34.95, the PointsPlus Pedometer to $18.95, the Target & Tone Pilates Fitness Kit to $19,95 and The Ultimate Dance Party to $19.95. All Mini Bars, Oatmeal and Smoothies are on sale for $4.95 each too. This is a great time to stock up on all of your favorites.

WW LINKS

Cold Weather Workout Gear

http://www.weightwatchers.com/util/art/index_art.aspx?tabnum=4&art_id=219111&sc=3039&ExplicitNav=fitness&ExplicitSubNav=ActivityType&ExplicitSubThirdNav=Walking

10 Healthy Messages to Send your Kids about Moving

http://www.weightwatchers.com/util/art/index_art.aspx?tabnum=1&art_id=87181&sc=3011

A Move to Confidence

http://www.weightwatchers.com/success/art/index.aspx?SuccessStoryId=9851&sc=17

TRUE CONFESSIONS

I went to my meeting on Tuesday and was disappointed by the results. I gained .8 pounds. I had a good week so I was really quite surprised by the gain. Yes, I ate more than I should have but less than I have been. I also earned more Activity Points. I learned a few things from this gain.

First of all, I need to go to my meeting each week. Since I missed my meeting last week, I didn't know if this gain was from last week or this week so I'm not sure what habits I need to change. Secondly, I learned to keep going no matter what. I felt good at my weigh in and really thought I would have lost some weight so I need to keep my momentum with my feelings instead of the number on the scale. Lastly, I learned that I need to stick to my pointsplus target. I ate all of my daily points, all of my activity point and still ate over that too. This week, no matter what I am tempted by, I will not go over those points. I wont know what to change unless I am giving the program and myself 100%.

THIS WEEK - Live Life Active Clubs

On Saturday we will introduce you to our Live Life Active Challenge. It's a great way to keep yourself motivated to move more. You will gain a boost by having partners keep you accountable and help you stay the course. I'm going to ask you to do a little homework. Think about a club that you might want to start with some other members in our meeting room. What would you like others to help you with in regards to activity? We are going to talk about this in the meeting this week and if you have thought about it a little bit ahead of time you may have more ideas in the meeting. If you don't that's no big deal, we will come up with some but I think with a little thinking ahead we will come up with more.

See you Saturday,

Corinna

Weight Watchers

Leader

Shorewood Riverclub

Saturdays 8am & 9:30am