Our first week is coming to a close. How are you doing? I am still struggling. I am not on the wagon yet as Oprah would say. Doesn't that sound stupid being on or off the wagon? What does being on a wagon have to do with it? This is not a temporary journey on a wagon. This is a lifestyle change. This is learning to eat and enjoy food in a whole different manner because what I have done in the past is not working for me. I will not be doing this for a certain amount of time I will be living a healthier lifestyle for the rest of my life or I will be dead.
I hope to update our participant list sometime today. I am still waiting on initial weights for those that have expressed interest on the thread. You are not officially a part of the challenge until I have your weight.
Our usual weigh in day is Friday. If you have another day of the week that you do your weigh in you can report that weight to me. Just be consistent and weigh in on the same day each week. I must have your weight by Monday morning to include it in the weekly tabulations. If you are late send in your weight as soon as possible. I will use it in the weekly tabulations if I can.
With over 100 participants I am not looking forward to tabulations this week. Each report from you is copied and pasted into a word document for my records. I often have to go back and check reports that I am concerned about. Each report is formatted in New Times Roman size 12 font and black color. I record the date and time of each report. Am I crazy? You betcha.
Your weight is recorded on the BL7 spread sheet. Each week there are columns for your weekly loss, your cumulative lose, and your percentage of weight lost for the week. The top losers of the week will be recognized on our thread in my weekly official report. I also include stats on how our group is doing as a whole.
In my reports as I recognize our losers I also like to include their first name with their screen name. I have a list of some first names already but today I will come out and ask:
Thursday Question of the Day - What is your first name?
If you are uncomfortable sharing this information then please do not. I just like to feel that we are all friends here helping each other along the way. So far I am seeing a lot of Lisas and we even have several men. Men stand up and be counted today. I think I see three. Do we have any couples this time around?
This is your place to share and socialize. Don't be shy like me. All contributions are welcome. You do have something to contribute to the group. Thank you to those that have stepped in to make others feel welcome here. I have not been a great hostess. For some reason I though recording initial weights would not take so much of my time. I was wrong. Between that and adding new people it has been a busy week for me. Now if I could just get my eating under control I will be all in. My tummy hurts this morning from my late night binging session. It was not pretty. Why do I do this to myself? I will not have a loss this week and that is what I am here for. I have many mental issues that I need to address. This certainly is a journey with many revelations and small steps along the way.
During the summer I got involved in a WISH journal for a woman trying to get her eating under control and live a healthier life for her and her daughter. She regularly posted for two months. At the end she was struggling and then the posts stopped. She has not checked in since October. I think of her often and wonder how she is doing. She had a profound pearl of wisdom I would like to share.
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I keep looking at yesterday and telling myself that if I did it yesterday, then I can do it today.
So many of you are off to a great start. Keep up the good work today. If you did it yesterday you can do it today. If you did not do well yesterday (like me) today is a new day and only you can determine how successful you will be today. Remember you hold the fork and you can put it down when you know you should.
Have a healthy day!
