Week 8 - Preview - The Benefits Of Tracking And Its Alternatives

Dear Members,

How do you keep track of things in your everyday life?

Experts in the field of weight loss have found that when tracking is used on a regular basis, the likelihood of both weight loss and weight maintenance, success increases.

Advantages of Tracking:

1) Limits the amount of food you eat
2) Increases awareness of both eating and activity
3) Helps you stay accountable
4) Gives you valuable feedback
5) Helps explain what happens at the scale
6) Gives you a history of your success

What do you do to track?

Activities???????????

Run like no ones' watching - Run like a Greyhound!

Food Finds -Ginger Ale & Southwest Salad

Dear Members,

This ginger ale is another way for you to get your "liquids" in. It is a great accompaniment for the Southwest Salad.

Trader Joe's is one of my favorite stores to shop for Weight Watcher friendly foods. If you would like to know more choices, go to "E-Tools". On the community board, put in "food finds at Trader Joe's" in the search box. Those members that have found great foods at T.J.'s have posted their information there.

Week 7 - 2009 Round Up

Habits Of Successful Members -

Three questions:

Did anyone take the "habit profile" from book 4?

What did you learn about yourself?

Which habit or habits did you discover would help you the most?

***At Work Members***

Monitoring yourself at work is similar to the monitoring of your job: work performance or supervising. Make the connection between the importance of monitoring work and monitoring your eating choices and activity.

Here is the poem you all enjoyed:

I Am A Habit - Author Unknown

I am your constant companion
I am your greatest asset or your heaviest burden
I will push you up to success or down to disappointment
I am at your command
Half the things you do might just as well be turned over to me
For I can do them quickly, correctly, and profitably
I am easily managed, just be firm with me
Those who are great, I have made great
Those who are failures, I have made failures
I am not a machine though I work with the precision of a machine and the intelligence of a person
You can run me for profit or you can run me for ruin
Show me how you want it done
Educate me
Train me
Lead me
Reward me
And I will then...do it automatically
I am your servant
Who am I?
I am a Habit