EIGHT Weeks =

56 days = 

1,344 hours =  

80,640 minutes

until Memorial Day...

What can you do with that amount of time?

In the meeting room we are counting down to Weight Watchers Annual Spring Live Life Active initiative.  It begins next week.  Don's skip your meeting - there are prizes to be won - Trips, Nintendo's, Fitness Gear and lots more.

Here is how it's going to work

GET MOVING.  EARN A REWARD!

Step 1

Pick an activity that sounds fun!  Could be biking, hiking, swimming or training to walk or run a 5K.

Step 2

Begin to track your activity to see how your efforts are paying off.  Earn a charm by tracking activity.

Step 3

Chart your activity progress in meetings for 6 weeks.

To stay motivated, grab a friend and do something together.  Start planning today.  From next week (04/07) the website will be up www.weightwatchers.com/livelifeactive.

LET'S ALL start this week with 3 x TEN MINUTE WALKS!  I will if you will!  Are you up for the challenge?  Oh, by the way - that's a mere 30 minutes of your 80,640 from today till your Memorial Day Picnic  :)    

"Have a bias toward action – let’s see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away."   Indira Gandhi 

The TOPIC we are tackling in the meeting room this week is "Why do we do what we do?"  Our old friends EMOTIONAL EATING may show their heads - if they've been pestering you recently and you've found it necessary to hang out with them --- come and get some support; I promise you'll not be alone!

Fake it till you make it!

We've heard that many times.  I usually substitute the words "Act as if...."  For instance, when faced with chips, act as if you've been on track all week and taken 60 minute walks every day"  This often works for me, I really visualize myself having been on track... and that helps skip the chips.

Here are some more fakeout ideas from the Weight Watchers Website - an article called "The Healthy, Stealthy, Full-Plate Fakeout":

“I'd much rather eat my PB and J open-faced because it looks like more. Another thing I do is roast a whole pint of cherry tomatoes because the almost no PointsPlus value volume feels so comforting. I can eat so much and still lose weight.” — Leslie Fink, MS, RD

“I live on cauliflower soup in the winter. I simply boil two whole heads of cauliflower florets in chicken broth with an onion and some garlic until it breaks apart and makes a hearty, stew-like concoction. I eat a huge bowl of it for little to no PointsPlus values!” — Liz Josefsberg

"Rather than make a sandwich, I like to arrange all the ingredients on a plate with a lot of lettuce so I feel like I’m looking at a full meal. Just imagine a plate containing all these goodies: A whole wheat pita, split in half and toasted, then cut into triangles; 2 ounces of smoked salmon; 2 Tbsp low-fat cream cheese; 1 tomato, sliced; some red onion; capers; a lemon wedge; and a pile of arugula with 1 tsp olive oil and a drizzle of balsamic vinegar. It looks so much more plentiful than if you’d just made a pita sandwich, and it takes three times as long to eat, assembling each wedge." — Elly Trickett McNerney

“Anything cut up into small pieces looks like way more than it is (I discovered this cutting up food for my kids). My best secret is roasted potatoes — I cut them pretty small (an inch or so wide, and pretty thin) and roast in a small amount of oil to make little delicious bites that take up half my plate, when I've only served myself the equivalent of half a potato.” — Amanda Genge

Finally

"Keep Calm and Come to a Meeting"!

:-)