TOPS ElDo has a no gains week

TOPS Chapter 9319 El Dorado Springs met in The Firefly Services building, on Thursday, June12, for their regular weigh-in and meeting.

Our leader, Warren called the meeting to order, Carol led us in singing “Eating Fewer Calories”

We said our TOPS & KOPS pledges. Marilyn led us in a series of exercises.

Linda Hall presented a 500-mile walked award to LJ.

Erin received the back in black with perfect attendance certificate and a 15- pound loss certificate. Erin lost 4.8 for the month and is only 1 pound from her 20 -pound loss.

We welcomed Jean’s daughter, Debbie who is visiting for a few weeks.

Warren led us in Roll Call. We were very excited to hear we had a NO GAIN MEETING! Every TOPS member who weighed in today had a loss or stayed the same as last week. NO ONE GAINED! Seventeen members weighed in, some of the good losses were; LJ 3.4 loss (2weeks), Linda C 3.0 loss, Eri 2.2 loss, Jan 1.6 loss and Sue 1.2 loss. Our Best loser was Warren with a 3.4 loss! Congratulations Warren. The chapter had an 18.2 loss with a 0-gain giving us a net loss of 18.2.

Congratulations to all the members, let’s keep up the good work.

Pat had the program today; she took her information from the TOPS NEWS March/April issue. “Tiny Steps, Big Wins. The Power of Creating Boring habits.

Most of us joined TOPS for one reason. To lose weight and keep it off sensibly. We are excited and motivated, but life happens and changes happen and gets us off the track, our efforts seem futile, we sometimes beat ourselves up and ask why even try? We may feel like failures, forgetting that failure happens only when we don’t act. Try setting new habits, not complicated ones but tiny boring ones, like the habit we all have of brushing our teeth. Start small, maybe you want to start walking, set out the walking shoes at night, put them on when you get up each day, walk in them a little further each day, then start walking a little way perhaps to the mailbox, eventually you will be walking more everyday and making it a habit.

Make your health a priority, if you let yourself go, who will take care of your family and all the things you do. set goals and remember that they may need to be revisited periodically as life shifts. Trust the process of tiny habits.

Thank you, Pat, for a great program.

Laura will have the program next week.

We will be going over the by-laws on the 26th,

Marble game: There is $19 in the pot, Laura won the right to draw but did not get the winning one.

With no other business we closed with our motto “IF IT IS TO BE IT IS UP TO ME”

TOPS #MO 9319 meets each Thursday morning in the Firefly Services building” at 700 E. Hospital Rd, El Dorado Springs. Weigh-in starts at 7:45 a.m. the meeting begins at 8:45 a.m. and is over by 10 a.m. For more information call Linda at 417-876-7404. Come and join us.

TOPS toll-free number 1 800-932-8677 or you can find us on the web at www.tops.org.