Posted 2:49 PM by Bonnie

Well, I blew it. I gained 3 pounds over Christmas week. No excuses. I enjoyed the cookies and fudge and pumpkin pie and turkey and dressing and knew I would go in with a gain. I'm actually surprised it wasn't more considering we did KFC yesterday. But, I was proud of myself because I had the courage to go to my TOPS meeting knowing I would have to report that gain. The accountability makes it real. I could not go and pretend it was just a fluctuation and convince myself somehow it doesn't count if it isn't written in the book. I was disappointed in the number of people who didn't come in today because they didn't want to have to end the year on a gain, but they are also just kidding themselves. Whether it is written in the book or not the weight is real and trying to psyche yourself into believing it isn't will only defeat your purpose. So, I went in, reported my gain as did some others and then left determined to take it off by the next meeting to start the year with a loss and hopefully make it a weekly trend.

Next week I am doing the program and have decided to do it on the psychology of eating. I have been reading a book called Cheap Psychological Tricks and learned that the colors yellow and red will make you eat faster and therefor you end up eating more because of eating so fast. Do the colors red and yellow conjure up any particular fast food restaurants? Also, it talks about how when we were children our parents got us to eat everything on our plate by serving it on plates or bowls with pictures on the bottom. The fun was to find the picture on the bottom of the plate, so that later in life we were psycologically trained to find the picture on the plate. The trick is to eat off plan plates. You will eat less. Anyway, I found all that interesting and since there was no one to do a program next week I thought that would be fun. I'm taking pics of all the fast food places to make a little display and will get some dollar general bowls or plates with pics for the children to give a visual display as I'm talking about the plates.

Well, my husband is in the shower so going to take advantage and get the living room cleaned. Next week I will have a better report!

Posted 12:36 AM by Bonnie

Santa Claus is coming to town! Had our TOPS Christmas party today... well, I guess yesterday since it is now 12:37 AM. Will write more about it next time, but wanted to post this pic as I played Santa for the group. A few of us decided it would be fun to surprise everyone and dress up for the occassion. As you can see we made a motley Santa crew, but we sure had fun as did everyone else. Lots of pics of our TOPS women sitting on Santa's lap. So, until next time when I will write more about our fun day here's a pic to make you smile.

Posted 9:53 AM by Bonnie

My beautiful grandchildren! Got a nice surprise in the mail yesterday. A picture of my grandchildren. Maya is four and Devon is six. Aren't they the most beautiful children you have ever seen? And of course I'm not biased in the least! (My sister Vic suggested I post my pic at the same age as Maya as there is an amazing resemblence... so here it is.)

Posted 11:06 PM by Bonnie

Favorite Christmas movies: I was just reading my sister's blog and in response to her recent blog on books on tape someone mentioned their favorite Christmas movie was It's a Wonderful Life. I have a few favorites and I'm hoping some of you will post your favorites. Many years ago I saw a movie called The Gift. It was about a poor couple who couldn't afford gifts for each other. But, she had long hair and he had a pocket watch. She wanted to buy him a gold chain for the watch and he wanted to buy her some combs for her hair. So, she sold her hair and got him the chain, in the meantime he had sold his watch and got her the combs for her hair. It was a sweet beautiful movie so if anyone sees it let me know. I would love a copy.

My other favorites are A Christmas Story and White Christmas.

What are yours?