How's everybody doing?
First I got busy, then I went on vacation, then I got sick. All part of regular life but healthy eating always seems to be the first thing to go. Am I correct in assuming that blog silence means that you all are also traveling, busy, overwhelmed, sick...and have let your original resolve slide a bit?
There's a reason weight watchers makes you come to weekly meetings.
I have a proposition for you (wink wink, nudge nudge).
Each person who "signs up" for this plan would check in via a blog post ONCE A WEEK. It's just a check in and can say, "All is going as planned," or "I'm struggling" or "I've lost all motivation." The only requirement is a check in.
Carrot: If everyone who signs up manages to check in weekly for four weeks, we can treat ourselves to a drink at Cesars.
Stick: If you say you will check in weekly but fail to, even after your friends gently remind you, you have to pay $25 into a common pot, which will go toward future outings to Cesars or some such place.
Let's see how this plan appeals or doesn't--if I get enough takers, I'll post an offcial start date.
2 comments:
silence interpreted correctly!
I LIKE it! That's just what we need - a little carrot, a little stick, and a whole lot of stickin' together.
I do think that this time around the strategies have to be more all-encompassing - intentional lifestyle change by intentional lifestyle change. For better or worse, we have already mastered the system and it's now harder to go cold turkey/full wagon-riding counting.
Maybe $25 is too steep? Although, weekly updates shouldn't be so hard.
And SJ D says, pick a day of the week and stick with it.
One of the pluses of being sick, a weight loss jumpstart. cough-cough, wink-wink.
still needing looser pants,
d
p.s. You can subscribe to these posts by scrolling to the bottom of the main page and clicking "subscribe to posts." Looks like you can either do bookmarks or one of the google options. Didn't see feed to e-mail. :-(
Well, something has been looser these last weeks and it hasn't been my pants. Charles just treated me to a two tamale plate dinner at a local Mexican restaurant a few hours ago. How could I say no?
I think the idea is good- how about $10.00? ($25? what, expecting a raise Bo? wink, wink) WW charges $12.00 if you miss a week.
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