The Power of 10 %

Boy do I have alot to celebrate this week! I did it, I finally hit my 10 percent weight loss. After last week's post I decided to try harder and I cried for awhile at first, but then I re-evaluated and kicked it up a notch. I also decided that as much as I would love to hit my 10 percent by the end of January, I would quit stressing out over it. I knew it would happen. So I lost 6 3/4 pounds this week, hitting my goal by the date set and just making it. I needed to lose a total of 37 pounds and I have lost 37 pounds. I am starting week 16 and it feels good this week.

I am going to post 2 pictures this week, the first one being my before picture that was taken in October when I first started TOPS and the second being last night when I hit my 10 percent.

There are other things happening for our TOPS group. Even though the official word hasn't come to us yet, it looks as if my 14 year old niece is the 4th overall best loser in her weight division for 2008. Keep in mind, that we didn't start our chapter until October 13, and she was competing with others that had been doing this from all of 2008. While I don't know for sure yet, our chapter has placed first in 44 counties with most weight loss per member and they are checking to see if we won for the state. We were going to disband our group and start going to a different chapter but after hearing results such as these we are going to keep plugging away at it. We must be doing something right!

So while I am here tooting my own horn, I need to express that I couldn't do this without my TOPS group, we are all doing it! So, thanks to all the members, thanks to all my friends and until next week, I hope to lose nothing but weight and gain nothing but knowledge.