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Maxi

About Maxi

I live just outside the small town of Ringwood, which is in northwest OK. I taught special education for nearly 20 years at Ringwood. I come to TOPS in Stillwater with my daughter, Jana. I also have two sons and six grandchildren.

Drink Your Water and Healthy Holiday Meals

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During Patty’s program, we made strings of beads to remind us to drink water. Keep the string by your sink or where ever you get water then slide a bead for every glass you drink.

We also discussed how to keep holiday meals healthy. Patty provided a handout, which was intended for diabetics, but is also good advice for everyone interested in eating healthfully. In the handout, there were “make over” dishes, which were dishes similar to traditional holiday dishes but with fewer carbohydrates. Some of the recipes included dishes such as green beans amandine and maple-orange sweet potatoes. The tangerine cranberry relish sounds quite tasty to me.

We also had a guide to a healthy plate: 1/2 of your plate veggies, 1/4 lean meats and 1/4 starches. Other tips for healthy holiday eating and a Healthy Holiday Eating contract were discussed.

Thanks Patty for such timely and relevant info.

Meeting Highlights 11-21-13

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The meeting was called to order by Bert

Roll call

Darcy called roll. We had a loss of 26.25 lbs, a gain of 4.5 lbs, for a net loss of 21.75 lbs (WooHoo us!)
19 TOPS were present.
Jennifer was the TOPS best & fresh weight loser.

Snowman Contest Results:

We all need to give ourselves a pat on the back. Our chapter had a great loss this week, and I think our Snowman Contest really motivated us. Just look at our team losses:

Team 3  (Betty M., Kathy A., Norma, Betty K.) is in the lead with their loss this week totaling 7.25 lbs! They have their bottom snowball and are well on their way to the middle one.

Team 4 (Linda, Jennifer, Wayne, Tammy) is right behind Team 3 with their week’s loss totaling 7 lbs. Watch out Team 3!

Team 2 (Donna, Maxi, Wilma, Patty) had a combined loss of 6 lbs. They also received their base snowball. Good job, girls!

Team 1 (Bert, Jana, Ali, Gayle) lost 4.25 lbs this week. They almost have their first snowball. You’re getting there!

Team 5 (Helen, Karen, Jessie, Darcy) had a combined loss of 1.75 lbs. Hang in there!

Streaker Challenge winners were announced:

For keeping food logs
1st place: Gayle with 81 days
2nd place: Lelia and Patty with 63 days
3rd place: Betty M. with 31 days
4th place: Karen and Bert with 28 days.

For exercising
1st place Gayle with 35 hrs 15 min
2nd place: Lelia with 31 hrs 30 min
3rd place: Linda with 19 hrs
4th place: Tammy with 18 hrs
5th place: Darcy with 16 hrs 30 min
6th place: Norma with 16 hrs
7th place: Karen and Wayne with 15 hrs 30 min

Reminders

  • Dec. 5: Bring food donations for the food drive.
  • Dec. 12: Our Christmas party and wrapping presents for the Christmas family.
    • Weigh in at the Health Dept.
    • We plan to have the Christmas and wrapping party at the hospital in the conference room by the ER.
    • Bring healthy snacks and wrapping paper

Motions

We voted to make annual/Christmas donations to Jeremy and the Health Dept.

Program

Patty had the program. We made strings of beads to remind us to drink more water and discussed healthy holiday meals.

The meeting was closed with prayer