Welcome December!
December has an almost endless stream of reasons to celebrate. (See this calendar for what you could be celebrating today:
http://www.holidayscalendar.com/month/december/) Whether you celebrate Christmas or not, this month is what many consider
the most wonderful time of the year. Maybe it's only Andy Williams that actually feels this way, because when it comes to trying to eat a very healthy diet, this is definitely not true for me.
I hope many of you will consider joining us for the month and follow the MWL plan, whether as an act of kindness to yourself or as an accountability measure. We can make it through the holidays without gaining any weight or aggravating our health.
See you for weigh-in on Friday.
Amy
PS.
Happy Eat a Red Apple Day!Here are the standard monthly instructions for participating in this thread:
1) Please make sure you make a new post every week when you post your weigh ins. If you only edit your very first post in the thread, I will never find it. Thanks.
2) A note from Jeff Novick RD
FYI
For the newcomer, I collated this from some earlier threads....
Here is a refresher on some guidelines for posting here and participating in our monthly weigh-in thread.
Our weigh in's are on Fridays and you have until 12 PM PST on Saturday to report.
Anyone is welcome to join the weekly weigh in group as long as they follow the McDougall principles. We recommend following the Maximum Weight Loss (MWL) plan or the Mary's Mini's Plan.
There is a sticky at the top of this forum on the guidelines for the MWL program.
In order to tally the results please submit your results by posting the total pounds you have lost or gained that week. You don't have to share your total weight if you'd rather keep that to yourself. This is an honor system so we take the gain, loss or maintain you give us in order to tally.
If you are a new member and would like to join but don't have a weight to be counted for the week then you will be counted either as a body with a zero starting weight, or when you check in for the weekly weigh in the following week. Large amounts of weight lost over a period of months or weeks, prior to joining the weekly weigh in group, will not be counted towards the weekly total.
If you measure your weight in something other than pounds please convert the measurement to pounds.
All gains will be counted towards the total to encourage weekly participation. Posting is encouraged whether it's a gain, a loss, or a maintain.
You are welcome to share as little or as much as you want on your weight loss journey here in this thread. We encourage members of the group to talk to each other, cheer each other on and set goals together.
This thread is for the mutual support of all who wish to participate.
See you all this Friday and Saturday!"
(Edited to remove many exclamation points because I'm just not that perky sounding)