Bea Loozer You want to lose weight, right? If someone offers you a peanut butter cup which is going to put you in a weight-loss mode: “I can’t eat peanut butter cups” or “I don’t eat peanut butter cups.” Another option would be to say to yourself, “I choose not to eat peanut butter cups”…
Tag: Golden Goalies
Clubs & Classes, October 2016
Golden Goalies – Ogees do it right
Bea Loozer I learned a new word this week. Actually it isn’t so much a word as an abbreviation: OG. Its plural form is OGs or Ogees. Since this is the first time I’ve seen it written, I really don’t know how it’s spelled. But this is the way I heard it used: “The Ogees…
Clubs & Classes, September 2016
Golden Goalies – my posse
Bea Loozer Recently I sent a sympathy card to a Goalie who moved back to Chicago and then lost her mother. She thanked me with the claim, “You Golden Goalies are my posse.” I don’t think she meant we are enforcers. I think she was getting at the friendship that has developed around a common…
Clubs & Classes, August 2016
Golden Goalies – It works!
Bea Loozer Each week Goalies come to the Country Club Mirror Room to weigh in. Rita and Irene weigh us and track our progress. Sometimes we leave that room smiling — sometimes not so much. But we leave knowing we’re responsible (“shouldn’t have had that salty popcorn yesterday” or “it paid to cut that special…
Clubs & Classes, July 2016
Golden Goalies – BMI
Bea Loozer Congratulations to Toni, who reached her weight goal recently. Everyone in the Golden Goalies is either working on reaching a goal or working to maintain an achieved goal. So it’s time to celebrate Toni and others, each of whom is working on her own goal. Maybe it’s also time to use the internet…
Clubs & Classes, June 2016
Golden Goalies – A variety of thoughts
Bea Loozer Has anyone determined the percentage of TV ads that promote pharmaceutical drugs? Maybe because I tend to watch programs that are aimed at mature people and pay very little attention to programs aimed at teeny boppers, it seems to me that at least a third of the ads claim to offer a medicinal…
Clubs & Classes, May 2016
Golden Goalies – celebrating losers
Bea Loozer At least once a year we have a luncheon to enjoy our community of Golden Goalies and to acknowledge some weight loss successes, especially by the biggest losers. This year we met in April to help those losers celebrate. But we support everyone, so yes to those who earned honorable mention. All losers…
Clubs & Classes, April 2016
Golden Goalies – sharing info
Bea Loozer Each Saturday Golden Goalies come together to catch up on the week’s events, to weigh in, and to share ideas about weight loss. Sometimes we have a roundtable discussion on topics such as ways to get more movement into our daily routine. Other times we have “therapy time,” usually presented by a member…
Clubs & Classes, March 2016
Golden Goalies – Let’s weigh-in
Bea Loozer Golden Goalies members meet each week. We all agree that the act of weighing in weekly is paramount to maintaining a healthy program. As we spend weeks, months, years together we see long-term patterns in our weight. Last week a member said she has lost over 40 lbs. since joining many years ago.…
Clubs & Classes, February 2016
Golden Goalies – to our health
Bea Loozer What can we do to be healthier starting in February of 2016? That might be a better question than, “How can we lose weight this year?” Of course, the two questions are related. We know that lowering our weight will contribute to our overall health and reduce the risk of diabetes, cancer and…