My Journey

Hi everyone
Glad to be part of this blog. I'm hoping I will show great results.
Anyway just thought I would write a litte about my weight loss journey - here goes:

In January 2006 Laurie (my hubby) and I decided it was time to lose weight. We joined Tops (Take Off Pounds Sensibly). I had about 65lbs to lose and he had about 85lbs to lose. By September 2006 Laurie reached his goal with a weight loss of 86 lbs. By spring 2007 I had lost 30lbs - much slower than Laurie. For some reason since then I have struggled up and down and gained a little bit of that 25 lbs back. In the past month I've lost about 8 lbs which I'm really happy about cause I feel so much better about myself when I lose. For a while I was working out but the ones that know me (Shirley!) know that I hate working out of any kind with a passion. Laurie is constantly trying to find ways to help me beat this problem I have with working out. The last few weeks I've been losing without working out and I'll try this until I gain - then it's back on.
Through all this - Laurie has kept his weight off. With TOPS they have all kinds of contest, awards and they crown Chapter and Provincial/State Royalty. Last year Laurie was crowned New Brunswick King for losing the most weight (for the men) in the year 2006. Because of this he won a trip last summer to our International Convention which was held in Rhode Island. We had an excellent trip and even though it has not showed much in my weight it inspired me a lot to not give up on this battle. This year he entered a the Men's Greatest Improvement Contest and won 1st place (internationally) in his division. Again he won a trip to Chicago for our convention which is on July 3,4,5 of this year... can't wait to attend.
At last year's convention there were two speakers John & Joseph Pelizzas if ever you get to see them or buy their DVD do it - we will never forget these guys.

Anyway I will stop writing now cause you're all gonna get bored of my story - here is a link to Laurie's success story that was published on-line and in the TOPS magazine.
Have a great week everyone

http://www.tops.org/uploads/admin/DivisionWinners07/DivWinner-chavarie.html