As we all know the holidays can be a time when we can easily get caught up in all of the fun and excitement and put our weight loss goals on the back burner. The holidays start earlier each year beginning with Halloween and all of the candy. Once Thanksgiving arrives, we are bombard with parties through the New Year. In fact, the average person gains 7 to 10 pounds during this time of year. So how do we prevent this? We must first make the decision we are going to concentrate on our health.
Well I'm proud to say I survived my first Christmas party last night for this year. I did not deprive myself of anything. I had a few appetizers (5 points) and for the meal I ate mostly vegetables with some lean ham and one chicken tender. I did have a small piece of chocolate cake for dessert but after tabulating the points for the day I still had 4 points left over.
We had a wonderful time! As many of you know I recently moved and this was a party for my Sunday school class. My class is the largest in the church and we have about 55 members. After we had our meal, they had all of the new members this year come up to the front to be initiated into the class, something they do every year. There were about 10 of us. As we faced the group they had us say a chant repeatedly. All they told us was that the spirit would move us and once it did to go over to the leader and tell him how. We raised our hands above our heads and started by saying "Ohwha" then we lowered our hands to about shoulder height and said "Tagoo" then we lowered them further as in a bow and said "Siam" After doing this about three times he stopped and asked if the spirit had moved any of us, which I promptly said yes. I went over and whispered the magical phrase into his ear and was able to sit down. Luckily for me I already knew what the trick was as soon as he said "Ohwha" the first time because I was a scout leader for many years. Are you asking yourself, okay how did the spirit move me or what is the magical phrase? Well, it is "Ohwhatagoosiam" or Oh what a goose I am. LOL It took a few times for some and much longer for others to get it. They kept speeding up the chant but some just didn't understand. A couple of ladies that couldn't get it were laughing so hard in the middle of all of this they had to excuse themselves temporarily so they wouldn't P in their pants. The room was in hysterics by the end and my cheeks were so sore from laughing for so long.
Then we moved all of the tables to the wall and our chairs in a big circle to unwrap presents which everyone had brought one and placed under the tree when we first arrived. We each drew a number and as our number was called we could either go get a present under the tree and unwrap it or if we liked something someone else had already unwrapped we could go and take their present from them and they would have to go get another. Once a present was taken from another a second time that present could no longer be "stolen" and the person kept that present. I had number 58 and ended up with "The Big Black Book." It is a book which has information in it on a variety of subjects everything from medical info to raising children to managing finances. I stole it from someone and never had to unwrap a present.
As you can tell, I had a really great time and was very happy I stuck to my plan to stay within my daily points. I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season and a very Merry Christmas!
Well I'm proud to say I survived my first Christmas party last night for this year. I did not deprive myself of anything. I had a few appetizers (5 points) and for the meal I ate mostly vegetables with some lean ham and one chicken tender. I did have a small piece of chocolate cake for dessert but after tabulating the points for the day I still had 4 points left over.
We had a wonderful time! As many of you know I recently moved and this was a party for my Sunday school class. My class is the largest in the church and we have about 55 members. After we had our meal, they had all of the new members this year come up to the front to be initiated into the class, something they do every year. There were about 10 of us. As we faced the group they had us say a chant repeatedly. All they told us was that the spirit would move us and once it did to go over to the leader and tell him how. We raised our hands above our heads and started by saying "Ohwha" then we lowered our hands to about shoulder height and said "Tagoo" then we lowered them further as in a bow and said "Siam" After doing this about three times he stopped and asked if the spirit had moved any of us, which I promptly said yes. I went over and whispered the magical phrase into his ear and was able to sit down. Luckily for me I already knew what the trick was as soon as he said "Ohwha" the first time because I was a scout leader for many years. Are you asking yourself, okay how did the spirit move me or what is the magical phrase? Well, it is "Ohwhatagoosiam" or Oh what a goose I am. LOL It took a few times for some and much longer for others to get it. They kept speeding up the chant but some just didn't understand. A couple of ladies that couldn't get it were laughing so hard in the middle of all of this they had to excuse themselves temporarily so they wouldn't P in their pants. The room was in hysterics by the end and my cheeks were so sore from laughing for so long.
Then we moved all of the tables to the wall and our chairs in a big circle to unwrap presents which everyone had brought one and placed under the tree when we first arrived. We each drew a number and as our number was called we could either go get a present under the tree and unwrap it or if we liked something someone else had already unwrapped we could go and take their present from them and they would have to go get another. Once a present was taken from another a second time that present could no longer be "stolen" and the person kept that present. I had number 58 and ended up with "The Big Black Book." It is a book which has information in it on a variety of subjects everything from medical info to raising children to managing finances. I stole it from someone and never had to unwrap a present.
As you can tell, I had a really great time and was very happy I stuck to my plan to stay within my daily points. I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season and a very Merry Christmas!
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Brian, sounds like you had a wonderful time, and a very successful on point plan. Good for you!
ReplyDeleteI love that kind of gifting game, did it years ago at a work related christmas party and ended up with a set of beautiful candles. :)
So happy we're staying in touch, you rock!