"We're Not Caving"

The average American gains 7 to 10 pounds between Halloween and New Years' Day! Not us!!! We're not caving into societies bad habits! Our teams lost 206 pounds the week of Halloween and we're going to keep on going!

You've heard of No Shave November? Well, we're participating in our own way with "No Cave November!" Young and old men alike join in the first day of November and just say no to shaving! No shave November...they stay committed even when it itches, even when they start to feel frustrated. They stay the course throughout the month to end up with what they want... a beautiful beard!

We're joining together to just say no to holiday weight gain! We're going to stay committed even when we're itching to eat off program and even when we feel frustrated. We'll stay the course and end up with what we want on November 29th... 8 pounds off and a ticket in a drawing for $100! "We're Not Caving!!"

It was an exciting day to weigh in team after team that lost weight this week! Our first teams to arrive at Noon and Six were 'Thin and Trim' with a 1.67% of weight loss for the week. Congratulations Meretha and Jeanine, and 'Let's Go Make it Low', Barbara and Eileen with a weight loss % of 1.91! Both teams received a little bit of Africa on this Amazing Race for their prize for the week, plush animal print throws!

I taught the great lesson this week about restaurant eating! We repeated the great mantra, "The food you need is in the kitchen." You can be so successful on this program eating out. You just have to realize that even though our program foods don't show up on the menus in our favorite restaurants, the food we need to eat to lose weight, is in the kitchen of the restaurant! The secret to eating out and staying on program is being educated about your nutritional plan and having confidence when you order! I provided extra servings of both of those this week so our clients are ready to eat out and lose weight too!

As we head in to the 5th leg of this Amazing Race, every competitor has the ability to make November be the greatest, healthiest November of their lives! After yesterday's weight loss our teams have 829 pounds to go to break the record of any Team Challenge. I believe that this group of people will do just that! It's going to be Amazing!!!

Your Tasks For The Week:

Listen to lesson # 3 What's in Your Back Pack ~ Controlling What You Can, and do the homework provided.
Start your "No Cave November" weight loss graph and bring it back next week.

I hope to see a bunch of you at our Fast Forward event Friday. We are meeting at Ross Dress for Less and doing a little shopping! We'll meet at 5:30. Come try some new styles and get inspired!

Let this November be one of the most inspiring Novembers of your life!
I'm with you all the weigh! :-)

Always encouraging you,
Letha