At the end of last year, I joined a group called
TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly), rather than Weight Watchers because of cost. I believe it's $24 a year, plus $1 a week. The Livermore Chapter that I'm in is filled with a bunch of wonderful people. Our class meets each Wednesday. We weigh in, have a lesson, and then we have an auction. The auction is my favorite part. This is what we do...
We have a large table filled with items up for auction. Rather than bidding money, we bid in 1/4 pounds. So say you see something that you want, you can bid you'll lose 1/4 pound by the next meeting. If someone else wants the same item that you want, they can bid against you and can bid to lose 1/2 pound by the next meeting. The max amount that you can bid is 2 pounds.
Last week Wednesday I saw something on the auction table that made me smile and think of my childhood. It was a salt and pepper shaker of the Campbell Soup kids. My mom was forever embroidering pictures of them on dishtowels and I knew she'd like them so I bid on them. I bid to lose 1/4 pound. Unfortunately, a couple other ladies were interested in them also, and kept outbidding until finally I said, "I bid I'll lose 1 1/4 pound." No one outbid me. "Yay for me!" was my first thought. "Now how the hell am I going to lose 1 1/4 pound by next Wednesday?" was my second thought. I spent the next week doing a lot of walking, spending time on the elliptical, and keeping track of what I ate. I knew I lost some weight during the week, at least 1 pound, but I wasn't sure that I lost my 1 1/4 pound. Anyways, when I hopped on the scale at TOPS this morning, I was ecstatic to find that I won my Campbell Soup kids! Yay!
