Showing posts with label Fall Rally. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fall Rally. Show all posts

Monday, November 14, 2016

November 2016 Newsletter

Good Morning
Today is November 15th, a beautiful day here in Casa Grande.  The weather is really nice, it's the mid 80's.  Let's get walking, hiking and some outdoor activities.

I'd like to start out with October's Awards:

Biggest Losers of the month

Judy Miller with a 10.4 lb loss
Mary Kramme with a loss of 3.2 lbs.
Great job ladies!  Keep up the good work.

YoYo Award goes to......

Ina Johnson
Let's do better next month Ina.

9 year Anniversary

Becky Frey

2 year Anniversary

Kay Faulstick

On to New Business

We have received a letter from our landlord's that December 31st is the end of our renting our room at the church.  So we are looking for a new place to hold our meetings.  We have a couple of places that we are looking at but would like to have any other suggestions to consider.  If you have any ideas, please contact myself or Val.  Thanks for your help.

Fall Rally 2016
Hit a Home Run with TOPS


November 5th, 14 of us went to the Fall Rally in Phoenix.  It was a really nice rally.  This was the 3rd rally that I attended and I think this was the nicest. 
Mary Kramme with a 19.2 lb loss (3rd Place) and Frankie Marquart with an 18 lb loss were awarded with Certificates for their weight loss during the Summer Challenge. Congratulations Ladies!
We had 4 ladies who "Achieved My Goal" and are now in KOPS.  They will have their induction ceremony at the 2017 ARD.  
Kathy Domke
Mary Kramme
Frankie Marquart
Valerie Hardison
Congratulations Ladies! They received Certificates and Pins.

Kay Faulstick who also is a KOPS received an award for 12 weigh-ins, staying in leeway and staying in the black during the summer.  Great job Kay!

Below are KOPS goals.  This was taken from the TOPS 2016 Rules

A KOPS® goal must be maintained within the following leeway: three pounds above goal weight through seven pounds below goal weight. Example: A member with goal weight of 135 pounds may not exceed 138 pounds or go lower than 128 pounds. a. If this leeway is exceeded, a two-week grace period is granted. A KOPS® must be back in leeway during this two week grace period. Absences, excused or otherwise, do not change the grace period of two weeks. Failure to record an in leeway weight at the chapter by the second week will result in loss of KOPS® status.

Onto other awards.
Each year Fall Rally has each TOPS chapter pick a "Chapter Angel".  This year the Chapter Angel was recognized as MVP to go with the motto...Hit a Home Run with TOPS.
Our MVP we chose as a chapter was Frankie Marquart.
Frankie has high energy, a great motivator.  She helps with our clubs contests and other functions that we have going at the time.  Frankie is a great asset to our club.  Congratulations Frankie.  Thanks for the hard work.

2016 Christmas Party

This years Christmas party will be held on December 13th.  Judy Miller (that's me. lol) is in charge of the party.  
Ina Johnson is coordinating the food.  Ina will have a sign up sheet for those that are bringing food.  
Debbie Zawada is helping me with games.
Now I just need some volunteers for the decorations.






Monday, October 17, 2016

September 2016 News


Good Morning
Today is October 17th, a beautiful day here in Casa Grande.  The weather is nice now to get out to do some walking or go and do some outdoor activities.

I'd like to start out with September's Awards:

Biggest Losers  

Phyllis Tipton with a loss of 5.4 lbs
Mary Anne Melby with a loss of 4.4 lbs.
Great job ladies!  Keep up the good work.

6 Weeks In A Row Loss

Mary Kramme
Frankie Marquart
Congratulations Ladies!  Great Job!

YoYo Award

Becky Frey and Judy Miller

2 year Anniversary

Marian Lewis

1 year Anniversary

Kathy Domke

Key to weight loss success

Judy Miller presented Frankie Marquart a "Key" to weight loss success.
Judy was presented with her key from Kay Faulstick when Kay became a KOPS member, so in turn Judy passed on the "Key" symbol to Frankie.  Good Luck Frankie.  
Frankie later in the month made KOPS.  That's the Key To Weight Loss Success. 

KOPS

We had 4 ladies who "Achieved My Goal" and are now in KOPS.  They will have their induction ceremony at the 2017 ARD.  
Kathy Domke
Mary Kramme
Frankie Marquart
Valerie Hardison
Congratulations Ladies!  

Joyce Hilton

Joyce passed away on September 28th.  Joyce was a beautiful and caring lady.  She always had a smile on her face.  She was a strong lady fighting cancer for 6 long years.  She will be missed by all of us.  Our thoughts and prayers go out to her family.  You can read her obituary here.

Fall Rally

TOPS Fall Rally is November 5th in Phoenix, AZ.  at the Embassy Suites by Hilton. 4415 E. Paradise Village Pkwy South.  from 9:30 am to 3:00 pm.  The theme is "Hit A Home Run with TOPS".  We're going to create a name tag with this theme in mind and entering it into the "Name Tag Contest" at the rally.  There are about 11 of us registered to go to Fall Rally.  I'll post our name tag here when we vote on it.
Chapter MVP (Chapter Angel) will be presented at the Fall Rally.  Entries are due by October 21st.  Also, the Rally to Rally challenge is due by October 21st.

2016 Christmas Party

This years Christmas party will be held on December 13th.  Judy Miller (that's me. lol) is in charge of the party.  
Ina Johnson is coordinating the food.  Ina will have a sign up sheet for those that are bringing food.  We would like to have healthy food please (healthy recipes), (per Val) hmmmm.?
Debbie Zawada is the game coordinator.
Now I just need some volunteers for the decorations.

TOPS Recipe of the Month:













Thursday, July 21, 2016

From Our Leader

From our Leader - Valerie Hardison

As my last year as leader approaches, I just want to say how happy I am to have been a part of this wonderful group.  Everyone in this club has been super supportive of each other and that's something every leader hopes for.  I am also very proud of all the things we have accomplished;
Two new KOPS, four (or more) within 10 pounds of their goal, all of our consecutive losses and our recent Big losses.  I am always proud of our representation at Fall Rally and SRD.  It shows what a great club we have.  
So in conclusion, I would just like to say keep up the good work and remember the theme of next years SRD, "Get Lean in 17".

Val

Here is the division winners for 2015 (total lbs lost):

Div 2    Judy Miller         36.2
Div 3    Becky Frey          20.6
Div 4    Kay Faulstick       30.6

Congratulations ladies.  Great job!