Why a Blog Contest?

On Friday, Auhust 1, we will start a fun little contest to encourage your daily reading of this blog. I will identify a "word of the day", and if you are able to bring in all of the words for that month, you will receive some really cool prize. We will vary the prize monthly from movie tickets to a dinner out (healthy choice of course!) to other free stuff.

Why are we doing this? The answer: We really want to think of ways of staying connected with you daily, especially when you leave our formal weight loss program. I have discussed this previously but I will emphasize this again: Stayng in the "zone" is so important for the long term success in weight loss. What do I mean by the "zone"? This is the mental state you are in when you decide to do something aggressive about your weight. It is that state of mind that keeps you alert, keeps you thinking about it, and allows you to make the best choices. The zone mentality makes you look at those little high caloric food sources as litle saboteurs, not "goodies". Being in the zone allows you to say "no" when well-intentioned (or not well intentioned) friends and family try to force on you alcohol and high caloric foods even when they know you are trying to lose weight. Being in the zone makes your health and physical appearance more important to you than some piece of cheesecake.

There is no doubt that it is easy to fall out of the zone, especially when we are not with you weekly to provide encouragement, tough love at times (that be me and not Linda or Elizabeth!) and "structure/supervision" to your efforts. We am hoping that if you can make it a daily habit tolog onto our blog, perhaps this will help you to some extent to stay in that "Zone".

So this will be fun....and could cost us a fortune if hundreds of our patients bring in that word collection of the month, so let the games begin Friday!!!