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It doesn't matter what weight you start at - its making the decision to do something positive that counts - Bev Nash (Newsletter Subscriber)
What Are We Up To This Week? 
 
This week we have a Weight Management Coaching Course. This is specifically for Weight Professionals who wants to up their results and also learn some great new stuff.
 
This is running Thursday and Friday and we still have some places so feel free to come along!
 
 
Apart from that I was planning on being on leave the rest of the week but my holiday at work was cancelled and hence I will be working instead.....
 
On the Bowling front we won again this week and I was part of the team! I even bowled the winning shot this week !!! I am just waiting for my medal to come through the post :-)
Issue: # 41 May 2nd 2009
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Good Morning :-)
 
I hope you are really well and looking forward to a nice bank holiday weekend.
 
This weeks article is actually written by Steve Bates who I work with when doing the workshops and 1 day events. After last weekends workshop he wrote an excellent piece which fitted in really well so thanks Steve for the input.
 
Before I leave this week something occurred to me last night, I went to my son's birthday party at a Quasar in Great Yarmouth where you run around shooting lasers at each other, I was on Ethan's team and as the only adult playing had 12 kids running around like lunatics as I was diving around shooting the headquarters and laughing my head off.
 
Now when I walked out of the venue I immediately met a guy who I hadn't seen for 3 years since we both lost weight, we shook hands and he said
 
"So you're still slim then? How do you do it?"
 
I immediately replied that I looked after myself now and didn't use food and alcohol like I used to, he said
 
"But that would make life really boring"
 
And off he went.
 
I got in the car and dwelled on it for a few minutes, and then I thought that I could never have played laser guns with my kids when I was big and that was so much more fun and more important to me than overeating and being drunk. So when he said life is boring without food then for me that is no longer true.
 
So if you think you NEED food to give you fun in your life then I'll meet you in Yarmouth next week and we'll go shoot each other in the dark :-)
 
Anyway I hope you have an amazing week and cya next Saturday!
 
Mike :-)
Dance Through Life
 
On Saturday I, with about 50 other people, spent the afternoon learning Argentine Tango. This is a dance of passion, or it is when you see people who are really good at it anyway. For most of us it was a dance of concentration and laughter, for some it was the dance of confusion and frustration and for some it was a dance of exasperation and disappointment.

Yesterday Mike Scott and I ran a workshop for the general public where we looked at why they were struggling with their weight and what to do about it. It was interesting for me to be both teacher and student in one weekend because I got to see how people learn and develop from two different points of view.

One interesting and important point was the attitude of the students about whether they believed they could do it.

The students I spoke to on the Tango workshop were universal in their attitude to how good the workshop was but very divided in their thoughts about whether they could do it or not. Most were competent dancers in their original style so they were pretty much on an even footing at the beginning of the workshop but the results were varied at the end.

In a similar way the attendees of the weight management workshop came from a background of lack of success over quite a long period of time. They came because they wanted to know why they were failing and what to do about it.

The interesting thing for both workshops will be how many of them will go away and use what they learned.

Any level of success really comes down to the willingness to use what you have been taught. Mike and I both know what we teach works because of the feedback from the people who have used it. I know I learnt a lot on my Tango workshop but now it's up to me to go and practise my new skills.

What struck me was that there were a lot more people on the Tango workshop than on the weight management one. Now, marketing aside, I would predict that more people have a weight problem than want to learn Tango and I would also consider a weight problem as being much more important than learning to dance.
 
Again it comes down to the desire to do something, really do something.
 
It got me thinking about how many people really want to be slim or just say they do. The perception of difficulty or amount of work needed can put people off from starting something or taking it to the next level.
 
The people who will be truly successful from both of these workshops will be the ones who now take it forward but obviously they have an advantage over everyone else because they came on the workshops in the first place.
 
What do you want to do and do you believe that you can do it?

Will you allow yourself to dance through life?
 
Best wishes
 
Stephen 
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