Re: Re: Question of the Day

[Guest guest]

Have you checked into being an on line member, like Tonya? don't the lack

of inspiration of others keep you down. We're hear for you.

Aggie

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> A few weeks ago the question of the day was how many members

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> we have and how many attend. I didn't respond at that time because

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> I was discouraged with our chapter, but hoped things would get

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> better. They haven't.

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> We are down to very few active members now. One by one they

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> have dropped out since our original leader dropped out. Our chapter

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> was formed last January. I know it takes time to build a chapter, but

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> ours is floundering badly.

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> I have called my area captain several times and she is always very

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> uplifting in our conversations, but fails to follow thru with any help.

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> I wanted to hand out brochures or flyers to stimulate interest in our

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> chapter and she said she had some at her house that she could

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> give me. On two different occasions in two different weeks she

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> promised to bring them to me. She hasn't. I even volunteered to go

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> to her house to get them and she turned me down. I don't look for

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> any help from her now. I'm imagine she's forgotten about the

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> brochures by now.

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> My area co-ordinator seems nice, but she's never visited in the

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> Valley in the 11 months I've been in TOPS. She's supposed to

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> come down in February for a Fun Day meeting. I've talked on the

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> phone with her and she seems very nice, but from 350 miles away,

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> how much can she help?

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> One by one our officers have resigned, leaving me the only officer. I

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> don't have a co-leader, weight recorder, treasurer or secretary. I

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> have one member that is still coming...on the nights she can

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> remember that there is a chapter meeting! She is very forgetful and

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> admits it. She is very sweet and I appreciate her a lot. She has tried

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> to be the secretary, but doesn't know how to take the minutes and

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> forgets to write up the minutes for the next meeting, etc. For the

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> last several weeks we've had weigh ins only.

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> This week I finally lost my zeal at making a go of this group. I am

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> doing this all on my own and it is just too much for one person to

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> do. I *neeeeeeeeeeeed* TOPS to help me lose weight, but I don't

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> need all the stress of having no help. I'm going to have to do the end

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> of the year weight recorder's report and I have no clue about it. I did

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> send in the money for the chapter maintenance, so I'm ok there. But

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> the weight stuff? No clue! My area captain has said she'll help me

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> with that, but if our chapter disbands I don't want the bother of doing

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> all that work when it won't benefit me. I'm just that discouraged and

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> at this point, that selfish of my time. I have other things in life to do

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> besides TOPS business which won't benefit me. I hope that doesn't

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> sound harsh. I'm getting to be like and need a break from

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> Tonight we go back for a weigh in after being out two weeks (for

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> Thanksgiving) but I just don't have the enthusiasm to get excited

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> about it. I usually look forward to going.  I will be lucky to have my

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> one forgetful member to attend.

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> I don't think it's me as a leader as several of them have 

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> complimented the programs I've presented. I've contacted the

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> absent members often. The weight recorder had to quit because her

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> work required more hours and she just couldn't squeeze TOPS into

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> her schedule. She's moving out of state after Christmas anyway.

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> Another member has a husband in critical condition in the hospital

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> and has been absent a lot. Another member just had surgery a

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> couple of weeks ago with complications and can't come yet, but

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> she hasn't attended since last spring either. Other than that and

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> their busy schedules, I don't know what the problem is.

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> My membership expires in January as most of our members. As of

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> today, I don't think I'll renew. There is one other chapter in town, but

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> they meet in the Elk's Lodge that is filled with thick, thick cigarette

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> smoke and it literally makes me cough all during the meeting and

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> for several days afterwards. The TOPS members don't smoke, but it

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> is an old building with lots of smokers. There isn't another chapter

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> near enough for me to attend.

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> I hate to think of our chapter disbanding and losing our money,

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> scales, etc. but I see no other way.

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> Sorry to be such an old grouch today, but that's just the way things

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[Guest guest]

Thank you so much for the encouragement Aggie.

Kathleen

> don't the lack

> of inspiration of others keep you down. We're hear for you.

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> Aggie

[Guest guest]

Thank you so much for the encouragement Aggie.

Kathleen

> don't the lack

> of inspiration of others keep you down. We're hear for you.

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> Aggie

[Guest guest]

Thank you so much for the encouragement Aggie.

Kathleen

> don't the lack

> of inspiration of others keep you down. We're hear for you.

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> Aggie