A Very Happy New Year to All! Resumes Have Started Arriving and This Is a Busy Time For

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JANUARY

A very Happy New year to all! Resumes have started arriving and this is a busy time for all of us. Let us stay focused on our goal. Let us make our New Year resolutions and stay with them. I am anxious to do resumes and see how every one did for the year, see who our winners are and really celebrate their success.

. With the New Year we also have a new theme. “It’s My Time.” It’s a great theme and there is so much we can do with it. “It’s My Time,” make every minute count. Make this your time to have your dreams come true.

Our SRD is in March this year, so it will be time before we know it. Do read the letter at chapter and plan on making a 100% attendance. It is a one day event. But we will have hospitality room on Friday from 5 to 10:00 pm. We plan many fun things going on. Do come early and join the fun. Any questions on SRD call me 575-536-9433 or email me [email protected]

The workshop in Las Cruces was well attended. I was pleased. We will try for one in Albuquerque sometime in April after new officers are in.

Please welcome our newest chapter TOPS#NM 400, Espanola. Started on December 08, 2008. They started with 6 members, it is a good area and I am sure it will grow.

Looking to a great year in TOPS!!

Paula Norero January, 2009

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ALL BORN IN THE MONTH OF December!

New Members: Welcome to TOPS, We are glad you are here.

TOPS#NM216, Albuquerque Lillian Ohnleiter

TOPS#NM368, Deming Leesa Forbes

TOPS#NM381, Las Cruces Alison Mann

Best Losers of the Month for November:

TOPS#NM16, Albuquerque Mary Solga 2.75 lbs TOPS#NM227, Albuquerque Gwen McFatridge 12.50 lbs TOPS#NM31, Albuquerque Wanda Karkkainen 10.00 lbs TOPS#NM240, Sandia Park Gary Braudaway 2.50 lbs TOPS#NM55, Las Cruces Maudi Smart 4.05 lbs TOPS#NM242, Tucumcari Debi Thomas 4.75 lbs TOPS#NM73, Roswell Charlotte Gwinn 0.75 lbs TOPS#NM288, Silver City Naomi Holmes ? TOPS#NM99, Alamogordo Barbara Doze 3.00 lbs TOPS#NM298, Santa Fe Dora Vigil 1.25 lbs TOPS#NM104,Los Alamos Joanne Rupprechtwith 4.5lbs TOPS#NM340, Lovington Barbara Bradford 2.0 lbs TOPS#NM175, Roswell Bobbie Kashe 4.75 lbs TOPS#NM340, Lovington Lillian Cook 2.0 lbs TOPS#NM203, Belen Berlinda Sanchez 2.0 lbs TOPS#NM354, San Lorenzo Judith Kreiger 6.25 lbs TOPS#NM203, Belen Mary Spurlock 2.0 lbs TOPS#NM368, Deming Carol Teeter 0.5 lbs TOPS#NM216, Albuquerque Diana Polz 12.25 lbs TOPS#NM381, Las Cruces Alison Mann 4.50 lbs TOPS#NM219, Las Cruces Rita Decker 5.0 lbs TOPS#NM390, Las Cruces Lorey Warner 6.0 lbs

NEW KOPS:

TOPS#NM219, Las Cruces Annie Gordon 12/04/2008 CONGRATULATIONS!

KOPS Below Goal:

TOPS#NM16, Albuquerque Heather Darby

TOPS#NM30, Artesia Louise Daughtery

TOPS #NM55,Las Cruces Celia Anaya

TOPS#NM99, Alamogordo Loretta Bean, Barbara Carpenter, Claudie Guthrie, Mary Lou Kounter

TOPS#NM104, Los Alamos Bea Mortan, Debbie Clayton

TOPS#NM216, Albuquerque Beatrice Payne

TOPS#NM227, Albuquerque Grace Brooks, Martha Baum

TOPS#NM288, Silver City Lorna Garrod TOPS#NM298, Santa Fe Rosemary Duck and Elna Strand

TOPS#NM359,Alamogordo Virginia & Ed Scarbrough, Jerry Austin, Cece Szewczyk, Gloria Wohlert

KOPS in Leeway:

TOPS#NM99, Alamogordo Nina Cypret and Nancy Montgomery

TOPS#NM354, San Lorenzo Paula Norero

TOPS#NM359, Alamogordo Carolyn Wagner, Frank Smith

TOPS#NM368, Deming Donna Harris and Judi Hudgens

The Southwest KOPS Honor Society would like to invite all KOPS, Leaders, and Goalies(anyone within 10 pounds of reaching their goal) to the Honor Society meeting that will be held at SRD. The purpose of the Southwest KOPS Honor Society is to encourage and foster complete determination among the KOPS membership and to help each other maintain their goal weights. The meeting with be held at the MGM Elegante Hotel Friday, March 27, at 3:00pm – 4:00pm. Come find out what the Honor Society is all about.

Programs/Contests/Special Activities by Chapter:

TOPS#55, Las Cruces Members enjoyed a Christmas Program, a gift exchange, and played Christmas BINGO. Danita and Jocob lead members with singing Christmas Carols.

Lottery Game: Each member pays $1. We pick a number. If your number is drawn you win ½ of money. The other half goes to our Treasure. If no one wins we all add another dollar.

TOPS#NM219, Las Cruces We had a Potluck Christmas Party with a gift exchange. Our December 4th meeting was especially nice. One of our members is a “retired” massage therapist. She gave each of us a 5 minute massage as well as a talk on the benefits of massage therapy. So nice.

TOPS#NM227, Albuquerque Brenda Gleason lost 8.00 pounds this month. December was a great month.

TOPS#NM240, Sandia Park We all enjoyed a Auction in our club this month.

TOPS#NM242, Tucumcari December 19 – No Gain meeting. Had a stocking contest, box gift contest, and a raffle for Christmas. We worked on snow globes, made some mistakes but still fun.

TOPS#NM288, Silver City New contest, TOPS with KOPS as Captains. Naomi Holmes has a loss after Christmas. Congratulations.

TOPS#NM340, Lovington Joyce Drewry lost 14 pounds to keep the “I gave TOPS Ten” Challenge. Kathy Hardy joined TOPS in July and has lost19 pounds in six months. Annual Christmas Breakfast was fun. Pan Scrubbers will be awarded to our Exercise Contest winners.

TOPS#NM354, San Lorenzo Theresa Ferguson (5.5 lbs) and Fran Iser (4.5 lbs) were also good losers for December. Fran Iser joined on 11/11 and has 7 weigh-ins and 7 loses.

TOPS#NM359, Alamogordo A Christmas tree was decorated by losing weight, calling and giving a short program. We had a nice Christmas luncheon at Peppers and a gift exchange.

TOPS#NM368, Deming Programs by Carla: Dec 3, "A Better body in Minutes." She listed various short quick workouts. Mainly to fit workouts in when you can is better than not doing any because of lack of time. Dec. 10, "Do sugar cravings have you by the Neck." She explained what is happening in our body when we have sugar craving and ways to combat them.

We had a fun party Dec 17th at Judi Hudgens, had good food and fellowship and exchanged gifts. Some games provided by Carol and Trisha.

Happy 2009! I am looking forward to all the great things you will accomplish this year relating to your weight loss and healthy lifestyle goals. It will be awesome to read and learn about each of you and your chapters. I feel like I know many of you because of your submittals and look forward to meeting you in person at SRD. Keep up the good reporting and keep on bragging about all those success.

Special Note: No information will be printed about Chapter Best Losers for the year because one of our Chapter Queens will be the NM Queen, and we don’t want to spoil the surprise for you.

Nancy Montgomery

State Coordinator Area Captain

Paula Norero, #660 Patricia Rael, #6069 HC 71 Box 945 PO Box 695 Hanover, NM 88041 Santa Cruz, NM 87567 505-690-0188 575-536-9433 [email protected] [email protected]