What do we plan to accomplish?

Even though the three of us meet regularly for lunch and keep in touch via IM and email, we formed the Support Sisters to make it official. In making it official, we need concrete objectives and goals. Otherwise it is too easy to make excuses and let everything and everyone else go ahead on our priority list.

Here are some ideas up for discussion:

1) Sign up and train for a 5K (and another one after that and then maybe, just maybe a triathlon???)

2) Meet once a month at a predetermined day/time so that we can’t just make excuses and put it off- we could meet at a park and go on a power walk

3) Focus on health issues and not weight and celebrate the choices we make every day to improve our health and share tips/tricks

4) We could have homework we must complete before each meeting- eg reading a book, trying out a new activity, ...

5) Schedule group activities outside of our comfort zone- Leisure Learning offers great classes. Some ideas include kayaking, rock climbing, ice skating, cooking classes.

6) We could meet once a month to do a big cooking day. Each bring ingredients to make 2 or 3 recipes, enough for 3 families and then we split them up so we have 6 or 9 different meals for the freezer.

7) Each activity or monthly meeting or some other predetermined mini-goal, we put money towards a big trip to a spa. They have a great one in Austin that is geared towards health and serves healthy food. Doesn’t have to be such a big trip either- could be a trip to the day spa or we could even schedule a spa day at one of our homes.

8) We become each other’s sponsors aka AA style- staring down a 32 ounce margarita and can call each other to stop before we do something stupid. Side note: apparently the 32 oz margarita is a bad example. All agreed we'd join in instead of talking her down! AA we are not.