Mondays (5:30-5:45 weigh-in) 6-7pm weekly meeting. Here’s what you can expect at a TIGARD TOPS MEETING:
• Meetings usually last an hour or so.
• Each member has a private weigh-in before the meeting. (That's the first time you'll see listed.)
• Meeting starts with members sharing challenges, successes, or goals (if they want). Masks are optional.
• TOPS members stand (if possible) and say thei
r pledge: "I am an intelligent person. I will control my emotions and not let my emotions control me. Every time I am tempted to use food to satisfy my frustrated desires, build up my injured ego, or dull my senses, I will remember . . . I WILL Take Off Pounds Sensibly.
• KOPS members say the same pledge but with an alternate ending: I will remember . . . I am to be an example as I Keep Off Pounds Sensibly.
• Each member says their name and how they did that week (whether they went UP, DOWN or stayed the SAME weight). Everything about TOPS is easy going. We cheer and clap if someone loses, if they stayed the same weight we give them one big CLAP! And if they had a gain that week we say, "We're glad you're here!" Because we are.
• After that here’s a brief program covering a variety of health and wellness topics, with recipe exchanges, discussions, and sometimes guest presenters.
• Awards go to weekly or monthly best losers, contest winners, and members who’ve reached goal!
• When needed, there’s a quick business meeting before the closing.
• Meeting closes with a farewell poem that we all say (with or without hand holding). "You take my hand and I'll take yours, and we'll start out today, for a helping hand is what we need to help us on our way, the road to goal is a lonely road, we need someone to care, so reach out my friend, and take my hand, and then we're almost there!"
