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Sharing with you that the "Your Weight Matters" campaign (I learned about it through Obesity Action Coalition) is underway.  Here's some info I received from a recent e-mail.  Let me know if you sign up; I did.

Welcome to the New Your Weight Matters Campaign!

The Obesity Action Coalition is proud to unveil the re-launch of the Your Weight Matters Campaign. Through www.YourWeightMatters.org, the Campaign will educate individuals about weight and its impact on health. The Campaign also encourages all individuals to have the conversation of weight with their healthcare provider through the Your Weight Matters Campaign Challenge.

The national re-launch of the Your Weight Matters Campaign is officially underway! The updated Your Weight Matters Web site includes weight and health information, FAQ’s and more! It is a great resource for all Campaign participants. 

The brand new Your Weight Matters Campaign Toolkit is yet another feature of the Campaign re-launch. It is an excellent resource to help you prepare for your talk about weight with your healthcare provider. Find out more about the Toolkit below. 

If you previously took the Challenge, but would like to access the new tools and resources, feel free to recommit online at www.YourWeightMatters.org.

Your Weight Matters Campaign Toolkit:

All Campaign participants will receive the newly-designed Your Weight Matters Campaign Toolkit. The brand new Toolkit includes information on:

• Weight and health
• Nutrition
• Emotional issues and weight
• Weight-loss options
• Benefits of weight-loss
• And much more!

The resources provided in the Campaign Toolkit will help prepare you for the conversation of weight with your healthcare provider, and explain more about why your weight and health matter.

Please remember that if you have previously taken the Your Weight Matters Campaign Challenge, you are welcome to recommitt online at www.YourWeightMatters.org. Once you take the Campaign Challenge, you will receive a copy of the new Toolkit in two to three weeks.

Take the Campaign Challenge Today!

If you have been to our meetings at Alameda Hospital this year let me know what you think of it.  How is the parking going for you?  Ease in finding the place, etc.  Is the time change an issue for you?

Thanks,

Kimberlee

Hi Tanya,

How bizarre that over a year later, your message here became visible to me and that it needed to be approved.  I am dumbfounded as to how this happened and apologize for the delay.  Are you still struggling with sleeping?  Please post an update. 

I have had bouts of not being able to sleep and noticed that some of the things I need to do is no****ch TV so late into the night or in bed (I no longer have a TV in the bedroom), I don't look at any electronics like my iPhone as apparently that winds up the brain.  Drinking some SleepyTime type of tea just might help.  If nothing else making a nighttime ritual of slowing sipping tea might ease your brain a bit.

Hi Kelly,

Just noticed on the system that your message was "locked" to be approved.  I've never seen that before and I apologize for not catching that sooner.  I believe your info is now visible. 

If you still have the clothes, bring to our meeting this Saturday, March 16.  We meet at the Alameda Hospital now starting at 2 p.m., in Conference Room C.  Hard to predict what size of clothes people will need that are in attendance at this meeting; it always varies.  But coming to the pre-op meeting that is from 2-2:30 is probably your best bet.

You might want to consider taking your clothes to All the More to Love on Encinal in Alameda.  It's a consignment shop.  Get their consignment info.  They allow 15 items at a time but maybe she will take more.  You can take them in little by little, build up some credit and then us that credit to get you the next smaller size.

Kimberlee