10/28/09

#SweetTweets Life Plan

    Today, we are starting a life plan. What is that? This is where the rubber hits the road, as they say. Although I have never figured out who 'they' are.
We all have issues:
  • Weight
  • Diet
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Redemption
  • Forgiveness
  • Egotism
  The big difference is that we are not going to follow someone's "life plan." We are going to create one for ourselves. "The #SweetTweet Life Plan"

Tell us about what you eat, how you feel, how you think of yourself.
  • Do you feel thin/fat? 
  • Do you feel pretty/ugly?
  • Do you feel stylish/frumpy?
 Print this out and we will use this as a guide. If you would like, email the figures to me to keep in a chart (not to be shared). You don't have to, but sometimes it is important to be accountable to someone. You will need a scale and a tape measure.
Height:
Weight:
Chest:
Waist:
Hips:
Left Upper Arm:                               
Right Upper Arm:
Left Wrist:
Right Wrist:
Left Upper Thigh:                             
Right Upper Thigh:
Left Lower Thigh:                            
Right  Lower Thigh:
Left Calf:                                         
Right Calf.      
Left Ankle                                      
Right Ankle
All measurements should be at the widest part. 
We will measure and weigh-in on the 1st day of each month.

     My email is barbara.p.duke@gmail.com. Please put 'SweetTweets Life Plan' in the Subject Line.
Your information will be kept confidential and only used to give overall success that we are all striving for in the end.
    There is no cost for this, I just want to know your stories and help if I can. I have had weight issues all my life and other problems. I have learned so much in the past years how to handle situations and how to take care of myself. I have taken classes and read extensively on human behavior.  I would like to share. I think it is important to start with weight and branch out into other things.
    I only ask that you be one of the people that follow me on Twitter. I want to create a network of friends helping friends. Feel free to contact me if you have ideas to expand our world and create harmony for all.
    Use your own diet plan, but follow one. If nothing else, write down your calories and limit to 1600 per day. Keeping a record of what you eat is very important for you to see where you are going from where you have been. Purchase a small notebook just for this purpose. Help others by posting your ideas in the comments. Don't forget to move. All movement is important. If you have a pedometer, use it. Try for Dr. Oz's 10,000 steps a day.
    Feel free to join the blog and post your comments. Lets make this our Plan for Life!
Love, Barbara

9/23/09

My SweetTweets are Awesome!

#SweetTweets are the people on Twitter who are following me. They are extraordinary people. I love them. They have stood by me over the past months while I have been ill. They retweeted me when I couldn't and increased my followers to over 10,000 from April to October 2009.

They were there each morning when I woke up with encouraging words of love and prayers. I don't know how I could have made it without their positive support. They lovingly call me "the Queen of Twitter." Isn't that sweet, but I know that I am not. I am the Encourager. I am there to encourage them socially, personally, professionally. I don't see every using Twitter for anything other than my original intent. I do send links to my blogs occasionally but not constantly.


My blogs are:
http://thoughts-of-pink.blogspot.com/
http://thoughts-of-Christ.blogspot.com/
http://thoughts-of-harmony.blogspot.com/ 
http://barbara-duke.blogspot.com/
http://attitudeaptitude.blogspot.com/

See the new "#SweetTweet's Life Plan" tomorrow!