The Cyber Cruise

As I am writing this blog entry Richard Simmons is on his Cruise To Lose. Once a year he takes hundreds of people who need help with losing weight on a fun filled one week cruise. He has been doing it for years now. He teaches people about portion control, he holds exercise classes and has motivational classes all on a gorgeous cruise ship in exotic ports of call. I wish I could go but money is always an issue and I go on my LA trips instead. It's more fun.

When it is time for the Cruise To Lose and Richard takes to the seas his website has what they call the "Cyber Cruise". The clubhouse members get all the information and motivational tools that the real cruisers get and we are supposed to pretend that we are on the cruise.

Links are posted so that you can see the ship and ports of call. You go to your make believe cabin, you dine in the make believe dining room, you play craps in the make believe casino and you go on make believe day trips to the islands that the real cruise is at that day. It's all good fun and if you particiapte you can lose weight. OK! Now you've got my attention.

I've tried in years past to take part in the Cyber Cruises but it never kept my attention. I guess my imagination isn't that vivid or maybe I just don't have the time to be posting on the make believe cruise board about the make believe cruise. It just hasn't worked for me in the past but as always I had to check it all out at Richard's website.

This year's Cyber Cruise has some interesting things going on. Things that I need like tips to help you take your weight loss seriously and the revisiting of reasons why you want to lose weight in the first place. Richard is providing daily worksheets that make you think about the actual things that you are going to do in order to stay on program. These are helpful things for me. I guess it's just the slap of reality that I need to get me going again.

An important aspect of the Cyber Cruise this year is a worksheet called Facing The Scale. As I was filling it out I got a feeling of deja vu. I felt as if I had done that before. I searched through all of my Richard Simmons stuff which is an extensive collection and I found a sheet just like this in my old Deal A Meal life plan only it was called a contract with myself. I had filled it out all those years ago and I had actually made it to my goal weight so maybe that's one of the missing components for me. I haven't made a contract with myself.

I sat down and filled out all the paperwork that has been provided on the Cyber Cruise. It's made me think about things in a new but old way, if you get my drift. I've decided to continue with the paperwork for the rest of the week. It may be a very good thing for me after all. Thanks Richard. I'll keep ya posted.