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5/14/09 12:49 P

Closed--do not post here.
We now have Team Announcements at the top of our team page. Thanks to SP!

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3/29/09 2:12 P

Hi everyone!
Remember to update your challenges and your team goal posts by March 31st, so we can see who the leaders are!

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3/8/09 11:33 A

Daylight saving time begins today!
I hope you all set your clocks ahead 1 hour last night!!

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3/2/09 1:19 P

MARCH 2009 - 50+ Maintainers Team Newsletter
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Hi Team,
Spring will be here in just a few weeks and I know we all can't wait!!
Let's all stay on track or get back on track by
participating in our challenges and Team Goals.

First, I want to give a big Welcome to all our new February members:
JOHAL52, DORCAS8, JANEFROST, HCWOOD,
NPILBEAM, CGINNA, CASTLEGEMS, LIBRARYGAL4,
STILLFLYIN, BETTEBOOP56, SUMLUKELARK,SANJJI,
MSDIANE, MALVJY, andFITWORTHY.

Please intoduce your self (if you haven't already)
in the Introduction FORUM under the THREAD
"Welcome Newbies". And post in the
'Getting to know you' & '4 things' Thread. Also post
your birthday in the Birthday thread.

I highly recommend all our members that
don't have spark pages to create one.
**Sparkpages:
With SparkPages, members can create a free
personal homepage that includes photos, blog
entries, links to friends' pages, and more! And
it is easier for your team leaders and team mates
to keep in touch with you for encouragement
and to send you Spark Goodies!
_________________________

**I want to REMIND everyone NOT to start any new threads.
This is a big No No. We want to keep the team organized.
Post whatever you want in a thread already started.
If you can't find a thread to post it in, post it in chat
or contact myself or one of the other leaders and they
can post it for you.
(Read the first post in our team that says "Read first before posting")
Please read this so if you see STOP signs and YIELD signs,
you will know what they are for.
_________________________

**Our theme this month is NUTRITION & EATING HEALTHY!.
So you will see some articles chosen in the Team Links section
under Leader Selected Favorites.
This is located on our team page toward the bottom on the right.
Be sure to look in our Food and exercise chat room for some
lively discussions on the right foods to eat etc.
__________________________
Our Forums:
~~The 4 forums are:
General Team Discussion Forum
Introduce Yourself to Team Forum
Maintainers Team CHALLENGES and GAMES Forum
Maintainers Team DIET and EXERCISE Forum

Check under the titles of each of our 4 forums for
more topics under there, by clicking on the 'see more topics'
button under each forum.
**Reminder:If you any you are interested in and want to get any updates
from any of our team threads, you need to post in them.
Just because you might not receive a e-mail from one of the post
just means you need to post to receive any other posts from there.
_____________
Here is what we have this month at 50+ Maintainers:

** CHALLENGES:
March St. Patrick's Day Challenge 03/01 - 03/31
30 Days to a Healthier Diet Challenge 03/01-03/31
(the directions for both of these challenges is in the first post.)

**2 ONGOING CHALLENGES:
1. THREE DAILY THINGS ONGOING CHALLENGE
2.~Your Daily Spark Points Ongoing Challenge
(The directions for these are in the first post.)

** 6 GAMES:
1. "Last Letter Food Game"
2. "Scrabble Game"
3. "A-Z Holiday Item Game"
4. Emoticon Daily Poll....
5. Show How You Feel Today With A Emoticon!
6. FUN THING!
(The directions for these are in the first post.)

** 3 CHAT ROOMS
1. Daily Chat Room
2. Challenge Chat Room
3. Diet food and Exercise Chat

Also in The DIET and EXERCISE Forum we have:
Recipe Box
Weekly Weigh-In
Daily weigh-in
Track Pedometer steps
Track your WALK or RUN Here:
Pedometers
plus alot more!
and alot of good nutrition chat in the chat room there.
_____________________________________
Team goals not only help yourself but help our team
by meeting our quota for the month. So please participate.
Look under our TEAM GOAL thread for directions on
how to get started. Post any questions there also.
We only have a small percentage of our team participating.
It is fun to watch our bar go up to meet our teams goals.

~~TEAM GOALS~~

G et in your daily multivitamin!
O BTAIN YOUR DAILY EXERCISE GOALS!
A llow for fruits and Vegetables! 5 Fruits and Vegetables per day
L OVE YOUR TEAM! Post in our 'How are you doing today?" Thread
S TAY HYDRATED! Drink your water!

~~STREAKS~~
To be able to see you ticker tape on the teams site, you need to go
to your start page. In the middle of the page on the left click on 'my streaks'.
Here you can determine what you want to share with the team etc.

You can also view your streaks on your page.
Any questions about the Team Goals or streaks just post in
the Team goals thread topic. Any comments you have can be posted
there too.
______________________

BTW: All directions for each thread are always posted in the first post.
So if you have any doubt as to what the thread is about, just
check the first thread.
____________________
If you have any questions you can post in any of the chat rooms
or spark-mail Nancy, Lynn or I directly.

We hope you enjoy the team and hope it helps you meet your goals.
Best wishes to all of you in your weight loss/Maintenance journeys!!

Huggs,
Von

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2/28/09 9:05 A

Hi Team,
Update your Team Goals & Points pages today!
Later today I will be adding them up to see how we all have done!

Have a great day!!

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1/20/09 7:34 P

I noticed the other day they (SP) added a button: "See more Topics". So we don't have to click the forum titles anymore to see the threads underneath.

We can just click the button! Yea! SP!

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1/14/09 6:04 P

Don't forget! The first ever show your Spark Day is Friday Jan. 16th!!

Go here to read more:

www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_
individual.asp?blog_id=1668964

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12/27/08 9:12 A

Remember:

Post your Team Goal numbers by December 31st.

Post your birthday also.

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12/9/08 12:51 P

Hi Team,
I changed the name of the team to 50+ Maintainers.
It is still the same team.

I did this because
#1. It is shorter to write out and
#2. I think it is more inviting to everyone 50 and over years of age. Some members thought the Team was for only members in their 50's or for members needing to lose 50 pounds.

So I think the name change will clarify this and hopefully we get new members in their 50's, 60's 70's and beyond!

Have a productive day everyone and keep moving!!
Von

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12/7/08 9:55 A

Hi Team,
You all can post here too, saying if you read the things I post or anything you find out new about sparks or any problems/tech problems you find.

Von

Please read below the 2 new posts.

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12/7/08 9:52 A

If any of you got this spark mail this am, just delete it. Coach Dean booted the spammer.

From: ION1905
Date: 12/7/2008 - 6:28 AM
Subject: A special gift from SparkPeople

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12/5/08 12:53 P

New one posted!

Click on our Team Icon to see!

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12/5/08 11:46 A

If you received alot of spark mail this morning as I did for me posting about Team announcements, it is because they are working on our Team. I see they haven't fixed it yet. Every time I post an M in the topic of a thread it doesn't show up.
As in Pedometers and Team Announcements. So bear with me.
Also our streaks in Team Goals isn't working.
They did fix our team huddle though so that is great!

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12/4/08 10:43 A

Enter weekly SP contest:


www.dailyspark.com/blog.asp?post=holiday_g
iveaway_140_fit_fresh_food_storage_gif
t_sets

(sorry, I think it is only for US Members...what a bummer!)

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12/2/08 8:38 P

I don't know if any of you have noticed but we are having some technical problems.

I posted this in Tech help today:

"My Team huddle isn't working either. (Other teams are having this issue also)
Neither is my ticker tapes in the team goal Streaks.

Also help, to one of the coaches: Everytime I post a new topic with an M in it, it doesn't show up in the title...help please!"

So, I hope they resolve these soon as the huddle counts towards our points (only 1, but still.....lol)

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12/1/08 7:08 P

....TEAM ANNOUNCEMENTS....

November Team Goal Results are posted at our ...TEAM GOAL...thread. It is the 2nd post.

I have been getting alot of e-mails asking how to do the Spark Streaks and have them show up on our Team Goals. And also how to do the Team Goals.

What are they?
1. Spark Goals is something you track each day-there are 5 goals posted for our team. You click on track goal to track it to make the little bar go up to meet our monthly quota as a team.

2. Spark Streaks will show up on the team goals when you do the directions below. You will see how long you have done a team goal. You can see this by clicking on the side of the individual team goals.
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Here are the directions for each:

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TEAM GOALS AND SPARK STREAKS DIRECTIONS
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In the middle of our main team page There is Team Goals.

1. Under that you will see Individual Goal:
This is where you click to see directions
on how to post for each goal.
2. Team December Progress
This is a calculator that will add up each goal as
we track them as a team.
3.Team Goal:
This will show underneath how many we
have out of the goal number set for the month.

The far side you click to post in your numbers for the day.
When you click here you will see:

Other Goals Page:
under 50 Something Maintainers Team Goals
Click on each Team goal and write the number
you did for the day.
Be sure to read the directions for each goal to
see how to post for each goal.

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Your Spark Streaks
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To share your streaks with our team.
You can see who has streaks by going to
Our Team Goals and clicking on the left
side of each goal.
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Go to:
Spark People start page
It will say:
START
Welcome (your name)

Bottom left under MY SPARK STREAKS
Click: See More SparkStreaks

You will go to a page titled MY SPARKSTREAKS
Click on button that says: START/MANAGE STREAKS

On this page you can see what streaks you have going on.
Under spark team goals 50 Something Maintainers you should see
the Love My Team Goal. You can click on the squares to:

Track streaks
Share on your page
Share with Team

Make sure to click on share with team and track streaks.
You will be able to see on our team by going to our
TEAM GOALS and clicking on the left side of Love my team goal.

This will show you how many days you have been on a streak.
(You can go there now and see my streaks)

I hope this helps those who want to Start a streak.

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