Wednesday, November 28, 2012

10 Things to Help Drop Those Turkey Pounds!

Let me know how you are doing since Thanksgiving.

 

Did you maintain of gain?

 

Here are 10 Things to Help Drop Those Turkey Pounds!

 

1.       Stop taking the elevator.  Take the stairs whenever you can.

2.       Save Gas: Use a bicycle to do small trips around town and going to work if you can.

3.       When using your car; park a good distance away from your destination so you can walk more.

4.       Stop using any sweeteners, even the natural brown/raw alternatives (only exception is Stevia).

5.       Drink Green Tea to burn fat faster!

6.       Drink more Water! (60-120oz per day)

7.       Stay away from corn syrup completely

8.       Eat more Veggies & fruits raw

9.       Eat clean: lean proteins, fresh veggies, sprouted grains, and fruits (organic is available)

10.   Lastly, make this your motto: “Move More, Eat Less!”

 

Try to maintain your weight all the way until bootcamp begins again in April!

 

Miss you all.

 

Who’s looking out for your health and wellness?

Theo Tilton

 

rippedandsexybootcamp.com

 

 

 

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

VOLUNTEER WEEKEND PLAN FOR 11/17-11/18

The current plan is to caravan back to the Highlands NJ this weekend and meet in Huddy Park at 9 am to volunteer for the day to help families work on their homes and town.  Last weekend 100's of volunteers helped in the effort. 
If we feel that the area is stabilizing steadily then we may decide to go to an even harder hit area like union beach or Keansburg. If you would like to join us please let me know asap!

Besides volunteering, John and I are also looking to give a family a nice thanksgiving and Christmas.

Blessings,
Theo

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

HIGHLANDS UPDATE!

HIGHLANDS UPDATE!

 

·         Keep the donations flowing.

·         Contractors to help assess home damage so volunteers can perform the work asap!

·         20-30  people about to lose shelter.

 

Power is restored to all homes that have no junction box water damages.  This is very misleading as many homes are still not livable during the winter even if they have electricity.  All the insulation and sheetrock has been removed to prevent mold.

However, there are still many homes that have electrical water damage and power cannot be restored fully.   The local church on Bay Ave is providing hot meals daily and even setting up satellite BBQ stations in harder hit areas.  They also have their basement set up as a free donation grocery store for people who are in need.  Nearly everyone in this area is in need.  The work this church is doing is unbelievable!

 

Keep the donations flowing.

Donations of food, cleaning supplies, baby supplies, and hygiene products keep rolling in but are still needed.  With the exception of new socks and underwear, no clothes please, they have enough.

Food that requires no refrigeration or cooking is best to go directly to families as they may not have working stoves or methods to be able to cook as of yet.

 

Contractors to help assess home damage so volunteers can perform the work asap!

The biggest need this week is contractors good at assessing home damage and what needs to be done to get them livable again.

If you are a contractor willing to donate time and effort for this working class community that has lost everything.  Get to the highlands municipal building or call Karen (info below)and let them know you can help them evaluate homes they would greatly appreciate it!  They are trying to get as many homes evaluated as possible so volunteers can perform the work over the weekend in a huge push to get this area stable and winterized.

Countless homes have already been tagged for destruction by the state.  They desperately need help!

 

20-30  people about to lose shelter and need a place to go!

Dozens of displaced families in this area have already been placed in long term housing and temp housing.

However, the shelter in the area is now closing because classes at the school need to resume.

From what I hear, there are still 20-30 or so people who need shelter that need to move from the closing shelter at the local school.

 

If you can help one of these families or provide anything mentioned in the email please contact Karen at 732-513-9571.

 

Again highest priorities today are:

1.       Keep the food donations flowing.

2.       Contractors to help assess home damage so volunteers can perform the work asap!

3.       20-30  people about to lose shelter and need a place to go.

 

 

Sharing Our Story with you About Sunday at The Highlands

We (Me, John & Dawn) went to the Highlands Sunday.  A small working class fishing community below route 36 bridge near the sandy hook entrance.  

The pictures do not reflect what this place really looked like two weeks ago.  I included a map so you can see where I feel people have been hit the hardest.

 

For every pic I took, imagine the water level being at 18 feet in some cases.  This would be almost at the start of the second story. 

The water lines were so high in the homes you could not even fathom this actual happened.

 

We spent most of the morning on Sunday,  going house-to-house and giving out what people needed the most.  Cleaning supplies, clean socks and underwear, water, and most of all garbage bags, mops, buckets, gloves to help them clean up.

Many of the homes have RED stickers on them and have been declared uninhabitable.  This is a working class area. These are not second homes for anyone here.  This is where they live.  It is a local fishing community. Many of them have lived here their entire lives. Many of these people have lost literally everything.  Red Cross & FEMA are present but not mobilizing fast enough.

 

I’m not sure about the amount of homes we went to but I’m sure you can imagine it didn’t seem like enough.

 

I could go on and on about how many times I just became so overwhelmed by the magnitude of what I was witnessing but it is not going to help by doing so. But here are some heartwarming stories directly from me and what I was a part of just this past Sunday.

 

The thing that kept me going all day was, very early on in the morning, while handing out supplies house to house, we stumbled upon this home that seemed to be fine between two other homes that were just devastated with red stickers on the front.

There was a  young middle aged mother cleaning up the front driveway as best she could and set up café tables and umbrellas as a sort of rest area for the volunteers and her children handed out free bottled water and cookies to the volunteers and even made little crayon drawings to give away.  Just hearing them saying thank you to us was something that I cannot even describe.  We gave them a box of potato chips to hand out as well to support their moral boosting efforts.  I still keep seeing that little girls face saying thank you to everyone.  You see, in my mind, I see that they are so unbelievably grateful that they did not sustain the amount of damage that every home around them did and they wanted to give back in a way that injected hope into a hopeless situation.

 

After this we went to Huddy Park, where they were organizing a local morale booster music event and giving out free food to all the residents and volunteers.  After speaking with the organizers of this event we decided to get involved in a deeper way. We took what we had left from the truck which was still several bins full of cleaning supplies, food, baby formula and more, and brought it to the local church on Bay Ave next to the Municipal Building.

 

After helping them out at the church, the organizer came up to me and asked if we could help out an elderly couple from their church… after hearing about this couple, I could not say no.  We gathered up three bins or stuff to bring with us and off we went!

 

Next stop, Port Monmouth to  an elderly couple in their 70’s home, who was taking care of their daughter who was bed ridden with MS and their son just died 5 months ago of Colon cancer and the husband just had a stroke within the past 6 months, and the wife just and a stroke 3 months ago.  Now they are dealing with this disaster.  The woman and her husband were so sweet.  We did basic stuff for them, like cleaning up debris in their yard and flushing out their shed with water due to large amounts of gasoline leaking everywhere from lawn maintenance stuff like mowers, and blowers (which have not been used since their strokes and their son passing away)... they told us how high the water was and from the signs of it, it was unbelievable.  Looking at the house now, you couldn’t imagine this actually happened.  Toward the end, the husband came out using a walker and he could barely speak as his face was still paralyzed by the stroke.  All he wanted to do was try to give us money for everything we were doing to help them.  The elderly woman tried to buy us lunch and we refused.  Their power was still out and they had no idea that the area that their church was in was completely destroyed.  They were not aware because they had no TV.  In the end we got their phone numbers so I am going to keep up with them to see if they are ok.

 

Lastly, a story of divine intervention..

 

When we finished helping out the elderly couple and their MS stricken daughter, we decided to take the three plastic bins and a handful of large garbage bags with us so we could start another collection this week.  But it seems there was a divine intervention on the way out of the area.  We ended up near union beach where we saw a local marina where all the boat were tossed on top of each other.  We continued to drive through an area where the entire street of homes that all had red stickers on them except a few.  There was an entire family that just was pulling debris out of their house so we stopped and asked if they could use help of they needed anything.  The woman promptly said YES, if you have garbage bags that would really help.  Looking at each other we said yes we do!  Do you also need plastic bins and containers.  And the woman looked at her husband and said sweetie you can save your tools now.  The interaction was so fast, and so needed, right at that time.   I realized that things never happen just because.  They always happen at the perfect time for a purpose as long as you are ready and willing to act.  The amount of community effort we saw was outstanding.  This has forever been locked into my memory and I will never forget it.

 

I know most of you have been to the Jersey shore at some point in your life.

I lived at the shore for the first 28 years of my life and I have seen multiple hurricanes (Opal, Hugo, Andrew) and the demonstration of power and destruction they can cause.

But, I have never seen anything like this before ever.  The footprint and area of devastation is staggering.  Nearly every landmark shore area has been wiped clean. Every memory that I have ever had, the places I have been, and the fun times I had, are now gone.

 

I will say that in the end I was most impressed by the level of Love, Compassion, and sense of Hope that everyone had.  From what I can see, this is far from being over.  You can watch the news and see posts on FBOOK or twitter, but unless you are on the ground in the middle of it, you will never understand the impact and the power of the human spirit. 

 

The shore will recover, and it will be better than ever before and ready to make new memories for the new generations to come!

 

Jersey Strong!

 

Theo Tilton

 

 

 

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Please Help Supply Much Needed Supplies to The Relief Efforts at The Jersey Shore After Hurricane Sandy!

Friend & Folks-

John & I will be going to Belmar this Sunday morning and volunteering on the ground to help people rebuild their lives.
The following list of items in high demand according to the Belmar website: http://belmar.com/

Please contact John or me if you would like to drop off any of these items to our Morristown home by Sunday at 8 am to help out.
We will be leaving by 8:15 am.

If this occurs you can have items shipped to 601 Main Street, Belmar NJ 07719

·         Work Gloves & Latex Gloves
·         Flashlights
·         Batteries
·         Bleach and other Cleaning Products
·         Rakes
·         Contractor Bags
·         Packing Tape
·         Markers (Sharpie-type)
·         Paper Towels
·         Rags
·         Sponges
·         Mops & Buckets
 ·        Firewood
·         Shelf Milk
·         Storage Bins
·         Cereal
·         Gatorade

Contact me directly at 9 7 3 – 7 6 8 – 3 6 2 5 if you would like to donate any of these items.

Thank you,

Theo Tilton