Challenge Rules

9 week challenge - January 23 - March 25

Each participant contributes $20 to the Prize Pot.

4 Point Categories: exercise, challenge participation, weight loss challenge & Blog participation.

Exercise: You will receive 1 point for every 30 minutes of exercise for up to 5 hours. Anyone who completes 5 hours will receive 15 points. No extra points will be awarded for hours over 5. Exercise should be intentional and challenging.

Weekly Challenge Participation: You will receive 1 point for each day you complete the weekly challenge. If you complete every day of the week you will receive 10 points. (weekly challenges are listed on the right)

Weight Challenge: If you maintain your weight for the week you get 5 points. If you lose any weight for the week you get 8 points.

This challenge is about more than weight loss, we want the focus to be on creating good habits and feeling healthy. But we recognize that some of you may desire to lose weight and you should be rewarded with additional points.

Blog Participation: You will receive 5 points for each week that you post an update, thoughts or motivation on the blog. Setting goals works best when you have people to share with and report to, use the blog as a way to motivate and encourage each other.

Make up Points: If you miss a day of the weekly challenge you can earn 4 make up points. If you do the challenge from the previous week, every day for the current week, you can get 4 bonus points. You must do the previous weeks challenge in addition to the current week and do it perfectly to earn the 4 points. You are only eligible for the bonus points if you missed a day from the previous week, you cannot have a perfect week and keep doing the previous weeks challenge to earn 4 additional points.


Monday, February 13, 2012

Fresh Food and an Inspiring Story

As I have been thinking about this "choose your own challenge" I thought it would be good to increase my awareness of serving sizes by measuring out all of my portions.  However, before I posted my goal, I decided to look back at my food journal to see if there was anything else that would be better to focus on.  As I looked I noticed I had little to no fruits or vegetables in a day.  Instead my meals were full of pre-prepared boxed and frozen foods.  I realized that having good portions isn't going to help if I am not eating the right foods.  I need the vitamins and minerals that come from FRESH FOODS.  This week my goal is to eat 3 servings of fruits, and 3 servings of vegetables each day.  I hope I will learn to like the natural sweetness of fruit, so I can use it as a substitue next week when I can't have sweets!

On a separate note, I wanted to share a brief thought from the LDS Worldwide Leadership Training on Saturday.   We watched a video that told the story of a deacon (a boy age 12 or 13), Spencer,  who felt responsible to care for the other boys in his quorum.  One of these boys, Dayton, had cerebral palsy and could only communicate through blinking.  Spencer wanted Dayton to be able to do things like other kids and invited him to do a triathlon.  Dayton blinked a "yes," so Spencer pushed and pulled Dayton through the entire triathlon.  Spencer said it was more difficult than the other triathlons he had done alone but he knew a good friend was only 5 feet away from him the whole time, and that kept him going.  This is a very inspiring story of love and service.  I was also inspired when Spencer said that he felt good knowing he could do hard things.  This health challenge is a hard thing but I know we can do it and that we will all feel better having done it.

Here is the link to the video.  Spencer and Dayton complete triathlon together I encourage all of you to watch this story.  Its only a couple of minutes long but is very moving.  The actual video begins at the 24:00 minute mark and goes to 26:41.

WE TOO CAN DO HARD THINGS!


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