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.


Saturday, February 18, 2012

I have to admit that for me this week has been the most difficult one so far--and it's really my fault!  I really wanted to do this challenge--not for the hope of winning some money--but to get myself on track and be able to accomplish some of the other things I needed to do. 

One of my life challenges at this time is to get my hip back to normal so that I can walk without a limp and so that I won't get so tired before the day ends.  So this week my own choice of challenge was to faithfully and COMPLETELY do my "hip" exercises.  Oh, I've been doing them since I got home from rehab, but not as faithfully as I should, so I thought this would help me be more diligent.  You've heard of self-defeating behavior(!) and that's kind of what I've been doing this week.  Instead of getting up and doing my exercises when I'm "fresh" and not tired out, for the most part I've been waiting until day's end (even as late as 11:00 p.m.) to do them.  I will say that I have done them, but it has been hard and definitely not a pleasant experience.  If only walking or riding the bike would fix it, I'd have it made!

I plan to continue on next week with my exercises, so wish me luck.  "No sugar" will probably be equal to this week's challenge. 

I wish you all a wonderful sugar-free week!
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