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.


Friday, February 3, 2012

I like to read some of Dr. Oz's articles, and he has 5 tricks to fight food cravings.  I do have several foods (at least) I crave at times.  He says the following:

"...weight loss isn't as simple as "eat less and exercise more."  He has some ways to give temptations the slip.

"Practice mindful meditation.  Spend just 7 minutes a day focusing on recognizing, accepting, and experiencing your cravings rather than trying to ignore or suppress them.  Dieters who do have far fewer food cravings, and resist them better.  Here's the trick to eating mindfully so you'll eat less.  Get on your feet.  Especially if you're craving chocolate.  A quick walk will curb even major chocoholic cravings in just 15 minutes.  It works by stimulating feel-good brain chemicals and feeding your spirit.  Hit the mute button and do sit-ups when commercials come on.  You'll switch off cravings, too.  People eat more snack foods after watching TV shows loaded with food ads.  Try yoga.  Aside from making you stronger, suppler, and calmer, yoga helps you tune in to your appetite and recognize whether you're actually hungry or just bored.  Have that little cookie you can't stop thinking about.  Sometimes, trying to stifle a craving makes it grow so intense that, when you finally cave, you eat the whole bag.  Having one little cookie now may save you from having 30 later.  Don't beat yourself up.  Relish it.  Take a small bite, savor the taste, have another bite.  Thoroughly enjoy it.  Then move on."

Some of these things really help me--and I've appreciated the fact that I can't eat anything after 8:00 p.m.  Most of all, I haven't felt deprived of anything, and it's okay!

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