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.


Sunday, March 11, 2012

Almost done

Here it is the last day of this challenge and I realize it has not been so bad. I  went into this challenge thinking that it was going to be harder than it really was. The problem is I failed! Not intentionally either. It started on Monday. I made my family a delicious spaghetti dinner.I went to Costco and bought the whole wheat pasta. Usually with this dinner I make some sort of bread to go with it. This time I didn't. On Wednesday as I was reading through the recipe to make dinner, I saw that it required a measly two teaspoons of sugar. So I did the obvious thing, and that was to not put it in. I called my husband in to taste test, and he said it was a little tart. DRAT!!! In goes the sugar. It was then that I realized Mondays dinner had sugar in it!! I was so mad! When I made the spaghetti dinner, I pulled from the freezer my  frozen sauce, and put it in the pan. (I do this with my sauce. I make a huge a batch and then freeze about 12 bags, this makes for an easy meal.) I immediately sent my sister in law Jen a text telling her how ANGRY I was. I was ready to quit!!!

Jen is amazing! She gave me the best words of encouragement to finish the week. I took her advice and ran with it. It would have been easier for me to stop the challenge right then and there, because Friday morning we left for Texas. I have had a doggone road trip planned since Thanksgiving. This is when the challenge got REALLY hard. Snacks in the car are very limited. I can't just grab a string cheese, or a greek yogurt. No cottage cheese, or my home made whole wheat bread, made with kamut and honey. How was I going to survive? Well, here it is Sunday and we are still driving and I am glad to report that I even though I unintentionally messed up at home, I have not on our trip. :)

Can I say I will be glad for tomorrow morning when I no longer have to read a bunch of labels just to see that sugar is one of the top five ingredients on something I want. Ordering at a restaurant, will be a lot less complicated. I really appreciate this challenge and saw how cutting out the refined flours and sugars assisted in some easy weight loss. In the first three days, I lost a pound. What woman doesn't love that?

Some things that did get me through the week, whenever I had the sweet tooth craving was the Annie's Organic snacks, and the costco all natural fruit leather. I also believe that by choosing to eat mostly organic a year ago, it was an easier challenge for me. :) Thanks again for the challenge!
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