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.


Tuesday, March 13, 2012

A cup of carrots

I'm sitting here eating a cup of carrots while I compose this post. Such a difference from mere weeks ago when I sat at the computer eating chocolate!!

I've learned a lot about myself these past weeks. I committed to do this challenge with every intention of "slipping up" on the no sweets and no sugar/refined flour week. I just didn't think I had it in me to do it--by desire or willpower. It turns out that I do! And you guys are a big part of that. Even though I don't know most of you, I have really been buoyed up by your blog posts.

I really hated last week, I'm not going to lie. As the week went on and I had made it through yet another day, I just kept telling myself that if I could do it for one day, then I could surely do it for one more.

I am in the zone!! People are starting to notice that I have lost weight. I'm usually pretty self-conscious about that, but this time around it is actually motivating me to keep at it! I'm down 12 pounds since we started. My goal was to lose 10-15, so I'm happy about that!

I'm excited about this week's challenge. I am definitely NOT a veggie person. Some of them I love--carrots, broccoli, corn. Some I hate--tomatoes, peppers, peas. Most I just tolerate. I'm trying to include a wide variety of veggies in my diet. Asparagus has been on sale, so I'll be cooking up some of that. I'm also going to add different veggies to my green salad.

Honestly, it's such a relief to be able to eat things without checking the labels! I'd probably choke down a tomato over doing that again. :) Good luck everyone!
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