P.S. Don't fill in the weight loss percentage yet

At the end of week four you take measurements, but don't do anything with the weight loss percentage yet...still leave that blank until the last week of the challenge.

Reporting Inches Point

Reporting Inches Point

It's time to take measurements!  Hopefully even if you haven't seen much of a difference on the scale you will see a difference when you measure yourselves this week.  The way you figure your points with inches, is you will get points for every 1/2 inch or every full inch.  For every inch you lose you get 10 points, or 5 points for 1/2 inch.  For example, if I lose 2 inches off my waist and 1/2 inch off my hips I will report 25 points on the section that says "inches points" when I report tomorrow.   I shouldn't see any reports except for 5 point increments, no 1/4 inch points, sorry.  I hope you are all pleased with your results!

Results Week #3

This has been a GREAT week for many of you!!!  I am so happy to see how many people got all their points this week, good job everyone for working so hard!  There is one thing I want to emphasize about points....there seems to be the misconception that the way to win the challenge is to lose a lot of weight.  I beg to differ! When you lose 1 pound you get ten points, even if you were to consistently lose 3-4 pounds every week that only equals 30-40 points vs getting all points possible and getting 35 bonus points plus what you get for your points.  So the way to win the challenge (and create healthier habits) is to consistently get all your points in every area each week.  And that is what I am seeing many of you catching the vision of.  Having said that I would like to highlight all participants with perfect points in Week #3:
White team: Melanie Francis, Sheryl Mills, Will Empey, and Emily Empey
Yellow: Kristi Summit and Janell Porter
Fuchsia: Amanda L. Wilford
Brown: Judy Gordon, Chris Koehler, Melissa Allen, and Natausha Medellin
Green: Marinda Morgan, Kelly Thomson, and Lisa Thomson
Orange: Arin Layton, Brian Kearsley, Kara Kearsley, and Reagan Dickson
Blue: Sonia Barney
Red: Briana Saenger, Rachel Fuhriman, and Bethanee Brown
Black:  Mary Ann Lyons, Anita Slaugh, Larry Wilson, Lynette Wilson, and Adrianne Elliott

I'd now like to highlight our "biggest losers"....those participants who lost 3 or more pounds:
Blue: Melissa Meyer
White: Will Empey
Fuchsia: Jonathan Wilford
Red: Rachel Fuhriman and Tamy Mahoney
Black: Mary Ann Lyons and Stephanie Lyons

This week it is again very close between several teams, in fact the spread between five of the teams is only 50 points!  You have all done very well and it's tempting to list the top 7 teams, but we will stay with the format of only listing the top five teams:

1st Place: Black Team
2nd Place: White Team
3rd Place: Orange Team
4th Place: Brown Team
5th Place: Fuchsia Team

You are already almost half way through the challenge!  At the end of this week we will measure all the areas you measured at the beginning and you will get points on the "inches" segment when you report points.  On Sunday I will post on the Blog and the Facebook page the instructions on how to figure your points.  If your dedication is waning I challenge you to re-dedicate yourself to your team and to your health!  Good luck this week!

Week two results

Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 6:29 PM

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WEEK 2 RESULTS! CONGRATULATIONS on another FABULOUS WEEK! The tables have turned a bit and as you can see this is an unpredictable challenge! GREAT JOB EVERYONE! TOP FIVE TEAMS 1st Place - Black Team 2nd Place - Green Team 3rd Place - Orange Team 4th Place - Red Team 5th Place - White Team Week 2 can be a bit of a stumbling block for many, reality is setting in and it's often harder to lose weight in Week 2! Because of that we are going to recognize those who lost 3 or more pounds this week! Our TOP LOSER this week was one of our Aussies! Tamy Mahoney from the RED TEAM lost 8.7 lbs! AMAZING! Larry Wilson from the BLACK TEAM lost 7 lbs! Reagan Dickson from the ORANGE TEAM lost 5 lbs! We had 4 participants lose 3 lbs! Lynette Wilson from the BLACK TEAM! BJ Farnes from the GREEN TEAM! Will Empey from the WHITE TEAM! And Amanda Faye Wilford from the WHITE TEAM! Since this was our 1st week with the Bonus Challenge being 5 points for each “PERFECT” Day I thought we would recognize those who achieved the monstrous goal of 7 perfect point days!!! It makes a difference – believe me - my team was just 3 points away from 2nd place this week! One more perfect day would have taken care of that! PERFECT POINTS THIS WEEK WERE EARNED BY: Mary Ann Lyons, Stephanie Lyons, Adrianne Elliot, Lynette Wilson & Larry Wilson from the BLACK TEAM! Kara & Brian Kearsley from the ORANGE TEAM! Kelly & Lisa Thomson, Jessica & BJ Farnes from the GREEN TEAM! Bethanee Brown from the RED TEAM! Melanie Francis from the WHITE TEAM! Amanda L Wilford & Amanda Faye Wilford from the FUSCHIA TEAM! Natausha Medallin & Chris Koehler from the BROWN TEAM! Karina Johnson from the PURPLE TEAM! Kristi Summit from the YELLOW TEAM! And Melissa Meyer from the BLUE TEAM! PHEW! Now it's time to get to work and motivate your fellow teammates to achieve those perfect points! I have been very encouraged to hear many of you thank us for this challenge and for the things that it is doing to help you in your daily routines! It is SO important that we put priority on ourselves and make sure we are treating our bodies, minds and spirits to the things that will help us be better in all of our other roles in life! This challenge is fun, competition is fun and having a team to report to is important but we truly hope that you are all able to establish life-long habits of make YOU a priority after it's all over!

Pep talk!!!

This is NOT the weekly report, Kara is working on that, this is a pep talk for anyone who may need it....I think many people are still very motivated, but some may be waning a bit.  I know this may be a bit frustrating to be dependent on a team, but believe me when I say there is a lot of strength in numbers and it can be an amazing tool if you will use it as such.  I have a question for all of you:  What are you doing to motivate your team???  Do you know everyone on your team? Are you making an effort to stay connected and be an inspiration to your teammates?  Well, if you couldn't answer YES! to all these or say something positive you are doing to help your team I would give you this challenge...doe one this every day this week to be a positive motivator for your team!  If you don't know them, send out an email to all them or a message on facebook introducing yourself so that you can get connected.  I did one challenge that was just on an individual basis and I will tell you I failed miserably!  There is a lot of power in being accountable.  I get perfect points every week because I don't want to let my team down. And my teammates all get perfect points too.  Here's one more thought for you:  You may think that if your team wasn't in the top five last week and if they aren't in the top five again this week that you have no hope for winning the challenge.  Well, there are still six full weeks left of the challenge, so much can happen.  DO NOT GIVE UP HOPE!!!  Rally your team around you and make some goals together to see what you can accomplish.  You may only be missing that top five spot by a few points, there isn't a huge point spread, it is still anyone's win!  Ok...this is the last thought for this post:  don't be discouraged if you aren't losing the weight you had hoped for...it will happen if you keep being careful and following the challenge rules.  REALLY, it will!  Just don't give up hope.


I want to clarify a couple things that seem to be confusing some of you...there is no free week or a free day each week.  In a challenge I ran a couple years ago there was a free week, but if there is still something left on the blog about that it is an accident and there is not a free week.  Also, one of the other things confusing people is the sweets day being a free day...if you use a sweet day instead of three separate sweets in the week it may be referred to as a "sweets" day or a "free" day, but it is only meaning you don't have to track your sweets that day.  You still have to do all the other things such as eating vegetables, water, exercise, etc.  Hope that clarifies.

 Another thing to clarify:  when you are reporting points each week some of you are putting 35 points in the sweets, there are only 30 points possible for sweets,  Please make sure you are only putting 30 for your sweets.

Last thing: for those on the weight loss program-- when you are reporting your weight points make sure you are calculating your points from your LOWEST PREVIOUS WEIGHT.  For example, if I started the challenge weighing 160 lbs, then the first week I lost 3 lbs, on the second week I have to be lower than 157 to count any points for weight.  If I lose a lb in week two then I don't count weight points unless I am lower than 156, etc.  If you are on the maintenance program you just have to stay at or below your starting weight to record your 15 points.  Please let me know if you still have any questions.

Good luck on week 3!!!!  Go be a motivator to your teammates, pull together!!!  You can do it!!!!

WEEK #1 RESULTS

It's been a great week for many of the challenge participants and teams!  Congratulations to everyone for your hard work and dedication!  I hope you won't get discouraged if you didn't lose the weight you were hoping for this first week, it will happen as you continue to practice good health habits.  What I want to stress to everyone is the importance of getting your weekly points.  This first week there were two situations where two teams were divided by just one point!  Every single point counts.  The last challenge I ran the overall winner after 8 weeks was the winner by ONE point!!!  It was unbelievable!  Usually the difference in the end is by at least a few hundred points, so that was just incredible.  And the sad thing was that I was on the team one point behind!  I encourage you, if you didn't get every point possible last week, to stretch yourself this week and set some personal goals to do better.

I want to highlight the participants who got all possible weekly points, and if I missed you I am so sorry, let me know and we will highlight you next week!

Clint Francis and Emily Empey on White, Natausha Medellin on Brown, Jessica Farnes, Kelly Thomson, and Lisa Thomson on Green, Brian Kearsley on Orange, and Larry and Lynette Wilson and Anita Slaugh on Black.  There were several who were very close to perfect, good job to all!  I hope to showcase many more next week!

For weight loss we had 5 people who lost between 4-6 pounds....Clint Francis and Sheryl Mills on White, Larry Wilson on Black,LRachel Fuhriman on Red, and Travis Allen on Brown!  We have one BIGGEST LOSER we want to highlight this week....this is absolutely incredible what he has done!  He went from 12+cans of soda a day to only three for the week which he counted as his sweets and dropped 24 pounds!!!  Wow!  Congratulations to Will Empey on the White Team!!!

Now for teams, we will announce the top FIVE teams.  Coming in 5th Red, 4th Green, 3rd (missed 2nd by one point, should've eaten those veggies team! jk) Black,2nd Fushia, and 1st place....WHITE!!!  Congratulations to everyone!  Keep working hard and let's see if we can get ahead of white next week.

Let me clarify something on the reporting: for weight if you lost 3 lbs this week you will either have to lose more or maintain that to report any points next week.  You always go from the previous lowest weight to figure your points.  Also, there were a few people who reported 35 points on sweets but there are only 30 possible for sweets.  Even if you choose not to eat any sweets at all you can still only earn 30 points.  There was a question about if you are on the "maintainance" plan rather that the weight loss plan if you are hindering your team because you won't be getting as many points on the weight loss percentage and the inches...we want this challenge to be for everyone, not just those who are in need of losing weight.  So I would say no, you are not a hinderance to your team, your points are very valuable, and the moral support you add is also very valuable.  Your 15 points each week for maintaining your weight adds up too!  There were several comments that it would be easier if the point report were set up in the same order as the spread sheet, I would change that if I were computer savvy enough to, but alas I am not, so I'm sorry but it will remain as is.

Good luck next week, and let's oust the White Team!!!
L LarLaryy