Week 2 winners!

Good results again!  Nobody gained any weight!  I think that is pretty incredible!  Here are the winners for this week, followed by the the over all winners so far.  Also, remember this week is double points for drinking your water!! If anyone has any helps or suggestions on how to do this please make a post and share!

Weightloss
1. Megan - 5lbs
2. Felicia - 2lbs
3. Barbara - 2lbs
4. Cherese - 2lbs
5. Rob - 2lbs
6. John - 2lbs
7. Cathy - 0
8. Emmalee - 0
9. Monica - 0
10. Lonnie - 0
11. Ashley - 0

Points
1. Felicia - 265
2. Megan - 264
3. Barbara - 242
4. Cathy - 241
5. Cherese - 235
6. Emmalee - 222
7. Rob - 211
8. John - 183
9. Monica - 162
10. Lonnie - 155
11. Ashley - 148

OVER ALL WEIGHTLOSS
1. Megan - 15lbs
2. Cherese - 5lbs
3. Rob - 5lbs
4. Barbara - 4lbs
5. Felicia - 3lbs
6. John - 3lbs
7. Emmalee - 2lbs
8. Monica - 2lbs
9. Ashley - 1lb
10. Cathy - 0lbs
11. Lonnie - 0lbs

OVER ALL POINTS
1. Megan - 535
2. Felicia - 466
3. Barbara - 465
4. Cherese - 461
5. Cathy - 444
6. Emmalee - 436
7. Rob - 418
8. Monica - 368
9. John - 345
10. Ashley - 320
11. Lonnie - 270

Congratulations everybody!  Good Luck on week 3!!

week 2 weigh in!

Hey everyone it is time to weigh in again. Just a reminder to get your $20 to me. Most of you still have not paid, please get that done.

Here is a thought from Jillian Michaels today:

Happy Sunday everyone. Here's a little motivation tip to help you stay on track! The biggest mistake people make is to look outside themselves for inspiration. Here's the key, if you have a why to live for you can tolerate any “how”. Identify all the reasons you want to be motivated in the first place and let that drive you towards success. I want you to write down all the things you want out of life. Do you wanna walk your daughter down the aisle, have financial independence, wear a bikini on your 20th wedding anniversary? Whatever your goals and dreams are, write them down and post them everywhere from the fridge to the car dash. Then, the next time you are contemplating a walk on the treadmill or spending hours pouring over your application for a small business loan, stop & think about WHY you are engaging in these behaviors. Surely, living a long happy healthy life with your loved ones is worth putting in the work even if it makes you slightly uncomfortable in the short term.

Remember points for the week, weight lost (this includes 5 points for maintaining on top of weight lost points) and total points for the week.

Thanks, Emmalee

Week 1 winners!

 We made it through week 1!  I think everyone did well!  No one gained any weight!

Here are the weekly totals:

Weight loss  (now remember this will be a percentage at the final but we wont find that out until then)
1- Megan - 10lbs
2- Cherese - 3lbs
3- Rob - 3lbs
4- Barbara - 2lbs
5- Emmalee - 2lbs
6- Monica - 2 lbs
7- Felicia - 1lb
8- Ashley - 1lb
9- John - 1lb
10- Cathy - 0lbs
11- Lonnie - 0lbs


POINTS
1- Megan - 271
2- Cherese - 226
3- Barbara - 223
4- Emmalee - 214
5- Rob - 207
6- Monica- 206
7- Cathy - 203
8- Felicia - 201
9- Ashley - 172
10- John - 162
11- Lonnie - 115

Congratulations every body!  Good luck on week 2!

REMEMBER: Week 2 has a challenge.  Exercise is DOUBLE the points!!  So make sure you take advantage of that!

Angie's before and after pics.

I just have to share this.  This is a picture of one of my best friends, Angie!  I don't know if you all remember but she was my bridesmaid, and we had my baby shower for Tyler at her house!  Anyway, she has been such an inspiration to me.  Just look at these pictures and tell me you are not impressed!  She looks AMAZING!

We can do this!!!

MISTAKE!

Hey everyone,

I realized that I added my points wrong.  I didn't eat sugar for 7 days but forgot we only count it for 6 days.  So my points are really total of 271 not 276.  It looks like my mom did the same thing.  If anyone else did this let me know and I will make record of your new points.
 Also, Thanks Ashley for being our guinea pig.  She forgot to record her points yesterday.  She will be reporting them by the end of today though.  So we have decided to give everyone ONE freebie... if you forget to report on Sunday by accident because it can happen then you can still report the next day.  BUT if you continue to forget then there will be consequences... *mad face* haha. We want the competition to be fair to everyone but we also dont want to eliminate people for accidental mistakes. So try not to forget.
Thanks, I will have this weeks ratings up tonight!
Megan 

FIRST weigh in!

Hey Everyone!!
Today is our first weigh in!  I hope you all did well.  It is time to report!!  Remember you will report 3 things:

1.)  Your weekly points
2.)  Your pounds lost for the week
3.)  and your total points for the week.

Leave your report in the comment section OR text me (Megan) and I will record it for you! This needs to be recorded by midnight!

Also do NOT forget to pay your $20 to Emmalee THIS week!  This is how we know you are committed and know that you will not bail out of the competition if you are not doing well.  It is the only way to make it fair to all competitors!

I cannot wait to see how everyone did!
Megan

Very Inspirational!

Watching these these transformation videos gets me so inspired!  I hope it does for you too!

My story -Emmalee

Here is a little bit of my story and a few funny and inspirational pictures. I wrote this for one of my other blogs, so it might sound like I'm addressing people who know nothing about our challenge.

 

Have you had days, months, or years like this?

 

I have struggled with my weight ever sense hitting puberty. I really never tried to do anything too serious about it until about a year after my first child was born. I lost 50 lbs that year and still had more to go, but got pregnant.

 

I made it through the pregnancy with out hitting my highest (non-pregnancy) weight. It was great, I was motivated. I went back to work at losing weight. It got frustrating. I was working just as hard as before and losing it half as fast.

 After 9 months of that and still being 10 lbs away from my pre-pregnancy weight, plus a few other life demands. I gave up.

I kept telling myself I was going to maintain, just not lose any more. now I think...

 That was nearly two years ago. I've now gained it all back. I'm ten pounds shy of my heaviest (non-pregnancy) weight. Back to ground zero. I've been trying to get motivated this past year, but it only last about 2-3 weeks and then the scale shows nothing for it.

At Easter time I decided I really needed to focus on another fitness goal and not on the scale because it was just depressing me, not motivating me. I decided I wanted to run.

I have always admired those who run. Never had the desire to do it myself, as a younger person, thought it would be sooo boring. Now it sounds nice and almost relaxing. more noise in my everyday life I guess. My only problem is that I have never been able to run. If I run more then a few seconds my lungs start to burn. Even the couch to 5K plans I see out there were/are to advanced for me.

 I came up with my own plan. It's more of a step by step plan not a day by day plan. Each time I pass a off a step, wither it takes one week or five or more, I will celebrate. I will feel good about myself! I will focus on what I have accomplished not on what I still need to to.

 

I will only be working on running once a week. The rest of the week I will be doing other things I enjoy for work outs as well. I think over all fitness will help me with the running too.

Last week My sister called with an idea of doing a weight loss challenge. we have done them with our family before, but this time we wanted to have our extended family en-valved. We are basing this off the plan we found on Six sisters stuff. We extended it to a ten week challenge, rather then their eight week one, because it will then end the weekend before our annual family reunion. 

My plan:

I will be exercising 5 days a week, eating whole foods (as close as possible), and counting calories. We started the challenge this past Monday. There is points for exercising, eating right, drinking enough water, etc. We also get points for losing weight. There will be two winners at the end. the one with the most overall points and the one who lost the most weight. I'm just hoping this will get me started on my weight loss journey!

 All pictures I found on Pinterest.

Believe in yourself!

This is inspiring! Believe you can do it! Believe in yourself!

GOOD LUCK

"Instead of giving myself reasons why I can't, 

I give myself reasons why I can!"

 

 GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE!!

Getting started!

Hey everyone!

The blog is up and running!!  I added you all as authers...(except Lonnie, Monica what is his email address?)
We have 11 people so far.  We might have more join soon.  Here is the list of competitors, for now:
Monica
Lonnie
Ashley
Emmalee
Rob
Megan
John John
Cathy
Barbara
Cherese
Felicia

The cost is $20 a person.  This needs to be given or mailed to Emmalee Lawrence first thing if you want to reserve your spot in the competition.  Here is her address:

172 N 1800 E
Spanish Fork, Ut
84660

I hope you are all as motivated as I am.  Feel free to post anything on here that will help motivate us all.  Let me know in the comment bar or through text message if you have any questions.

LET US ALL LOSE OUR COTTAGE CHEESE!~

Thanks,
Megan