How To Earn Points

HOW TO EARN POINTS
5 points for paying $10 and posting your picture with an "intro post with diet plan" on this blog. (I can help if you if you don't know how to post. . .or you can scroll down to the How to Post instructions in RED) Deadline for paying $10 is Monday Sept 30th and deadline for posting intro is Friday Oct 4th.

2 points/day for following your own customized diet plan
2 points/day for keeping a food journal
1 point/day for each 1/2 hour of exercise, max of 10 points per week. (***Not counting extra pop challenge points. Note: you may lump all your weekly exercise points into one day but you risk the chance of loosing pop challenge points. . .see below right)
1 point/per day for drinking at least 48oz of water
1 point/day for taking a multi vitamin
1 point/day for flossing (hey, I'm a hygienist and I'm trying to rid the world of periodontal disease!)
3 points/week for: 1. weighing in (do not post your weight) 2. BRIEFLY recap your previous week in a post on this blog 3. updating your point total in your picture caption BEFORE midnight on Sunday of each week. Our weeks begin each Monday morning. ADD these 3 points in with the "just started week's points

At the end of the challenge you will also have a chance to win additional points for % of weight lost. You can win 1 point for each % of weight lost, IE: loosing 10% of your weight equals 10 extra points! These points will be taken once, at the end of the 12 week challenge.

This challenge will last 12 weeks, starting


TO POST: In the upper right hand corner you will see "New Post" click on it. If you are like me it may take you a second to find it but I promise it is there!!! You will be brought to a screen were you can enter a title for your post on the dash board at the top of the screen. Please put your name and the week the post is for. You can then add your entry for the week whether good or ill we want to hear it! That's how this works in a group competition. We are all here to cheer you on!!! When you are satisfied with the content go ahead and hit publish!

HOW TO POST YOUR PHOTO AND YOUR WEEKLY POINTS:

In the upper right hand corner, next to "new post" you will also see "DESIGN." If you click on that it will take you to "bones" of the blog. On the left hand side you will see a menu under "new post." click on "LAYOUT." It will take you to the actual layout of the blog. In the left hand column you will see a place to click on "add a Gadget" It will then pull up another menu. Scroll down to Image and click on the (+) sign. You can there down down load your photo. Your name will be the title and your weekly point total will be the caption. . . .as I go back and re read this it all sounds very confusing. If you need help just let me know and I will be more than happy to assist you!!!

*****Once your pic is up all you will need to do weekly to update your points is, click on the tool/wrench in the lower right hand corner of your pic. You can then put in your new point total for the week in the caption area.

This site will stay public until everyone who wants to join lets me know and gets me their email address and cell #. After that I will make this site private for our challenge group.

FIRST PLACE WINNER: Gets 60% of the cash

SECOND PLACE WINNER: Gets 30% of the cash

THIRD PLACE WINNER: Gets 10% of the cash

In the case of a tie the winner will be determined by % of weight lost over the 12 week period. So, don't forget to note your initial weight so we can figure it out at the end of the challenge in December




Thursday, November 14, 2013

A Few Things I've Discovered at Costco Lately

Hi Fitness Friends!

Just wanted to drop by quickly and let you in on a few things I've found at Costco that I like/love and thought you'd be interested in looking into.
First is this new cereal by Natures Path, "Qi'a".
It's a chia, buckwheat, and hemp cereal with cranberries and vanilla and it is delish!!! I'm obsessed right now with hemp seed and chia seeds. They are so incredibly good for you. If you haven't read up I encourage you to do so. I paid something around $12 for the bag, but you only take 2-3 Tbs and mix with some almond milk and voila you got yourself a delicious, nutritious, and surpisingly satisfying breakfast! The only downer is that it does have "evaporated cane juice" which I am under no disillusion is actually just another word for a sugar. Sad face but happy because my body feels great after eating it.  I think the sugar is pretty minimal.

I also got this gluten free bread by The Essential Baking Company called, "Super Seed Multi Grain". 

It is gluten free, dairy free, nut free, soy free and it is good. I had it with my egg salad sandwich yesterday and it was yum. Unfortunately it does have sugar in it so yesterday I was taking one for the team trying these things, but I'm glad I did! The bread, unopened lasts in the pantry up to 6 months and when opened keeps in the fridge for a week.

Lastly, I got these Veggie Dippin' Chips that I love!

Snack food is snack food, so you still want to eat in moderation, but one serving is 10 chips and calories from fat is only 60. No salt, no sugar and I scoop them up with some cottage cheese post workout and am a happy girl!

Hope you are all doing well and sticking with it! My trainer has had us on an 8 week plan with our workouts which means that she is getting more mean and the workouts are more intense, but I am getting stronger which is the goal! If any of you are in the Beaverton/Hillsboro area and want to take your health to the next level I can point you in her direction.
Cheers! :)
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3 comments:

Unknown said...

Thanks for sharing about the cereal, going to have check it out. I buy that bread when I get to Costco too, it is good (though long shelf lives make me a little leery). Hard to believe it's gluten free. What an incredible difference from the syrofoam-like stuff my grandma used to have to eat in the 90's...

November 17, 2013 at 7:18 PM
Unknown said...

"in the 90's." Can't believe I just said that like it was so long ago, and I can't believe that it was actually that long ago.

November 17, 2013 at 7:20 PM
Collins Bound said...

Oh no! The 90's were just yesterday!

It is pretty awesome that we have so many more options now in terms of healthy food/snack food. :)

November 18, 2013 at 12:16 PM

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