Fall 2013 Healthy Challenge: Megan Update Week 9

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

Sunday, December 1, 2013

Megan Update Week 9

Hi Fitness Friends!

Happy belated thanksgiving! I've been going over- many times over this week all that I am thankful for, but it has taken me sitting down and writing this update to remember to also give thanks for a healthy body. One that allows me to do all that I want to do. This past week was a lot of fun. My husband took the entire week off, so the first 2 days we were able to spend time together while the kids were in school. SOME HOW I was able to convince him to come with me to the workout class with my trainer that is the killer. I was so proud of him and all of my friends were so impressed that he would come and stay the entire class. He couldn't walk up and down our stairs the next couple of days but for me it was totally worth it for the memories!

As far as how I did this week- I hit the gym hard which I'm proud of. Monday evening I tweaked a muscle on my "teeter" which is one of those machines that you can hang upside down on from your ankles. It is supposed to be good for your back but I had the height adjustment wrong and it really aggravated a muscle and I was a hurting unit. I power through with stuff like that. I don't know if its a good thing, but I figure that there is almost always something you can do- even with an injury. I ended up going to all of my classes, and surprisingly my back always felt a little looser in the end. I was good with eating right, but I didn't factor in all of the desserts left over from thanksgiving dinner. Usually I can pawn these off on my husband and children, but we really had an absurd amount, so I gave myself another day of eating treats that will come out of my score this week. Everything else was pretty solid. :)

Hope you all had a nice week of thanks. I wonder how many of you are in the area? It might be fun to meet over cocktails/mocktails or something at the end of this? Maybe most of you are in Hood River? I'm almost always down for a trip to that cute little town!

4 comments:

Unknown said...: OHHH . . .I like the idea of getting together!!; December 2, 2013 at 8:26 PM
M&EMS said...: I would love to meet you!; December 5, 2013 at 6:47 AM
Unknown said...: sorry to hear about your injury! i hope you recover quickly.

as for meeting up, i would love to be included but i am in the san fran area! i hope you guys manage to meet.

take care-
nicole; December 8, 2013 at 9:12 PM
Collins Bound said...: OOoh, I LOVE San Fransisco! We can meet there, too!! ;); December 22, 2013 at 2:47 PM