Healthy Lifestyle Challenge!

I'm excited with the response I received for this Healthy Lifestyle Challenge. The great thing about this challenge is that it's not a diet, it's a healthy lifestyle change! This challenge is more about what you should do to be healthy rather than what you shouldn't do. Whether you want to lose weight (which is possible, a few people lost over 20 pounds last time), or you just want to eat better and feel healthier, this is something that can help you improve your health. 

Here are the rules:

Two Ways to Earn Points

Before I get into it, I just want to say that this all based on the honor system, so make sure you are honest with your points. 

Total points possible per week are in parentheses

3 points--64 oz. of water (21)

3 points--no eating after 8:30 pm (21)

3 points--2 servings of fruit (21)

5 points--3 servings of vegetables (35)

5 points--No sweets/treats, expect you can have 3 servings of some kind of treat through the week. (last time we did this we had one cheat day, and we found that we would usually pig out on that day, so we feel three "cheat" servings will be help us not get carried away) (35)

5 points--Keeping a food log (35)

5 points--30 minutes of exercise (five days possible--25)

---OR---

7 points--45 minutes of exercise (five days possible--35)

5 points—weighing in every Sunday night and posting how much you lost on the blog by Monday morning at 10 AM. (5)

208 total points possible per week

Week starts on Monday, ends Sunday night. Points are due by 10 am Monday morning.

Leave a comment on the blog with the following information:

1. First name and last initial

2. total points from week

3. weight lost from that week (write 0 if you didn't lose any weight)

Example of Comment

Thomas O

Weekly points: 200

Weight loss for that week: 2 lbs

This is an 8-Week Challenge that starts on Monday September 2 (weigh in is Sunday Sept. 1st) and concludes with Sunday weigh-in on Oct. 27th.

Cash prize money will be divided equally between

1. The person who loses the largest percentage of weight

2. The person who has the most total weekly points

*Also, depending on how many people we get to participate we might have cash prizes for the 2nd and 3rd place finishers as well! So tell your friends! 

$20 per person to participate. Get your money to me by Saturday September 7th. The best way to get me the money will be through using paypal. 

My paypal email is: tjolsen88@yahoo.com

If you have never used paypal but click here for instructions.

If you don’t have a paypal or don't feel comfortable using it you can send it to me in the mail or bring it to me directly. My address is:

Thomas Olsen

2312 E. Grandview Circle

Mesa, AZ 85213

I will let you know the size of the pot after I receive all the money.

What you need to know:

Email me at tjolsen88@yahoo.com with your starting weight on Sunday September 2. (I know you don't want anyone to know how much you weigh, so if you really don't feel comfortable sharing it with me then you can email it to my wife Taylor (tayjay32@hotmail.com), and she won't tell me. No matter what though, neither of us are going to telling anyone, and I promise we will not judge or share it with anyone)  

You can exercise each day, but you will only receive points for exercising up to 5 days a week.

You can choose not to eat sugar/treats at all during the week, but you won't get any extra points per week. You will get the same points as the person that has 3 treat cheats.

Food journal can be tracked any way you choose. Last time I simply used a note book, but this time I am going to try using the app My Fitness Pal.

Weigh yourself each Sunday night and tally up all points. Make sure that you weigh yourself under the same circumstances each week on Sunday nights (before or after dinner).  Points need to be posted in the comment section by 10 AM Monday morning. If you don't post by that time, you receive no points for that week.

So each week you will send in 2 numbers:

1. Your weekly points.

2. How much you lost that week. (This number isn't apart of the points section at all. At the end, the total number of pounds lost will be used to calculate the total body percentage lost, but you post each week to stay accountable, and so everyone can see what they are up against!)

I will be posting reminders on Facebook occasionally, so watch for them.

I hope everyone is excited to start on Monday! 

Any questions, feel free to contact me! You can text, call, email, facebook, whatever works best for you. My number is 480-399-0510.