I'm ready to do another one, however, this time I am making up my own Challenge with a different competition in mind. Instead of competing with other people, we will be competing against ourselves. In the past while doing the other challenge, I didn't like the fact that we lost because it's easier for someone else to lose weight or give up sweets. For this Challenge, if you continue to improve your own lifestyle through the entire 8-week Challenge, you will win.
In real life, the goal is to make changes that you can keep and continue to improve. I find that we often make goals or go on a diet and then we plateau; or worse, we give up completely. The most important thing we can do for ourselves is to stay healthy or become healthier, not deprive ourselves of our favorite things for a couple of weeks then binge on them when we give up. (Can you tell I'm not a fan of dieting?)
Here are the rules:
1. Sign up by commenting on this blog or contacting me via email, text, Facebook, etc. BEFORE MIDNIGHT ON SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5TH.
2. Pay $25 to enter.
3. Print off 8 copies of the worksheet provided with this link.
4. Beginning Sept 7th (Labor Day), track your points every day for a week. That first week's total will be your baseline (a minimum of 100 points). Each week you will reset your baseline.
5. You will need to submit your weekly total to me by Sunday at midnight of each week or you will be disqualified.
6. If you fall below the previous week's total, you will be disqualified and forfeit your $25 entry fee. However, if you stay in, you, and everyone else who succeeds will split the entire money pot.
A few things you may be wondering:
- I developed the point system based on the things that will really make a difference in your physical health, If something is worth more points such as exercise, food logs, meal planning, it's because doing those things will contribute more toward your overall health.
- You may have noticed that there is a "Personal Goal" box at the bottom of the worksheet. This is to provide you a way to set your own goal that you have been meaning to work on. It could be anything from daily scripture study to making your bed to complimenting your spouse to not yelling at your kids... etc. You decide and keep track.
- This Challenge is all about improvement and consistency. In other words, every week you will need to earn the same amount or more points to stay in the Challenge. (For instance if in week 1 you earned 100 points, then in week 2 you earned 110 points, that would be your new baseline. Week 3 would need to be at least 110 or more).
- You can earn the points any way you want to. If all you wanted to focus on is increasing your exercise and servings of fruits and veggies then you can do just that. But remember, you need to get at least 100 points on the first week.
- Remember it doesn't matter if you earn 150 points and Joe Schmo earned 250. As long as you both continue to earn the same or more each week, you'll both win. This is why I was so excited to switch up the competition. You aren't competing against anyone else, you just need to keep motivated and consistent.
- If only 2 out of 25 people stay in through the entire Challenge, you will each get $312.50. That's a pretty big winning just for continuing to improve your healthy lifestyle! The worst that could happen is that everyone stays in and you all get your $25 back. Not a bad deal either!
- This Challenge may seem tedious. Keeping track of daily points for 8 weeks will not be easy, but I have seen more success come from dedicated goal-making than when I am just "trying to do better."
- Remember, that although the initial urge would be to earn as few points as possible during the first week, the more that you change in your lifestyle, the more change you will see in your health.
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