We're almost to the Summit!

When the going gets tough...you know the old saying, the tough get going! And that's exactly what's happening at The Healthy Weigh as we approach the final week of this BEYOND THE LIMITS Team Challenge! The line between quitting and success is very fine and we're learning that the really great accomplishments in life, happen AFTER a person feels like quitting...but hangs on and keeps on climbing!

We lost another 183 pounds this week and that puts us in a great place to break the all time record of any Team Challenge! This group has truly gone BEYOND THE LIMITS and we'll have a lot of celebrating to do next week at the Finale!

We had some familiar teams take the wins for the week this Tuesday. At Noon, Gary and Josh with team 'Weight Loss Warriors' had a great week with a 1.93 % of weight loss! At 6:00
,team 'Ain't No Mountain High Enough' won again with a 3.21% for the week! Jackie and Jim are pushing hard to be the first to the summit!

We celebrated ANOTHER one of our clients great milestones Tuesday. Tracey with team 'Thin to Win' arrived at her 100 pound weight loss mark! Congratulations Tracey, We're so happy for you!

Your Final Challenge for this Team Challenge:
Lose 2 pounds this week! Everyone who loses two pounds or more will be entered into a drawing for a FREE Spring Team Challenge! $300 value!!

We've got exciting times ahead at The Healthy Weigh as we complete this Winter Team Challenge and we move into our Spring Challenge! Tuesday night at 6:00, we will be celebrating the great success we've had in the last 10 weeks and then we'll begin the prep for our CAMP OUT!

Here's the run down of the upcoming weeks:

Tuesday, March 20th GRAND FINALE 6:00PM!

Thursday, March 22nd Stabilization Class 6:00 ~ 7:30PM (for all clients at or near goal weight) or you who are curious!

Tuesday, March 27th 30 minute infomercials at 11:00 and 7:00
Cooking Classes with Nancy at Noon and 6:00

Tuesday, April 3rd 30 minute infomercials at 11:00 and 7:00
'A Camp Out can be life changing' with Letha and Glenda Noon and 6:00

Tuesday, April 10th 30 minute infomercials at 11:00 and 7:00
Program Introduction Class (for all who are participating in
the Spring Team Challenge) at Noon and 6:00

Tuesday, April 17th Kick Off to the 'CAMP OUT' Spring Team Challenge Noon and 6:00

We've got an outstanding line up ahead for people who are interested in living their best lives, losing weight permanently and actually having fun while they do that!

Here's to the final week of this Mt. Climb. I'm looking forward to planting the flag on the summit with you next week!

Always encouraging you,
Letha

Team Challenge Standings - Week 9

17.3 Fireball
16.7 Aint No Mountain High Enough
15.8 B+
15.6 Will Jog 4 Fries
15.6 Weight Loss Warriors
15.4 Chicks With Kicks
15.1 Ruby Red Racers
15.0 Thunder & Lightning
13.6 Pirates of the Caribiners
12.8 Thug & Jugs
12.7 The Hugstables
12.7 The Flaming Marshmallows
12.3 No Weigh Know How
12.2 Sister Act
12.1 Git Er Done
12.0 Pretty Little Losers Season 2
11.8 Ma & Pa Kettle
11.7 Designed to Incline
11.6 Weigh 2 Go
11.1 Too Legit To Quit
10.6 Ridin High
10.6 C U At the Top
10.5 Fire & Ice
10.1 Girls On Fire!
9.8 Red Hot Mama’s
9.4 Extra Grand
9.0 Lets Go Make It Low
9.0 Extreme Makeover Booty Edition
9.0 Cousins Thru Thick N Thin
8.6 Totally Waisted
8.5 Two The Top
8.4 Light Weights
8.3 Dieting Duo
8.2 Trophy Wife Wannabes
8.0 On Our Weigh
8.0 Endeavor 70
7.8 No Sugar Just Spice
7.7 Wallerinas
7.6 Team Torres
7.6 Hot 2 Drop
7.6 Do It Or Die
7.2 Will Reach New Hites
7.1 Thin To Win (Noon)
7.0 Hungry Hungry Hippos
6.8 Thin It To Win It
6.6 Moms In Motion
6.5 Beach Babes In Progress
6.2 Wonder Women
6.2 Twinkie Defense
6.2 Going All The Weigh
6.1 Lovely Losers
6.0 Disappearing Dental Divas
5.9 Stash Busters
5.8 This Is How It’s “Dunne”
5.7 Shrinking Sherpas
5.7 Healthy Moms = Healthy Moms
5.3 Worth The Weight
5.2 Weight & C’s
5.1 Thin To Win (6:00)
5.1 Here We Go Again
5.0 Victorious Secrets
4.8 No Chews 4 U
4.8 Gelato & Cappuccino
4.6 Mission: SlimPossible
4.6 Lemmon Droppers
4.6 Dynamic Duo
4.4 Into Thin Air
4.1 Perky Peppy Prima Donna’s
4.0 Summit Sisters
4.0 Committed Climbers
3.9 Peggy/Judy
3.8 Bodacious Babes
3.7 Mission Slimpossible Two
3.1 Melting Mammas
3.1 BFBG (Back Fat Be Gone)
2.9 Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
2.9 2 Chicks In Waiting
2.6 Mountaineers
2.5 Late Bloomers
2.2 No Limits Too High
2.0 The Girls Next Door
1.5 Won’t Stop Until We Reach The Top
0.0 Weight! Weight! Don’t Kill Me!
0.0 Peak Performers
0.0 Defying Gravity

We're Going on a Camp Out!

The Spring Team Challenge theme was revealed on Tuesday as Glenda drug her GIANT chair out to prepare for the "Camp Out!" We've got 2 weeks left on the mountain and more climbing to do to reach the summit but at The Healthy Weigh, we're ALWAYS looking ahead!
Sometimes to reach a goal you need to push and stretch and strain, other times you need to re-fuel, re-fresh and re-focus! That's what we'll be doing on the "Camp Out." We teach balance at The Healthy Weigh and we'll be demonstrating it during our Spring Team Challenge!

I did all I could this week to inspire and motivate our clients to NEVER GIVE UP! Reaching goal weight and keeping it off for life is not an easy task, but if we stick together, and continue to work the program, we'll see life changing, permanent results! Many of our teams signed up for our Spring Team Challenge yesterday! We're going on a "Camp Out" and it's going to great!

Congratulations to some repeat winners this week! At noon Jeremy and Kimberli, team 'Pirates of the Caribiners' took the win with a 1.71% of weight loss! Kimberli met her 100 pound weight loss mark last week and she dropped another 5 pounds this week!! AWESOME! Arty, from team 'Fireball,' won the over night stay for the noon group! Cool Arty!

At 6PM Jim and Jackie of team 'Aint No Mountain High Enough' won again with a 2.04 % for the week! We haven't heard them sing their song yet, but there's still time! Jim also won the over night stay at the Monaco Hotel this week! "Winning" that's what I think of when I look at Jim!!! :-)

Mingma share a bit about the 12 step program Tuesday. She believes that there are 3 very important necessary steps to experiencing weight loss for life:
1. Admitting you are powerless over food and submitting to a higher power.
2. Brutal and complete honesty with yourself, others and God, as you understand him.
3. Accountability.

We've completed the review of all 6 of our lessons on our CD series. We thanked Mingma for her additional teachings that have helped us so much!

YOUR CHALLENGE FOR THE WEEK:
Sign up for the Spring Team Challenge! Everyone who signed up yesterday will be in the drawing for the GIANT chair!
We've got weeks of important camp prep before the CAMP OUT.

March 27th, Camp Ranger Nancy will teach a cooking class at noon and 6 PM

April 3rd, Glenda and I will be team teaching at noon and 6 PM

April 10th, I will be giving the Program Introduction Class at noon and 6 PM for all the participants of the Spring Team Challenge!
( all three Tuesdays I will be sharing all the information about the Team Challenge at 30 minute "infomercials" at 11:00 AM and 7pm for friends and family to hear the details about the upcoming challenge!

April 17th will be our first weigh in of our Spring Team Challenge "CAMP OUT!"

We've got two powerful weeks ahead with great things planned to reach the summit! We've also got great plans for the future at The Healthy Weigh. Stay courageous, keep a good attitude, don't be afraid to change and never...never...never give up! See you at the top!

Always encouraging you,
Letha

Team Challenge Standings - Week 8

16.0 Fireball
14.2 Thunder & Lightning
14.1 Will Jog 4 Fries
14.0 B+
13.9 Chicks With Kicks
13.6 Weight Loss Warriors
13.5 Ruby Red Racers
13.5 Aint No Mountain High Enough
12.7 Pirates of the Caribiners
12.5 Sister Act
12.3 The Flaming Marshmallows
12.0 Thug & Jugs
12.0 Pretty Little Losers Season 2
11.8 The Hugstables
11.1 Too Legit To Quit
10.5 Weigh 2 Go
10.5 Git Er Done
10.4 No Weigh Know How
10.4 Designed to Incline
10.4 Cousins Thru Thick N Thin
10.3 Fire & Ice
10.2 Ridin High
10.1 Ma & Pa Kettle
10.0 C U At the Top
9.5 Red Hot Mama’s
9.1 Girls On Fire!
8.3 Lets Go Make It Low
8.3 Extra Grand
8.2 Extreme Makeover Booty Edition
8.1 Two The Top
8.0 Wallerinas
7.8 Endeavor 70
7.6 Totally Waisted
7.6 Team Torres
7.6 Light Weights
7.6 Hot 2 Drop
7.6 Dieting Duo
7.4 No Sugar Just Spice
7.2 Will Reach New Hites
7.1 Hungry Hungry Hippos
6.8 Thin It To Win It
6.8 Do It Or Die
6.6 On Our Weigh
6.6 Moms In Motion
6.4 This Is How It’s “Dunne”
5.9 Twinkie Defense
5.9 Lovely Losers
5.8 Weight & C’s
5.5 Wonder Women
5.5 Shrinking Sherpas
5.5 Disappearing Dental Divas
5.2 Worth The Weight
5.2 Thin To Win (Noon)
5.1 No Chews 4 U
5.0 Going All The Weigh
4.9 Stash Busters
4.8 Trophy Wife Wannabes
4.8 Thin To Win (6:00)
4.7 Mission: SlimPossible
4.7 Healthy Moms = Healthy Moms
4.5 Dynamic Duo
4.3 Perky Peppy Prima Donna’s
4.2 Melting Mammas
4.0 Summit Sisters
4.0 Lemmon Droppers
4.0 Beach Babes In Progress
3.9 Peggy/Judy
3.8 Bodacious Babes
3.7 Mission Slimpossible Two
3.6 Victorious Secrets
3.6 Into Thin Air
3.6 Here We Go Again
3.5 Gelato & Cappuccino
3.4 BFBG (Back Fat Be Gone)
3.2 Committed Climbers
2.9 Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
2.8 Peak Performers
2.6 2 Chicks In Waiting
2.5 Late Bloomers
2.2 No Limits Too High
2.1 Won’t Stop Until We Reach The Top
2.0 The Girls Next Door
1.9 Mountaineers
-.6 Weight! Weight! Don’t Kill Me!
-.6 Defying Gravity

Climb Every Mountain!

Some Tuesday are great and others are great...Yesterday was one of those great Tuesdays!! The celebrations continue as our clients are entering into "one-derland", reaching their 100 lb. weight loss marks and climbing out of the pit for these glory days! We've got three weeks to go of this Winter Team Challenge and I believe we are going to reach the summit!

A big congratulations to our winning teams for the week. Team'Fireball' took the win with a 2.40% of weight loss at the Noon gathering. Arty and Doug are taking this climb seriously. I heard them both say that they will both hit their 50 pound mark by the time this climb is over! Awesome!!! At Six, team 'Chicks with Kicks' won the weekly prize with a 2.54 % of weight loss! Sara and Gemma were excited when Amy R. donated hair styling for each one of their pretty heads...before and after pictures coming soon! Great week you two!

Some important subjects were covered at The Healthy Weigh Tuesday... Sherpa Mingma shared a huge lesson about shame. Shame is a feeling that comes out of a belief system that says "I can't do this...I'm hopeless." Glenda drove the message home, which is...THAT MESSAGE IS A LIE! Saying "I'm bad" or "I ate bad food" needs to be turned around to saying "I can change" or "I made unhealthy choices." Food is not good or bad...it's just food. When we are feeling shame we need to go back and ask ourselves..."When did I feel shame like this before?" For many, it stems back to our childhood when we were told we were bad...or heard "Shame on you." The Healthy Weigh is a NO SHAME ZONE! Glenda did a great job of making sure we all understood that yesterday...What a Sherpa she is!

I had fun sharing some important concepts that are going to be crucial to all of our clients not only reaching their goal weight but keeping it off for life! The 3 to 1 Rule...The calorie Bank...and The Sometimes Foods!(Are you singing the song right now?) I hope I gave enough visuals and stories to help our clients remember these important lessons for a life time!

My favorite part of Tuesday was joining in with the 6pm group singing a rousing rendition of Climb Every Mountain! After seeing tears at the scale (Congratulations Marna on 100 pounds...Congratulations Amanda and Marianne on entering into one-derland)it seemed fitting that we would sing that great song together!!!

Thanks to the generous contribution from our friend Craig Thompson, General Manager of the Monaco Hotel down Town Portland, we through out a fun contest for the week. EVERY client who loses 2 pounds or more this week will enter into a drawing for an overnight stay at the Monaco! One for our Noon group and another for the 6pm group! We're in the glory days and this is going to make a difference!

We lost 280 pounds this last week...that means we only have 509 pounds to go to break our all time record!!! GLORY!!

YOUR CHALLENGE FOR THE WEEK:
Listen to the last lesson on the CD. 'Body Soul Spirit~ The Spiritual Perspective' and do the homework provided.

Where will you end up on March 20th? 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 pound club? There's still time to press on and make great things happen!!! Push up, keep climbing and we'll see you next week!

Always encouraging you,
Letha

Team Challenge Standings - Week 7

14.4 Fireball
13.8 Thunder & Lightning
13.2 Chicks With Kicks
12.5 B+
12.4 Will Jog 4 Fries
12.2 Weight Loss Warriors
11.6 Aint No Mountain High Enough
11.5 Ruby Red Racers
11.1 Sister Act
11.0 Pretty Little Losers Season 2
11.0 Pirates of the Caribiners
10.9 Thug & Jugs
10.6 The Hugstables
10.0 The Flaming Marshmallows
9.7 Fire & Ice
9.5 Too Legit To Quit
9.4 Ridin High
9.4 Ma & Pa Kettle
9.1 Girls On Fire!
9.0 Weigh 2 Go
8.8 Designed to Incline
8.7 Git Er Done
8.6 Red Hot Mama’s
8.4 Trophy Wife Wannabes
8.4 Cousins Thru Thick N Thin
8.2 Lets Go Make It Low
8.0 Extra Grand
7.8 Extreme Makeover Booty Edition
7.7 Totally Waisted
7.7 Dieting Duo
7.6 Hungry Hungry Hippos
7.6 C U At the Top
7.5 Team Torres
7.2 Victorious Secrets
7.2 No Weigh Know How
7.0 Two The Top
6.9 No Sugar Just Spice
6.8 Do It Or Die
6.7 Wallerinas
6.7 Fat Chance
6.5 No Chews 4 U
6.5 Moms In Motion
6.5 Hot 2 Drop
6.3 On Our Weigh
6.3 Light Weights
6.1 Endeavor 70
6.0 Weight & C’s
5.8 This Is How It’s “Dunne”
5.6 Shrinking Sherpas
5.4 Twinkie Defense
5.4 Thin To Win (Noon)
5.4 Thin To Win (6:00)
5.4 Stash Busters
5.4 Lovely Losers
5.3 Wonder Women
5.2 Here We Go Again
5.2 Going All The Weigh
5.1 Disappearing Dental Divas
5.0 Thin It To Win It
4.6 Worth The Weight
4.6 Peggy/Judy
4.6 Mission: SlimPossible
4.6 Healthy Moms = Healthy Moms
4.4 Beach Babes In Progress
4.2 Summit Sisters
4.0 Melting Mammas
4.0 Gelato & Cappuccino
3.9 Lemmon Droppers
3.9 Bodacious Babes
3.6 Into Thin Air
3.3 Perky Peppy Prima Donna’s
3.3 No Limits Too High
3.0 BFBG (Back Fat Be Gone)
2.9 Mission Slimpossible Two
2.8 Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
2.8 Peak Performers
2.7 Dynamic Duo
2.2 Committed Climbers
2.2 2 Chicks In Waiting
1.9 The Girls Next Door
1.9 Mountaineers
1.2 Won’t Stop Until We Reach The Top
.9 Changes In Attitude
.7 Weight! Weight! Don’t Kill Me!
.2 Defying Gravity

Team Challenge Standings - Week 6

12.0 Fireball
11.7 Thunder & Lightning
11.1 Weight Loss Warriors
10.7 Will Jog 4 Fries
10.7 Chicks With Kicks
10.7 B+
10.4 Sister Act
10.2 Pirates of the Caribiners
10.0 Ruby Red Racers
9.9 Aint No Mountain High Enough
9.6 Pretty Little Losers Season 2
9.2 Thug & Jugs
9.0 The Hugstables
9.0 Girls On Fire!
8.5 The Flaming Marshmallows
8.5 Ridin High
8.2 Weigh 2 Go
8.2 Fire & Ice
7.9 Ma & Pa Kettle
7.8 Too Legit To Quit
7.4 Endeavor 70
7.4 Cousins Thru Thick N Thin
7.3 Git Er Done
7.3 Extra Grand
7.2 C U At the Top
7.0 Red Hot Mama’s
6.9 Fat Chance
6.9 Extreme Makeover Booty Edition
6.9 Dieting Duo
6.9 Designed to Incline
6.8 No Sugar Just Spice
6.6 Team Torres
6.5 No Chews 4 U
6.4 Trophy Wife Wannabes
6.4 No Weigh Know How
6.0 Moms In Motion
6.0 Hot 2 Drop
5.9 Beach Babes In Progress
5.8 Hungry Hungry Hippos
5.8 Do It Or Die
5.7 Totally Waisted
5.7 Light Weights
5.7 Lets Go Make It Low
5.5 Victorious Secrets
5.4 Two The Top
5.4 Lovely Losers
5.3 Stash Busters
5.3 Shrinking Sherpas
5.2 Weight & C’s
5.2 Wallerinas
5.2 Here We Go Again
5.1 On Our Weigh
5.0 Thin To Win (Noon)
4.9 Thin To Win (6:00)
4.8 Thin It To Win It
4.6 Worth The Weight
4.5 Mission: SlimPossible
4.5 Going All The Weigh
4.4 Healthy Moms = Healthy Moms
4.4 Disappearing Dental Divas
4.3 Summit Sisters
4.2 Wonder Women
4.1 Twinkie Defense
4.0 Peggy/Judy
3.9 Bodacious Babes
3.8 This Is How It’s “Dunne”
3.8 Melting Mammas
3.3 Mission Slimpossible Two
3.3 Into Thin Air
3.0 Perky Peppy Prima Donna’s
3.0 Lemmon Droppers
2.9 Gelato & Cappuccino
2.9 BFBG (Back Fat Be Gone)
2.8 No Limits Too High
2.7 Dynamic Duo
2.2 2 Chicks In Waiting
2.0 Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
1.9 The Girls Next Door
1.9 Committed Climbers
1.2 Mountaineers
1.1 Won’t Stop Until We Reach The Top
1.1 Peak Performers
.9 Changes In Attitude
.8 Weight! Weight! Don’t Kill Me!
-.2 Defying Gravity