"Go for The Goal" was the theme as we had a tail gate party at the Team Challenge today! Football was our focus as we learned about the Red Zone, the 20 yards on the field before the end zone! "How a team performs in the Red Zone determines the outcome of the game! "
The Scissor awards were presented to two excited Teams today. The 'E.P.D. Sisters' worked hard this week and earned the scissors at noon with a 1.38% of weight loss for the week. 'Sibling Rivalry' beat them out with the closest race yet...at 1.4%! Our grand prize for the week will be enjoyed by Sibling Rivalry...4 tickets to a Seahawk game! Congratulations to both teams!!!
John Jackson from State Farm Insurance helped with our prizes today as 4 of our participants won pedometers for working on their pain and pleasure lists!
I encouraged all the teams to begin to look at their plans after the Team Challenge! How are you going to keep the momentum going? How are you guaranteed to WIN! "How many times have you gotten his far and not crossed into the end zone?" NOT THIS TIME!
This time...everyone has the opportunity to win...to reach goal and spend the rest of your life on maintenance!
Our challenge this week is an easy one as we look at the beautiful weather we're having. You are challenged to be active 3 times this week and record it on your program journal!
Go for the goal teams...don't let up in the 3rd quarter...this is when the tough get going. This is when teams come from behind and win it all!!!
Perform with strength in the red zone this week!
Letha
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Team Spirit Abounds!
I don't know if I've experienced anything like our Team Challenge weigh in today! I was impressed and overwhelmed with the participation of our fabulous teams. You exceeded my expectations! The challenge to look like your partner was carried out with talent, creativity and flare! I WILL be posting some pictures of this fun day, watch for them!
As our teams weighed in today with a total of 127 pounds...it brought the grand total up to 784 pounds in 4 weeks!!! You're impressive! You'll see that we are going to post the accumulative % of weight loss each week on the web site...you can see who you need to beat!
I was excited to present the Scissor Award to Team 'Not Yet Ready For Prime Time' at noon with a total of 1.8% of weight loss for the week. At Six, Team 'Smallest Winners' celebrated with 3.0% of weight loss for the week,taking home the Scissor Award and the grand prize for the week...Romance Packages from the Hotel Monaco! Congratulations Heather and Vicki.
General Manager of the Hotel, Craig Thompson, one of our challenge participants, surprised all of the teams with a special rate to stay at the Hotel for the night! Thanks to Craig and Hotel Monaco for their generous gifts this week!
Today we learned more about using pain, instead of pain using us! "Everything we do we do out of our need to seek pleasure or avoid pain." The Challenge for the week is a powerful one.
As our teams weighed in today with a total of 127 pounds...it brought the grand total up to 784 pounds in 4 weeks!!! You're impressive! You'll see that we are going to post the accumulative % of weight loss each week on the web site...you can see who you need to beat!
I was excited to present the Scissor Award to Team 'Not Yet Ready For Prime Time' at noon with a total of 1.8% of weight loss for the week. At Six, Team 'Smallest Winners' celebrated with 3.0% of weight loss for the week,taking home the Scissor Award and the grand prize for the week...Romance Packages from the Hotel Monaco! Congratulations Heather and Vicki.
General Manager of the Hotel, Craig Thompson, one of our challenge participants, surprised all of the teams with a special rate to stay at the Hotel for the night! Thanks to Craig and Hotel Monaco for their generous gifts this week!
Today we learned more about using pain, instead of pain using us! "Everything we do we do out of our need to seek pleasure or avoid pain." The Challenge for the week is a powerful one.
Write down all the ways that overeating has brought you pain. Link pain to your past behavior.
Write down all the ways that eating healthy brings you pleasure. Link pleasure to your new behavior.
Any area of your life can be drastically changed by using this tool.
We truly, on auto pilot, will avoid pain. If you link enough pain to overeating...you will avoid it!
Let me say again...you are an amazing group of talented, dedicated people. I'm thrilled to watch your progress!
Keep up the great work.
Letha, the one with the tattoo!
Let me say again...you are an amazing group of talented, dedicated people. I'm thrilled to watch your progress!
Keep up the great work.
Letha, the one with the tattoo!
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Together Everyone Achieves More
...We found that out this week as our teams continued with great weight loss! So far in our three week challenge our 38 teams have lost a total of 657 pounds! Some great thoughts were shared this week about the difference the Team Challenge is making in the lives and commitments of our clients at The Healthy Weigh.
The coveted 'Scissor Award' was presented at Noon to Team "Legal Losers" and at Six Team "Low Cal Gals" received the award as well as the prize for the greatest % of weight loss for the week. 1.6%. Congratulations Janet and Margie for an outstanding job this week!
Thank you to our sponsors of the week, Hand and Stone massage for gifting our teams with one hour massages for doing great work on their positive affirmation cards. Barry Brandenburg, Attorney at Law, showered our winning team for the week with Fit & Fresh plastic ware and green bags!
We challenged our teams to look at behavioral goals more seriously this week. Long term change takes accomplishing short term goals. The first step to choosing a behavioral goal for yourself is to ask the question, "What behavior is getting in the way of me accomplishing my goal?" Set a behavior goal each week and be specific. Finally, remember to reward yourself for new behavior! Little changes add up to the life you want to live!
Our Challenge for the week was directed to teams,if they choose to accept it! Next week at weigh-in, each team is to come with a obvious visual sign that they are a team! Face pain, striped hair, matching bike shorts? Who knows what we'll see! What we do know is that team work matters...team work will make the difference in you winning $1000!
You are an inspiring group of people! Stay committed to your team mate, the challenge and mostly to yourself!
Can't wait to see the Teams next week! Have a great 7 days!
Letha
The coveted 'Scissor Award' was presented at Noon to Team "Legal Losers" and at Six Team "Low Cal Gals" received the award as well as the prize for the greatest % of weight loss for the week. 1.6%. Congratulations Janet and Margie for an outstanding job this week!
Thank you to our sponsors of the week, Hand and Stone massage for gifting our teams with one hour massages for doing great work on their positive affirmation cards. Barry Brandenburg, Attorney at Law, showered our winning team for the week with Fit & Fresh plastic ware and green bags!
We challenged our teams to look at behavioral goals more seriously this week. Long term change takes accomplishing short term goals. The first step to choosing a behavioral goal for yourself is to ask the question, "What behavior is getting in the way of me accomplishing my goal?" Set a behavior goal each week and be specific. Finally, remember to reward yourself for new behavior! Little changes add up to the life you want to live!
Our Challenge for the week was directed to teams,if they choose to accept it! Next week at weigh-in, each team is to come with a obvious visual sign that they are a team! Face pain, striped hair, matching bike shorts? Who knows what we'll see! What we do know is that team work matters...team work will make the difference in you winning $1000!
You are an inspiring group of people! Stay committed to your team mate, the challenge and mostly to yourself!
Can't wait to see the Teams next week! Have a great 7 days!
Letha
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Feliz Cinco De Mayo
We toasted with mockaritas as our 38 teams dropped a total of 174.9 pounds this week! The evening teams showed off as they lost 105.5 pounds while the noon group celebrated their 69.4 pounds! Week three of the Team Challenge proved to be another fun and motivating week!
Thanks to our sponsors we gave away Starbucks coffee and mugs to our challenge participants from last week. Making a list of the 7 ways their lives will improve...and making a team collage allowed 4 of our team mates to win this week! The collages look great up on the wall and it was wonderful to see life, dreams and clarity come out on the pages!
Our Scissor award for the week (the highest % of weight loss at noon and six) went to teams 'Dynamic Duo' and 'Git R Dun'! Congratulations to these two teams for their win this week. The BIG award of the week went to team 'Dynamic Duo' with a % of weight loss of 2.5 for the week! Congratulations Linda and Fred! Schlecht Construction awarded the winning team with a 3 in one exercise ball and DVD kit!
We focused on positive affirmations this week because at The Healthy Weigh we know that how you think about yourself makes the difference in you losing your weight and more importantly how you keep it off. Your challenge for the week is to fill out your Team Challenge positive affirmation cards and bring them back into the clinic next week.
As we start this next week of the challenge I reminded the teams that "the race is not won to the swift...but to those who keep on running." You are all in a race that will make the difference in how you live the rest of your lives. Keep running my friends. Make a decision each day to put your life, your health and your future ahead of food.
Until next Tuesday!
Letha
Thanks to our sponsors we gave away Starbucks coffee and mugs to our challenge participants from last week. Making a list of the 7 ways their lives will improve...and making a team collage allowed 4 of our team mates to win this week! The collages look great up on the wall and it was wonderful to see life, dreams and clarity come out on the pages!
Our Scissor award for the week (the highest % of weight loss at noon and six) went to teams 'Dynamic Duo' and 'Git R Dun'! Congratulations to these two teams for their win this week. The BIG award of the week went to team 'Dynamic Duo' with a % of weight loss of 2.5 for the week! Congratulations Linda and Fred! Schlecht Construction awarded the winning team with a 3 in one exercise ball and DVD kit!
We focused on positive affirmations this week because at The Healthy Weigh we know that how you think about yourself makes the difference in you losing your weight and more importantly how you keep it off. Your challenge for the week is to fill out your Team Challenge positive affirmation cards and bring them back into the clinic next week.
As we start this next week of the challenge I reminded the teams that "the race is not won to the swift...but to those who keep on running." You are all in a race that will make the difference in how you live the rest of your lives. Keep running my friends. Make a decision each day to put your life, your health and your future ahead of food.
Until next Tuesday!
Letha
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