Thursday night, June 25th we celebrated the finale of the 25th Team Challenge in the 25th year of business and gave prizes away for our #25things contest! It truly was a silver celebration!
Every Team Challenge ends with a finale looking back on the accomplishments of our participants. This Challenge was all about CHANGE, the cycle of change and just how we go about making change permanent. We spent ten weeks learning and growing as we took action to lose weight and change our lives. It was epic.
Besides giving away awards and prize money, we spent time Thursday talking about the very last stage of change, TERMINATION. Some experts don't consider termination as one of the stages, believing that change is ongoing. Others believe that you can terminate from the cycle of change permanently without temptations. Termination can be defined as being FREE from a long-standing problem. There are two camps on this issue, I tend to think that both are right.
I've known people that have terminated from issues in their lives and completely changed their self-images. I've also walked along side many more, that live a life thriving in the active and maintenance stages of change, never terminating. Recovered or recovering...both require strong and positive thought lives! We are all about that at The Healthy Weigh!
To close out this CHANGE Team Challenge, we announced our 20, 30, 40, and 50 pound winners, we passed out lots of special awards and then we gave the big prize money to the top three teams!
Our Winning Teams:
1. Team "Skinny Minnies" Annette and Diane with a 18.33% of weight loss!
2. Team "Losin It" Beulah and Kyla with a 17.89 % of weight loss!
3. Team "Dad and Daughter Duo" Frank and Melanie with a 15.91% of weight loss!
Congratulations to these top teams and to so many more who had outstanding weight loss over the last ten weeks! It has been awesome to be a part of this group of self changers! Our total weight loss for ten weeks was 2,723 pounds!!!
Some individual awards:
Male with the greatest weight loss Frank E. with 57.8 pounds!
Female with the greatest weight loss Beulah F with 35.8 pounds!
Male with the greatest % of weight loss Reuben D. with 18.61% of weight loss
Female with the greatest % of weight loss Beulah F. 19.76! ( You are a rock star)
Our last HEART award of the challenge for the greatest weight loss % of the week went appropriately to Frank E. Congrats Frank!!!
Closing out a Team Challenges is always bitter sweet for me. By week ten, I've fallen in love with the group. I've gotten to know so many of them better and learned more about their stories. I've share my heart with them as well. Saying goodbye isn't the easiest! This group was really special and I'll miss them.
I look forward to seeing old and new friends in the next couple of weeks when I begin the summer Team Challenge "Live Your Best Life." We are going to spend time this summer writing our stories...writing new stories full of hope and health and life!! I'm excited!
So it's time to say farewell to the Spring Team Challenge 2015. All the best to all of you. Keep on changing! Hope to see most of you this summer as we journey on together.
Always encouraging you,
Letha
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