Team Weight Loss Challenge Updates

Team Challenge Standings - Winter TC Week 2

2012-01-25T09:33:00.001-08:00

6.7 Thunder & Lightning
6.0 Thug & Jugs
5.5 Sister Act
5.2 Will Jog 4 Fries
5.1 The Flaming Marshmallows
5.1 Fireball
5.1 Chicks With Kicks
5.0 Girls On Fire!
4.8 Team Torres
4.6 Pretty Little Losers Season 2
4.5 Pirates of the Caribiners
4.2 Hungry Hungry Hippos
4.2 C U At the Top
4.1 Cousins Thru Thick & Thin
4.1 B+
3.9 Fat Chance
3.8 Weight Loss Warriors
3.8 Lets Go Make It Low
3.7 Git Er Done
3.5 Trophy Wife Wannabes
3.5 This Is How It’s “Dunne”
3.4 Aint No Mountain High Enough
3.3 Dieting Duo
3.2 Weigh 2 Go
3.2 No Weigh Know How
3.1 Weight & C’s
3.1 Ruby Red Racer
3.1 Peggy/Judy
3.0 Thin To Win (6:00)
3.0 Fire & Ice
3.0 Extreme Makeover Body Edition
2.9 Too Legit To Quit
2.9 Red Hot Mama’s
2.9 Extra Grand
2.8 Light Weights
2.8 Beach Babes In Progress
2.7 Twinkie Defense
2.7 The Hugstables
2.7 Ridin High
2.7 Janet/Kathy
2.7 Here We Go Again
2.7 Endeavor 70
2.7 Bodacious Babes
2.6 No Chews 4 U
2.6 Mission: SlimPossible
2.6 Ma & Pa Kettle
2.5 Disappearing Dental Divas
2.5 Designed to Incline
2.4 Thin To Win (Noon)
2.4 Gelato & Cappuccino
2.3 On Our Weigh
2.3 Hot 2 Drop
2.3 Do It Or Die
2.2 Two The Top
2.2 Totally Waisted
2.2 Shrinking Sherpas
2.1 Worth The Weight
2.1 Moms In Motion
2.1 Going All The Weigh
2.0 Lovely Losers
1.7 The Girls Next Door
1.7 A Weigh To Go
1.6 No Sugar Just Spice
1.5 Healthy Moms = Healthy Moms
1.3 Peak Performers
1.3 No Limits Too High
1.3 Mission Slimpossible Two
1.3 BFBG (Back Fat Be Gone)
1.2 Wonder Women
1.1 Wallerinas
1.1 Stash Busters
1.1 Mountaineers
1.1 Committed Climbers
1.1 2 Chicks In Weighting
0.0 Lemmon Droppers
.9 Weight! Weight! Don’t Kill Me!
.9 Victorious Secret
.9 Dynamic Duo
.8 The Green Team ~ Recycling to Reduce
.8 Perky Peppy Primadonas
.8 Patty/Emily
.6 Melting Mommas
.4 Thin It To Win It
.02 Defying Gravity
-.1 Changes In Attitude

What's Your World View?

2012-01-25T09:26:00.001-08:00

Wow! Week two of this Winter Team Challenge did not disappoint! We started out strong as we pulled away from base camp! Although many of our climbers are still acclimating to the altitude, they still had a GREAT week! Between our noon and 6pm groups we lost over 900 pounds this week! Now THAT'S going beyond the limits!

There was an exciting announcement this week! Our team challenge participants are going to be given the chance to climb a real mountain! Wendy J. is heading up the group that will climb Mt. St. Helens in June. Those who sign up will be training together for the next 6 months to accomplish this great feat! Exciting stuff!!

We also met our very own Sherpa guide to help us with our climb this week. Mingma(Glenda) will be sharing a bit with us each week as we push higher up this big mountain! She challenged us to "do the real work" in the next 9 weeks as we are losing weight so that this journey will truly be life changing!

Our winning teams were excited to receive the "Trophy" for the week, our Beyond The Limits bright red back backs. I'm expecting those packs to be covered with greatness by the time this challenge is over! The two top teams at noon and 6 pm also were sponsored and gifted $100 each by Glenda Bigalky and Barry Brandenburg! Thank you to both of you for showing your support this very first week of this winter Team Challenge!

Congratulations to team 'Fireball' Doug and Arty, for winning at noon with a 5.06% of weight loss for the week! Arty dropped over 17 pounds this week, not too bad!
At 6:00 team 'Thunder and Lightning' went beyond the limits with a 6.68% of weight loss! Peggy and Debbie took a victory lap before they received their back packs! Congratulations you two!

With all the celebrating and fun, we also focused our minds a bit on our world views about food. We all have a world view about things whether we realize it or not. Our world view/beliefs are based on our individual assumptions, our values and allegiances by which we interpret the world around us. It's so important for all of us to evaluate our world views, decide if they are "working for us" and change them if necessary to have our weight loss be permanent! I showed the groups a few images to cause us all to ponder the different world views close to us and far away as well. Our world views will dictate how we think and will always dictate how we act! My desire in the next 9 weeks is to challenge the world views of all the climbers!

We received our ANCHORS for the next ten weeks. A great list of events to promote community and help our team mates stay focused and connected in the weeks to follow. Our very first event is a mall walk this coming Friday night at 5! It will be a great opportunity to meet someone new and burn some calories at the same time! Meet at 5 by the giant chess board in front of Macys!

We're climbing friends! I couldn't be more excited!!!
Here's to another terrific week of self care, life change and Mt. Climbing!!

Always encouraging you,
Letha

Let the Climb Begin!

2012-01-18T09:14:00.000-08:00

How perfect that snow fell over our counties yesterday as we climbed out of our tents at base camp and started the climb to the summit! We missed a few of our climbers because of the snow, but most were able to attend! We weighed in 87 teams yesterday that are ready to go BEYOND THE LIMITS!

With before pictures taken, teams announced and our first challenge given, the teams of the winter BEYOND THE LIMITS Team Challenge are ready to go! It was fun to hear the names of our teams and see some of the creative "outfits" that represented them! I can already tell that this is going to be an epic group of climbers!!!

With enthusiasm levels high and hope even higher we have set out to go beyond the limits. Beyond what we've done before, both collectively and individually. I challenged our climbers to consider what going "Beyond The Limits" would mean to them in this next ten weeks. We all have set limits on ourselves for years. Some limits consciously and others subconsciously. Going beyond the limits is going to be about looking at what you've always done and deciding if you've got what it takes to push beyond that!

For some of our clients that will mean finishing what they've started, for others it will mean making a commitment to the nutritional plan that they've never made before. Others will be pressing into new numbers they haven't seen in years... and along with that comes a new lifestyle that hasn't been lived in years! Going beyond the limits might look like adding regular exercise to a sedentary life, or possibly engaging fully in all The Heathy Weigh has to offer in the next 10 weeks including the challenges and homework, really "working" the program.

For each individual in the room yesterday, going beyond the limits will be their own personal climb! To reach the summit, to do what hasn't been done before, we will ALL need to push beyond our limits!

YOUR CHALLENGE/GOAL FOR THE WEEK:
Ask yourself the question: "What does going beyond the limits look like for me?" Write down the answer to that question and bring it back into The Healthy Weigh next tuesday for a ticket in the drawing!

The journey up this mountain has begun. Lean on each other and believe in yourself and you will go BEYOND THE LIMITS!

Always encouraging you,
Letha

FINAL STANDINGS!

2011-12-15T14:03:00.000-08:00

18.7 Happy Feat!
18.5 Thunder & Lightning
15.5 This Is How It’s “Dunne”
15.0 Let’s Go Make It Low
14.9 Barely Waisted
14.3 Side By Side
14.3 Drop It Like It’s Hot
14.0 Funkie Chunkies
13.5 The Team Formerly Known As Amazing Grace
13.4 Thin It To Win It
12.8 Do It Or Die
12.6 Fighting Temptations
12.4 The A-Team
12.1 Thighs The Limit
12.0 Excess Baggage
11.9 Thin & Trim
11.6 Ultimate Eliminators
11.6 No Sugar…Just Spice!
11.2 Travelin’ Lite
11.1 Girls Next Door
10.7 Too Unfit To Quit
10.5 Losing It
10.4 Trim Fast
10.3 Trophy Wife Wannabe’s
10.1 Now You See It Now You Don’t
10.1 Hot Mama’s
9.7 Dynamic Duo
9.1 Bodacious Babes
8.5 Mr & Mrs Piggins
8.2 Better Than Sprinkles
7.5 Peaches and Skim Milk
7.4 The Better Weigh
7.2 Badunkadunk Busters
7.1 New Dimensions
6.9 Downsizing Divas
6.8 No If, Ands Or Butts
6.5 Barracudas
6.4 Lean Cousines
6.1 Moms On A Mission
5.9 Thin To Win
5.9 “Chicken…It’s What’s For Dinner”
5.8 Unstuffin’ The Muffin’
5.8 The Slimenators
5.8 Changes In Attitude
5.7 Livin On A Prayer!
5.4 Defying Gravity
4.8 Amazing Waists
4.8 Amazing Grace
4.7 Booty Busters
3.8 Perfect Harmony
3.8 La La Paloozers
3.6 Team Freedom
3.5 Bob/Kat Productions
3.2 Final Redemption
2.9 Less Is More
2.9 In It To Thin It
2.7 Hi-Weigh To Health
2.4 Weight No More
2.4 I Know What You Weighed Last Summer
2.0 Made For More
1.8 Cruisin’ For Losin’
1.6 Balance +
.7 Weigh To Liberation
-1.3 Hot Squad

The Amazing Race Ends with a Sprint to the Finish!

2011-12-14T08:31:00.000-08:00

Last night we celebrated our 10th Team Challenge finale! With a total of 2360 pounds lost in the last 10 weeks, we broke the record for the most pounds lost of any Team Challenge so far! This truly WAS an Amazing Race!

Along with celebrating our top three teams, we inducted more clients into the 20, 30, 40, and 50 pound club than ever before! It was a powerful example of what happens when people come together to support and encourage each other and make personal decisions to change their lives!

Here's a look at some of our big winners!

Most pounds lost by a female: Kimberli Zonker 51.8 pounds!
Most pounds lost by a male: Frank Stillwell 46.3 pounds!
Highest % of weight loss for a female: Peggy Schwartz 20.1%
Highest % of weight loss for a male: Jerry Hatcher 20.5%

And now...our Top Three Teams!

The THIRD team to arrive: "This is How It's Dunne," Karen and Rebecca, with a 15.53% of weight loss! Congratulations to you sweet sisters! Winners of $300

The SECOND team to arrive: "Thunder and Lightning," Peggy and Debbie, with a 18.52% of weight loss! I'm so proud of you two! Winners of $500

The FIRST team to arrive, "Happy Feat," Sue and Jerry, with a 18.78% of weight loss! Congratulations you two. You inspired us all! So great to see a husband and wife work together to change their lives! Great job!! Winners of $1000

As we close out another Team Challenge, there is always a little sadness. By the 10th week of this challenge this group has bonded and it's hard to let go! We traveled through holidays, encouraged each other when the going got tough, enjoyed each others company on the Fast Forward events and supported each other on Face Book! It was an amazing ten weeks!

We said our goodbyes last night to the Amazing Race, but we look forward to our next challenge "BEYOND THE LIMITS" in January.
We have a great 4 weeks ahead of motivating and inspiring events to keep our clients focused and on the right path.

Tuesday,December 20th noon and 6pm. Glenda and I will be team teaching a VISION class.
Tuesday, December 27th noon and 6pm. I'll be sharing one of my yearly traditions, choosing a word for the year!
Tuesday, January 3rd, noon and 6pm. We'll be getting closer to our climb and I'll be taking you to the base of Mt. Everest to get you ready for the adventure!
Tuesday, January 10th, noon and 6pm. I'll be presenting the program introduction class for the upcoming Team Challenge. Everyone who is enrolled in the winter Team Challenge should attend this very important class explaining the nutritional plan in detail!

I threw out a little contest last night for the next 4 weeks as well...here's how it works. For EVERYONE who loses 4 pounds between December 13th and January 17th, they will be entered into a drawing for $100! I thought it would be a fun way to stay focused during these holiday weeks!

Congratulations to ALL of you who participated in The Amazing Race and completed the race! You have a lot to be proud of. I hope that you continue to live out the lessons you learned and that the changes you made will be for life! That will be truly amazing!

Always encouraging you,
Letha

There's NO QUIT IN US...even after breaking ALL records!

2011-12-07T09:18:00.000-08:00

Oh, what a day at The Healthy Weigh! The 9th leg of this Amazing Race turned out to be a record breaking, goal meeting, over the top kind of a leg! We celebrate with friends who reached "one"derland, saw weights they haven't seen in 30 years and had just plain old great weeks! It was a blast!

We did something on this 9th week of the Team Challenge that we've never done before this early in the challenge...we broke the weight loss record of ALL previous Team Challenges! We went over the top and still have one more week to kick the record up another notch! Congratulations to this group of outstanding people...they started the race out strong and are finishing even stronger!

As we close in our our 10th week of this challenge, I reminded our participants that winners, champions don't quit! When things get tough, when they don't feel like they can go on, they reach down inside of themselves and say, "There's No Quit In Me." That's where champions are made, that place where a decision must be made. Will I give up now or will I rise up and say, there's no quit in me?!!!

We celebrated with teams who decided and have put action to their decision. Team 'No Sugar, Just Spice' won at noon with a 2.19 % of weight loss! Lynelle and Karadee were the first team to arrive with a 2.19% of weight loss for the week and they were excited about it!
At Six, 'Trophy Wife Wannabe's' took the win with a 2.83% of weight loss! Marna and Marianne ran a victory lap before they landed on the check-in mat! They had a lot to celebrate this week and it showed!!

Next Tuesday will be our 10th Team Challenge Grand Finale and they just keep getting better! We will be weighing in some of our teams at noon but everyone will becoming back for the Finale and celebration at 6! It is going to be Grand!

Your task for the week:
Lose 2 pounds! (you will want to be in this drawing for an over night stay at a World Mark Resort AND a Winter Team Challenge paid in full!)

I can't wait to celebrate with you all next week! Here's to another over the top kind of Amazing Race week!

Always encouraging you,
Letha

Team Challenge Standings

2011-12-07T07:12:00.000-08:00

16.1 Happy Feat!
14.6 Thunder & Lightning
13.5 This Is How It’s “Dunne”
13.5 Funkie Chunkies
13.4 Let’s Go Make It Low
12.9 Barely Waisted
12.3 Thin It To Win It
12.3 Side By Side
12.2 Drop It Like It’s Hot
11.9 Fighting Temptations
11.6 The Team Formerly Known As Amazing Grace
11.6 Do It Or Die
11.5 The A-Team
10.9 No Sugar…Just Spice!
10.8 Thin & Trim
10.7 Trophy Wife Wannabe’s
10.6 Too Unfit To Quit
10.4 Excess Baggage
10.3 Thighs The Limit
10.2 Ultimate Eliminators
10.2 Travelin’ Lite
9.8 Losing It
9.8 Girls Next Door
9.7 Now You See It Now You Don’t
9.5 Hot Mama’s
8.5 Trim Fast
8.5 Dynamic Duo
8.5 Bodacious Babes
7.9 Mr & Mrs Piggins
7.7 Peaches and Skim Milk
7.6 Better Than Sprinkles
7.5 The Better Weigh
7.2 Badunkadunk Busters
7.1 New Dimensions
6.6 Downsizing Divas
6.5 Barracudas
6.4 Lean Cousines
6.3 The Slimenators
6.0 No Belly Weigh
5.9 “Chicken…It’s What’s For Dinner”
5.8 Unstuffin’ The Muffin’
5.8 Changes In Attitude
5.7 No If, Ands Or Butts
5.5 Livin On A Prayer!
5.2 Thin To Win
4.8 Amazing Waists
4.8 Amazing Grace
4.7 La La Paloozers
4.5 Defying Gravity
4.4 Perfect Harmony
4.3 Booty Busters
4.2 Moms On A Mission
3.8 Bob/Kat Productions
3.6 Team Freedom
3.0 Weight No More
2.9 Less Is More
2.9 In It To Thin It
2.4 I Know What You Weighed Last Summer
2.0 Made For More
2.0 Final Redemption
1.8 Cruisin’ For Losin’
1.6 Balance +
.9 Hi-Weigh To Health
.7 Weigh To Liberation
-1.3 Hot Squad

Team Challenge Standings

2011-11-30T08:35:00.000-08:00

14.3 Happy Feat!
13.3 Thunder & Lightning
12.5 Funkie Chunkies
12.1 This Is How It’s “Dunne”
12.1 Let’s Go Make It Low
11.9 Barely Waisted
11.3 Side By Side
11.0 Do It Or Die
10.9 Drop It Like It’s Hot
10.8 Thin & Trim
10.8 The Team Formerly Known As Amazing Grace
10.7 The A-Team
10.6 Thin It To Win It
10.6 Fighting Temptations
10.3 Thighs The Limit
9.6 Ultimate Eliminators
9.6 Excess Baggage
9.5 Losing It
9.4 Girls Next Door
9.3 Too Unfit To Quit
9.1 Now You See It Now You Don’t
8.9 No Sugar…Just Spice!
8.7 Dynamic Duo
8.5 Hot Mama’s
8.3 Travelin’ Lite
8.1 Trophy Wife Wannabe’s
7.9 Trim Fast
7.9 Mr & Mrs Piggins
7.7 Bodacious Babes
7.2 Badunkadunk Busters
7.1 Peaches and Skim Milk
7.1 New Dimensions
6.6 The Better Weigh
6.5 Unstuffin’ The Muffin’
6.4 Lean Cousines
6.3 The Slimenators
6.1 Downsizing Divas
6.0 No Belly Weigh
6.0 Barracudas
5.9 Better Than Sprinkles
5.7 Thin To Win
5.3 No If, Ands Or Butts
5.0 Livin On A Prayer!
5.0 “Chicken…It’s What’s For Dinner”
4.8 Amazing Waists
4.5 Changes In Attitude
4.4 Team Freedom
4.4 Perfect Harmony
4.2 Moms On A Mission
4.2 Defying Gravity
4.0 La La Paloozers
3.9 Amazing Grace
3.6 Bob/Kat Productions
3.4 Weight No More
3.4 Booty Busters
2.9 Less Is More
2.9 In It To Thin It
2.2 Cruisin’ For Losin’
2.2 Balance +
2.1 I Know What You Weighed Last Summer
2.0 Made For More
2.0 Final Redemption
1.3 Hi-Weigh To Health
.5 Weigh To Liberation
-1.3 Hot Squad

We're Climbing a Mountain!!!!!

2011-11-30T08:30:00.000-08:00

The big announcement was made yesterday at the Team Challenge. This Amazing Race group was given their next clue...it read something like this:

Take a flight to South Asia, find your way to the Himalayas. There will you continue on to the base of Mt Everest. You will receive more instruction there.

We're climbing Mt. Everest!
We're taking this weight loss journey BEYOND THE LIMITS!

Our theme for the Winter 2012 Team Challenge... "BEYOND THE LIMITS."

Before Sir Edmond Hillary and Tensing Norgay stood on top of Mt. Everest in 1953, climbing to 29,028 feet was thought to be impossible. Now this mountain has come to symbolize human achievement.
Mt. Everest evokes a powerful metaphor. It is one of the most unforgiving environments on Earth. For every three people who reach the summit, one dies trying. When the stakes are this high, each team member plays a critical role, not only in the team's success, but its very survival.

Even though you may not experience arctic temperatures, hurricane force winds, or seemingly bottomless crevasses, you do face the challenge of consistently doing the right thing. Making the right choices. Changing your beliefs.

I'm sure most of our clients would agree that losing weight and keeping it off is one of the hardest things they've ever tried to accomplish. Losing weight and keeping it off can be like climbing a mountain. Just like a climbing expedition, you must forge an inspiring vision, overcome obstacles and stay focused, to consistently be your best and reach the top, your goal weight.

Going "Beyond The Limits" is what it's going to take to reach the top...reach goal weight and keep it off for life! I reminded our clients that to accomplish this great task they were going to need:

An Attitude with Altitude
A Courageous Spirit
A Willingness to Change
And a decision to NEVER GIVE UP!

The difference between defeat and giving up is in perspective. Defeat is often only a temporary situation. Defeat is an opportunity to learn, so that we can go back and do things differently. Giving up is what makes defeat permanent. When we give up, we never try again.

I also reminded our alumni that the top is the most vulnerable place to be. Even in mountain climbing, once you've reached the summit, you're only halfway to your goal. You still have to make your way to the bottom of the mountain. Or in the case of our alumni, keep walking the walk, always looking for the new challenges and working the program.

We're excited about our Winter Team Challenge that begins in January...but we're still very focused on the task at hand. The Amazing Race! Who will be the first team to arrive???

Our winning teams for this week were 'Losing It' with a 1.86 % of weight loss. Congratulations Barry and Tony! At six, team 'Happy Feat' took the win again with a 2.33% of weight loss! Sue and Jerry, you had an amazing week!
Our teams came together for another 151 pounds of weight loss this week! Thanksgiving week, I might add! How exciting is that? We finished No Cave November out strong and awarded Annie B. with $100 prize!!! Speaking of 100...we celebrate with Ryan B. last night as he reached his 100 pound mark! It was a great day at The Healthy Weigh!!

We have lots in store in the next few weeks to finish out this Amazing Race breaking all kinds of records and then head into 2012 to go Beyond The Limits!

YOUR TASK FOR THE WEEK:
Lose 1.5 pounds this week! (you'll want to be in this drawing)

Have a great week knowing that I will always be encouraging you,
Letha

Play Out The Tape

2011-11-23T10:02:00.000-08:00

It's Thanksgiving week! The choices we make this week will not only determine our Tuesday weigh in, but will take us down a path and determine our success for the rest of the holiday season and beyond.

If I had my way, this week would have been a week when I would have had a one on one, in your face kind of a visit, with each and every client at The Healthy Weigh. Although we meet in a group setting, I did my best to help each client feel very personally connected to what I was saying. Going off program on Thanksgiving...just isn't worth it!

We learned the powerful lesson of "playing out the tape." We looked at two scenarios of Thanksgiving day and played out the tape together. The first scenario was the plan to eat off program and just have a little bit of everything. The tape looked like this when played out...

Although I took just a little bit of everything, my plate is over flowing. I sit down to eat and enjoy the momentary feeling that the high fat rich food brings. It's not long after that that I get a little bit of each dessert too. As the day passes I feel sick to my stomach. I'm not sure if I can make it through the afternoon without getting sick and needing to excuse my self. I head home, feeling ill, guilty, frustrated and sorry for the choices I made. My family seems to be almost glad that I didn't stick to my program. The rest of the weekend seems to spiral out of control. I've already blown it, why stop now. When Tuesday rolls around, there's no way I'm showing up to the Team Challenge to be humiliated at the weigh in. I make a decision to quit the program and start up again after the holidays...it's the holidays for goodness sake. Even though I've lost 15 pounds on this team challenge, I quit, repeating the pattern of my life and putting all my weight back on and more. I'm not sure I can even go back in January because I'm so down on my self...and so the story goes.

The second scenario looks like this...
It's Thanksgiving morning and I'm walking in my first ever Turkey Trot. It was great to be with my Healthy Weigh friends this morning. It makes such a difference to know that I have a group of people who are living and looking toward a new way of life. I arrive to my families meal with a few side dishes in hand. I have a green salad, a great pumpkin delight dessert, cranberry chutney and the apple pear compote. They'll provide the Turkey and I bet everyone is going to want my recipes. I make wonderful choices, staying busy in the kitchen, helping with the children so the young moms can eat in peace, I have a terrific day. I leave with a little turkey breast in a to go box and when I lay my head down on my pillow that night I am feeling as powerful as I ever have! The weekend is set, I've got food in the fridge, decorating and shopping to do and I feel amazing! I can't wait for Tuesday! At The Team Challenge I lose 3 pounds for the week and get the clapper!!! :-) I am entered into the No Cave November drawing and I WIN the $100! I'm enrolled in the Winter Team Challenge because when you are working to change your life...you don't take a break, you keep on running! By spring I am at my goal weight and feel better than I have in 25 years! I've changed my thinking...and I've change my life!

You choose. Which tape will you play out?

With a challenging season ahead of us, accountability will be more important than EVER! We've got just the group to hold our feet to the fire!

Our Tasks for the week will help:
1. Post Your Thanksgiving plan on Face book in the next couple of days. It will assure you have one, and that you'll follow through with it.
2. Stay active the rest of the weekend on face book, supporting your Healthy Weigh friends through the weekend!
3. Listen to the last of the 6 lessons on the CD. Body~Soul~Spirit,The Spiritual Perspective, and do the homework provided.

A big congratulations to our two winning teams this week. Darrel and Jackie, team 'Do it or Die' won at noon with a 2.55 % of weight loss!
Team 'Thunder and Lightning' was the first team to arrive at 6 with a 2.31 % for the week. Debbie and Peggy, you girls rocked!

We've got some great weeks ahead of us in this Amazing Race. Who will be the first team to arrive??? It's a close one!

To all of you, I wish you a happy, healthy Thanksgiving. I am personally so thankful for you and the life I share with you.

Always encouraging you.
Letha

Team Challenge Standings

2011-11-23T08:15:00.001-08:00

12.3 Happy Feat!
12.1 Funkie Chunkies
12.0 Thunder Thighs & Lightning The Load
11.5 This Is How It’s “Dunne”
10.9 Drop It Like It’s Hot
10.8 Barely Waisted
10.5 Let’s Go Make It Low
10.4 Thin & Trim
10.2 The A-Team
10.2 Side By Side
10.0 Thin It To Win It
9.9 Do It Or Die
9.6 The Team Formerly Known As Amazing Grace
9.2 Ultimate Eliminators
9.2 Too Unfit To Quit
9.2 Thighs The Limit
9.0 Fighting Temptations
8.6 Now You See It Now You Don’t
8.6 Girls Next Door
8.4 Trophy Wife Wannabe’s
8.3 Excess Baggage
8.2 Travelin’ Lite
8.2 No Sugar…Just Spice!
8.0 Mr & Mrs Piggins
8.0 Hot Mama’s
7.8 Losing It
7.6 Dynamic Duo
7.2 Trim Fast
7.2 New Dimensions
7.0 Bodacious Babes
6.5 Unstuffin’ The Muffin’
6.4 Peaches and Skim Milk
6.0 No Belly Weigh
6.0 Lean Cousines
5.8 The Better Weigh
5.7 Barracudas
5.5 Thin To Win
5.5 Downsizing Divas
5.5 Changes In Attitude
5.5 Better Than Sprinkles
5.3 The Slimenators
5.2 No If, Ands Or Butts
4.8 Badunkadunk Busters
4.8 Amazing Waists
4.7 Livin On A Prayer!
4.5 Moms On A Mission
4.4 Team Freedom
4.1 “Chicken…It’s What’s For Dinner”
4.0 Perfect Harmony
3.7 La La Paloozers
3.5 Bob/Kat Productions
3.5 Amazing Grace
3.4 Final Redemption
3.3 Defying Gravity
2.9 Less Is More
2.9 In It To Thin It
2.5 Booty Busters
2.4 I Know What You Weighed Last Summer
2.3 Team B.M.I.: Battling Many Impulses
2.2 Cruisin’ For Losin’
2.0 Made For More
1.9 Weight No More
1.4 Hi-Weigh To Health
1.4 Balance +
-1.3 Hot Squad
-.3 Weigh To Liberation

Team Challenge Standings ~ Week 6

2011-11-16T07:54:00.001-08:00

11.2 Happy Feat!
10.6 This Is How It’s “Dunne”
10.4 Barely Waisted
10.1 Let’s Go Make It Low
9.9 Thunder Thighs & Lightning The Load
9.9 Funkie Chunkies
9.7 Thin & Trim
9.0 Fighting Temptations
8.9 The Team Formerly Known As Amazing Grace
8.9 The A-Team
8.9 Drop It Like It’s Hot
8.6 Thin It To Win It
8.6 Side By Side
8.5 Ultimate Eliminators
8.1 Girls Next Door
8.0 Too Unfit To Quit
8.0 No Sugar…Just Spice!
7.8 Now You See It Now You Don’t
7.6 Thighs The Limit
7.5 Do It Or Die
7.4 Trophy Wife Wannabe’s
7.3 Mr & Mrs Piggins
7.2 Travelin’ Lite
6.8 Excess Baggage
6.6 Losing It
6.5 Unstuffin’ The Muffin’
6.5 Trim Fast
6.5 Hot Mama’s
6.5 Dynamic Duo
6.2 New Dimensions
6.0 No Belly Weigh
6.0 Lean Cousines
5.9 Bodacious Babes
5.6 No If, Ands Or Butts
5.5 Thin To Win
5.5 The Better Weigh
5.5 Downsizing Divas
5.4 The Slimenators
5.4 Peaches and Skim Milk
5.4 Barracudas
4.9 Moms On A Mission
4.8 Yes Dear!
4.8 Better Than Sprinkles
4.8 Badunkadunk Busters
4.7 Livin On A Prayer!
4.6 Changes In Attitude
4.5 Defying Gravity
4.4 Team Freedom
4.3 Amazing Waists
4.2 Trim The Fat Part Deux!
4.1 “Chicken…It’s What’s For Dinner”
3.5 Amazing Grace
3.4 La La Paloozers
3.3 Booty Busters
3.1 Final Redemption
3.0 Perfect Harmony
2.9 Less Is More
2.9 In It To Thin It
2.8 Hula Hotties
2.8 Bob/Kat Productions
2.3 Team B.M.I.: Battling Many Impulses
2.2 Cruisin’ For Losin’
2.0 Made For More
1.9 I Know What You Weighed Last Summer
1.9 Hi-Weigh To Health
1.3 Weight No More
-.6 Balance +
-.5 Weigh To Liberation
- .1 Hot Squad

Learning to Cope on the Race!

2011-11-09T10:30:00.001-08:00

What an Amazing day! That's right...it was Amazing! On this 5th leg of the Amazing Race our teams lost a total of 264 pounds! We have got a group of people who are "not caving" into the pressures of what November can bring. It's NO CAVE NOVEMBER, and it shows!

Our top teams were excited to be the first to arrive on this 5th pit stop. At Noon our brother and sister team, 'Do It or Die' took the win with a 2.08 % of weight loss! Congratulations Darrel and Jackie! And hey...have fun decorating those trophy boards!

Our Six pm group celebrated with team 'Trophy Wife Wannabes' with a weight loss % of 2.43! Marna and Marianne, what a journey you've been on, you are looking great!

We have fun each Tuesday, that's for sure, but we also come away each week focused and thinking for a change! Yesterday I spent time encouraging our teams to look a little closer at their coping skills. In my opinion, learning to cope in healthy ways, is truly one of the greatest tools that we need to not only reach our goal weight, but more importantly keep it off for life.

To cope, is to take what’s inside of you, fear, anxiousness, stress, insecurities, overwhelm…wrestle with it, and then get it out! Coping; wrestling or grappling with difficulties and then acting to overcome them.
So, when we say that we use food to cope, drugs to cope, and alcohol to cope…we’re not coping. We're avoiding, stuffing, numbing, and disengaging from what’s inside of us. We’re just postponing the work that needs to be done to promote real healthy living. I've seen people who postpone the work that needs to be done, for a life time.

We all have stress, sorrow, anxiety, fear. We’ve had hard times this week in this very group. Losses, bad news, surgeries…hard life stuff. It’s what we do with all of that that makes the difference. It’s learning to process the issues instead of numbing or avoiding them.

I’ve seen comments on face book like…"I coped with food this week.” The correct statement would have been, “I used food this week to avoid coping.” Remember coping is wrestling or grappling with difficulties and acting to over come them.

My great desire is to help people learn the skills to help them live abundant, healthy lives. Learning to cope is one of those skills. This weeks task, along with Tuesdays lesson will help towards that for sure.

YOUR TASKS FOR THE WEEK:
Listen to week #4 of the CD series, "Coping Skills~Feeling Your Way Through Life" and do the homework provided.
Keep your NO CAVE NOVEMBER weight loss graph going! (Make sure you are in that drawing at the end of the month for an 8 pound loss!)

We've got a ROAD BLOCK this week too:
One member of each team must make the chow time recipe this week! Butternut Squash Fries!

Here's to a week of coping, eating healthy and making good choices for an abundant life!

Always encouraging you,

Letha

Team Challenge Standings ~ Week 4

2011-11-09T08:40:00.001-08:00

9.4 This Is How It’s “Dunne”

8.9 Barely Waisted

8.8 Thunder Thighs & Lightning The Load

8.7 Happy Feat!

8.6 Let’s Go Make It Low

8.5 Funkie Chunkies

8.4 Fighting Temptations

8.4 Drop It Like It’s Hot

7.8 Do It Or Die

7.7 Thin & Trim

7.7 The Team Formerly Known As Amazing Grace

7.5 Ultimate Eliminators

7.5 The A-Team

7.4 Girls Next Door

7.3 Trophy Wife Wannabe’s

7.3 Now You See It Now You Don’t

7.2 Side By Side

7.1 Too Unfit To Quit

6.9 Unstuffin’ The Muffin’

6.6 Mr & Mrs Piggins

6.4 Thin It To Win It

6.4 No Sugar…Just Spice!

6.1 Travelin’ Lite

6.1 Losing It

6.1 Hot Mama’s

6.0 No Belly Weigh

6.0 Excess Baggage

5.9 New Dimensions

5.9 Badunkadunk Busters

5.8 Trim Fast

5.8 Dynamic Duo

5.7 Thighs The Limit

5.3 Final Redemption

5.1 Thin To Win

5.1 Downsizing Divas

5.0 Lean Cousines

4.9 No If, Ands Or Butts

4.9 Barracudas

4.8 Yes, Dear!

4.8 The Slimenators

4.6 Changes In Attitude

4.6 Bodacious Babes

4.6 Better Than Sprinkles

4.5 Peaches and Skim Milk

4.5 Defying Gravity

4.2 Trim The Fat Part Deux!

4.0 The Better Weigh

4.0 Team Freedom

4.0 Livin On A Prayer!

3.9 “Chicken…It’s What’s For Dinner”

3.8 Amazing Waists

3.6 Bob/Kat Productions

3.4 Moms On A Mission

3.1 Perfect Harmony

2.9 La La Paloozers

2.8 Hula Hotties

2.5 Booty Busters

2.4 Less Is More

2.3 Team B.M.I.: Battling Many Impulses

2.3 Hi-Weigh To Health

2.2 Amazing Grace

1.9 Cruisin’ For Losin’

1.8 Made For More

1.7 Weight No More

1.7 In It To Thin It

1.7 I Know What You Weighed Last Summer

1.2 Balance +

-.1 Weigh To Liberation

- .1 Hot Squad

"We're Not Caving"

2011-11-02T08:48:00.000-07:00

The average American gains 7 to 10 pounds between Halloween and New Years' Day! Not us!!! We're not caving into societies bad habits! Our teams lost 206 pounds the week of Halloween and we're going to keep on going!

You've heard of No Shave November? Well, we're participating in our own way with "No Cave November!" Young and old men alike join in the first day of November and just say no to shaving! No shave November...they stay committed even when it itches, even when they start to feel frustrated. They stay the course throughout the month to end up with what they want... a beautiful beard!

We're joining together to just say no to holiday weight gain! We're going to stay committed even when we're itching to eat off program and even when we feel frustrated. We'll stay the course and end up with what we want on November 29th... 8 pounds off and a ticket in a drawing for $100! "We're Not Caving!!"

It was an exciting day to weigh in team after team that lost weight this week! Our first teams to arrive at Noon and Six were 'Thin and Trim' with a 1.67% of weight loss for the week. Congratulations Meretha and Jeanine, and 'Let's Go Make it Low', Barbara and Eileen with a weight loss % of 1.91! Both teams received a little bit of Africa on this Amazing Race for their prize for the week, plush animal print throws!

I taught the great lesson this week about restaurant eating! We repeated the great mantra, "The food you need is in the kitchen." You can be so successful on this program eating out. You just have to realize that even though our program foods don't show up on the menus in our favorite restaurants, the food we need to eat to lose weight, is in the kitchen of the restaurant! The secret to eating out and staying on program is being educated about your nutritional plan and having confidence when you order! I provided extra servings of both of those this week so our clients are ready to eat out and lose weight too!

As we head in to the 5th leg of this Amazing Race, every competitor has the ability to make November be the greatest, healthiest November of their lives! After yesterday's weight loss our teams have 829 pounds to go to break the record of any Team Challenge. I believe that this group of people will do just that! It's going to be Amazing!!!

Your Tasks For The Week:

Listen to lesson # 3 What's in Your Back Pack ~ Controlling What You Can, and do the homework provided.
Start your "No Cave November" weight loss graph and bring it back next week.

I hope to see a bunch of you at our Fast Forward event Friday. We are meeting at Ross Dress for Less and doing a little shopping! We'll meet at 5:30. Come try some new styles and get inspired!

Let this November be one of the most inspiring Novembers of your life!
I'm with you all the weigh! :-)

Always encouraging you,
Letha

Team Challenge Standings ~ Week 3

2011-11-02T06:47:00.001-07:00

8.0 This Is How It’s “Dunne”
7.9 Happy Feat!
7.6 Thunder Thighs & Lightning The Load
7.5 Barely Waisted
7.4 Funkie Chunkies
7.2 Thin & Trim
6.9 Let’s Go Make It Low
6.9 Fighting Temptations
6.6 Mr & Mrs Piggins
6.5 Ultimate Eliminators
6.2 The Team Formerly Known As Amazing Grace
6.2 The A-Team
6.1 Unstuffin’ The Muffin’
6.1 Thin It To Win It
6.1 No Belly Weigh
6.0 Now You See It Now You Don’t
5.9 Too Unfit To Quit
5.9 Do It Or Die
5.8 Side By Side
5.5 No Sugar…Just Spice!
5.5 Girls Next Door
5.3 Thighs The Limit
5.1 New Dimensions
5.1 Hot Mama’s
5.0 Trophy Wife Wannabe’s
5.0 Travelin’ Lite
5.0 Excess Baggage
5.0 Drop It Like It’s Hot
4.8 Yes, Dear!
4.8 Trim Fast
4.8 The Slimenators
4.7 Bodacious Babes
4.6 No If, Ands Or Butts
4.6 Lean Cousines
4.6 Final Redemption
4.6 Badunkadunk Busters
4.4 Barracudas
4.3 Dynamic Duo
4.2 Trim The Fat Part Deux!
4.0 Losing It
3.8 Thin To Win
3.6 Defying Gravity
3.6 Amazing Waists
3.5 The Better Weigh
3.4 Downsizing Divas
3.4 “Chicken…It’s What’s For Dinner”
3.3 Team Freedom
3.3 Better Than Sprinkles
3.2 Livin On A Prayer!
3.2 Changes In Attitude
3.1 Moms On A Mission
3.1 Bob/Kat Productions
2.8 Hula Hotties
2.4 La La Paloozers
2.3 Team B.M.I.: Battling Many Impulses
2.3 Perfect Harmony
2.3 Amazing Grace
2.0 Booty Busters
1.8 Peaches and Skim Milk
1.8 Less Is More
1.7 Made For More
1.7 In It To Thin It
1.7 Cruisin’ For Losin’
1.6 I Know What You Weighed Last Summer
1.2 Weight No More
1.2 Weigh To Liberation
1.2 Balance +
.3 Hi-Weigh To Health
- .6 Hot Squad

It's All About The Leverage!

2011-10-26T09:50:00.000-07:00

We are on the third pit stop of this Amazing Race and we've got some teams racing out in front. Who will be the first team to arrive at the final pit stop of this 10 week race?

It was exciting to see two brand new teams win for the week! At Noon Deena and Amanda, team 'Fighting Temptation' arrived first with a 2.03% of weight loss! They will love the prize they earned this week for coming in first place. Nancy Higgins is providing her cooking class again for the top 2 teams. They not only get to learn how to cook, but they get to take home the prepared food too! Thanks so much Nancy!

At Six, Jerry and Sue, team 'Happy Feat' won for the evening with a 2.31% of weight loss! Their happy feat jumped right down on that check in mat to receive the prize for the day and of course the traveling gnomes. They'll be joining Amanda and Deena for that cooking class at Nancy's. What fun!

I brought up a serious subject Tuesday on this leg of the race. I introduced a tool that makes losing weight and keeping it off easier...leverage! A lever is a device that we use in order to lift or move a tremendous burden we could not manage on our own.
We’ve got to continue to ask the question…what produces the greatest and most lasting change in an individual?

Chances are, if you are not experiencing lasting change, it is because you are changing something for the wrong reason or there are not enough compelling reasons for why you should commit to changing in the first place. If this is true for you, you are living in a dangerous place I refer to as “No Man’s Land.” You see, in No Man’s Land, you aren’t totally happy, but the problem is you’re not unhappy enough to do something about it. As I said, there are few, if any, compelling reasons to attempt change; therefore, you don’t.

What's great is that there is a tool you can use to help discover your motivation to change. That tool is leverage.

In my experience, 20% of any change is knowing "how to change" but 80% is knowing "why you must." Change requires more than just establishing the knowledge that you should change. It is about knowing at the deepest, most basic emotional level that you must change. If we gather a strong enough set of reasons, we can change in a minute something we’ve failed to change for years. Those reasons—the why—are what provide the leverage. The greatest leverage you can create for yourself is the pain that comes from inside, not outside. The pain of knowing that you have failed to live up to your own standards for your life.(ouch)

Access enough leverage and there will be nothing you can’t change.

So ask yourself this: That thing, whatever it is you’ve been trying to change but haven’t followed through with—what will it ultimately cost you if you don’t change? And what will you ultimately gain if you do? With knowledge of the answers to those questions, you’ll be able to create lasting change in every aspect of your life. That’s leverage!

Linking pain to overeating and pleasure to eating healthy is a MUST to keep your weight off permanently.

The tasks for the week will help you do that!

1. Make a list of the pain that overeating is or will cause you
2. Listen to CD # 2 and complete the homework provided
3. ROAD BLOCK (one member of your team must walk one mile and pick up a leaf to bring back in to The Healthy Weigh next week for a chance at a team prize!)

A big thank you to our sponsors for the week, Nancy Higgins and all the clients who donated such great give away gifts. You are treating each other well!

Link pain to the life you are not interested in...link pleasure to the life you want. Leverage, it's a tool that will change your life!

See you in the corn maze!!!

Always encouraging you.
Letha

Team Challenge Standings ~ Week 2

2011-10-26T06:35:00.001-07:00

6.9 Barely Waisted
6.4 This Is How It’s “Dunne”
6.4 Happy Feat!
6.3 Funkie Chunkies
6.2 Fighting Temptations
6.0 Thunder Thighs & Lightning The Load
5.8 The Team Formerly Known As Amazing Grace
5.7 Ultimate Eliminators
5.7 No Belly Weigh
5.6 Thin & Trim
5.2 The A-Team
5.2 Mr & Mrs Piggins
5.1 Let’s Go Make It Low
5.1 Girls Next Door
5.0 Unstuffin’ The Muffin’
4.9 Travelin’ Lite
4.9 Thin It To Win It
4.8 Yes, Dear!
4.8 Too Unfit To Quit
4.7 Do It Or Die-It
4.6 Trophy Wife Wannabe’s
4.6 Side By Side
4.6 Now You See It Now You Don’t
4.4 Losing It
4.3 Excess Baggage
4.2 Final Redemption
4.1 Thighs The Limit
4.1 The Slimenators
4.1 Bodacious Babes
4.0 No Sugar…Just Spice!
4.0 No If, Ands Or Butts
3.9 Barracudas
3.8 Lean Cousines
3.7 Team Freedom
3.6 Trim The Fat Part Deux!
3.6 Trim Fast
3.4 Hot Mama’s
3.4 Dynamic Duo
3.4 Downsizing Divas
3.3 New Dimensions
3.3 Amazing Waists
3.2 Thin To Win
3.2 Livin On A Prayer!
3.1 Bob/Kat Productions
3.1 Better Than Sprinkles
3.0 Defying Gravity
3.0 Changes In Attitude
3.0 Badunkadunk Busters
2.9 Booty Busters
2.9 “Chicken…It’s What’s For Dinner”
2.8 Peaches and Skim Milk
2.8 Moms On A Mission
2.4 La La Paloozers
2.3 Team B.M.I.: Battling Many Impulses
2.2 Drop It Like It’s Hot
1.9 The Better Weigh
1.9 In It To Thin It
1.9 Hula Hotties
1.7 Made For More
1.7 I Know What You Weighed Last Summer
1.4 Weight No More
1.3 Perfect Harmony
1.2 Less Is More
1.2 Balance +
.9 Cruisin’ For Losin’
.8 Hi-Weigh To Health
.7 Amazing Grace
.5 Weigh To Liberation
- .6 Hot Squad

Team Challenge Standings ~ Week 1

2011-10-19T09:02:00.000-07:00

5.1 Amazing Grace (N)
5.0 This Is How It’s “Dunne”
4.9 Thin & Trim
4.8 Yes, Dear!
4.7 Ultimate Eliminators
4.6 Funkie Chunkies
4.5 No Belly Weigh
4.3 Thunder Thighs & Lightning The Load
4.3 Thin It To Win It
4.3 Fighting Temptations
4.2 Happy Feat!
3.9 Unstuffin’ The Muffin’
3.9 Trophy Wife Wannabe’s
3.9 Mr & Mrs Piggins
3.8 Losing It
3.5 Girls Next Door
3.4 The Slimenators
3.3 Let’s Go Make It Low
3.2 The A-Team
3.1 Travelin’ Lite
3.1 Final Redemption
3.1 Changes In Attitude
3.1 Barely Waisted
3.0 Too Unfit To Quit
3.0 Now You See It Now You Don’t
3.0 New Dimensions
3.0 Bob/Kat Productions
2.9 Trim Fast
2.9 Side By Side
2.9 No Sugar…Just Spice!
2.9 Bodacious Babes
2.8 Excess Baggage
2.8 Do It Or Die-It
2.7 Lean Cousines
2.7 Downsizing Divas
2.6 Team Freedom
2.6 Barracudas
2.5 Trim The Fat Part Deux!
2.5 Less Is More
2.5 Dynamic Duo
2.3 Thighs The Limit
2.3 Moms On A Mission
2.3 Amazing Waists
2.1 Thin To Win
2.1 Peaches and Skim Milk
2.1 I Know What You Weighed Last Summer
2.0 Made For More
2.0 Defying Gravity
2.0 Booty Busters
2.0 Better Than Sprinkles
1.9 Hot Mama’s
1.9 Badunkadunk Busters
1.8 Drop It Like It’s Hot
1.7 “Chicken…It’s What’s For Dinner”
1.4 Livin On A Prayer!
1.3 The Better Weigh
1.3 Perfect Harmony
1.1 La La Paloozers
1.0 Amazing Grace
0.0 No If, Ands Or Butts
0.0 Hula Hotties
0.0 Balance +
.9 In It To Thin It
.8 Team B.M.I.: Battling Many Impulses
.8 Hi-Weigh To Health
.5 Cruisin’ For Losin’
.4 Weight No More
.3 Weigh To Liberation
.1 Hot Squad

You Are What You Think!

2011-10-19T08:30:00.000-07:00

The Race is on...and it's gonna be a good one! Our 70 Teams kicked off this Amazing Race with a 747 pound weight loss for the week! I was inspired by the great effort of all our racers! What a fantastic ten weeks this is going to be.

Here's a run down of the top teams to arrive at the first pit stop!

Noon:
Our 3rd Team to arrive...Janyce and Cindy, "The Ultimate Eliminators" with a 4.70 % of weight loss.
Our 2nd Team to arrive...Meretha and Jeanine, "Thin & Trim" with a 4.93 % of weight loss.
Our 1st Team to arrive...Annie and Kimberli, "Amazing Grace(noon)" with a 5.06 % of weight loss for the week!

Six:
Our 3rd Team to arrive...Tanya and Julian, "Thin It To Win It" with a 4.26 % of weight loss.
Our 2nd Team to arrive...Ron and Tammy, "Yes, Dear" with a 4.84 % of weight loss.
Our 1st Team to arrive...Karen and Rebecca, "This is How It's Dunne", with a 5.0 % of weight loss for the week!

Congratulations to all the top teams this week! You are off to an outstanding start in this Amazing Race!

Thank you to our Sponsors for the week, Glenda Bigalky and Barry Brandenburg. Our winning Teams of the day walked away with not only the Amazing Race gnome but with $100 as well!

The first week of each Team Challenge never lacks in great enthusiasm as we experience such over the top weight loss, but the key to finishing a race strong is to keep up the pace. That won't happen because our clients focus on the food, or the exercise or the amount of water they drink. The strength in which they finish this race will have EVERYTHING to do with how they think!

Your thought life will be be the number one key to you losing your weight and keeping it off for life.

You are what you think!

I have observed in the last 30 years in the weight loss business that the quality of peoples thinking leads to the quality of their results.

Poor thinking produces negative progress.
Average thinking produces no progress.
Good thinking produces some progress.
Great thinking produces great progress.

Good thoughts and action can never produce bad results and bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results.

Our thoughts dictate our feelings and our feelings dictate our actions every time!

The question I asked on this 2nd week of the Amazing Race was..."Is my desire for success and to improve my life strong enough to prompt me to change my thinking?"

If the answer is yes then these are some practicals ways to start to change your thinking for good!

1. Expose your self to good input
2. Expose yourself to good thinkers
3. Choose to think good thoughts
4. Act on your good thoughts
5. Allow you emotions to create another good thought

Sow a thought, and you reap an action;
Sow an action, and you reap a habit;
Sow a habit, and you reap a character;
Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

We've got 56 days left of this Amazing Race! I wonder who will use this opportunity to change their thinking and change their destiny?

YOUR TASK FOR THE WEEK:
Listen to week # 1 of the CD series and do the home work provided!

YOUR THREE WEEK HOLD OVER TASK:
"Not One Stinkin' Piece" (of Halloween candy that is)

The outcome of this Amazing Race lies right inside of each one of you! How will you choose to think this week to determine how you act this week? Only you can decide that!

I look forward to being impressed again as we head into week # 3 of this Amazing Race!

Always encouraging you,
Letha

The Amazing Race!

2011-10-12T09:30:00.000-07:00

So the question is...Which team will be the first to arrive...December 13th when we cross the finish line at our final pit stop on this Amazing Race?

Yesterday we began the 10th season of The Team Challenge, The Amazing Race, and I'm excited! Excited for all that will take place in the lives of our teams over the next 10 weeks. We will not be racing around the world in the next 10 weeks but we will be changing our thinking and changing our lives on this Amazing Race!

70 teams weighed in at The Healthy Weigh yesterday! Those 70 teams represent 140 individuals who are serious about losing 20, 30, 40, 50...or more pounds by December 13th! It was fun for me to introduce the teams with their crazy teams names and even a few outrageous costumes. Who knew losing weight and creating permanent change could be so fun?

I'm also thrilled about our new addition to this Team Challenge...our Alumni group.
Eighteen of our maintenance clients showed up wearing bright orange Healthy Weigh Alumni Tee Shirts! They too are racing towards the finish line. Maintaining weight is a journey all in its self and this group is going to lead the way.

As we start out this Amazing Race, we also announced a way for our teams to stay even more connected, while they support and encourage each other. Everybody knows that on the Amazing Race, it's all about the advantage...the fast forwards! Well, we announced our new addition to this seasons Team Challenge, "Fast Forwards." Our teams will have the opportunity to meet outside of The Healthy Weigh in social settings to do life together! From the Turkey Trot to the dinner out at Red Robin, our teams will have a chance to meet up with fellow racers and experience a healthy life style together! We think this is going to be a great encouragement to our teams and a lot of fun!

Each week I will be offering up a task that each racer has the opportunity to accomplish before the next weigh in...

This weeks Task:
DECIDE WHAT YOU WANT!

The first step to any change is deciding what you want. We spend a lot of time thinking about what we DON'T want, but little time thinking about what we DO want! This weeks task is to decide what you want, write it down and bring it back next week for a ticket in the drawing!

Two other ways to get a ticket in the drawing this week:

Complete your "meet the teams" form and bring it back in next week.
Go on a Fast Forward event this week.( the walk Thursday on Salmon Creek Trail)

To all of you this week on your first week of The Amazing Race, I say, "Give it all you've got." I hope that you look back on this week and remember that life changed for you when you entered into The Amazing Race!

Always Encouraging you,
Letha

Final Team Challenge Standings as of 09/13/11

2011-09-14T10:43:00.001-07:00

17.1 Beauty & The Beast

16.7 Wild Zumba Lumpas

16.0 Trim The Fat

15.6 The Branches

12.7 No D’oh

12.5 Broadway Babes

12.3 Flaca

11.0 Hips Hips Aweigh

10.7 The Sunsationals

10.3 Reduce The Caboose

10.3 Downsizing Divas

10.2 Weight No More

10.1 Slimming Siblings

10.0 Butt-er-fly B Free

9.9 Teacher Teacher!

9.7 Sister Chicks

9.1 Moms On A Mission

8.4 Perky, Peppy, Prima Donna’s

8.2 Pier Pressure

7.5 “She Aint Heavy, She’s My Sister!”

7.4 Forever Better

7.3 Starlite

7.1 Dynamic Duo

7.0 Blast From The Past

6.6 Extraordinary Thighs

6.5 Git R Done

6.4 Weapons of mASS Destruction

6.3 Unbroken

6.3 Booty-B-Gone

6.1 Made For More

5.8 Ready To Launch

5.7 Bums Away

5.5 Hats On Pounds Off

5.5 Driver’s License Redemption

5.5 Double Trouble

5.0 Weigh To Go

4.7 Les Chiennes Minces

4.7 Hot Squad

4.5 Weapons of Mass Reduction

4.2 Warriors A Go Go

4.2 Trash Divas

4.0 Incredible Shrinking Divas

3.7 Guns & Roses

3.7 A Team

3.6 Walk Away From The Cupcake

3.1 Not So Ordinary

2.5 Thinner Winner’s

1.7 Blast Off

-.2 The Incredible Bulks

-.1 Weight Strippers

-.1 Sharing The Adventure

EXTRAORDINARY Grand Finale!

2011-09-14T09:44:00.000-07:00

WOW...and let me say that backwards...WOW! What a finish! We just keep breaking records at The Healthy Weigh! With 140 pounds lost this last week of the Team Challenge, we broke the all time record of the greatest % lost for any Team Challenge! The participants of this "Extraordinary Life" Team Challenge showed us just what people are really capable of when they make a decision to live a better story!

We had some amazing individual successes as well as Team success! Get a load of these numbers!!!

Male with the greatest weight loss RYAN BOYLES with 70.0 pounds!!! (all time record)
Female with the greatest weight loss ANNIE BANCEU with 40.9 pounds! (repeat winner from last T/C)
Male with the greatest % of weight loss RYAN BOYLES with a 19.83% of weight loss!
Female with the greatest % of weight loss KATLYN HUNT with a 20.23% of weight loss!
(Katlyn, that means you had the over all greatest weight loss % of anyone in the Team Challenge!)

We also celebrated with Jennifer Richman who had the greatest % of weight loss for the week and won the Fall Team Challenge tuition as a prize! Jenn took the prize with a 4.87% for the week!

Our top three teams were celebrated by all!

#3 with a 16.04% for the Team Challenge: "Trim the Fat" Chris and Liz you did it!!!
You went this whole 10 weeks without ever winning a weekly team prize! You stayed strong and focused and it paid off! It's great to watch a husband and wife team re-write their stories together!

#2 with a 16.72% for the Team Challenge: "Wild Zumba Lumpas" Betty and Katlyn, I am so proud of you!! You have been a fun, but serious mom and daughter team! It's been a privilege to walk beside you on this journey! (Katlyn, you look H.O.T.)

#1 with a 17.12 % of weight loss for the Team Challenge: "Beauty and the Beast" Ryan and Jenn, you rocked it! Jenn, I'm so thankful that you took the 'beast' role and showed Ryan how it's done! Ryan, what can I say? 70 pounds! A record breaking weight loss! You were an inspiration to all of us! What a 'beauty!'

As we close out another successful Team Challenge, I'm overwhelmed by the community support that our teams demonstrate. From our weekly gatherings to our support and encouragement on face book, I would challenge anyone near or far, to find a program that produces this kind of results! It's a powerful community to be a part of!

We had great numbers of clients reach their 20, 30, 40 and 50 pound weight losses for this Team Challenge! We also had 4 participants reach their 100 lb mark during this last 10 weeks! Congratulations to Ken, Annie, Mark and Kris!

We've got 3 weeks of training ahead of us to prepare for the "Amazing Race" fall Team Challenge beginning October 11th!
Next week Nancy will deliver yet another great cooking class to inspire us to eat the best food and prepare them well.
The following Tuesday, Glenda will help us learn to resolve conflict instead of using food to numb or avoid it.
Finally, I get to do all I can to prepare you mentally for your greatest adventure yet..."The Amazing Race."

We've got three important weeks ahead as we continue to live out the extraordinary life we've all been discovering! I look forward to seeing you all at noon or 6 pm next week! The journey continues...

Always encouraging you,
Letha

Team Challenge Standings as of 09/06/11

2011-09-07T11:37:00.001-07:00

14.4 Wild Zumba Lumpas

13.7 The Branches

13.6 Beauty & The Beast

12.9 Trim The Fat

11.6 Flaca

11.0 No D’oh

10.9 Hips Hips Aweigh

10.8 Broadway Babes

10.3 Reduce The Caboose

10.2 The Sunsationals

9.4 Downsizing Divas

9.3 Sister Chicks

9.1 Moms On A Mission

8.8 Weight No More

8.8 Slimming Siblings

8.2 Pier Pressure

8.1 Perky, Peppy, Prima Donna’s

8.0 Butt-er-fly B Free

7.8 Teacher Teacher!

7.5 “She Aint Heavy, She’s My Sister!”

7.0 Unbroken

6.7 Forever Better

6.7 Blast From The Past

6.5 Starlite

6.5 Git R Done

6.5 Dynamic Duo

6.5 Driver’s License Redemption

6.3 Extraordinary Thighs

6.1 Made For More

6.0 Booty-B-Gone

5.6 Double Trouble

5.6 Bums Away

5.4 Ready To Launch

5.3 Hats On Pounds Off

5.2 Weigh To Go

4.6 Weapons of Mass Reduction

4.6 Weapons of mASS Destruction

4.6 Hot Squad

4.3 Les Chiennes Minces

4.2 Warriors A Go Go

4.2 Trash Divas

4.0 Incredible Shrinking Divas

3.4 A Team

3.2 Walk Away From The Cupcake

3.0 Guns & Roses

2.3 Not So Ordinary

1.7 Blast Off

1.4 Thinner Winner’s

1.0 The Incredible Bulks

-.1 Weight Strippers

-.1 Sharing The Adventure

The Words You Speak Can Change Your Life!

2011-09-07T08:36:00.000-07:00

Words carry enormous power. The power to heal and the power to hurt. The power to help or the power to destroy. Our words either spoken out loud or spoken internally have the ability to influence our behavior more than anything else we do!

Week # 9 of this Team Challenge was the perfect time to talk about words. As we head into our final week of this EXTRAORDINARY LIFE Team Challenge we need all the help we can get to finish strong. Our words will help us do that! The words that we choose to speak might be just the thing we need to change as we continue to re-write our stories.

Things are heating up as we head into our last week. The top teams are running close! Who will be the winner of the EXTRAORDINARY LIFE Team Challenge?

At Noon Betty and Katlyn did a little happy dance when they weighed in! They are doing a great job together as mom and daughter! They took the win with a 1.93% of weight loss for the week! Team 'Wild Zumba Lumpas' are working hard and it shows! Congratulations on the win and on receiving Glenda's "Back Pack" conference as a gift! It will be life changing!

Annie and Jenn did it again at Six! 'The Branches' won for the evening group with a 1.50% of weight loss. Congratulations you two. With all the things going on in your lives, you've impressed us with your continued commitment to taking care of yourselves!

We shared a little Sansgria for CHOW TIME, and celebrated another great week of weight loss. We've only got 82 pounds to go to break the all time Team Challenge record! I think we've got this thing!!!

It's hard to put into words what happens each week at The Team Challenge. This week I told a story that inspired all of us to think about change. As we focused on the power of words, re-parenting is sometimes necessary to begin to believe that life can really look different! I told a story about a young man named "George." He is our inspiration for the week as we had an anonymous donor come forth with tuition for the Fall Team Challenge to the client with the greatest % of weight loss this last week! Who's going to take it???? We're calling this one the "George Special."

It's exciting to be planning the finale for this EXTRAORDINARY LIFE Team Challenge. Tuesday at 6PM marks our 9th Finale! They just keep getting better! Come, invite a guest and plan to celebrate all that you've done in the last 10 weeks!

YOUR CHALLENGE FOR THE WEEK:
Give away your postcard! We are now enrolling new clients for The Amazing Race Fall Team Challenge! It's going to be a blast!

Until next week, think about George...walk out your front door...live a life that only happens in the movies! :-) I believe!!!

Always encouraging you,
Letha

Team Challenge Standings as of 08/30/11

2011-08-31T11:09:00.001-07:00

13.2 Beauty & The Beast

12.7 Wild Zumba Lumpas

12.4 The Branches

11.8 Trim The Fat

10.8 Flaca

10.4 Broadway Babes

9.9 The Sunsationals

9.9 No D’oh

9.8 Hips Hips Aweigh

9.0 Reduce The Caboose

8.9 Moms On A Mission

8.5 Downsizing Divas

8.3 Slimming Siblings

8.3 Sister Chicks

7.6 Teacher Teacher!

7.5 Weight No More

7.5 Pier Pressure

7.5 Butt-er-fly B Free

7.5 “She Aint Heavy, She’s My Sister!”

7.3 Blast From The Past

7.1 Perky, Peppy, Prima Donna’s

6.9 Starlite

6.8 Extraordinary Thighs

6.7 Dynamic Duo

6.5 Git R Done

6.5 Driver’s License Redemption

6.3 Unbroken

6.2 Made For More

6.0 Ready To Launch

5.6 Hats On Pounds Off

5.5 Forever Better

5.5 Booty-B-Gone

5.4 Double Trouble

5.1 Weigh To Go

4.8 Weapons of mASS Destruction

4.8 Hot Squad

4.5 Incredible Shrinking Divas

4.4 Bums Away

4.2 Warriors A Go Go

4.2 Trash Divas

4.1 Les Chiennes Minces

3.6 Weapons of Mass Reduction

3.4 A Team

3.2 Walk Away From The Cupcake

3.0 Guns & Roses

2.3 Not So Ordinary

1.7 Blast Off

1.4 Thinner Winner’s

1.1 Weight Strippers

1.0 The Incredible Bulks

-.1 Sharing The Adventure

Road Blocks, Clues, Detours and Pit Stops!

2011-08-31T08:06:00.000-07:00

Extraordinary people stay focused when they come up to a road block,take clues from their environment,they don't let detours determine their outcome and they make really quick pit stops!

Tuesday's Team Challenge was another one of those days to remember. We celebrated GREAT weight loss, saw people reach their goal weight, gave a standing ovation to yet another one of our friends reaching his 100 lb mark(GREAT JOB KRIS!)and were introduced to the theme of the Fall Team Challenge!

While I was talking about road blocks, clues, detours and pit stops, we were interrupted by a team from the "Amazing Race" looking for their final destination!What a time we had letting them know that "they were the first team to arrive!" It was also our opportunity to introduce our Fall theme, The Amazing Race! We are going to have a crazy adventure Oct. 11th through Dec. 13th! Can't wait!

In the mean time, we are focused on the last two weeks of this Extraordinary Life Team Challenge. At noon and Six we had two teams win for the day who have never been number one for the week! Team 'Starlight' at noon with a 2.14 % of weight loss took the win and had one of their members reach her goal weight today. Congratulations Grethe and Fay! And Fay and extra shout out for reaching your goal today! At Six, 'Hips Hip A Weigh' won for the evening with a 2.01% of weight loss! Jackie and Connie were surprised and excited! Good job you two!

We had a good number of people in our 2.5 pound drawing to win the car detailing by Andrew and apprentice Mark! Heather and Connie and going to have shiny, clean cars! Andrew, thank you for this donation and your support. This prize really inspired people this week to get in that drawing!

We announced our three week "Training Schedule" in between our Team Challenges. We won't be letting up with the support and encouragement for all the clients who are going from one Team Challenge to the next. From cooking classes to conflict resolution, we are ALWAYS looking for ways to inspire and educate our clients!

We've got some great work to do in the next two weeks! Stay focused, dream big and have a fantastic week!

YOUR CHALLENGE FOR THE WEEK: Show up next Tuesday! :-)
Always encouraging you.
Letha

Team Challenge Standings as of 08/23/11

2011-08-23T21:02:00.000-07:00

11.8 Beauty & The Beast

11.6 Wild Zumba Lumpas

10.7 Trim The Fat

10.6 The Branches

9.6 Flaca

9.2 Broadway Babes

9.0 No D’oh

8.2 The Sunsationals

8.2 Reduce The Caboose

7.9 Slimming Siblings

7.9 Hips Hips Aweigh

7.7 Downsizing Divas

7.5 Pier Pressure

7.5 “She Aint Heavy, She’s My Sister!”

7.1 Sister Chicks

7.1 Moms On A Mission

7.1 Made For More

6.9 Weight No More

6.8 Teacher Teacher!

6.8 Butt-er-fly B Free

6.7 Perky, Peppy, Prima Donna’s

6.5 Git R Done

6.2 Driver’s License Redemption

5.9 Extraordinary Thighs

5.7 Unbroken

5.6 Blast From The Past

5.5 Forever Better

5.4 Hats On Pounds Off

5.4 Booty-B-Gone

5.3 Dynamic Duo

4.9 Weigh To Go

4.8 Starlite

4.8 Ready To Launch

4.7 Hot Squad

4.7 Bums Away

4.5 Incredible Shrinking Divas

4.2 Weapons of mASS Destruction

4.2 Double Trouble

3.9 Weapons of Mass Reduction

3.7 Trash Divas

3.1 Warriors A Go Go

3.1 Les Chiennes Minces

3.1 A Team

3.0 Guns & Roses

2.8 Walk Away From The Cupcake

2.3 Thinner Winner’s

2.3 Not So Ordinary

1.7 Blast Off

1.0 Sharing The Adventure

.8 The Incredible Bulks

.6 Weight Strippers

They Just Kept At It!

2011-08-23T20:43:00.000-07:00

We celebrate the lives of ordinary people today who did extraordinary things. People who over came obstacles, failed at what they were trying to accomplish and didn't have the support that people need to do great things...but they just kept at it! People like Lucille Ball who was told she'd never be an actress and Michael Jordan who was cut from his high school basketball team.

We talked about ordinary people who kept at it...who created extraordinary lives. Extraordinary lives cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. A person living their very best story, living an extraordinary life is not one who never failed but one who NEVER QUITS...they just keep at it!

We lost 130.2 pounds today! Our noon time group really rocked it this week with 61.6 pounds! Congratulations to you at noon that really had some amazing losses this week! Team 'Teacher Teacher' won the prize for the day with a 2.28 % of weight loss. Marianne and Marna, congratulations on a great week! You're not going to be recognized when you go back to school next week. We'll miss you at noon! Thank you to Ryan of 'Beauty and the Beast' for the Bed, Bath and Beyond gift cards! Marna and Marianne are going to have fun with those!

At 6, team 'No D'ohs' won for the night with a 2.16% of weight loss. Jim and Shelle, you two had a great week! Congratulations! A big thanks to Bob from team 'Forever Better' for the $200 in product from City Bark! What a great prize!

As we focused on perseverance this week, I announced that next week we will be unveiling the details of the Fall Team Challenge! You won't want to miss the exciting news about our next Team Challenge. Making the decision to continue on is what reaching goals is all about. It's what ordinary people do who live extraordinary lives...they just keep at it!

We still have three weeks left in THIS Team Challenge, so I threw out a challenge to kick it up a notch!

Your 1st challenge for the week:
Lose 2.5 pounds and be entered into a drawing to have your car detailed by Andrew and apprentice, Mark!

Your 2nd challenge for the week:
Listen to week #6 of the CD series Body~Soul~Spirit, the spiritual perspective, and do the homework provided.

"JUST KEEP AT IT"...that is the battle cry of extraordinary people! It's going to be another great week...I can feel it!

Have a terrific week re-writing your stories! Keep at it!

Always encouraging you,
Letha

Team Challenge Standings as of 08/16/11

2011-08-17T10:34:00.000-07:00

10.6 Beauty & The Beast

9.8 The Branches

9.6 Wild Zumba Lumpas

9.3 Trim The Fat

9.0 Flaca

8.3 The Sunsationals

8.1 Moms On A Mission

8.1 “She Aint Heavy, She’s My Sister!”

7.9 Broadway Babes

7.7 Downsizing Divas

7.1 Sister Chicks

7.0 No D’oh

6.8 Reduce The Caboose

6.8 Hips Hips Aweigh

6.8 Butt-er-fly B Free

6.6 Slimming Siblings

6.3 Blast From The Past

6.2 Pier Pressure

6.1 Perky, Peppy, Prima Donna’s

6.1 Made For More

6.0 Weight No More

5.5 Git R Done

5.5 Dynamic Duo

5.4 Driver’s License Redemption

5.0 Double Trouble

4.9 Forever Better

4.9 Extraordinary Thighs

4.8 Ready To Launch (We’re Movin’ Up People!)

4.7 Teacher Teacher!

4.7 Starlite

4.6 Hats On Pounds Off

4.3 Booty-B-Gone

4.1 Weapons of mASS Destruction

4.0 Hot Squad

3.9 Bums Away

3.8 Weigh To Go

3.8 Unbroken

3.8 Incredible Shrinking Divas

3.5 Weapons of Mass Reduction

3.3 Trash Divas

3.1 Les Chiennes Minces

3.0 Guns & Roses

2.3 Warriors A Go Go

2.3 Walk Away From The Cupcake

2.3 Thinner Winner’s

2.1 Not So Ordinary

2.0 A Team

1.9 Blast Off

1.1 Weight Strippers

1.0 Sharing The Adventure

.1 The Incredible Bulks

Changing Your Beliefs...it's what's happening

2011-08-17T07:46:00.000-07:00

It's happening at The Healthy Weigh and it's exciting to watch! Your beliefs ALWAYS dictate your actions, so the key to any permanent change is all about your belief system. We were fortunate to have Glenda take her time to teach us more about this critical subject.

Both our noon time group and our 6 PM group had second time winners this week. At noon team 'sunsationals' took the win and the prizes for the week with a 1.48% of weight loss. Heather and Robyn are making great progress during this 10 week challenge! At 6, 'The Branches' won for the day with a 1.86% of weight loss. Congratulations to Annie and Jenn, their life time friendship is working for them as they partner in this important journey!

As much as I love to see great weight losses from our clients each week during these powerful 10 week Team Challenges, I'm more encouraged by the changes I see in the thought life of our clients. My purpose as I move through each week challenge is to provide motivation, inspiration and education so that goals will be met and lives will be changed. The information we heard yesterday was one of the most important lessons we'll hear durning our time together. I hope that you really spend time on the challenges put before you this week to get the most of of what was taught.

YOUR CHALLENGES FOR THE WEEK:
1. Choose at least two; Identify what you believe about conflict, self-care, your worthiness/deserving great things in life,or exercise and examine your actions that flow from those beliefs. Are they getting you what you want out of life or do you need to consider changing those beliefs to live a EXTRAORDINARY life?

2. Listen to CD Week # 5“Exercise and Weight Loss ~ It’s a math problem.” Come in next week with your maintenance calories calculated!

Make this week a week to remember, won't you? One of the ways to change your beliefs is to start "acting as if." Have an outstanding week acting as if you have extraordinary courage and purpose! I look forward to the weigh in next week!

Always encouraging you,
Letha

Talking about PAWS at The Healthy Weigh?

2011-08-10T09:58:00.000-07:00

Our focus for the week was PAWS. Not because we have so many animal lovers participating in The Team Challenge, but because we are a community of people serious about permanent change. PAWS...Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome.

After reading an article last week about PAWS, I was inspired to share this very important message. There are two basic stages of withdrawal that people go through when they are working to change a destructive behavior. Acute, which usually last a few weeks, and Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome which can last up to two years. With PAWS you have fewer physical symptoms, but more emotional and psychological ones. PAWS occurs because our brain chemistry is gradually returning to normal or changing. Weight loss happens a lot faster than our brain can change!

One of the keys to navigating through PAWS successfully is to be intentional about self care and rewards. Everything we do, we do out of our need to avoid pain or seek pleasure. The reward system is a CRUCIAL part of changing the way we think permanently to change the way we act in regards to food. We must link pleasure to this new life style, this new way of eating so that we make new pathways in our brain! It is completely necessary to transfer what you believe pleasure was to a new belief system for you to keep your weight off for life!

It's all about rewards...so we practiced what we preach and rewarded some fine people Tuesday! At noon team 'Dynamic Duo' were excited to take home the dry erase boards and the great lunch bags as well! Ed and Beverly had a great week with a 1.87% of weight loss for the week! Congratulations! Glenda was back so we got to experience her GELT! (Glenda's Extraordinary Living Tips!)Two of our team mates get to do a little shopping at Macy's, because rewards and self-care are what it's about this week!!

At Six, team 'Flaca' was thrilled when they came back from a rough week and took the win for the day with a 2.37% of weight loss! Jill and Jana, you are doing it! Congratulations for staying strong and showing us what you're made of this week! With the evening's weight loss, we lost a total of 172 pounds for the day! It was a great day at The Healthy Weigh!

YOUR CHALLENGES FOR THE WEEK:
1. REWARD YOURSELF! and make a list of planned rewards for weight loss and accomplishments!
2. Listen to week #4 of the CD series. 'Coping Skills~Feeling Your way Through Life' and do the homework provided.

It was another important week at our EXTRAORDINARY LIFE Team Challenge! We have a group of people reaching out to change their lives. It's an exciting place to be on Tuesdays!

Have a great week taking the BEST care of yourself and doing GOOD things for you.
Until next week my friends.

Always encouraging you,
Letha

Team Challenge Standings as of 08/09/11

2011-08-09T23:27:00.000-07:00

9.2 Beauty & The Beast

9.1 Wild Zumba Lumpas

8.1 Trim The Fat

8.1 The Branches

7.6 Flaca

6.9 The Sunsationals

6.9 Broadway Babes

6.6 “She Aint Heavy, She’s My Sister!”

6.5 Moms On A Mission

6.5 Blast From The Past

6.2 Slimming Siblings

6.2 Pier Pressure

6.2 Downsizing Divas

6.1 Made For More

6.0 Teacher Teacher!

6.0 Reduce The Caboose

6.0 Hips Hips Aweigh

5.8 Perky, Peppy, Prima Donna’s

5.7 No D’oh

5.6 Sister Chicks

5.4 Weight No More

5.4 Butt-er-fly B Free

5.3 Dynamic Duo

5.1 Git R Done

4.7 Incredible Shrinking Divas

4.6 Unbroken

4.1 Hot Squad

4.1 Booty-B-Gone

4.0 Forever Better

3.8 Weigh To Go

3.8 Hats On Pounds Off

3.7 Weapons of mASS Destruction

3.6 Driver’s License Redemption

3.5 Extraordinary Thighs

3.4 Trash Divas

3.4 Ready To Launch

3.4 Double Trouble

3.1 Les Chiennes Minces

3.1 Bums Away

2.7 Starlite

2.6 Thinner Winner’s

2.5 Weapons of Mass Reduction

2.5 Not So Ordinary

2.5 Guns & Roses

2.3 Warriors A Go Go

2.1 Blast Off

2.0 A Team

1.8 Mootu Chotu

1.6 Walk Away From The Cupcake

1.1 Weight Strippers

1.1 The Incredible Bulks

.4 Sharing The Adventure

Team Challenge Standings as of 08/02/11

2011-08-04T10:31:00.000-07:00

8.5 Beauty & The Beast

7.5 Wild Zumba Lumpas

7.3 The Branches

7.2 Trim The Fat

6.3 Broadway Babes

5.9 Pier Pressure

5.9 “She Aint Heavy, She’s My Sister!”

5.6 Butt-er-fly B Free

5.5 Made For More

5.4 Flaca

5.3 The Sunsationals

5.2 No D’oh

5.0 Teacher Teacher!

5.0 Reduce The Caboose

5.0 Downsizing Divas

4.8 Sister Chicks

4.7 Moms On A Mission

4.6 Perky, Peppy, Prima Donna’s

4.4 Slimming Siblings

4.3 Weight No More

4.2 Incredible Shrinking Divas

4.1 Hips Hips Aweigh

4.0 Forever Better

3.9 Hats On Pounds Off

3.8 Weapons of mASS Destruction

3.8 Unbroken

3.8 Booty-B-Gone

3.4 Dynamic Duo

3.3 Extraordinary Thighs

3.2 Hot Squad

3.0 Git R Done

2.9 Driver’s License Redemption

2.8 Weigh To Go

2.8 Trash Divas

2.6 Thinner Winner’s

2.5 Bums Away

2.2Weapons of Mass Reduction

2.2 Not So Ordinary

2.1 Warriors A Go Go

2.1 Starlite

2.0 Ready To Launch

1.9 Blast Off

1.9 A Team

1.8 The Incredible Bulks

1.8 Mootu Chotu

1.8 Guns & Roses

1.6 Les Chiennes Minces

1.6 Double Trouble

1.0 Walk Away From The Cupcake

.8 Weight Strippers

.4 Sharing The Adventure

EXTRAORDINARY FOODS!

2011-08-03T08:00:00.000-07:00

We had a little nutrition class Tuesday at The Healthy Weigh. This is a class I repeat every so often to continue to educate and motivate my clients about what is good for them. We are being overwhelmed with information about the "miracle foods of the 21st century." The key, as we look as these healthy food choices, is to be informed about calories, fat and healthy portions when we reach maintenance and add these foods back into our diets. I see clients every week who are consuming these "miracle foods" and not seeing the weight loss they'd like to see. It was an informative and fun class...that's the way we do things at The Healthy Weigh!

At Noon we had our first repeat team take the win! Team 'Wild Zumba Lumpas' won for the second time with a 1.50% of weight loss for the week! Congratulations to Betty and Katlyn, who, by the way, was out of town this week AND celebrated her birthday! Great job Katlyn! They celebrated with some great gifts and took the dry erase boards home for one more creative addition!

At Six 'The Branches' won for the first time with a 2.2% weight loss for the week! Congratulations to Annie and Jennifer for an outstanding week! A special congratulations to Annie...tonight she celebrated her 100 pound weight loss mark! What a great accomplishment!

A special presentation was made to Kris from team 'weapons of mASS destruction' as he gets closer to his 100 pound mark. Mary F. gifted him with a pair of suspenders...just in case! I love the fun and camaraderie at the Team Challenge!

We had fun this week meeting a couple new teams, celebrating more weight loss and looking ahead to the great opportunity to lose huge amounts of weight in the next 6 weeks! I offered up two challenges this week...

YOUR CHALLENGES FOR THE WEEK:
Listen to week # 3 on the CD series, "What's in Your Back Pack, Controlling What You Can" and do the homework in personal control guide #3.
For an added challenge...if you choose to accept it...Post something on Face Book this week! We want to hear from all 86 of you who are in our private group...and from some who aren't! This should be a fun week!

Six weeks to go...Lots of weight to lose, life to live, and changes to make! Keep choosing an extraordinary life! Make choices daily to listen to the writer of your very best story!

Always encouraging you.
Letha

Listen to Your Writer

2011-07-27T07:35:00.000-07:00

Week three of the Summer Team Challenge was another successful week! Our teams lost a total of 192.4 pounds for the week! We will surely break the record of the greatest % lost for any Team Challenge with success like this!

As we continue to look at re-writing our stories, at living a better story, I challenged our teams this week to listen to the writer. The writer being the author outside of ourselves who is moving us towards a better story. The one that knows right from wrong and nudges us to live our best life. It's the voice that says “hold your tongue," "don’t talk about other people that way," "forgive the friends you haven’t talked to.” ”I want you to look at the sunset.” ”Think about how short life is and how your troubles aren’t worth worrying about.” It’s the voice that says, “Take care of yourself.” “ Say no thank you”, ”go for a walk with a friend,” ”don’t allow food to win.” “ Don’t make food your idol.”

What if we were the character and we did what the writer wanted us to do...moment by moment, day by day. As uncomfortable as that might feel as we begin, we would start living a better story. When you are a better character, your story gets better too.

We are witnessing people living great stories every week at the Team Challenge! Between our segment, "Meet The Teams" and our great weight loss each week, we can't help but be inspired Tuesday after Tuesday!

At Noon this week 'The Sunsationals' won the honors with a 2.20% of weight loss. Heather and Robyn had a great week and were excited to receive Nancy's popular cooking class as their prize for the week! Congratulations to you two, your arranged partnership seems to be working out pretty well! :-)

At Six, the 'Downsizing Divas' were surprised when their name was announced as the winners for the week. Kimberly and Diana had a 1.82 % of weight loss for the week to take the win! They too, will enjoy the cooking class that Nancy so generously donated! Congratulations Kimberly and Diana, have fun with those dry erase boards too!

Thank you to Nancy for sponsoring our Challenge this week. We also received great prizes for our drawings from our teams mates! The generosity of the community of people in this challenge, make such a difference!

We are continuing our work on the inside as the weight loss happens on the outside, this week we will all be listening to and reflecting on week # 2 of the CD series, "Change Your Thinking~ Change Your life." A powerful lesson about our thought life.

YOUR CHALLENGE FOR THE WEEK:
Listen to week #2 (on CD one) Change Your Thinking~ Change Your Life, and do the homework provided in Personal Control Guide # 2.

I'm hoping to hear from you this week on Face Book and by email about 'listening to your writer.' It can be a powerful motivation as we strive to live a better story.
Until next week...

Always encouraging you,
Letha

Team Challenge Standings as of 07/26/11

2011-07-26T22:08:00.000-07:00

7.6 Beauty & The Beast

6.1 Wild Zumba Lumpas

5.2 Trim The Fat

5.2 The Branches

5.2 Broadway Babes

5.1 Pier Pressure

5.1 Made For More

4.9 Flaca

4.8 The Sunsationals

4.7 No D’oh

4.7 “She Aint Heavy, She’s My Sister!”

4.5 Teacher Teacher!

4.5 Butt-er-fly B Free

4.3 Sister Chicks

4.1 Downsizing Divas

4.0 Moms On A Mission

4.0 Dynamic Duo

3.9 Weapons of mASS Destruction

3.8 Slimming Siblings

3.8 Reduce The Caboose

3.5 Incredible Shrinking Divas

3.4 Dan/Christina

3.3 Perky, Peppy, Prima Donna’s

3.2 Unbroken

3.2 Hats On Pounds Off

3.1 Hips Hips Aweigh

3.0 Git R Done

2.8 Booty-B-Gone

2.7 Weigh To Go

2.7 Weapons of Mass Reduction

2.6 Driver’s License Redemption

2.5 Forever Better

2.4 Extraordinary Thighs

2.3 Blast Off

2.1 Weight No More

2.1 Trash Divas

2.1 Bums Away

1.9 Weight Strippers

1.9 The Tall and The Short of It

1.9 Hot Squad

1.8 Not So Ordinary

1.8 Mootu Chotu

1.8 A Team

1.6 Thinner Winner’s

1.6 Double Trouble

1.5 Warriors A Go Go

1.5 Guns & Roses

1.2 Starlite

1.0 Les Chiennes Minces

.8 The Incredible Bulks

.6 Sharing The Adventure

.5 Walk Away From The Cupcake

.4 Ready To Launch

Are You Living a Good Story?

2011-07-20T08:12:00.000-07:00

If Tuesday's Team Challenge gathering was written as a story, it would have been worth reading...over and over again! What a day! As we embark on our 10 week EXTRAORDINARY LIFE Team Challenge, we truly lived up to the theme this week! 524 pounds were lost by our 52 teams and that's living a good story!

At Noon team 'Wild Zumba Lumpas' took the prize the very first week with a 4.46% of weight loss. The "immunity idol" for this Team Challenge was revealed and taken home by Katlyn and Betty! Dry erase boards are going to be used as our teams re-write their lives this next 10 weeks. Erasing the old life and using permanent marker for the new life...that's the plan! Congratulations to our Mother/Daughter team! Betty and Katlyn, you danced your way into a win this week!

At Six, team 'Beauty and the Beast' celebrated big time with a 6.05 % of weight loss for the week! The beast, Jenn, surely did her part this week, however, her team mate, beauty, Ryan, re-wrote the story completely with a 20 pound loss for the week! Congratulations you two, you inspired us all this week! Can't wait to see your dry erase boards come to life!

Our Sponsors for the week, Glenda Bigalky, counselor and Barry Brandenburg, attorney at law, donated $100 to each of the winning teams. Glenda and Barry are GREAT supporters of the Team Challenge and of people choosing to change their place in life! Thank you for your great support of our teams! Your generosity makes a difference!

Bob S. of team 'Forever Better' won a special prize last night. A $100 gift certificate to "If the Shoes Fits" for being our winner of the Road Trip Post Script competition! Congratulations to Bob. He's going to get him self a pair of EXTRAORDINARY hiking shoes to take his new body on beautiful trails!

We added a new segment to our weekly gathering..."Meet The Teams." Each week we will "meet" a few teams by a slide show presentation! It was fun to get to know our fellow sojourners a little bit better. We are surrounded by very cool people!

Our focus for the week was an important one. The question I put out to all of our team mates was "What kind of story did you live this week?" As I thought about great stories, great movies, the ones you want to watch over and over again, they all have one thing in common. They have a character who wants something REALLY bad and over comes conflict and obstacles to get it. If the point of as extraordinary life, is the same as the point of an extraordinary story, then the point of an extraordinary life is character transformation...the greater the struggle, the more glorious the triumph!

When you read a great book, or go to a great movie if the character in the story doesn't change, the story hasn't happened yet. I reminded the groups, in every story a character is what he does. Not what he thinks about, or talks about...but what he does!

As we begin this important journey of re-writing our lives and living EXTRAORDINARY LIVES, I introduced and passed out my CD series this week to begin the 6 week review of what I believe helps us discover the issues behind our choices. I believe the work that will be done in the lives of these Team Challenge participants in the next 6 weeks will be LIFE CHANGING! Which brings us to our challenge of the week.

YOUR CHALLENGE FOR THE WEEK:
Listen to Lesson # 1 on the first CD and do the homework in the personal control guide # 1.

If living a great story means character transformation, then we are about to collectivity live an outstanding 10 weeks! I couldn't be more excited!!!

Until next week, keep living a good story!

Always encouaraging you,
Letha

Team Challenge Standings as of 07/19/11

2011-07-19T21:09:00.001-07:00

6.1 Beauty & The Beast

4.5 Wild Zumba Lumpas

4.5 The Branches

4.0 “She Aint Heavy, She’s My Sister!”

3.9 Broadway Babes

3.8 Trim The Fat

3.6 Sister Chicks

3.6 Made For More

3.4 Pier Pressure

3.4 No D’ohs

3.3 Moms On A Mission

3.3 Flaca

3.1 Hips Hips Aweigh

3.0 Butt-er-fly B Free

2.9 Teacher Teacher!

2.8 Slimming Siblings

2.8 Perky, Peppy, Prima Donna’s

2.7 The Sunsationals

2.7 Reduce The Caboose

2.7 Incredible Shrinking Divas

2.5 Weapons of Mass Reduction

2.5 Thinner Winner’s

2.5 Dan/Christina

2.4 Hats On Pounds Off

2.4 Downsizing Divas

2.3 Weapons of mASS Destruction

2.3 Unbroken

2.1 Dynamic Duo

2.1 Booty-B-Gone

2.0 Weigh To Go

2.0 Forever Better

1.9 Blast Off

1.9 A Team

1.8 Weight No More

1.7 Git R Done

1.6 Trash Divas

1.6 Double Trouble

1.5 Les Chiennes Minces

1.5 Hot Squad

1.5 Guns & Roses

1.4 Weight Strippers

1.4 Not So Ordinary

1.4 Bums Away

1.3 Mootu Chotu

1.2 Darla/Judy

1.0 Walk Away From The Cupcake

1.0 Extraordinary Thighs

0.0 Warriors A Go Go

0.0 Starlite

.8 Sharing The Adventure

.8 Driver’s License Redemption

-.1 Leeper

EXTRAORDINARY LIFE...the life you were meant to live

2011-07-13T08:08:00.000-07:00

July 12, 2011 was the day that many people made a decision to re-write the story of the ending of their lives! It's not how you start, but how you finish that makes the difference! This Summer Team Challenge is all about living an EXTRAORDINARY LIFE and finishing well!

At Noon and Six we began the 10 week challenge with music, before pictures and team names! Once again I was amused and inspired with the wit and creativity of our teams. With over 50 teams participating in this summer Team Challenge, we're set and ready to go for what I believe will be our most powerful challenge yet!

After introducing our teams and weighing them in I showed a powerful slide show of some of our former and current team mates who have gone from just surviving or living ordinary lives, to living EXTRAORDINARY lives! As we looked at before and after pictures of our friends, we were all inspired to re-write our stories just like they have!

I challenged our new participants to fully engage from the start! This next 10 weeks can be some of the most life changing weeks they've lived! I believe that! I challenged our returning participants to get even more out of the next 10 weeks than they did the first! I encouraged them to lead the way and support the "newbies" in every way possible!

We will have challenges every week to keep us focused and to renew our thinking.

YOUR CHALLENGE FOR THE WEEK:
Write down one thing that you would be doing if you were living at your goal weight...that would be EXTRAORDINARY!
Bring that in to The Healthy Weigh next week to be entered into a drawing!

Search me out on FACE BOOK if you are not a part of our Summer Team Challenge closed group yet. You'll find that the inspiration, education and motivation of the group will make a extraordinary difference in your 10 week challenge!

As we begin our first week of this EXTRAORDINARY LIFE Team Challenge, I am filled with great anticipation for all that is to come. I hope you are too!

Always encouraging you,
Letha

Record Breaking Team Challenge!

2011-06-15T08:28:00.001-07:00

What a Road Trip this has been! We set out on the road 10 weeks ago with high expectations and dreams about what we'd see and experience in our travels! This Road Trip did not disappoint!

We celebrated life last night as we closed out our best ever 10 week challenge! Goals were made and records were broken as we came to the end of this exciting and challenging ten week weight loss program!

Our Grand Finale started out with some patriotism as we stood for the National Anthem representing the USA team and then honored our 'Northern Lites' team with the playing of Oh Canada. We were shocked and surprised when two members of the 'Northern Lites' team ran in during that song waving their countries flag! Harold and Elaine had driven from Manitoba, 1500 miles, to be with us for the end of this road trip! What Fun!

With only 65 pounds left to lose to break the all time record of any Team Challenge, we got busy weighing in our teams! We saw some numbers this week that rocked our worlds!
We had friends meet their goal weights, weight loss %'s for the week we'd never seen before, and we celebrate yet another 100 pound loss! Congratulations to Mark Cole! You've been an inspiration to us and we celebrate you and this great accomplishment!

Before we announced our top three teams for this Challenge, we gave out some awards! Some fun, and some serious, but all important! This group of people were easy to celebrate!

Some amazing record breaking went on during this road trip...

Most pounds lost by a male in ANY Team Challenge: Kristopher Laurence 60.9 pounds!
Greatest % of weight loss by a male at ANY Team Challenge: Ken Manning 21.8%
Most pounds lost by a female in ANY Team Challenge: Annie Banceu 55.1 pounds!

Other notable accomplishments:
Greatest % of weight loss by a female for THIS Team Challenge Rianne Hess 19.76%

And now...our winners!!!

In Third place, winners of $300, Team 'JaMa Slim' with a weight loss % of 17.23! Congratulations Jim and Margie! You did it!

In Second place, winners of $500, Team 'Road Hogs' with a weight loss % of 18.45! Ken and Jen, you two look amazing! Congratulations and thanks for leading the way the whole Team Challenge!

In First place, winners of $1000, Team 'Pretty Little Losers' with a weight loss % of 18.90! Annie and Rianne, we are so proud of you! You fought hard for 10 weeks! You are our first sister team to win a Team Challenge! Way to go!

Our competition ended with our friends from the North with a win from the USA! It was wonderful having you all on this trip with us! You inspired us and pushed us to our best ever weight loss!

It's never easy to close out a Team Challenge, but this one seems a bit harder. This group of people have shown me what community really looks like. We took a group of really fantastic individuals with a common goal and put them together for ten weeks. What we ended up with was support like I've never seen. It seemed to touch every area of life. Physical, emotional, financial, you name it and this group did it! It was a pleasure to be a part of something so great!

Glenda and I are looking ahead to an amazing three week 'post script' and then a powerful Summer Team Challenge! I hope you are all planning to be a part of the best summer ever at The Healthy Weigh.

I drove home last night with a thankful heart. The sun was setting and it was nearly as beautiful as the thoughts I was having about you. I'm honored to walk with you and be a part of this great community of people. I'm up for another trip...who's with me?

Always encouraging you,
Letha

Final Spring 2011 Team Challenge Standings (06/14/11)

2011-06-15T08:11:00.000-07:00

18.9 Pretty Little Losers

18.5 Road Hogs

17.2 Ja Ma Slim

16.8 Family Thighs

14.1 Driver’s License Redemption

13.9 The Weigh We Were

13.5 It’s a Lose/Win Situation

12.3 Weighed To Be Wild

12.0 The J Team

11.7 Lose The Fattitude

11.5 Team Twins

11.4 Ample Assets

10.3 Going For Goal!

9.8 Gut Busters

9.5 Double Trouble

8.5 Round Two

8.4 Freedom Bound

8.3 Hefty To Healthy Hamsta’s

8.1 36/26/36

8.0 Packing Light-er

7.9 Blast Off

7.9 Big Bottom Berthas to Bikini Bottom Betties

7.8 The Muffin Stuffers

7.8 Butt Buster

7.8 “Are We There Yet?”

7.6 Thorkelthins

7.5 Vanishing Buns

7.4 Waist Management

7.1 Hip-Less Chicks

6.9 Tussle and Bustle

6.4 Slightly Waisted Again

6.3 Bumm’s Away

6.1 Lightin-Up

5.6 Once & For All

5.4 Thintastic

4.9 Brother’s Slim

4.8 Move On Down The Road

4.8 All In

4.7 Grin & Lose It

4.7 Cruisin’ 4 A Losin’

4.5 We Auto Win

4.4 Team Caboob

4.2 Purple Pound Pulverizes

3.4 Heavy Equipment

3.2 We’ve Lost Our Weigh

3.2 Tank Tops & Flip Flops By Summer

2.9 The Costco Girls

2.9 Lose The Caboose

2.7 Team One-Eighty

2.7 Return of Forced Family Fun

2.5 Walk Away From The Cupcake

2.3 On The Road Again

2.2 Under Construction

2.2 Poppin’ Hot Skinny Poppers

2.1 Fit Happens

1.8 Braveheart

1.1 Goal Keepers

.9 Butt, Back, and Beyond

.4 American Pride!!

-.2 Slimsational

The Power of Words!

2011-06-08T08:29:00.000-07:00

Words carry enormous power! The power to heal or wound, the power to help or destroy, the power to encourage or dishearten. Our words either spoken internally or out loud, have the ability to influence our behavior more than anything else we do. For many of us, the circumstances of our past, dictate how we speak to our selves in the present. Speaking truth over your life will change your life...that's the message of Week #9 of this Team Challenge!

At Noon a consistent team took the win for the first time. Marianne and Frank from team 'Hefty to Healthy Hamstas' won with a 2.16 % of weight loss for the week. I can't wait to see how they decorate those gas cans! :-) Another husband and wife team doing beautifully on the program, congratulations you two!

Team "JaMa Slim" won for the second week in a row at 6:00! Margie and Jim are surprised every time they win! Margie said "We just follow the program!" You guys are looking great! I guess husband and wives owned the challenge this week! I love that!

We've got some exciting things happening as we close out this Spring Team Challenge! We've got only 65 pounds to lose this next week to break the all time record of any Team Challenge! We've got this one in the bag!!

We announced a heart felt competition for the last week of this challenge to inspire everyone participating! Mark Cole from our evening group, made a decision to pay it forward! Pay forward the inspiration, the life change, the support, that he has received in the last two team Challenges! He donated $300 for the top % weight loser for this last week so that they could continue on for the summer Team Challenge! I came along and matched that generous donation so that the top TWO losers this week will move on to the Summer Team Challenge with a full ride scholarship! We decided to dedicate this weeks weight loss to Mark! Mark, we thank you, your life change is making a difference in many lives this week!

We're looking forward to the Grand Finale next week at 6:00! We've got awards to give out, prizes to present and lots of celebrating to do! It would be a great time to invite a guest to hear and see what goes on at The Healthy Weigh!

YOUR CHALLENGE FOR THE WEEK:
Get someone to enroll in the Summer Team Challenge! Really, it's time to look around and extend this offer to the people in your life that need it!

We've got close competition and it will come down to the wire this week! I can't wait to see who our top three teams will be in this record breaking ROAD TRIP Team Challenge!

Make this an over the top, fabulous, record breaking, week. I believe in you, so spread your wings and fly, on the winds of knowing I believe in you!

ALWAYS encouraging you,
Letha

Team Challenge Standings as of 06/07/11

2011-06-07T22:35:00.000-07:00

15.9 Road Hogs

15.2 Family Thighs

14.7 Pretty Little Losers

13.6 Ja Ma Slim

12.4 The Weigh We Were

12.1 It’s a Lose/Win Situation

11.7 Driver’s License Redemption

11.6 Weighed To Be Wild

10.4 The J Team

10.4 Team Twins

10.2 Lose The Fattitude

9.9 Ample Assets

9.3 Going For Goal!

9.0 Double Trouble

8.8 Hefty To Healthy Hamsta’s

8.5 Gut Busters

8.3 Round Two

7.8 The Muffin Stuffers

7.7 36/26/36

7.6 Blast Off

7.4 Packing Light-er

7.4 “Are We There Yet?”

7.3 Big Bottom Berthas to Bikini Bottom Betties

7.1 Hip-Less Chicks

7.0 Vanishing Buns

7.0 Butt Buster

6.9 Tussle and Bustle

6.7 Freedom Bound

6.2 Waist Management

5.6 Once & For All

5.5 Lightin-Up

5.4 Slightly Waisted Again

5.3 Bumm’s Away

5.2 Cruisin’ 4 A Losin’

4.9 Brother’s Slim

4.8 Thorkelthins

4.7 Grin & Lose It

4.6 Tank Tops & Flip Flops By Summer

4.4 Move On Down The Road

4.2 Team Caboob

4.1 We Auto Win

3.8 Purple Pound Pulverizes

3.5 Heavy Equipment

3.4 All In

3.1 Lose The Caboose

3.0 Thintastic

2.9 We’ve Lost Our Weigh

2.9 The Costco Girls

2.7 Team One-Eighty

2.5 Walk Away From The Cupcake

2.3 On The Road Again

2.3 Fit Happens

2.2 Under Construction

1.9 Braveheart

1.5 Return of Forced Family Fun

1.4 Butt, Back, and Beyond

1.1 Poppin’ Hot Skinny Poppers

1.1 Goal Keepers

.4 American Pride!!

-.2 Slimsational

Team Challenge Standings as of 05/31/11

2011-06-01T11:16:00.001-07:00

14.7 Road Hogs

14.1 Family Thighs

13.8 Pretty Little Losers

11.6 Ja Ma Slim

10.9 It’s a Lose/Win Situation

10.7 Driver’s License Redemption

10.1 Weighed To Be Wild

9.8 The Weigh We Were

9.6 Ample Assets

9.2 Team Twins

8.9 The J Team

8.7 Lose The Fattitude

8.4 Going For Goal!

8.0 Gut Busters

7.8 The Muffin Stuffers

7.8 Slightly Waisted Again

7.7 Double Trouble

7.5 Round Two

7.4 Packing Light-er

7.4 Blast Off

7.3 Big Bottom Berthas to Bikini Bottom Betties

7.0 36/26/36

6.9 Tussle and Bustle

6.7 Hefty To Healthy Hamsta’s

6.4 Butt Buster

6.3 “Are We There Yet?”

6.2 Waist Management

6.1 Freedom Bound

5.9 Vanishing Buns

5.6 Once & For All

5.4 Hip-Less Chicks

4.9 Move On Down The Road

4.9 Brother’s Slim

4.8 Bumm’s Away

4.7 Lightin-Up

4.7 Grin & Lose It

4.5 Thorkelthins

4.4 Tank Tops & Flip Flops By Summer

4.2 We Auto Win

4.1 Team Caboob

3.8 Purple Pound Pulverizes

3.6 Cruisin’ 4 A Losin’

3.5 Heavy Equipment

3.4 Thintastic

3.3 All In

2.9 The Costco Girls

2.7 We’ve Lost Our Weigh

2.7 Team One-Eighty

2.7 Lose The Caboose

2.5 Walk Away From The Cupcake

2.3 On The Road Again

2.2 Under Construction

2.2 Fit Happens

2.0 Return of Forced Family Fun

1.6 Goal Keepers

1.6 Braveheart

1.5 Slimsational

.8 Butt, Back, and Beyond

.6 Poppin’ Hot Skinny Poppers

.4 American Pride!!

Luggage Sale!

2011-06-01T08:25:00.000-07:00

We've been on the road for 8 weeks. Tuesday was a good time to look back, remember what we've seen, and celebrate how much we've learned on the road! We're getting close to that time when we arrive home and unpack our luggage, but first we've got to finish this Road Trip STRONG!

The weight loss this week proved that Road Trippers can sometimes get weary. 71 pounds were lost for the week bringing our pounds left to lose to 184. When that is accomplished in the next two weeks, we will have beaten the record for the most weight loss % of any Team Challenge! The journey to change your life permanently is found on the road as long as you keep on moving! I trust that this group of Road Trippers are looking down the road and are not going to give up!

We've got some pretty intense competition happening at noon! The top three teams of this Team Challenge share the noon hour with us! This week team 'Road Hogs' did it again with a 1.98% of weight loss for the week! Ken and Jen, just keep moving down the road! We're so proud of this father and daughter team!

The competition was close at 6 with team 'JaMa Slim' taking the win for the week with a 1.46 %. Jim and Margie looked surprised this week when their name was announced! It's exciting to watch husbands and wives make these changes together!

Because we decided last week to be Outrageous...Crazy...and Weird...The prize for the week had to be outrageous too! These two team were awarded the Summer Team Challenge for their prize for winning this week! Congratulations to you four! You picked a great week to kick it up a notch!!!

At The Healthy Weigh, we are always looking ahead! Week 8 of this Team Challenge was the perfect time to announce the Summer Team Challenge and the "Road Trip Post Script." We have an outstanding three week program planned for the interim between the Team Challenges. Unpacking our luggage will be important to do to complete this road trip and start fresh again in July. We've got intensives and motivating things planned to keep all our Road Trippers focused and excited for weeks to come!

Don't forget to bring your beautiful (too big for you) clothes starting next week for the Clothing Exchange on July 5th!

Your Challenge for the week:

1. Lose 2 pounds this week
2. Sign up for the Luggage SALE! (three week "Post Script" and the Summer Team Challenge $330 through Tuesday, June 7th) saving of $60!

I've experienced a lot on this Road Trip, but what I'm thinking about this morning, is how close you get to people you travel with. I have loved traveling with this talented, enthusiastic, loving, group of people! We might be getting close to the end of our road trip...but the journey is just beginning and I'm blessed to be on it with you!

Two more weeks...Get your motors running!!!!!

Always encouraging you,
Letha

Road Trippers Gone Wild!

2011-05-25T09:55:00.000-07:00

Outrageous, over the top, crazy....that's us these next three weeks of this Road Trip! As our Road Trippers left the building yesterday and clicked their seat belts they declared "IT'S OVER!!! LIFE AS I'VE KNOWN IT FOR THE LAST 7 WEEKS IS OVER. I AM KICKING IT UP A BIG OLD NOTCH, I AM READY TO BE CRAZY, OUTRAGEOUS AND OVER THE TOP ABOUT MY ROAD TRIP, MY WEIGHT LOSS AND THE OUTCOME OF THIS TEAM CHALLENGE."

And yes...I was yelling! :-) Tuesday's Team Challenge was all about re-defining this road Trip. It was about taking a new road if necessary to have the outcome of this journey satisfy! We're talkin' I'm looking for some TOTALLY OUTRAGEOUS BEHAVIOR!!!

We were encouraged and inspired by our friends from the North this week! Team 'Northern Lites,' we thank you for your loving support! Our Canadian friends sponsored not only the winning team of the week, but sent great prizes for our drawings as well! It's amazing how you can help change lives from such a distance!!! Thanks doesn't seem to cover it!

Speaking of winning team for the week...Team 'Waist Management' took the BIG prize this week donated by Northern Lites. The $200 gift certificate at Bonneville Hot Springs will be an awesome reward and celebration for Janette and Delann. Congratulations you two!

We had two teams with the greatest % of weight loss named winners of the week and receive the ever so coveted gas cans! At Noon, 'Team Twins' had a 2.39% of weight loss! Congratulations to Fredia and Karla! Your twins are going to be proud of you! :-)...and we are too! Fredia, thank you for the great donation of CYT tickets to Robin Hood, what a great gift!
At Six, team 'Going for Goal' won with a 1.72% of weight loss! Jackie and Sandra, I'm so proud of you guys! What a great team you've made!

Playing BINGO was fun this week too! Ginny, we thank you again for creating and inspiring even more change in all of us this week!

We have miles to travel in the next three weeks. I believe that they are going to be the greatest weeks we've seen so far at ANY Team Challenge. The key...no listening to "basement people"...only listen to the voice of truth. The key...believe that you can re-define this road you're on! The key...live bigger and better and more outrageous in the next three weeks than EVER!

YOUR CHALLENGE FOR THE WEEK:
Listen to week # 6 and do the homework provided!

MORE, MORE, MORE, that's what I'm looking for these last three weeks! Join us on the best part, the craziest part, the most outrageous part of this road trip!

Always encouraging you,
Letha

Team Challenge Standings as of 05/24/11

2011-05-24T21:57:00.000-07:00

12.9 Road Hogs

12.8 Pretty Little Losers

12.6 Family Thighs

10.3 Ja Ma Slim

10.1 Driver’s License Redemption

9.8 The Weigh We Were

9.6 It’s a Lose/Win Situation

9.1 Weighed To Be Wild

8.8 Ample Assets

8.2 Lose The Fattitude

8. 6 Team Twins

7.9 The J Team

7.8 Slightly Waisted Again

7.6 The Muffin Stuffers

7.5 Going For Goal!

7.5 Double Trouble

7.4 Packing Light-er

7.3 Round Two

7.2 Hefty To Healthy Hamsta’s

7.0 Vanishing Buns

6.9 Gut Busters

6.9 Blast Off

6.7 Tussle and Bustle

6.6 Big Bottom Berthas to Bikini Bottom Betties

6.6 36/26/36

6.4 Butt Buster

5.9 “Are We There Yet?”

5.6 Waist Management

5.4 Hip-Less Chicks

5.1 Freedom Bound

5.0 Brother’s Slim

4.9 Tank Tops & Flip Flops By Summer

4.7 Lightin-Up

4.7 Grin & Lose It

4.6 Once & For All

4.5 Thorkelthins

4.0 We Auto Win

4.0 Team Caboob

4.0 Move On Down The Road

4.0 Bumm’s Away

3.8 Purple Pound Pulverizes

3.5 Heavy Equipment

3.5 Cruisin’ 4 A Losin’

3.5 All In

3.2 Thintastic

3.0 Walk Away From The Cupcake

3.0 Team One-Eighty

2.9 We’ve Lost Our Weigh

2.9 The Costco Girls

2.6 Slimsational

2.5 Lose The Caboose

2.3 Return of Forced Family Fun

2.3 On The Road Again

2.2 Under Construction

2.2 Fit Happens

1.6 Goal Keepers

1.5 Braveheart

1.4 Shrinking Spare Tire

1.1 Butt, Back, and Beyond

.6 Poppin’ Hot Skinny Poppers

.5 American Pride!!

You Can Eat On The Road Too!

2011-05-18T08:51:00.000-07:00

Tuesday was a fun day! We danced, we sang, we lost weight, we learned a little bit more about each other, we all got cool BINGO games and we entered into a one week competition with the Northern Lites! You can't miss a week of the Team Challenge without missing out on a lot of good stuff!

At Noon I saw some fine dancing to one of my most favorite songs, "I believe"! Thanks for the welcome home dance! It was good to come home and celebrate with you. We celebrated with our winning team for the week too. Team 'Road Hogs' took the win for the Noon group with a 1.76% of weight loss for the week! Ken and Jen, you are looking great! Congratulations on your second win of this Team Challenge!

At Six we had a special celebration as Rosie from team 'Slightly Waisted Again' reached her 100 pound mark! Rosie, it's been inspiring to watch your journey. Even with all you're facing right now, you continue to put one foot in front of the other and walk this road. Congratulations!
Team 'JaMa Slim' took the win for the evening and the win for the day with a weight loss % of 2.34! Congratulations Jim and Margie. Not only did you win the festive gas cans, but you won $200 of bark dust courtesy of our Sponsor for the week, Steve and Bob from team 'Freedom Bound' and City Bark LLC! Let Glenda know when you'd like her to come and spread that bark for you...she's loves yard work! :-)

We focused our attention on eating out on the road this week! "Restaurant eating aint no big thing!" I'm sure after yesterday's lesson, our Team Challenge participants are ready to walk into any restaurant and order on program food with confidence! The Food you need is in the kitchen!!!

Ginny from team 'Once And For All' knew that one of the great things to do on a road trip, is play games! We're all going to be playing a little BINGO this week! You can either play a traditional BINGO with 5 across, diagonal or 5 down, to get one ticket in the bingo drawing, OR you can go for a black out and get three tickets for next weeks drawing! The winners will receive Gas Cards, courtesy of Ginny! What fun!

Team 'Northern Lites' came through this week with a special and motivating challenge for the week! Here's how it works! Our friends from the North are going to Sponsor next weeks win! EVERY team who has a weight loss % for the week , greater than the weight loss % of team 'Northern Lites', goes in a drawing for a $200 gift certificate at Bonneville Hot Springs! Wow...Thanks to our Canadian family, we are in some serious competition this week! EVERYONE has a chance to win this week! Will you be in that drawing?

YOUR CHALLENGE FOR THE WEEK:
Listen to lesson # 5 on the CD series. Do your home work, and be prepared to tell me what your maintenance calories are next week!

And...PLAY BINGO!

There are 4 weeks to go on this Road Trip my friends...What if...you made these next 4 weeks the best weeks yet? June 14th you will step on the scale with no regrets!

Enjoy the sunshine this week, take really good care of yourselves, and live great!

Always encouraging you.
Letha

Team Challenge Standings as of 05/17/11

2011-05-17T21:17:00.000-07:00

11.5 Road Hogs

11.4 Family Thighs

11.1 Pretty Little Losers

9.2 Driver’s License Redemption

9.0 Ja Ma Slim

9.0 It’s a Lose/Win Situation

8.6 The Weigh We Were

7.8 Weighed To Be Wild

7.7 The Muffin Stuffers

7.7 Ample Assets

7.6 Slightly Waisted Again

7.3 Lose The Fattitude

7.1 The J Team

6.8 Packing Light-er

6.6 Gut Busters

6.6 Double Trouble

6.4 Round Two

6.4 Blast Off

6.4 Big Bottom Berthas to Bikini Bottom Betties

6.3 Team Twins

6.1 Vanishing Buns

5.9 Tussle and Bustle

5.9 Going For Goal!

5.7 Hefty To Healthy Hamsta’s

5.7 Butt Buster

5.6 36/26/36

5.3 Hip-Less Chicks

5.1 Road Killers

5.0 Brother’s Slim

4.9 Tank Tops & Flip Flops By Summer

4.9 “Are We There Yet?”

4.3 Thorkelthins

4.3 Cuz We Can

4.1 Bumm’s Away

4.0 Waist Management

4.0 Lightin-Up

3.8 Grin & Lose It

3.6 Once & For All

3.4 Team Caboob

3.3 Cruisin’ 4 A Losin’

3.2 Team One-Eighty

3.2 Purple Pound Pulverizes

3.2 Freedom Bound

3.0 We Auto Win

3.0 Walk Away From The Cupcake

2.9 The Costco Girls

2.8 All In

2.7 Heavy Equipment

2.5 Lose The Caboose

2.4 Move On Down The Road

2.3 We’ve Lost Our Weigh

2.3 On The Road Again

2.3 Fit Happens

2.2 Under Construction

2.2 Goal Keepers

1.8 Thintastic

1.7 Return of Forced Family Fun

1.6 Shrinking V’s

1.4 Shrinking Spare Tire

1.3 Butt, Back, and Beyond

1.3 Braveheart

.4 Slimsational

.07 American Pride!!

.0 Lone Wolf

-.4Dangerous Curves

-.1 Poppin’ Hot Skinny Poppers

Team Challenge Standings as of 05/10/11

2011-05-11T08:36:00.000-07:00

10.2 Family Thighs
9.9 Road Hogs

9.3 Pretty Little Losers

7.8 Driver’s License Redemption

7.6 It’s a Lose/Win Situation

7.3 Slightly Waisted Again

7.0 The Weigh We Were

6.8 Weighed To Be Wild

6.8 Ja Ma Slim

6.7 Tussle and Bustle

6.7 The Muffin Stuffers

6.7 Packing Light-er

6.6 The J Team

6.4 Ample Assets

6.1 Team Twins

6.1 Going For Goal!

6.1 Double Trouble

5.8 Lose The Fattitude

5.7 Gut Busters

5.6 Big Bottom Berthas to Bikini Bottom Betties

5.6 “Are We There Yet?”

5.4 Blast Off

5.3 Round Two

5.3 Butt Buster

5.1 Road Killers

5.0 Thorkelthins

5.0 Tank Tops & Flip Flops By Summer

4.9 Hefty To Healthy Hamsta’s

4.7 36/26/36

4.6 Brother’s Slim

4.4 Hip-Less Chicks

4.3 Cuz We Can

4.1 Vanishing Buns

3.9 Waist Management

3.8 The Costco Girls

3.8 Lightin-Up

3.7 Team Caboob

3.7 Once & For All

3.7 Grin & Lose It

3.6 Sheddin’ For The Weddin’

3.5 Purple Pound Pulverizes

3.3 Cruisin’ 4 A Losin’

3.0 Team One-Eighty

3.0 Freedom Bound

3.0 Bumm’s Away

2.8 Heavy Equipment

2.4 We’ve Lost Our Weigh

2.3 Move On Down The Road

2.2 Walk Away From The Cupcake

2.2 Goal Keepers

2.2 All In

2.1 Lose The Caboose

2.1 Fit Happens

1.8 We Auto Win

1.8 Thintastic

1.8 Braveheart

1.7 Butt, Back, and Beyond

1.6 Shrinking V’s

1.6 On The Road Again

1.5 Under Construction

1.2 Return of Forced Family Fun

.9 Slimsational

.7 Shrinking Spare Tire

.7 Poppin’ Hot Skinny Poppers

.2 Lone Wolf

.04 American Pride!!

-.4Dangerous Curves

You Will Go In The Direction You Are Looking!

2011-05-04T08:39:00.000-07:00

The ROAD TRIP continues...this week on a motorcycle! With so many cycle riders in our Team Challenge, I thought it was important to learn a little bit about riding a hog! Sure enough, when I began to research motorcycle riding, I discovered a truth that I can't get away from...the most critical aspect of riding a cycle, is LOOKING AHEAD! You will ride, where you look! How many times have we heard that?...and how many areas of our life does that pertain to? Wow, it's kind of exciting to know that we keep running into the same truths...YOU WILL GO IN THE DIRECTION YOU ARE LOOKING!

At Noon team 'Pretty Little Losers' took the win with a 1.81 % of weight loss for the week. Sisters, Annie and Rianne, were pretty excited to take home the gas cans and the beautiful set of Rubbermaid! Congratulations you two. I'm so excited to watch your progress!

Our Six O'clock group heated up the place with some great weight loss for the week. Team 'Vanishing Buns' were surprised when their name was called for the win of the day! Scott and Gina won with a 1.85 % of weight loss. Thanks to our Sponsor for the week, Karen and Cindy from the old "Losers are the new Winners," both teams took home the prize!

We talked a bit Tuesday about the difference between unbelief and doubt.Unbelief says that you are rejecting the truth and you just don't buy it! Doubt says, I haven't seen enough, I'm scared, but I'm going to keep moving forward any way. That's FAITH! Doing the things you know to do, even when it's hard to see the outcome! When you're out for the adventure of changing your life, doubt will set in, but choosing to think rightly, taking action to keep motivation high and focusing on the things you can control will banish doubt and grow huge FAITH!

With 711 pounds left to lose in this Team Challenge to break all records, this group of people are going to have to rise up with all kinds of faith, follow the program intensely, and keep moving down the road!

YOUR CHALLENGE FOR THE WEEK:
Listen to lesson # 3 on the CD's, "What's in Your Back Pack~Controlling what you Can", do the homework, and bring it back next week!

Speaking of next week, I'm excited to announce that my Son, Bennett will be coming to offer a word of encouragement and motivation to you in my absence. He and Glenda have some fun things planned for you...you won't want to miss!

Journey on my friends, stay strong and banish doubt this week by doing the things you know to do...and keep looking ahead!

Always encouraging you,
Letha

Team Challenge Standings as of 05/03/11

2011-05-03T22:52:00.000-07:00

9.0 Family Thighs

8.8 Road Hogs

8.1 Pretty Little Losers

7.1 Slightly Waisted Again

6.5 It’s a Lose/Win Situation

6.5 Driver’s License Redemption

6.4 The Muffin Stuffers

5.8 Tussle and Bustle

5.6 Lose The Fattitude

5.5 Ja Ma Slim

5.5 Big Bottom Berthas to Bikini Bottom Betties

5.3 Weighed To Be Wild

5.3 The J Team

5.3 Packing Light-er

5.3 Going For Goal!

5.3 Ample Assets

5.2 Team Twins

5.1 Road Killers

5.1 “Are We There Yet?”

5.0 The Weigh We Were

4.8 Vanishing Buns

4.8 Tank Tops & Flip Flops By Summer

4.8 Gut Busters

4.4 Hefty To Healthy Hamsta’s

4.3 Round Two

4.3 Cruisin’ 4 A Losin’

4.3 Blast Off

4.2 Double Trouble

4.2 Butt Buster

3.9 Waist Management

3.9 Brother’s Slim

3.8 The Costco Girls

3.8 Cuz We Can

3.7 36/26/36

3.6 Sheddin’ For The Weddin’

3.3 Move On Down The Road

3.2 Thorkelthins

3.2 Team Caboob

3.2 Lightin-Up

3.2 Grin & Lose It

3.1 Fit Happens

3.0 Team One-Eighty

3.0 Hip-Less Chicks

2.6 Purple Pound Pulverizes

2.6 Once & For All

2.3 We Auto Win

2.3 Thintastic

2.3 Freedom Bound

2.2 Walk Away From The Cupcake

2.2 Butt, Back, and Beyond

2.1 Bumm’s Away

2.1 All In

1.9 Heavy Equipment

1.7 We’ve Lost Our Weigh

1.6 Shrinking V’s

1.6 On The Road Again

1.6 Lose The Caboose

1.6 Goal Keepers

1.4 Under Construction

1.2 Team Weight Loss

1.2 Return of Forced Family Fun

1.0 Double D’s

.9 Slimsational

.7 Shrinking Spare Tire

.6 Poppin’ Hot Skinny Poppers

.6 Braveheart

.5 Lone Wolf

.4 American Pride!!

-.2 Dangerous Curves

What Do You Believe?

2011-04-27T08:07:00.000-07:00

"Not One Stinkin' Piece"...I heard that over and over and over yesterday at the Team Challenge! Most of our clients made the decision to avoid Easter candy all together and it paid off. It was an exciting day to watch our clients drop 260.4 pounds the week of Easter!! We've had two weigh in's and have already lost over 1000 pounds! Good times!!!

Team 'Road Hogs' won the gas cans AND Nancy's Cooking Class with the top weight loss % for the day! 3.46% was lost by Ken and Jen on this amazing Road Trip! Congratulations to one of our family teams...father and daughter!

At 6:00 our anniversary couple, John and Karen, celebrated by taking the win for the evening group with a 2.03 %. Team 'Weighed To Be Wild" looked dashing as they carried off their gas can!! Congratulations you guys...on the win and the two years!

We are so blessed to have the support and teaching of our resident "Martha Stewart," Nancy. Thanks Nanc, for once again giving of your time and finances to support and encourage our teams with your donation of the cooking class. Ken and Jen are in for a treat!

We also had a surprise from Glenda with a new segment for this Team Challenge..."Glenda's Road Trip Tips." Two of our lucky participants won a BIG bottle of wiper fluid to keep the windshield clean as they head down the road...thanks Glenda! :-)

I shared some powerful statistics yesterday at our Team Challenge; the probability of each one of us being born at this precise time and place in history! The probability of any of us being born exactly as we are in this time and place is so unlikely that our very existence verges on the miraculous! As we looked at the miracle of our existence it lead to the all important question...What do you believe about yourself? What you believe about yourself has EVERYTHING to do with you reaching your goal weight and more importantly, keeping it off.

The question to ponder this week as we look at our beliefs closer is "What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life!?" My hope is that looking at the miracle of your existence this week will take the focus off food and put it on the marvelous purpose for your life! A great life is not something you experience...it's something you create!

YOUR CHALLENGE FOR THE WEEK:
Listen to week #2 of the CD series and do the homework in personal control guide "Change Your Thinking~Change Your Life" and bring it back next Tuesday.

BONUS CHALLENGE:
Post a comment on Face book about the belief you have in yourself to reach your goal and stay there for life!

It was an easy week for me to talk about the marvel that you all are! I am reminded daily as I watch you interact and support each other. You are a talented, fun, powerful group of people. I'm so glad to be on this Road Trip with you!

Until next week,
Always encouraging you,
Letha

Team Challenge Standings as of 04/26/11

2011-04-26T22:15:00.000-07:00

8.0 Road Hogs

7.7 Family Thighs

6.6 Slightly Waisted Again

6.3 Pretty Little Losers

5.4 Driver’s License Redemption

5.0 The Muffin Stuffers

5.0 It’s a Lose/Win Situation

5.0 Ample Assets

4.9 Tussle and Bustle

4.9 Packing Light-er

4.8 Tank Tops & Flip Flops By Summer

4.8 Road Killers

4.8 Big Bottom Berthas to Bikini Bottom Betties

4.4 Weighed To Be Wild

4.4 Lose The Fattitude

4.3 The Weigh We Were

4.3 The J Team

4.2 Gut Busters

3.9 Going For Goal!

3.8 Team Twins

3.7 The Costco Girls

3.7 Ja Ma Slim

3.7 Double Trouble

3.7 Blast Off

3.6 Sheddin’ For The Weddin’

3.4 Cruisin’ 4 A Losin’

3.4 “Are We There Yet?”

3.3 Round Two

3.3 Hip-Less Chicks

3.0 Vanishing Buns

3.0 Butt Buster

2.8 Lightin-Up

2.8 Fit Happens

2.7 Team Caboob

2.7 Once & For All

2.7 Hefty To Healthy Hamsta’s

2.7 Cuz We Can

2.6 We Auto Win

2.6 Purple Pound Pulverizes

2.5 Team One-Eighty

2.5 Heavy Equipment

2.5 Butt, Back, and Beyond

2.5 36/26/36

2.4 Brother’s Slim

2.3 Move On Down The Road

2.3 Freedom Bound

2.2 On The Road Again

2.2 Grin & Lose It

2.1 Walk Away From The Cupcake

2.1 Slimsational

2.0 Goal Keepers

1.9 Shrinking V’s

1.8 Under Construction

1.8 Thintastic

1.7 Waist Management

1.7 Thorkelthins

1.7 Bumm’s Away

1.4 All In

1.2 Team Weight Loss

1.1 We’ve Lost Our Weigh

1.1 Lose The Caboose

1.0 Double D’s

.9 Return of Forced Family Fun

.9 Lone Wolf

.7 Dangerous Curves

.6 Braveheart

.6 American Pride!!

.5 Shrinking Spare Tire

.4 Poppin’ Hot Skinny Poppers

Looky Looky!

2011-04-20T08:38:00.000-07:00

We are on the ROAD TRIP of a life time! I can already tell that this group is not going to miss out on any magnificent experience in these next weeks to come! Between Noon and Six, our two groups lost 823.1 pounds this week! That beats a first week record by 28 pounds!

I challenged our groups to "looky looky"...keep alert, notice all the opportunities around them and reach for their full potential in these weeks to come! I have a strong feeling that they are going to do just that!

At Noon team 'Family Thighs' took the first win of the Spring Team Challenge with a 5.02 % of weight loss. This Mom and Son team were excited to take home the "GAS CANS" for the week and the $100! Congratulations Carolyn and Stan! Together they lost close to 25 pounds this week!

Our 6PM group sped down the road with 595.5 pounds lost this week! Team 'Slightly Waisted Again' won with a 5.56% of weight loss! Congratulations to Rosie and Veleta! They represent another family group at our Team Challenge; Aunt and niece! I love seeing family get healthy together!

A special thank you to Glenda Bigalky and Barry Brandenburg for sponsoring our Challenge this week! Winning Teams went home with $100 each thanks to Glenda and Barry's support!

I reminded our team mates that losing weight and keeping it off for life requires a change in thinking! The thinking that got them this far...won't take them further down the road! All the Challenge participants received my CD series this week! The messages on the 6 week series will be life changing for everyone who participates. Which brings me to our challenge of the week.

YOUR CHALLENGE FOR THE WEEK:
Listen to lesson #1 on the CD's, then do the "homework" in the first personal control guide! Bring it back into The Healthy Weigh next week to be entered into a drawing!
A BONUS CHALLENGE:
Decide and commit to fore go any Easter candy! "NOT ONE STINKIN PIECE" is the phrase we'll look forward to hearing next week when you come into the challenge and have accomplished that task!

To our friends up North...We invite you to join us in every challenge! The USA beat you out this week with a % of 2.8, while you all lost 1.4% but the start you all had was great! We love knowing that you are committed to this great ROAD TRIP with us! Keep up the great work and be encouraged that we are with you every mile of the trip!

You're on the road again my friends! It's a new week and we've got a new destination to look forward to! Have a powerful week saying yes to the good and no to the bad! This ROAD TRIP is going to take you places you've only dreamed about!

Always encouraging you.

Letha

Team Weight Loss Challenge Standings as of 04/19/11

2011-04-19T23:16:00.000-07:00

5.6 Slightly Waisted Again

5.0 Pretty Little Losers

5.0 Family Thighs

4.7 Tank Tops & Flip Flops By Summer

4.7 Road Hogs

4.4 Driver’s License Redemption

4.2 Tussle and Bustle

4.0 Packing Light-er

3.8 Road Killers

3.7 It’s a Lose/Win Situation

3.6 Sheddin’ For The Weddin’

3.4 Big Bottom Berthas to Bikini Bottom Betties

3.4 Ample Assets

3.2 The Muffin Stuffers

3.2 Lose The Fattitude

3.1 Vanishing Buns

3.1 The Weigh We Were

2.9 The J Team

2.9 Team Twins

2.7 Ja Ma Slim

2.6 Double Trouble

2.6 Blast Off

2.5 Gut Busters

2.5 “Are We There Yet?”

2.4 Weighed To Be Wild

2.4 Team One-Eighty

2.3 Going For Goal!

2.3 Fit Happens

2.3 Cruisin’ 4 A Losin’

2.3 Butt, Back, and Beyond

2.2 Round Two

2.2 Hefty To Healthy Hamsta’s

2.0 We’ve Lost Our Weigh

2.0 The Costco Girls

2.0 Hip-Less Chicks

2.0 Goal Keepers

1.9 Slimsational

1.9 Heavy Equipment

1.8 Once & For All

1.7 We Auto Win

1.7 Walk Away From The Cupcake

1.7 Thorkelthins

1.7 Return of Forced Family Fun

1.7 Butt Buster

1.6 Waist Management

1.5 Thintastic

1.5 On The Road Again

1.5 Move On Down The Road

1.5 Cuz We Can

1.4 Purple Pound Pulverizes

1.3 Team Caboob

1.2 Team Weight Loss

1.2 Lone Wolf

1.1 Grin & Lose It

1.0 Double D’s

.9 Lightin-Up

.8 Lose The Caboose

.8 Freedom Bound

.7 Under Construction

.7 Poppin’ Hot Skinny Poppers

.7 Dangerous Curves

.6 36/26/36

.5 Shrinking V’s

.5 Shrinking Spare Tire

.5 Braveheart

.4 Bumm’s Away

.1 All In

-.3 American Pride!!

ROAD TRIP!

2011-04-13T08:10:00.000-07:00

We unveiled our Spring Team Challenge theme yesterday in our new space as 70 teams weighed in to begin a 10 week journey. "ROAD TRIP!" Who doesn't love to go on a road trip? We're leaving yesterday behind, setting our GPS for a new destination, and hittin' the road!

At Noon and Six our teams showed up in style for their before pictures and their first weigh in! It was great to see our returning clients and exciting to meet all our new ones! I challenged our Team Challenge veterans to not only look for the unexpected on this road trip but to support and encouraged our new travelers as well. To our first time participants, I challenged them to fully engage in this amazing program! "All in," that's what I heard them say!!

I was excited to announce our first ever International Competition! We will be competing with our friends up North in Canada! Glenda's family, 'Team Canada...Northern Lites,' are on this Road Trip with us! At the end of this 10 weeks, the country with the greatest % of weight loss will be put in a drawing for $100 visa gift card! They have joined us on face book too! This is going to be fun!!!

Each week of this Road Trip I will be challenging our participants with an exercise to help make permanent changes! As this Road Trip begins...there's only one thing to do.

YOUR CHALLENGE FOR THE WEEK:

Map Out Your Road Trip!
1. How many pounds will you lose this Team Challenge?
2. How will you do that?
3. What do you want to see on this Road Trip?

Bring this 'road map' into The Healthy Weigh next Tuesday for a ticket in a drawing for a fabulous prize!

Speaking of drawings...Wow, we awarded an amazing prize last night! We challenged our clients to lose 4 pounds in between the last Team Challenge and this one. Every client who did that was entered into a drawing with the prize being "Healthy Weigh For Life!" Congratulations to Heather Rekucki!!! You worked hard and left last night with a priceless gift! So happy for you!

I invite all of you to join us on our Private Facebook page to support and encourage each other along this Road Trip! Search for me, Letha Brandenburg, request me as a friend, and I will invite you to become a member of our Spring Team Challenge page!

We are heading down the highway...looking for adventure and I'm sure we're going to find it! Who doesn't love a Road Trip???

See you next Tuesday!
Always encouraging you,
Letha

Final Team Challenge Standings Winter 2010/2011

2011-03-25T12:43:00.000-07:00

18.5 Losers Are The New Winners

17.4 Slightly Waisted

16.4 Tie Diet-ers

13.7 Portland Pounders

13.5 Team One-Eighty

13.3 Grin & Lose It

13.0 Vanishing Buns

12.9 Stranger Danger

12.8 Barely Breathing

12.7 This Is Date Night

12.5 Team Gazelle 2.0

12.2 The Porkelson’s No More!

12.2 Slimsational

11.9 Saddle Bags

10.9 Royal Losers

10.1 Mini By March

10.0 Vantucky Stikes Back

9.9 Girls Just Want To Be Fit

9.7 Prioritize Your Size

9.2 Skinny Genes

8.3 Pound Away

8.3 Braveheart

8.2 Team Big Hair

8.2 Slim Gems

8.2 Dreamers

7.7 Waist Management

7.6 Family Ties

7.3 Faster Fillies

7.3 Cinchin’ The Buckle

7.2 What Would Florence Do?

7.1 Wee Can

7.1 Mission Slimpossible

7.0 Downsizing Divas

6.9 Lose The Caboose

6.9 Double D’s

6.9 D.A.R.E.

6.7 Fit For Spring

6.7 2 Fat 2 Fit

6.5 New Attitude

6.3 Cinching It Up

6.2 Tiny Hinnies

6.0 Ma Da Do It!

5.7 Kickin It With Kankles

5.6 Sugar Shakers

5.4 Flab-u-less

5.2 Fit Happens

5.0 Shreddin’ It

4.8 Pounds Away

4.7 W.O.W.

4.5 In It To Win It

4.4 Thick and Tired of It

4.4 The Double Takes

4.3 Team Balboa

4.1 No Quit In Us!

4.0 Celebration Queens

3.6 Weight Loss for Good!

3.6 Meltaways II

3.6 Gut B Gone II

3.4 Washindi

2.8 Guns & Roses

2.5 Spring Beauties

2.5 Best In Show

1.6 All Is Not Lost

1.5 Awesome Twosome

.6 Live It To Win It!

.4 Walk Away From The Cupcake

RECORD BREAKING TEAM CHALLENGE!

2011-03-25T08:16:00.000-07:00

You did it! You broke the all time Team Challenge record! You had 93 pounds to lose yesterday...you lost 194! Congratulations to all of you!

What a night it was! After an outstanding 10 weeks, we celebrated victories last night!
We initiated our new space in a big way. We had over 120 in attendance last night to witness the final week of this Team Challenge!

Let's talk about some winners!!!
We had our final team wins at noon, 5 and 6:30. One last time teams were named winners for the week. At noon 'Barely Breathing' won with a 3.81 %. Donetta and Tanya gave it their all this week...and it paid off big time! With that % of weight loss, they also won the Glenda "Oops" award of $100!

At 5:00 'Team Gazelle 2.0' took the win with a 1.77%. Patty and Steve were celebrating more than just that win...Steve entered into one-der-land yesterday! You guys are an inspiration to so many!

At 6:30 team 'Tie Diet-ers' won with a 2.96% of weight loss. Up until last night, Cathy and Steve were the most consistent team without a win...they blew that out of the water this week! Congratulations you guys.

We had many awards to give out last night before we announced the winning teams for this challenge! Here's a look at some outstanding outcomes!

Female with the greatest weight loss: Rosie Lundquist 43 pounds!
Male with the greatest weight loss: Mark Cole 54 pounds!
Female with the greatest % of weight loss: Karen Glafka 21.52 % (greatest EVER)
Male with the greatest % of weight loss: Steve Gehlhausen 18.58%
Our team with the most weight loss was 'Slightly Waisted' with 84.2 pounds!

We were GREATLY inspired by a couple of donations this week... The client with the greatest % of weight loss this week, and the second greatest % of weight loss would win these amazing prizes! Two round trip air line tickets wherever Alaska flies donated by Denise Phillips, and 5 personal training sessions and two weeks of free classes at the Strada training and fitness club, donated by Amy Ruger, courtesy of her brother-in-law and owner of Strada, thanks Paul.
1st place for the week: Donetta delaRosa with a 4.90 % of weight loss!
2nd place for the week: Veleta Lundquist with a 4.63% of weight loss!

Congratulations to you both and thank you Denise and Amy for igniting the fuel in everyone this week!!

And now...our top three teams of this Team Challenge:
3rd place, winners of $300. Team 'Tie Diet-ers' Cathy and Steve 16.41%
2nd place, winners of $500. Team 'Slightly Waisted' Rosie and Veleta 17.38%

1st place, winners of $1000. Team 'Losers Are The New Winners' with a weight loss % of 18.54!!! Congratulations Karen and Cindy. You came in second place at the last Team Challenge and you fought through this one to take your place at the top of the podium! We're so proud of you! You look BEAUTIFUL!!

It was an amazing 10 weeks. MUCH was accomplished! People are losing weight, that's for sure but more importantly, lives are changing. I'm so proud of the effort of this group of people. To walk beside you as you support and encourage each other has been an honor! I'd feel little sad today, but I really don't have time for that! We've got a bridge to cross in the next two weeks and then we've got a Spring Team Challenge to begin on April 12th! Can't wait to see you then!

Happy trails to you, until we meet again...
With great love and encouragement,
Letha

"But It's Good For ME"

2011-03-16T08:26:00.000-07:00

Wow...Week # 9 of This Team Challenge was another one to write home about...or at least to write a blog about! We lost a bunch of weight, learned a lot of things and heard the bell ring of the very last lap of this race!

Our winners for the week took home horses sporting cowboy hats, bras and crowns...just what every pretty horse needs! Those stick horses have been around the track once or twice!

At Noon, team 'Losers are the New Winners' were winners again with a 1.60 % of weight loss for the week! Cindy and Karen, you have proved to be a couple of the strongest horses in the group. You have led the way and inspired us all!

Five O'clock proved to be the most interesting groups of the day! We crowned team 'Girls Just Want to Be Fit' with a 1.78 % of weight loss for the week. Cyndi and Jodee were thrilled to take home the horses! What they don't know yet, is that Glenda made her only mistake of this team Challenge! Team 'Vanishing Buns' REALLY won at 5 with a weight loss % of 2.31! Scott and Gina...not only did you win at 5, but you won for the day!!! You are the winners of our awesome thermal grocery bags!
We are going to have to get a vanishing bun on that set of horses for the history books!!!

At 6:30 we not only heard the news from Glenda of her discovery(mistake)...but we crowned another team that have lead the way this entire Team Challenge! Team 'Slightly Waisted' won for the evening with a 1.91 % of weight loss for the week! Veleta and Rosie are another set of horses that you are going to want to pace yourself with this week on the last lap!!

We lost 134.6 pounds this last week...that means we have 93 pounds to go!!! WE ARE GOING TO BREAK THE ALL TIME TEAM CHALLENGE RECORD! I'm so excited!!!

We focused on the miracle foods of the 21st century Tuesday at the Team Challenge. Although we looked at the amazing benefits that these foods offer, my encouragement was to "eat responsibly." We can't be in denial about the miracle foods, if these miracle foods are causing us to gain weight...or keeping us from losing weight. These foods, if eaten, must be counted, measured and used as our ever important source of fat when we reach maintenance. It was a great class.

Just as I was finishing my talk for the week, I heard it...the bell, the bell that is rung in a race when the horses come around for their very last lap! This is it people, the last lap of this Team Challenge! I used a quote that summed up the important last lap. "Without inspiration the full potential of a person would remain dormant. There is fuel in all of us that needs to be ignited!"
This is it...this is the lap to be ignited! The strong horses will move out with all of their might...the consistent horses will do all they can to keep up, and the weaker horses will follow close behind. That what this week's all about!

YOUR CHALLENGE FOR THE WEEK:
Think of a way to inspire/ignite the fuel in your fellow team mates! It's YOUR turn to inspire each other!

Shortly after the noon group left, one of the team mates called me to offer you all a little inspiration! Denise from team 'Big Hair,' offered two tickets wherever Alaska Airlines flies to the person with the greatest % of weight loss for the week! That person will by a stand by passenger...and need to pay 10% of the ticket and the taxes! WOW...what a gift Denise! The fuel has been ignited! You Rock!!!

We were gifted with great thermal bags by Sheryl of team 'In it to win it' and cases of water by Marion from team 'Mini by March.' Thanks friends for your great support!

I'm so proud of what you've accomplished, how you've supported each other and how you've jumped back in the saddle when you've hit a bump! I'm really looking forward to celebrating with you next THURSDAY,the 24th as we close out this amazing 10 weeks!

Always encouraging you,
Letha

Team Challenge Standings as of 03/15/11

2011-03-15T22:15:00.000-07:00

15.6 Losers Are The New Winners

15.2 Slightly Waisted

13.9 Tie Diet-ers

12.5 Portland Pounders

12.4 Team One-Eighty

11.9 Grin & Lose It

11.7 The Porkelson’s No More!

11.2 Stranger Danger

11.2 Slimsational

11.1 Saddle Bags

11.0 Vanishing Buns

10.9 Team Gazelle 2.0

10.2 Vantucky Stikes Back

10.0 Girls Just Want To Be Fit

9.9 Royal Losers

9.4 This Is Date Night

9.3 Barely Breathing

9.2 Skinny Genes

8.3 Mini By March

7.9 Team Big Hair

7.7 Waist Management

7.7 Pound Away

7.5 D.A.R.E.

7.3 Prioritize Your Size

7.0 Cinchin’ The Buckle

6.9 Double D’s

6.8 Wee Can

6.7 What Would Florence Do?

6.7 Downsizing Divas

6.7 Braveheart

6.6 Slim Gems

6.6 Mission Slimpossible

6.6 Family Ties

6.3 2 Fat 2 Fit

6.2 Lose The Caboose

6.2 Dreamers

6.1 New Attitude

6.1 Faster Fillies

5.7 Tiny Hinnies

5.7 Cinching It Up

5.5 Kickin It With Kankles

5.4 Ma Da Do It!

5.4 Flab-u-less

5.3 Fit For Spring

5.2 Sugar Shakers

5.2 Gut B Gone II

4.9 Pounds Away

4.8 Weight Loss for Good!

4.4 Thick and Tired of It

4.4 The Double Takes

4.3 Team Balboa

4.2 No Quit In Us!

4.1 In It To Win It

4.0 Celebration Queens

3.9 W.O.W.

3.8 Washindi

3.3 Shreddin’ It

3.3 Meltaways II

3.3 Fit Happens

2.8 Guns & Roses

2.5 Best In Show

2.0 Spring Beauties

1.6 Awesome Twosome

1.6 All Is Not Lost

.6 Live It To Win It!

-.4 Walk Away From The Cupcake

The Switchback

2011-03-09T11:21:00.000-08:00

I love it when a plan comes together. Glenda and I had been inspired weeks ago to have her speak on this very Tuesday. In the last few weeks we changed our minds, and I was forging ahead with another important message for the week. If you wonder where and how I choose what I'll talk about each week...here's the secret. Every week I ask myself, "What do they need." I am challenged and inspired to bring you something each week that will make a difference in your journey...not just for the week, but for life. The cool thing about this week is that due to laryngitis...we went back to the original plan...and what a good one it was! I believe you got JUST what you needed this week!

Trail blazing...and blazing a trail, two ways to go about it...both going in the same direction! Forging straight up the hill or getting there on a switchback...everybody ends up on top! Thank you Glenda for sharing your story about your "switchback" journey up the hill. I know that everyone who was fortunate enough to hear you Tuesday was inspired in a brand new way!

Your great, but hard words about each person's choice to think like a victim, or a warrior were powerful. Our beliefs and our thought life has EVERYTHING to do with our destiny. You challenged us all to look closer at how we are viewing our selves and our life.

Today was a great day to take the win! All three teams received $50 gift cards from Safeway to buy some healthy groceries for this week!

At noon 'Team One-Eighty' won big with a 2.56% for the week. Barry and Krystal, you are looking younger every week!

The 'Royal Losers' got to take home those horses with a 1.31% of weight loss for the week at 5 pm. Congratulations Connie and Diane, you're looking great.

And at 6:30 team 'Portland Pounders' won again with a 1.52% for the week. Mark and Luanne, I'm so proud of you guys!

We had support again with prizes donated by you! Cindy,thanks for the great books. Your support makes a difference!

Yes it's true...the black hat team won!!! With 6 more tickets...they took the win and got the visa gift card! Congratulations to Gail of 'Kickin it with Kankles.' She was the big winner of $100.

We also gave away another gift card for the people already signed up for the next Team Challenge! Toni from team 'Fit Happens' jumped up with a shout to receive her $100 gift card!!!

We lost 88.6 pounds this week...that means we have 226 pounds to go to beat the all time record of any Team Challenge! I was a little like a warrior as I asked you Tuesday to give me a number...to promise me some amazing results in the next two weeks! The response was awesome...I think we're gonna do it!

YOUR CHALLENGE FOR THE WEEK:
1. Listen to Letha's CD's Lesson #1
2. Analyze your thinking...do you have victim thinking, or warrior thinking?
3. (bonus) Google famous people who have failed first...before they have made it!

It was a great Tuesday. I was sitting there listening to Glenda thinking, that's only half of the story. What she didn't tell you is that she has taught me more, and made a bigger difference in my life than you can imagine. The reason I hugged her that day I met her at my back door was because there was an overwhelming sense 11 years ago, that this person, was going to make a difference in my life...little did I know!

Thanks again Glenda, for all you do and all you are.

Always Encouraging you,
Letha

Team Challenge Standings as of 03/08/11

2011-03-08T22:46:00.001-08:00

14.3 Losers Are The New Winners

13.6 Slightly Waisted

12.5 Tie Diet-ers

11.8 Team One-Eighty

11.8 Portland Pounders

10.6 Stranger Danger

10.4 Grin & Lose It

10.3 The Porkelson’s No More!

10.3 Slimsational

10.2 Team Gazelle 2.0

10.0 Saddle Bags

9.7 Vantucky Stikes Back

9.5 This Is Date Night

9.2 Skinny Genes

9.2 Royal Losers

8.9 Vanishing Buns

8.8 Barely Breathing

8.3 Girls Just Want To Be Fit

7.7 Waist Management

7.3 Team Big Hair

7.3 Mini By March

7.3 D.A.R.E.

7.1 Prioritize Your Size

7.0 Cinchin’ The Buckle

6.8 Pound Away

6.8 Faster Fillies

6.6 Double D’s

6.6 Braveheart

6.3 Slim Gems

6.2 Pounds Away

6.2 Downsizing Divas

6.1 Dreamers

6.0 Lose The Caboose

5.6 Cinching It Up

5.5 New Attitude

5.4 What Would Florence Do?

5.4 Mission Slimpossible

5.4 Flab-u-less

5.3 Wee Can

5.3 Family Ties

5.2 Gut B Gone II

5.1 2 Fat 2 Fit

5.0 The Double Takes

5.0 Kickin It With Kankles

4.9 Tiny Hinnies

4.8 Weight Loss for Good!

4.7 Sugar Shakers

4.4 W.O.W.

4.4 Thick and Tired of It

4.4 In It To Win It

4.3 Team Balboa

4.2 Shreddin’ It

4.2 No Quit In Us!

4.1 Ma Da Do It!

3.9 Meltaways II

3.9 Fit Happens

3.9 Fit For Spring

3.2 Celebration Queens

2.8 Guns & Roses

2.7 Best In Show

2.4 Spring Beauties

1.6 All Is Not Lost

.6 Live It To Win It!

.3 Awesome Twosome

-.4 Walk Away From The Cupcake

Team Challenge Standings as of 03/01/11

2011-03-02T09:38:00.001-08:00

13.4 Losers Are The New Winners

12.4 Slightly Waisted

10.8 Tie Diet-ers

10.4 Portland Pounders

10.0 Stranger Danger

10.0 Slimsational

9.9 Vantucky Stikes Back

9.7 The Porkelson’s No More!

9.5 Team One-Eighty

9.5 Team Gazelle 2.0

9.3 Saddle Bags

9.3 Grin & Lose It

9.2 Vanishing Buns

8.8 This Is Date Night

8.1 Girls Just Want To Be Fit

8.0 Royal Losers

7.7 Waist Management

7.5 Double D’s

7.5 Barely Breathing

7.0 Faster Fillies

6.9 Team Big Hair

6.7 Dreamers

6.6 Slim Gems

6.5 Cinchin’ The Buckle

6.4 Mini By March

6.3 Family Ties

6.2 D.A.R.E.

6.0 Prioritize Your Size

6.0 Flab-u-less

6.0 Braveheart

5.9 The Double Takes

5.8 Lose The Caboose

5.8 Kickin It With Kankles

5.8 Downsizing Divas

5.6 Pounds Away

5.6 Pound Away

5.5 Wee Can

5.0 Mission Slimpossible

4.9 What Would Florence Do?

4.9 Cinching It Up

4.7 Weight Loss for Good!

4.7 Tiny Hinnies

4.7 Sugar Shakers

4.7 Fit Happens

4.7 Fit For Spring

4.6 New Attitude

4.4 W.O.W.

4.4 Team Balboa

4.4 Gut B Gone II

4.2 Thick and Tired of It

3.9 2 Fat 2 Fit

3.8 No Quit In Us!

3.8 Ma Da Do It!

3.8 In It To Win It

3.6 Shreddin’ It

3.4 Celebration Queens

2.9 Skinny Genes

2.8 Guns & Roses

2.5 Spring Beauties

2.4 Best In Show

1.8 Meltaways II

1.6 All Is Not Lost

1.2 Awesome Twosome

1.0 Walk Away From The Cupcake

1.0 Frick & Frack

.6 Live It To Win It!

The Bridge

2011-03-02T08:22:00.000-08:00

What a day it was at The Healthy Weigh. Things seem to going along smoothly for both the black and white teams until Five O'clock when Glenda turned to me and said, "My computer doesn't work." We had a crisis! How do you run a Team Challenge, weigh people in, choose winning teams, celebrate 2 pounds loses, when you don't have the data?

Glenda did what any excellent counselor would do...she used it as a teaching moment! We learned about crisis,when danger and opportunity meet!

I did what any good motivator of people would do...I used it as an opportunity to change thought life! What if, (because we didn't have any numbers) EVERYONE lost weight!? We took a dangerous situation and created opportunity. As each client got on the scale at 5 and 6:30...we acted as if...as if EVERYONE lost weight! It was a great feeling and it left us ready to take on the week with positive attitudes! It's all about the thought life!

Glenda drove home worrying about job security :-) but called me a few minutes later and said,"My computer works!"
So...I've got some teams to announce and some celebrating to do...here goes!

At Noon team, 'Mini by March' took the win with a 2.15% weight loss for the week! Congratulation Peggy and Marian! You are going to be mini by March!!

At Five team 'Stranger Danger' won with a 1.74%! Joanne and Jennifer...you two are looking GREAT!

And at 6:30, our winners for the evening group and for the day was, team "Slightly Waisted" with a 2.59% of weight loss for the week! Rosie and Veleta...you are the winners of the day and the winners of the Spring Team Challenge! Congratulations!!

All of our winning teams won an invitation to Glenda's 'Conflict Resolution' class on Saturday! It will be a powerful class and you will know after attending that you won an amazing gift. Show up at 9AM on Saturday...Glenda will be expecting you! :-)

We still have some black and white team business to take care of next week. We'll have tickets ready for all the team mates that lost 2 pounds this week at 5 and 6:30...then we'll draw for that $100 gift!

Yesterday was an important day as we enter week 7 of this Team Challenge. The focus wasn't on what we've done or not done, the focus was on where we're going. This journey to lose weight isn't an easy one and looking past the bridge, seeing the future is crucial to succeed.

I announced the exciting news of our new location (same building BIGGER spot) and announced the "Bridge Special." The two weeks between this Team Challenge and the next one are the bridge that's going to keep you on the trail. A cooking class from Nancy and a team teaching motivation class from Glenda and me, will surely keep you inspired and charged up to head into Aprils' Spring Team Challenge! The exciting challenge those two weeks works like this: Every client who loses 4 pounds during the 2 week bridge will be in a drawing for "Healthy Weigh for Life!" That's right...it's BIG!
The regular price for these twelve weeks is $360. Through next Tuesday, March 8th, I am offering these weeks for $290. Many of you already enrolled and are in a drawing for a $100 visa card next week!

Seeing you through to your goal weight is what drives me and keeps me going! I was thrilled to see so many of you commit to your future and to living a life of excellence!

Wow...what a week it was. I'm believing that looking past the bridge is going to make a difference for you this week. You don't have 3 weeks left...you have a life time left. How are you going to spend it?

YOUR CHALLENGE FOR THE WEEK:
Show up week # 8. No matter what!!! That's all...just show up!

I write today with great anticipation! Can you feel it?

Always encouraging you,
Letha