Team Challenge Standings - Week 1

5.4 Thunder & Lightning
5.1 2 ½ Men
4.7 AX-Men
4.6 No Weigh Know How To
4.0 Hawaii Bound
3.9 Keeping Up With The Husbands
3.9 Balsamic Camp Rangers
3.8 The Shrinking S’mores
3.8 7 Ate 9
3.7 Waist Management
3.7 Chicks With Kicks
3.6 The Aunts Go Marching 2x2
3.5 Shreddin’ For The Weddin’
3.5 Bubbalicious
3.4 Team RamRod
3.4 Drop It Like Its Hot
3.3 Sisu Power
3.2 Smokin’ Hot By Summer
3.2 Oh Happy Weigh
3.1 Team Wanna Lose Alot
3.0 Smokin’ Oldies
3.0 S’mores No More
3.0 Champion Chunkers
2.9 Trophy Wife Wannabees
2.8 Sink Or Swim
2.8 Inner Drive
2.8 Gross Weight
2.7 Winners & Losers
2.6Traveling Lighter
2.6 Wild Duo
2.6 Rejuvenation!
2.5 Woods With Friends
2.5 S’mores 2 Lose
2.5 Cousins Dropping Dozens
2.5 Campfire Tails
2.4 The Ambonians
2.4 No-See-Ums
2.4 Losing For The Health Of It
2.4 In It To Thin It
2.4 Do It Or Die #2
2.3 Gettin’ It Done
2.1 Sassy By Summer
2.1 Red Hot Mammas
2.1 Mission Slimpossible
2.1 Beer Belly Babes
2.0 No S’more To Love
2.0 No More S’mores
2.0 Chicken on A Stick
1.9 Smokin’ Hotties
1.9 Never Too Late
1.8 Sassy Lasses Lose Those Asses
1.8 Lo-cal Girls
1.8 Diminishing Returns
1.6 Kozy Kampers
1.5 Unchartered Waters
1.5 Timber Tigers
1.5 No More Brownies
1.5 Kickin’ It With Kankles
1.5 Extra Inches
1.4 Thin 1 & Thin 2
1.4 Lean Cuzeens
1.4 Fireflies
1.3 Intent Campout
1.2 Sister Act
1.2 Firestarters
1.2 Dharma On Fire
1.1 Lemmon Droppers
1.0 On Our Weigh
1.0 Lean Two
1.0 Campfire Girls
1.0 Booty Busters
0.0 Re-Committed
0.0 Moms in Motion
.9 Melting Marshmellows
.9 Hungry Grams
.8 Tree Climbers
.8 Hungry Hungry Hippos
.8 Green Lanterns
.8 Fit Happens
.8 Dances With S’mores
.7 Too Legit To Quit
.6 W-8 Loss Survivors
.6 Lite on The Path
.5 In-tents Campers
.4 S’mores Or Less
.4 Late Bloomers
.3 Camp Reflections
-.8 Z Group

"YAHGODDAWANNA!"

What a great start to our Camp Out! Our teams lost 818 pounds in one week beating all the previous 11 Team Challenge records! I'm excited to see what this group of campers will do in 9 weeks! We introduced some new things this week to make our camp out even more successful. Our Alumni filled up a stew pot with positive affirmations of all kinds to encourage our challengers. Our thinking in these next ten weeks WILL determine our outcomes, so sometimes we need to "stew on it." We will have discouragement and frustrations along the way, so reaching inside of the stew pot and pulling out a thought to turn our thinking around will be necessary. I invited all of our participants to contribute to the stew pot in the weeks to come. We also announced the WAYPOINTS of this team challenge. WayPoints are necessary to point us in the right direction. We've got a great list of activities from walks to bowling to participate in outside of the Team Challenge to experience life with like minded people and build friendships with other campers. I encouraged everyone to participate in as many WayPoints as they can during the next 9 weeks! Our winning teams at noon and 6PM got to take home the weekly immunity idols for the very first time. This CAMPOUT Team Challenge called for some walking sticks to make the journey easier. Congratulations to our top teams of the day who not only took home the walking sticks to decorate, but took home the $100 cash prize for winning the very first week! Team 'Ax Men', Joe and Ron won at Noon with a 4.65% of weight loss for the week and team 'Thunder and Lightning' celebrated by running a victory lap with a 5.36% for the week! Congratulations Debbie and Peggy! A great big 'THANK YOU' to Glenda Bigalky and Barry Brandenburg for sponsoring our teams this first week! We appreciate your support and commitment to us and the team challenge! I was able to share one of my very favorite camp stories with everyone this week. I and my family ran into a mountain man years ago in the woods who taught us a valuable lesson. He was a talented man with amazing abilities. He had created things that were far above his resources. He told us that a long time ago he had learned a single ancient word that seemed to have powers. He explained that when you understand the word, it unleashes immense strength, makes your mind clear and your imagination run with ideas. I had to plead with him to tell us the word that was so powerful. He finally shared it with us...leaning forward in a whisper..."YAHGODDAWANNA." In order to accomplish anything, whether it's big or small, easy or difficult, trivial or very important...you've got to want to! The reason people don't succeed at what ever...is that they really don't want it bad enough. By deciding what you want and focusing on that, you come up with ideas, you make plans and then you do it! yahgoddawanna! It was a fun story to tell, but an important one. We spent the rest of the hour talking about the kind of stories we like to hear around the camp fire. The great stories all have one thing in common, they have a character who wants something really bad and overcomes conflict to get it! They goddawanna! Our challenge for this week includes another Healthy Weigh announcement. This is our first Team Challenge to go digital! My CD series is now available by going to our website and clicking on STORE. Each weeks lesson can be downloaded there. So...Your challenge for the week: Listen to week # 1 Understanding Your Beliefs~ The Key to Permanent Change" and do the homework provided. Bring that back in next week for a ticket in the drawing! We are off to a powerful, but fun start to this Spring Team Challenge! I'm looking forward to the surprises ahead of us all in the weeks to come! Until next week, Always encouraging you, Letha

Let's Go Campers!

We pitched our tent, lit the fire and we're ready for our camp out! The Spring Team Challenge is off to a great start with 85 teams weighing in to participate in yet another life changing ten weeks! This Team Challenge is sure to bring refreshment, renewal and a lot of fun!

With "CAMP OUT" as our theme for this ten week challenge every participant was given a wood cookie for a name tag. Thanks to Doug from team 'Green Lantern' for cutting them all out, and Steve and Patty from our Alumni group for sanding them and getting them ready for all of us! Every one of us are wearing a yellow bracelet too. Linda and Kimberley from team 'Lemon Droppers' gifted each camper with a bracelet stamped with "CAMP OUT~Spring Team Challenge 2012." They will be a great reminder of the decision we've made to fully engage in these next ten weeks!

Partnership agreements were signed, before pictures were taken and teams were introduced as we looked ahead to the possibilities for the next ten weeks! I am convinced that The Healthy Weigh is the fountain of youth. I'm sure that our clients will truly get younger in the next ten weeks. They will look younger, feel like doing more and extend their life expectancy! That's some pretty impressive benefits for a camp out!

I presented my very first challenge to the group today. DECIDE WHAT YOU WANT! The first step to any change is deciding what you want. You can't move to a new place in life, in a relationship or with your weight, until you know what you want.

YOUR CHALLENGE FOR THE WEEK:
Decide what you want. Write it down and bring it in next week to get a ticket in a drawing for a great prize!

I'm believing that this Team Challenge will be the best we've had yet. More weight loss, more life change, more fun! We've got a group of outstanding people pursuing permanent life change! It's going to be a GREAT camp out!

Have a terrific week making decisions that will make you younger in the next ten weeks!

Always encouraging you,
Letha