If It Doesn't Challenge You ~ It Won't Change You!

We're off and running in our 25th season of the Team Challenge "CHANGE...It Does The Body Good." I'm celebrating 25 seasons of the Team Challenge and 25 years owning The Healthy Weigh. It's going to be an important ten weeks!

We weighed- in close to 100 teams Thursday, took before pictures and introduced our teams by hearing their fun and creative team names.  Team Challenge 25 and they're still coming up with new names! It was exciting for me to meet new faces and welcome home some familiar faces to lose weight this spring and learn about the stages of CHANGE.

There are basic principles that reveal the structure of change...and that's what we are going to examine and master in the next ten weeks. We are going to learn about and become "self-changers."
I chose a mantra that will help us as we travel through the next ten weeks...   "If is doesn't challenge you, it won't change you." I encouraged our self-changers to write it down, use it as a screen saver, get tattoos :-)...what ever it takes to see it often and verbalize it as many times as possible in the next ten weeks as we CHANGE.

The change I'm going to guide our self-changers through in the next ten weeks isn't going to focus on food, what we can and can't eat. Following our great nutritional plan is a must to lose weight and feel better, but it's not the CHANGE I'm going after. We're going to spend the next ten weeks changing the way we think about ourselves, our relationship with food and our relationship with others. Our thought life will have everything to do with the changes we'll make. Albert Einstein said "We can't solve the problems we've created with the same thinking that created them,"and that's why we believe at The Healthy Weigh, if you change your thinking, you'll change your life! CHANGE is going to happen at The Healthy Weigh this spring! I'm excited!!

I introduced a little, and I mean little, incentive to inspire individuals as well as teams with their weight loss in the next ten weeks.  The one individual each week with the greatest % of weight loss will receive a little sliver heart. After giving my heart to The Healthy Weigh for the last 25 years, I thought it was appropriate to give a heart, a sliver one at that, to our top winner of the week.

 THE CHALLENGE FOR THE WEEK:

• Decorate your folders to inspire you!
• Fill out your food and exercise record and bring it back in with your name written on it.

The Spring Team Challenge 2015 has officially begun! Let the CHANGE begin!!

Always encouraging you,

Letha

This Spring...Be a Part of Something GREAT!

In the spring of 2009 after 25 years of helping people lose weight through a one on one counseling approach, I decided to try something really different! Being inspired by NBC’s “Biggest Loser” program, I brainstormed with a group of innovative people and created The Healthy Weigh’s first ever “Team Challenge.”  Since that time we have been delivering, from start to finish, the most outstanding 10 week weight loss challenges available! Our 25th season of The Team Challenge will be starting up again THURSDAY, April 16th with a Program Introduction Class for all those participating in the challenge at Noon and Six pm. 

Here’s how it works: 
Everyone who enrolls in The Team Challenge, has a weight loss partner, they make up a team. Our teams compete for the greatest % of weight loss for the 10 week period.

Every THURSDAY at Noon or 6 PM all of our teams show up for a weigh-in and an inspirational presentation. Our Thursday meetings last approximately one hour. Each week we announce and present prizes to the winning teams for the week and individual winners for challenges met.  At the end of the ten weeks we have first, second and third place prizes for the top three teams. The grand prize goes to the team with the greatest % of weight loss. $1000! Second place wins $500 and our third place team $300!

Our clients can expect a 22 pound weight loss during the 10 week challenge, however we have seen greater weight loss per week at The Team Challenge, than in the history of The Healthy Weigh! The outstanding weight losses are due to our excellent nutritional plan and the accountability/support of the group. Although we celebrate the weight loss each week, we also spend time working on the issues that have kept people from losing weight and more importantly, kept them from keeping it off. The education and motivation our clients receive each week is unparalleled.

At the end of each 10 week Challenge, we conclude with a grand finale to celebrate all that has been accomplished in the last 10 weeks. We also follow up with a Stabilization class and a Maintenance group for anyone who reached goal weight during this challenge. The rest of our clients continue on and begin the next Challenge.

As we head into our 25th season, it just keeps getting better! More weight loss, more life change, more prizes, more fun, and more support. Be a part of something great in 2015, The Healthy Weigh’s Team Challenge!

This Thursday, April 9th at Noon and 6 PM, I'll be sharing information about the Team Challenge! Come, listen in and ask questions. The 30 minute infomercial is sure to get you inspired! Hope to see you then!

Always encouraging you,

Letha