Live Your Best Life ~ Final Standings!

Dude, Where's my Gut?	19.480%
Second Chances	16.990%
Working Our Way Toward Blingy, Booty Jeans	16.294%
Flabuless	13.784%
Fatties R Us (WERE)	12.954%
Belittle the Middle	12.629%
20/20	11.988%
Tiny Hiney's	11.287%
Lean on Me	10.858%
Akers-A-Weigh	10.578%
P's of Mind	10.022%
Cottage Cheeks No More	9.701%
The Right Rhoade 2	9.492%
SIS	9.302%
The Best Kind of Losers	8.858%
Size Matters	8.517%
Buns on the Run	8.481%
Double Trouble	8.350%
Mighty Morphin Posterior Arrangers	8.280%
L2	7.944%
Oh Yeah, Just Watch Me!	7.928%
Fifty Shades of Fit	7.719%
The Best Year Boomer Babes	7.565%
Bedunka Dunk Busters	7.353%
#losingit	7.278%
Let's Do This, Sis!	7.135%
Are We There Yet?	6.946%
Fit Happens!	6.912%
The Meltaways	6.744%
Thunder Monkeys	6.404%
Dream Team!	5.985%
Bold Resolve	5.977%
Date Nights with Denny	5.698%
Freedom Fat Fighters	5.671%
Bod Squad	5.623%
The Double D - Dangerous Divas	5.538%
Let's Get A lot Radical!!!	5.439%
The 2 Lovelies	5.319%
Feelin' Fab	5.278%
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger	4.912%
All Day Every Day	4.555%
The Purposeful Losers	4.394%
Slimmin' 'em rolls	4.379%
See you Lighter	4.372%
Team Badass	4.329%
Quarter, Dime & Six Pennies	4.289%
Weigh To Go	4.113%
Melting Mama's	4.102%
That's It	3.990%
Can't Weigh Us Down	3.961%
Becoming Our Mothers afterall	3.799%
Crazy Cousins	3.677%
RAZMO	3.613%
A Bundle of Possibilities	3.430%
One Last Time	3.374%
Never Too Late to be Great	3.263%
The Two BB	3.087%
Skinny Dippers	3.027%
Delores	2.718%
A New Chapter	2.501%
Glory 24/7	2.385%
Freakin' Awesome	1.752%
The Winners	1.643%
Downsizing 24/7	1.578%
Wishful Shrinkers	1.461%
Catch us if you can	1.258%
Making the Cut	0.941%
We're Not Gonna Bake It	0.490%

"Hey Dude, Where's my Gut?" Takes the Win!

Thursday night marked the close of the 26th season of the Team Challenge! It was epic! It really was. When you spend ten weeks focusing on living your best life, (our theme for this team challenge) there's a lot to celebrate at the finale!   We took some crazy good "after pictures" gave away some final prizes and celebrated all the great things that have happened in the last ten weeks.  

I showed up 10 weeks ago to encourage our participants to live their best life, to write a better story with their lives. And like so many challenges in the past, I was inspired by them to do the same!

We’ve had life changing events in our Healthy Weigh family in the last 10 weeks.  Conflict, illness, surgeries, even deaths of loved ones.  I watched our challengers work hard to not allow those things to derail them or sabotage their success. They inspired me.

I also watched them, with courage, press into living a better life.  Working hard to say yes to the good and no to the bad.  I watched them fall and get back up.  I watched them move into uncomfortable territory and I watched character transformation. What we saw on the outside of people last night is miniscule in comparison to what went on on the inside in the last 10 weeks!

Although the rewards were great at the finale...prizes, money, weight loss, etc.  That's really never the point of a great story.  It's the transformation that took place while the hard work was happening…that’s the point of a great story. We lived a great story in the last ten weeks, that's for sure!

As we gathered for the last time to focus on living a better story I reminded everyone that nothing about this story is over.  We aren’t “in between challenges.” We aren’t "stopping and then starting." We are continuing the great transformation that this wonderful life allows us.  We are alive and we have the opportunity every day to wake up and pursue our very best life!

Living your best life is not about the scale, It’s not about your weight, but it is surely about your relationship with food and with yourself.  It’s about overcoming and understanding and going deep and letting go and pressing forward.  Living your best life is about finding meaning and direction and being able to look back at events, days, weeks, months, even years and say “I nailed it.”  I’m living my best, loving, healthy, strong, forgiving, graceful life!

Living your best life is more than following a diet and more than what you weigh. However, living your best life includes discipline and limits and boundaries. Living your best life is living without regret.

Our winners for this Team Challenge:

First Place: Team "Dude, Where's my Gut?" Gordon and Jim with a 19.34% of weight loss! (together, they lost over 90 pounds in 10 weeks! )

Gordon and Jim

Second Place: Team "Second Chances" Peggy and Debbie with a 16.99% of weight loss!

Peggy and Debbie

Third Place: Team "Working Our Way Toward Blingy Booty Jeans" Wendy and Diane with a 16.29% of weight loss!

Wendy and Diane (and Colton)

Congratulations to these tops teams!  You all did an amazing job and persevered to end up on top! 

We had so many clients who lost 20, 30, 40 and even 50 pounds during this ten weeks challenge! Congratulations to you all! 

A few individual winners to celebrate!

Male with the greatest weight loss: Gordon R. with 52.8 pounds!

Female with the greatest weight loss: Kate R. with 48.5 pounds of weight loss!

Male with the greatest % of weight loss: Gordon R. with 20.61% of weight loss! (rockstar)

Female with the greatest % of weight loss: Peggy Schwartz with 19.34% of weight loss! 

If we learned anything in the last ten weeks, we learned that a character is what he DOES.  Not what he thinks about or dreams about or wishes...he is what he DOES.  So as we close out this ten week challenge, we all are moving forward focused and excited to live our very best life...doing what it takes and looking back with no regrets!

Farewell Summer Team Challenge 2015...I won't forget you!

Always encouraging you,

Letha