Team Challenge Standings ~ Week 1

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!

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!

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

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!

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

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!

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