What If?

Saddle up your horses...because we are surely blazing a new trail!
Week two of the Team Challenge started out with a bang! Between our three groups, 797.5 pounds were lost! We are well on our way to setting a new record for the most weight loss at any Team Challenge!

Our Noon time group showed up in a powerful way! Not only did they have the winning team of the day, but they had the most weight loss too. 283.9 pounds were lost by that excited group of men and women! Team 'Losers are the New Winners' took the win for the day with a 6.79% of weight loss! Congratulations Karen and Cindy, what a week you had! With the win for the day, this team took the prize too. Glenda donated our first team prize of the challenge, $100 cash! Thank you Glenda for your generous sponsorship! We feel the love!

The five O'clock hour was exciting too! Those teams shed 241.3 pounds to add to the amazing total of the day! Team 'Vantucky Strikes Back' took the win with a 4.23% of weight loss! Scott and Leslie were excited when they rode off with the 'Saddle up Your Horses' immunity idol! This Team Challenge is all about blazing a new trail and the 6 stick horses are going to remind us of that each week when they are presented to the winning teams of the day!

When the 6:30 group arrived, our energy was over the top! We had fun as we celebrated 272.3 more pounds dropped! Team 'Double D's' won with a slim margin! Deanna and Diane lost 4.66% of weight for the week! Congratulations you two! I know you'll be showing off your immunity horses this week!

A lot of celebrating went on yesterday, but some of the highlights for me were throwing confetti on Wendy W. from our noon time group as she met her 200 pound weight loss mark! Wendy, you inspire all of us to stay on the trail! Congratulations! Having clients read" Dear Future Me" letters was powerful too. I believe those letters will inspire us to greater things than we've ever done at any Team Challenge!

Our theme for the week was 'What if?', a question to ask ourselves this week to change the way we think! When you ask yourself that question your brain is no longer looking for reasons it can't, it's looking for ways that you can! What if?

I gifted every Team Challenge client my CD series so that I could 'get in their heads' for the next weeks to come! This journey is all abut changing thinking...and this series will support just that!

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

We announced the exciting news of our guest speaker next week, Dan Russell. We are thrilled to have him come and inspire us to greater things! YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS NEXT WEEK!

It was an over the top, powerful and fun Tuesday. I look forward to seeing even greater results as the weeks unfold! I hope to see you on Face book this week!

This is the great adventure!
Letha

Team Challenge Standings as of 01/25/11

6.8 Losers Are The New Winners

5.0 Team One-Eighty

4.7 Team Gazelle 2.0

4.7 Stranger Danger

4.7 Double D’s

4.2 Vantucky Stikes Back

4.2 Barely Breathing

4.1 Tie Diet-ers

4.0 Slimsational

3.8 Slightly Waisted

3.7 Downsizing Divas

3.6 Waist Management

3.6 Kickin It With Kankles

3.6 2 Fat 2 Fit

3.5 Girls Just Want To Be Fit

3.4 Portland Pounders

3.4 Grin & Lose It

3.3 Saddle Bags

3.2 Team Bling

3.2 Team Big Hair

3.2 Royal Losers

3.1 W.O.W.

3.1 Faster Fillies

2.9 This Is Date Night

2.9 Skinny Genes

2.8 The Porkelson’s No More!

2.8 No Quit In Us!

2.8 Family Ties

2.7 Weight Loss for Good!

2.7 The Double Takes

2.7 Happy New Rear

2.7 Gut B Gone II

2.7 Celebration Queens

2.6 Vanishing Buns

2.6 Guns & Roses

2.6 Classie Lassies

2.6 Cinching It Up

2.6 Cinchin’ The Buckle

2.5 Thick and Tired of It

2.5 Sugar Shakers

2.5 Flab-u-less

2.5 Dreamers

2.4 Shreddin’ It

2.4 Mission Slimpossible

2.3 What Would Florence Do?

2.3 Team Balboa

2.3 Spring Beauties

2.3 Pound Away

2.3 Braveheart

2.1 Prioritize Your Size

2.1 Frick & Frack

2.0 Washindi

2.0 In It To Win It

1.9 Pounds Away

1.9 Fit For Spring

1.8 Slim Gems

1.8 Lose The Caboose

1.8 All Is Not Lost

1.7 Fit Happens

1.6 Meltaways II

1.6 Best In Show

1.5 New Attitude

1.4 Wee Can

1.4 Best Friends

1.3 Tiny Hinnies

1.3 Painiacs

1.3 Ma Da Do It!

1.2 Mini By March

1.1 Step Away From the Cupcake

1.1 Live It To Win It!

.8 D.A.R.E.

.3 Awesome Twosome

Saddle Up Your Horses...

...we've got a trail to blaze!

Let the adventure begin! The Winter Team Challenge is officially under way! We weighed in 74 teams Tuesday to begin an exciting, challenging 10 weeks. The Healthy Weigh was transformed in to a horse stable complete with saddle! With before pictures taken and partnership agreements signed, we are well on our way to the greatest Team Challenge yet! Tuesday marked the opening of our 7th season. I'm already convinced, it will be our best!

At noon, 5 and 6:30 we heard some more creative team names as we weighed our challengers in for the very first time. Matching tee shirts, hats and a couple pair of shades showed the team spirit in the room already. I love it!

As much fun as we had meeting the teams, the seriousness of what we're really here to do was focused on as well. We talked about the word DECISION! Committing to achieving a result, then cutting yourself off from any other possibility! I challenged our teams to step into the zone, to commit to doing what they know for the next 10 weeks!

Our focus for the week as we are just getting started was to take that very important first step...the first step to any change is to decide what you want. We often know what we don't want, but rarely take the time to really look at what we do want.

YOUR CHALLENGE FOR THE WEEK: Write a letter to your future self!

Your first and possibly most important challenge of this winter Team Challenge is to write a letter to your future self. Your future self that is fit, healthy, and in control. Your future self that is not using food as a drug of choice but is valuing your physical body and feeding it with great nutrition. Your future self who is proud of what you’ve accomplished and living a life without your weight interfering.

Bring those letters back in next week…no name…no signatures…bring them back in next week to get a ticket in a drawing and win a prize that you are not going to want to miss out on!

We introduced our new Facebook group! We've already got 60 members...I hope you'll join us. Go on Facebook, search for Letha Brandenburg and request to be my friend. I will then, invite you into our Team Challenge group. This is a private group where we can communicate and encouarge each other. It's been fun already!

It's going to be a great 10 weeks. I can already feel it! Get with your partners this week, make a plan for greatness, cut off any other possibility and we'll see you on the trail! Saddle up your horses...this is the great adventure!

Always encouraging you,
Letha

Team Challenge Set to Begin!

With a small set back due to our winter northwest weather, we are set and ready to begin our best ever Team Challenge! We've got 68 teams signed up to begin this great adventure on Tuesday. I can hardly wait! 136 people are ready to make a change!

I hope this weekend is a time for these 136 people to get prepared! Making a decision to change takes mental preparation as well as physical work. This would be the weekend to have some serious talks with yourself and makes some serious decisions about how you're going to invest in the next 10 weeks.

I'm ready... are you? Spend this weekend doing what it takes to be ready come Tuesday, Janaury 18th!

See you then!
Letha

Another Amazing Finish!

My heart is full as I sit tonight and ponder the last 10 weeks at this Fall Team Challenge! Over 1340 pounds were lost by a group of committed, decided and successful people! It has been a privilege to spend the last 10 Tuesdays with these great people!

The end of this Team Challenge came down to the wire with an exciting finish!

In third place, and the winners of $300, with a weight loss % of 15.98 was team 'Kickin it with Kankles!' Alyssa and Gail, you did an amazing job! Together you lost 66 pounds!

Second place, and winners of $500, went to a couple of strong women! Team ' The Melt Aways' had a loss of 17.85 % for this Team Challenge! Cindy and Karen, you lead the way this whole Team Challenge. You were an inspiration to everyone with your combined weight loss of 71 pounds! Congratulations!

And in first place and winners of $1000, with an impressive 18.27% weight loss was 'Team One-Eighty!' Barry and Krystal...Congratulations for your awesome weight loss of 89.8 pounds as a team! You fought strong until the very end and your hard work paid off!

Along with these top three teams we had some impressive personal weight loss successes.
Our female with the most weight loss was Jessie M. with 40.6 pounds!
Our female with the greatest % of weight loss and a record for all women at any Team Challenge was Karen G. with a 19.15% of weight loss!
Our male big winner was Barry K. with 52.6 pounds lost and a weight loss % of 20.24!

We announced our winner of the "No Cave November" contest too. Debbie Y. took the great prize of 'Healthy Weigh for Life' for having a weight loss % of 8.45 for the 4 week contest!

If that wasn't enough celebrating we announced the RED team as winners of the GREEN and RED contest! Our $100 visa gift card went to Jeff M!

One of the highlights of the evening was passing out all the awards for all clients who made the 20 pound club! It was an impressive thing to listen to Glenda announce the amount of weight each one of these clients lost in the last 9 weigh ins! We even forgot one...PATTY L. lost 26.0 pounds! I'll be announcing that one at the mall tomorrow over the load speaker! Sorry for leaving you out dear Patty! You Rock!

We still had three team winners of the day to celebrate and congratulate...at noon Team ' The Melt Aways' took the weekly win with 2.27%. Karen and Cindy...you stayed the course for 10 weeks and it shows! You look amazing!
At 5, team 'Kickin it with Kankles' won with a 1.86 %. Alyssa and Gail, I'm so proud of you. You were a fun team and held each other accountable at the same time!
Our final team of the night was 'Team One-Eighty' with a 3.96% loss for the week. Barry and Krystal, you worked hard this week and every week. Way to go!

I'm always a little sad at the end of a Team Challenge. I'll miss these teams and the community spirit they competed with. I'll miss celebrating all the accomplishments! This Team Challenge was overflowing with personal goals being met! It was a great thing to be a part of!

We're heading into a fun 4 weeks, "Christmas Vacation." I hope to see most of you there.

Congratulations to all the participants of this Fall Team Challenge! It has been a great 10 weeks and you have much to be proud of!
Until next time...January 11th to be exact!

Always encouraging you,
Letha

Fall 2010 Team Challenge Final Standings 12/07/10

18.3 Team One-Eighty

17.9 The Melt-A-Ways

16.0 Kickin’ It With Kankles

12.7 The Lovable Curmudgeon & His Redneck Betty

12.6 Team Gazelle

10.9 Forced Family Fun

10.3 Thin It To Win It

10.3 Incredible Shrinking Women Shrinking

10.0 The Last Hurrah

9.6 Tom Kat

9.4 Nursing Back To Health

9.2 Because I Said So…

8.9 The Winning Losers

8.9 Hot Chics By Christmas

8.0 In It To Win It

7.2 Thin City

7.2 Bringin’ Sexy Back

7.1 Bad Genes ~ Further Evidence

6.6 Weight Away

6.6 Oink-No-More

6.4 Dizzy Divas

6.2 All Is Not Lost

5.9 String Bean Jeans

5.9 Fit & Fabulous

5.8 Guns & Roses

5.7 Shrinking Sisters

5.5 Pigs Can Fly

5.3 And They Lived Thin Ever After

5.2 The Transforming Beauties

5.2 Gutless Wonder

5.1 - Pounds + Years = Full Life

5.0 Almost There

4.9 Cereal Killers

4.3 Mowtoo Choto

4.2 Itsy Bitsy Buttsy

4.1 Hip, Hips A Weigh

3.1 Smok’n Hot Champion Chunkers

2.6 Hot For The Holidays

2.5 Family Thighs

2.2 50 & Ferocious

1.9 Return of The Shrinking Violets

No Quit in Us!

It was a banner day at The Healthy Weigh! We celebrated some great accomplishments at our Team Challenge today. Along with some of our clients reaching goal weight today, Alyssa from team 'Kickin' it with Kankles' hit her 100 lb mark! Gail, Alyssa's team partner, brought balloons and 'champagne' to toast Alyssa on this big day! Alyssa, you have been an inspiration to us all! Congratulations! The red and the green teams represented today! The race is close so we're saving the outcome for our finale next week! Someone on one of those teams is going to win a $100 visa gift card! We also concluded our NO CAVE NOVEMBER contest. We're going to celebrate that winner next week too! As we head in to our final week of this fall Team Challenge, I talked about the difference between quitting and winning! There's a fine line between quitters and winners!

Quitting happens when things get tough…when people get tired, when you lose hope. Quitting is related to wishing… "I wish I was thinner and healthier, I wish I would have done better. I wish I would have kept going, I wish I wouldn’t have stopped."

Winning happens when things get tough...when people get tired, when you hold on to hope.

Winning and hope are related. "I hoped that my life would change if I started taking better care of my self. I hoped and I believed, I decided what I wanted and put action to my decision!"

The stories I have read about the great ones… the great ones at everything…sports, math, inventions, music…they all had a decision to make. "Is there quit in me…or am I going to make the decision to keep at it?"

When the time came to make that decision, it wasn’t because the great ones were on top! They had fallen, they had made mistakes, they were feeling weak, they weren’t feeling like winners…that is when they had to pull from down deep and say “There’s no quit in me, I’ve got to keep going to live out my very best life. I will complete the race."

We've got 101 pounds to go to break the all time Team Challenge record...this is the week that all our our team mates need to pull from down deep, have their very best week and state, "There's no quit it me."

The top two teams of this Team Challenge join us at noon. This week 'Team One-Eighty' took the noon time win with a 2.15% weight loss for the week! Congratulations to Barry and Krystal! I LOVE your enthusiasm!

At five team 'Kickin' it with Kankles' thought since they were celebrating anyway, they might as well just win for the day! Gail and Alyssa took the win with a 2.09% for the week!

Our big winners of the day came at 6:30 with a 2.25% of weight loss this week. Team 'The Lovable Curmudgeon and His Redneck Betty" picked a great week to win! They walked away with 4 Blazer tickets and $50 in Burgerville bucks! Jeff and Jessie, I'm proud of you and you've got date-night paid for!

A special thank you to Tom and Kathy from team 'TomKat' for donating Burgerville bucks for all three teams this week...and to Scott from team ' Bad Genes ~Further Evidence,' for the 4 Blazer tickets! Your support makes all the difference!

Next week is going to be a celebration! We've had AMAZING weight loss at this Team Challenge and we will all be coming together at 6:30 for the Grand Finale! Teams can show up at noon, and 5, but we'll hope to see you all back at 6:30 for all the fun! After pictures will be taken and awards will be given out! You won't want to miss this powerful evening!

101 pounds to go this week...I can hear you right now..."THERE'S NO QUIT IN US!"

Make it a great week. Finish strong!
Always encouraging you,
Letha