Week 2 Challenge

If you want to be successful and stick to your eating goals the key is in MEAL PREPARATION and PLANNING. The challenge this week is to take one day whether it be tomorrow or Monday and write down your meal plan for at least 5 days. Then on that day do some prep to keep you prepared. Some ideas that have worked for me is on Monday I boil a bunch of eggs, make brown rice, grill some chicken, wash and cut up fresh veggies/fruit and separate into single serving bags. I also like to make single serving bags of granola, or craisins and almonds for snacks. In my recipe file there are cookie dough bites and I make a batch of those and have them on hand for sugar cravings. Whatever works best for you prepare ahead for success. If you have a lot of tupperware put together meals so you can just grab your tupperware and be set! Good luck and if you have anything particular that works best for you please share!

Week 1 Challenge

I like to start each of my challenges by having you write down two goals that you want to accomplish as you participate in this 8 week challenge. Why are you doing this? What will help motivate you to stay on track and see results? We all may be doing this for different reasons. Some possible goals may be to lose 10 pounds, drop a pant size, run a 5k, read the Book of Mormon cover to cover, etc. Whatever your goals may be I hope that by participating you may reach those goals. So this week define your goals.

Make them SMART:
Specific
Measurable
Achievable
Realistic
Timely

Create your goals, Earnestly commit to them, and then POST 1 of your goals here on this post by Sunday, Aug 24th. Lets make it happen! If you do this, you will receive your challenge points for week 1!

Get Ready, Get Set

Are you ready? I am excited to get started. Just wanted to remind you of a couple things.
1st: make sure you have added your name to the weekly points spreadsheet so we know who all is participating.
2nd: make sure to get your money into me by tomorrow, Aug 18th. I know many of you are joining from a distance so please have your money mailed to me and POSTMARKED by tomorrow and you can still receive your extra points for your money.
3rd: take your starting weight and measurements first thing tomorrow morning. This will help you be accurate as you track your progress.

Good luck! Please let me know if you have any question!

Starting another 8 Week Challenge!

I am in need of getting back on track and so I am doing another challenge! This will be starting on August 18th. Right now I am keeping it similar to the other challenges I have done, if you have participated before and have any suggestions please let me know and we can make changes if needed! I hope you will join in!! If this is your first time doing a challenge with me, welcome. I set up the challenge to where you contribute $15 and there are two people who win the money. I have it so there are 8 ways to earn points each day. For more details check out the side bars on the right of this post! Make sure you add your name to the weekly points spreadsheet and get your money in so you don't start out behind!

Fast Sunday Guidelines

I know many of you participate in a monthly fast. It is really hard to get all your positive foods and water intake in a few hours. This challenge I am making a few modifications for those days of fasting.

Food: This round you can still receive full points for the day if you have at least one serving of fiber, protein, fruit, and vegetable by the end of that day.
Water: You can still receive full points for the day if you have at least 50 ounces of water by the end of the day.

RECIPES!!

I have created a blog 8weekrecipes.blogspot.com. I know for me it is always helpful to find different recipes that we can eat. We get stuck eating the same thing and we get discouraged! I hope that you will take time and share some of your favorite recipes so we can all help each other out!

***I would love for you to add your favorite recipes! Please send email me your recipes and I will add them to the blog.***

Food Clarification......

I have been asked some questions about positive and negative foods so I want to try and clarify.
- when you eat your 5 fruits and vegetables that counts towards your positive foods!!
- you can eat things not on the positive list, but avoid the negative list. The positive list should be the bulk of what you eat but doesn't have to be the only thing!!