Week 6

Alright everyone.  How did we do?  We can do this!!  Just push through.  I hope that everyone is safe and that no one has been in the line of the fires this summer.  It has been a bad year already.  

So this week for our bonus we are doing no pop.  Each day that you don't drink pop you get 3 points (including your rest day).  For some this may seem really easy and for others this may be harder than the situps.  You can do this!! 

Week 5

Holy Cow!  I can not believe that we are already on week 5.  Time is flying when you run around like a chicken with your head cut off, and my kids aren't even signed up for anything this summer.  Totally crazy.

I have to apologize for not updating scores and weights from last week.  Only a couple people told me last week so I was going to wait a day and get everyone elses and then time got away from me.  Aside from check email and doing school work I really haven't been on the computer much this week.  Shocking I know.  That will all change this next week as I am teaching a summer class that starts Monday. 

Okay enough rambling.  This week's bonus is 15 minutes of yoga each day.  If you do yoga for your exercise then you need to do an extra 15 minutes to get the bonus.  No double dipping please.    If you don't have a yoga video or anything just go online and you can find youtube yoga videos.  You can do this.  Take time to breathe and relax.  :) 

I have updated scores and weights with those that I have and included last week's in.  Again I am sorry.

Week 4

Doing this during a birthday is extremely difficult.  I was excited to step on the scale and see that my weight had not increased due to all the extra junk food (but very yummy)  I have eaten over the past couple of days.  

I will post updated points and weight loss precentages later but I wanted to come on and add the bnous for this week. 

This week's bonus:  Read your scriptures for 20 mins. a day.  We are going to work on our spiritual side as well.  Have fun and enjoy!

Week 3

Was not eating chocolate hard for anyone else?  Thanks Ann you were not a big help this week. 

We could really use some interaction among everyone.  Please feel free to post comments and add anything you want. 

I need ideas for bonuses and am up for anything.  Also, please post ideas or things you are using to help you in this challenge. 

This week's bonus:  100 situps/crunches each day.  They are worth 3 pts each day.  (Even on your "day of rest"). 

“The Important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are;
For what we could become”
- CHARLES DUBOIS

Week 2

So how did everyone do this week?  The first couple weeks are hard to get into.  Keep working at it.  

I have only received points and new weights from a few people so as those others send me their stuff I will continue to change the standings.  

Some of you are in various situations.  Brandee just had her gall bladder out and Rose Ann is having surgrey next week.  JUST DO WHAT YOU CAN DO!!  

BONUS THIS WEEK:  NO Chocolate.  Each day that you do not eat chocolate you get 3 pts.  Good luck. 

Food for thought 

given by Elder Harold G. Hillam 

June 1996

So Let’s Do the Do’s

EXERCISE: Spiritual well-being is vital, but how you feel physically is also significant. Are you getting enough physical activity every day? President Ezra Taft Benson said, “Rest and physical exercise are essential, and a walk in the fresh air can refresh the spirit” (Ensign, November 1974, page 66).

SLEEP: It’s true, there’s nothing in section 89 about how much rest we should have each night, but go back a couple of pages to Doctrine and Covenants 88:124: “Cease to sleep longer than is needful; retire to thy bed early, that ye may not be weary; arise early, that your bodies and your minds may be invigorated.” [D&C 88:124]

Your body needs adequate rest. On the other hand, this doesn’t mean you should sleep all day.

FOOD: Eating correctly is another way of taking care of your body. The scriptures tell us that all grains are good for us (see D&C 89:14) and that meat is “ordained for the use of man” but should be “used sparingly” (D&C 89:12).

Directions for happiness and health are continually given to us by a very kind Heavenly Father. By using our agency we can conscientiously follow that inspiration, and by so doing bless our lives daily. The world will eventually find these truths by its trial and error method, as I discovered as a young dental student. But the obedient believer will already be happily enjoying the blessings.