Here are the rules in case you or your family is interested:
- Each week you get 1 point for each hour of exercise you do (up to 6 hours...I think they set that cap for me! lol).
- Each day you get 1 point if you've eaten 2 fruits and 2 veggies.
- At the end of the week, the person with the highest percentage of weight loss receives one bonus point.
- So that means 13 points are possible each week, with a bonus 1 point going to the person with that's weeks highest percentage weight loss. At the end of the three months the person with the most points win the cash!
Well, we are half way through and here's the update on Matt and I: Matt has lost 14 pounds, but the poor guy has never won the week so he's never gotten a bonus point. He's gotten all his other points though. I've lost 5 pounds (no bonus points), but I've gotten all my other points as well.
The real shocker in all of this, is that almost exactly as this competition was starting (6 weeks ago) I tore my Achilles during a step class on a slick floor at the gym. Since then, I've been banned from Step/Running...pretty much anything that uses my Achilles...which is, um, EVERYTHING! I've been doing strength training and BODYPUMP to get my hours of exercise, but my 5 pounds weight loss has been without any cardio! Guess how I did it??
Eating loads and loads of fruits and veggies.
Is this statement shocking? Well, it should be. I hate fruits and veggies. So after 6 weeks have my feelings changed? A little, I must say. This has been really good for our family and me especially. It's gotten me in the frame of mind where my first thought for a snack is now a fruit or a veggie, and not some crappy processed food (delicious as those can be!)
So peeps, if you've been wondering what the hey is going on with the Morgan Fam, there you have it. We're getting loads of fiber, wearing out our tennis shoes and going through lots of tp and deodorant.
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