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GEAR UP FOR THIS WEEK'S 2ND CHANCE DOUBLE HEADER CHALLENGE!

Since I am the Oldie of this group I decided to give all of you busy students a 2nd chance at the challenges that I won, which include:

EXERCISE HOURS

AND WEIGHT LOSS

So this is how it will work. You all need to get your weight first thing Tuesday morning to Chad – then again next Tuesday morning. You will receive 1 point for each tenth of 1% of your weight loss for the coming week. Also you will receive 1 point for each 15 minute session of exercise that you do during this week. The trick is that at least 20% of your total points must be from each of the two areas in order to win the challenge. So you can exercise til you drop but if you don’t lose weight you will not be eligible to win and visa versa. The good news is that during the upcoming week – you can eat anything you want ---- or should I say you can focus on having a balance of all the food groups instead of focusing on just one and watch your portions! The whole goal here is to attack this beast from several angles all at once. Have a great week!

Water Winner

And the winner of the Biggest Loser 2009 Water Drinking Challenge is....



Megan Harris! She drank an amazing 1054 ounces! Congratulations! Go buy yourself a fancy Neoprene bottle!

Most of us have heard we're supposed to get at least five servings of fruits and vegetables a day- some doctors recommend as many as nine! The winner this week will be the person who eats the most servings of fruits and vegetables. Fruits and veggies are packed with vitamins A and C, iron, calcium, fiber and phytonutrients (phytonutrients are the stuff that is non-essential, but good for us nonetheless. These will lower your risk of certain cancers, heart disease, and muscular degeneration).

It's important to remember that fruits are higher in calories than vegetables are, so veggies might be a better choice a lot of the time. Most doctors recommend three or four servings of veggies for every one or two of fruit.

Online guides will tell you how much of a certain veggie/fruit constitutes a serving, but as a general rule, one serving is:
-One medium-size fruit (about the size of a tennis ball)-1/2 cup raw, cooked, or canned fruits or vegetables -1 cup raw, leafy vegetables (like lettuce and spinach)
-1/4 cup dried fruit (like raisins, apricots, and mangoes)-3/4 cup (6 ounces) 100 percent fruit or vegetable juice

Oh! And the winner will get the Biggest Loser Family Cookbook, which has more than 125 healthy (and budget-friendly) recipes.

Heather

Water results

Please email water results to Dylan. Heather has the challenge for this week so she will be posting it here shortly.

Update and Winner

Alright, so another week has come and go! For last weeks challenge our winner was Julie Byron. She is embarrassed that she won another challenge but I told her she won it fair and square...and she can only win three so to pick and choose from here on out! Congrats Julie. Let me know what clothing store you want that to go to.

That brings me to my next point. We are still waiting to hear who won last weeks challenge (Kerinas Challenge). I believe that it was Lauren, but if you could let us all know that would be great. In addition, please remember to send out your prizes to the appropriate people.

Now as you have all been waiting for it for two weeks here is the update on percentages! Also if you have a 0% that means I have not been getting your updates. If you could send that to me I will input it for this week. Also remember that your challenge info is always due Tuesday night by 8. So if we don't have any info by then we will go ahead and declare a winner.

Now that I have all of that administrative stuff done...thanks for being part of the challenge! Have a great week and don't get water logged.

Chad

Reminder

I need everyone weight updates to determine the winner for this week.

Please have it to me by 8 P.M. Mountain Time. I will then post the results.

Good Luck!

Challenge of Water!

We all know how important drinking plenty of water is when trying to lose weight. It also seems harder for me to drink as much as I should in the winter, so this week's challenge: Drinking water! Keep track of how many ounces of water you drink each day, and send me the total (dhaney at gmail), and the winner will receive a $15 Amazon gift card! (Get it? Amazon? Ha!)

Keep in mind that you should track just water. So don't include things like diet soda, milk, etc.

Good luck!