The Start

Hey guys!

Welcome to the COOPER HEALTH CHALLENGE!!

 Participants will be:

Dad, Mom, Jessica, Tyler, Jacob, Maralyn, Steven and Cherise!

We will be using the 6 sister points sheet with one change. Please use the attached one and not the one on the paper as one part has changed.

Everyone will be putting in $100.

Mom and Dad will match everything we come up with! Thanks Mom and Dad!

You will have 6 months to lose your weight.

You will maintain your weight for 6 months.

We will be sharing our results through a blog that we will be creating tomorrow.

We will Google Hangout every month to share our progress. (If mom and dad can figure it out)

How the money will be divided is still half will go to the point winner and the half will go to the biggest looser. The biggest looser will get half their money at 6 months and the other half if they maintain for 6 months. If they weigh more than they did at the 6 month mark they loose and the other half goes to everyone who did maintain their weight.

To get started you need to:

-Take a picture of yourself (like a before/after picture)

-Take a video of yourself sharing your goal of either strength, weight loss.

-Weigh and record your weight.

-Print out the attached paper for recording your points.

-Just a suggestion: Download the free ap my fitness pal in order to record what you’re eating. Add the family as friends so they can see what you’re eating and how you’re doing.

 Happy strengthening and weight losing!

 I am EXSTATIC to get started and do this together!

Here are some more rules...

-This is a 24-Week Challenge that starts on a Monday. January 7, 2013

-Decide an amount that each person pays to enter the challenge- $100

-There is a weekly point calendar for each of the 24 weeks

-Beginning on Week #2 there is a double point challenge (will discuss later in the competition -steve)

-You can exercise each day, but you will only receive points for exercising 5 days a week.

-You can choose to not each sugar/treats each day, but you will only receive points for not eating sugar on 6 days (everyone needs a free day!).

-There is a sample food journal that you can use or you can use your own kind of food journal to keep track of what you eat.

-Weight yourself anytime each Sunday and tally up all points by 9 PM. Make sure that you weight yourself under the same circumstances each week (for example: Morning/Night, Empty/Full stomach)

-Choose someone in your challenge who will be the one you send a weekly email/text to with your totally weekly points and totally weight loss points for the week. They will have to keep track of everyone’s points and then have them send out an email or text with everyone’s standings on Mondays. We said that all points had to be put on the blog by midnight Monday night. If you didn’t send an update the blog by that time, you received no points for that week. So each week you will send in 3 numbers: Your weekly points, you weight lost for the week, and your total points for that week.

-Daily contact with teammate: It’s amazing the strength that comes from encouragement from your teammates! We said that you could email, call, or text someone on your team to encourage them to have a healthy day. It helps knowing that you are all in this together and makes you accountable for what you do or don’t do.

-Example of weight loss points: You will get 5 points for maintaining your lowest previous weight AND 10 points for each whole pound. For instance, if you gained weight, you will report 0 points AND you don’t get any weight loss OR maintenance points in future weeks until you return to the lowest weight you had already achieved. If you maintained your previous lowest weight, you report 5 points. If you lost 1 pound, you would get 5 points for maintaining plus 10 points for that pound, so you would report 15 points.

-Cash prize money will be divided equally between the person who loses the largest percentage of weight and the person who has the most total weekly points. How the money will be divided is still half will go to the point winner and the half will go to the biggest looser. The biggest looser will get half their money at 6 months and the other half if they maintain for 6 months. If they weigh more than they did at the 6 month mark they loose and the other half goes to everyone who did maintain their weight.