Holiday Diet, Weight Maintenance Plan Invitation Begins November 11, 2013

Holiday Weight-Maintenance Plan
Rules
November 11, 2013-January 5, 2014

8 week challenge goes from November 11, 2013-January 5, 2014

Send stamped, self-addressed, stamped envelope to Rene (contact me separately r@renej.us) with $10 at the beginning of the challenge. The idea here is that EVERYONE can be a winner!

Points for the following:  Modified exercise: 4 points=30 minutes, 5 points=45 minutes or more, points only offered up to 4 days/week, 3 vegetable servings/day, 2 fruit servings/day, not eating after 9 pm., drinking at least 64 oz. water/day. Modified sweets: 5 points/day for abstaining from desserts. Bonus of 10 points for abstaining 5 days of the week. (warning: use this modification carefully and limit your sweets or you'll be in trouble!)

Keep a food journal to keep track of what you eat.

Weigh yourself anytime each Sunday (or Monday--just same day each week) and tally up all points from weight loss and maintenance and add to the google document.  You forfeit points if you do not add them by Monday midnight unless you have made prior arrangements with coordinator (Rene). Make sure that you weigh yourself under the same circumstances each week (morning/night, empty/full stomach)

Daily Contact with teammate. The encouragement you get from your teammates is invaluable! You can email, call, 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.

Report weight loss pounds to the nearest 1/10 pound. Maintenance of lowest weight with 3.0 (this might be adjusted to 2 depending on the group feeling) pounds gets 10 points/week. If you gained weight, you will report 0 points.  You do not receive maintenance points for future weeks until you return to within 3.0 (might change to 2) pounds of the lowest weight you had already achieved.

You get your $10 back if you stay within 3.0 (maybe 2) pounds of your low weight from the beginning of the session. If you gain more weight than that during this session, you lose your $10. Send proposals for using the money to Rene and we will vote as a group for where the money will go.