The Point Challenge is a monthly challenge. We challenge just ourselves. Whatever your "plan or diet" is, you can succeed at the challenge.
The details: You can earn up to 4 points per day during the challenge.
Food: You can earn 2 points for following your food plan, whatever that may be.
Water: You can earn 1 point for chugging a certain amount of water set by you at the start of the challenge.
Exercise: You can earn 1 point a day for following your exercise routine. No matter if you plan on 10 minutes or exercise or 1 hour, when you meet your goal, you get a point. If you plan for an off day, however, you don't earn a point.
I "track" the points, and will announce the "winner" at the end of the challenge. Everyone wins though...the more points you earn, the better you are doing, the better you feel and in the end, the better you will look.
Even if you only earn 2 points a day...that's alot more than what you would if you were just "toying" around.
I know I haven't participated in awhile, but I do plan on it for March. It's taken me awhile to get the new eating restrictions in place, but it's do-able.
Food: Being "good" 90% of the time. Low sodium, low animal protein (lo-so, lo-pro)
Food- All good choices. Remember, "just b/c you break one egg, you don't have to break the other 11." Try to get 5-10 servings of fruits/veggies a day.
Water- 64 oz / day or more
Exersize - Curves Monday-Friday and ANYTHING for at least 20 minutes on Saturdays and Sundays
Exercise EVERY day (at least 1.5 mi on treadmill) AND
M W F - weight training
T Th - Yoga/Pilates/Jump rope/Crunches - pretty much anything
Weekends - "free" (except treadmill)
Friday Night/Saturday 'Lunch' are "free" (can't go crazy - but CAN have that burger and pizza fries I've been craving all week )
My March Goals -
- carbohydrates 25g or less a day (except saturdays) under 25g + 1 meal of my choice
- 64 oz minimim of water
- walk (at least) 5 times a week on treadmill
Eating - NO refined sugar (except 2 Hershey's kisses/day ), portion control, avoiding processed foods, limit high GI items and WATCH FAT INTAKE!
H2O - 96 oz. daily
Exercise - Cardio - Walk or stationary bike 30-40 minutes a minimum of 4-days a week. Yoga and strength training on non-cardio days.
*Get in 64oz. water daily
*At least 30 minutes of exercise 6 days a week
*Watch portion sizes and what I eat.I don't eat to bad,but finishing off the kids dinner kills me.I need to get back into the habit of thinking it's not bad if I leave something on mine and others plates.
1) No bingeing and incorparating foods from the Eat Right 4 Your Type - Type O plan
2) minimum of 64 oz. water per day
3) minimum of 30 minutes of exercise (strength or cardio or combination)
Last edited by activeadventurer; 08-02-2006 at 10:27 AM.