There are two parts to this week's challenge (7/17 - 7/24).

Part one revolves around water. Since everyone's habits and needs are different, we can each make up our own challenge regarding our water consumption for the week. You might want to aim for your body weight in water, or you might just want to work on getting those 8 glasses in every day. It's up to you.

Part two is also entirely up to you, and is optional (well, it's all optional ). Since everyone seems to be dealing with different problems recently, you might want to tack on another element to your weekly challenge. Maybe you want to stay completely on-plan this week. Maybe you want to limit your wpas, or avoid a certain trigger food. Whatever you want to add in order to challenge yourself just a little bit more.

Our goal in creating a weekly challenge is to challenge ourselves, and not anyone else. But if you post a goal for yourself, the other "chicks" will try to keep you in-line. We are all in this together, and want to encourage each other to reach our goals and be our personal best.

Melissa, you are just the best. I love all of you. You are all so helpful to me.

I commit to daily drinking 80 ounces of pure water with no additives in addition to my other decaf beverages.

For phase 2, I commit to using no more than 12 WPA's through my next weigh in on Friday morning.

melissa, this is great. thank you so much for giving us a "jumpstart."

okay, here i go:

phase 1: i will drink at least 8 glasses of pure water and will limit my caffeine free diet cokes to 2 a day. (i'm a coke-aholic.)

phase 2: i will not cave in to binges. i will stay core and will limit wpa's to no more than 5 per day and less when possible.

thank you for the clarification on the wap/wpa stuff, vickie. i see i posted the wrong one on my phase 2 challenge. i don't use any exercise points cuz my old metabolism is super slow. so any time ya'll see me posting anything with a "w", an "a", and a "p", just know it's those free pts.

Phase 1: I will drink at least 8 cups of water a day, in addition to my milk and other beverages.

Phase 2: When I'm hungry, I will reach for a fruit/vegetable first.

I'd better go get a drink of water!

Angela

i've chugged oodles of water today. yard work helps make me thirsty.

Okay, here's mine:

Phase 1 -- at least 80 ounces of water per day. That's 5 of my 16 oz. bottles. I have a 32-pack in the car that my coworker bought for me last time she went to Sam's, so I have enough for the next 6 days plus a few extras.

Phase 2 -- I will walk at least 5 times (weather permitting) in the next 7 days, and a minimum of one mile or 20 minutes each time. I found a stop watch in the drawer so I'll use that when I go to time myself, plus my route that I walked this morning was sidewalks all the way and was 1.5 miles. I can do that.

Sandra, I don't use my exercise points either. My metabolism is slow too!

Great idea Melissa!!! Here goes:

Phase 1 - I have been slacking on my water so I will commit to drinking 4 of my 18 oz water bottles per day

Phase 2 - this is harder and I am a bit uptight about this but I need to once again detox and get rid of this nasty sugar habit I have succumbed to. I know I am going to end up with a massive two day headache and this is what is turning me off -but I know I have to do it. So this week I plan to wean myself off of sugar! Wish me luck.

Frouf

pt 1: 8 glasses of water
pt 2: OP till next Saturday
pt 3: at least half hour exercise per day in addition to my regular 15 minute walk (each way) to / from transportation

Melissa: great idea

Hey guys, I'm glad you're all on board.

Part 1: I am going to try to drink at least 2 liters of water each day.

Part 2: I would like to say that I won't use any wpas for the rest of the week, but that's probably not possible (being that I am going to be eating out every meal for three days!). So my goal is to use as few wpas as possible.

Part 3 for me too: I also want to try to exercise at least 3 times this week. That's vague, I know, but that's what I'm going to say for now.

I need to get in at least 80 oz of water a day. I bought the GI diet book which lists all of the low glycemic foods and they are all core. So i am sticking to these low glycemic foods this week to see how my weigh in goes.
Vivian

Vivian, I'd be interested in this list. What's the book called?

Vickie - here is a site w/more info and if you look to the left they have a GI database where you can look up low GI foods. http://www.glycemicindex.com/

More lists at: http://www.***************************/...icfoodlist.htm

Also try: http://www.shakeoffthesugar.net/article1032.html which has some interesting recipes which I think should be pretty core-friendly!

Frouf

Thanks, Frouf!

I've already had 72 ounces of pure water (no addivites) so I just need one more for my challenge. No points used yet.