Today begins a 4-week competition with several of Daniel's family to get fit. Daniel and I are on a team, Team Awesome. We're competing against two other teams: one is Daniel's parents and the other is Daniel's sisters and her hubby.The Rules:
-- You get points for doing stuff, and the team with the most points after 4 weeks, wins.
-- A perfect day earns you 100 points.
- 6 points each for 5 sanctioned meals, spaced between 2-4 hours apart
- 10 points for drinking 3 liters of water
- 15 points for getting at least 7 hours of sleep/night
- 20 points for doing 20 minutes of exercise daily
- 10 points for doing your "good habit" you decided on at the beginning of the game
- 10 points for not doing your "bad habit" you decided on at the beginning of the game
- 5 points for communicating with a teammate and an opponent every day
-- You get one free day a week and one free meal a week. And you can eat 100 calories of anything you want everyday (except alcohol, soda, or diet soda)
So it doesn't sound that hard, right? Except here's the catch. A "sanctioned" meal consists of a palm-sized portion of protein, a fist-sized portion of carbs, and a thumb-sized portion of fat. And that's good fat, mind you. Not like you can have a thumb-sized portion of donut. Oh, and at least two meals a day must have 2 fist-sized portions of vegetables. And no snacks between meals, except celery and cucumber.
If you think this sounds extreme, I would have to agree with you. It's gonna be rough. But hopefully it'll be helpful too. And the winning team gets $40. So Daniel and I are already planning how to spend that money.
Now, since this blog is public to the world, I'm not gonna share all my weight-related goals. But I will say that if I give this game a good shot, I will probably lose about 7 lbs by the end of these four weeks. That's exciting! If I were really gutsy I would post "before" pictures on here. Sorry. No such guts here.
So, is this based on a book?
ReplyDeleteYes, that's the book :)
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