I was soooo excited to have lost everything I gained the week of the 4th. In fact everyone who did gain lost again. This is super exciting to be able to get back on track. Most of our lives can not come to a complete stop when the Holiday's come, most of us will gain during the Holiday's but if we can get back on track right away that is a good thing.

We have been meeting most nights to walk or bike at 6:30pm at the Quartz enterance to the dry canyon. My new goal is to bike in the AM and walk in the PM. If you have not been able to join us yet, come and walk with us, bring a stroller if you have a little one or let them bike along too.

Congrats to our biggest losers
1st Jill Ward 3.47%
2nd Laura Chapman 1.5%
3rd Kate Merritt 1.4%

We have 5 weeks left, I asked everyone what there ulimate goal will be at the end. Time to start thinking about it and if you need to adjust or get your butt in gear it's time.

The Challenge for the week was to add something different to your work out. If you walk, bike, if you bike, walk. Or what ever you want to do. Time to mix up the work outs too. We need to confuse our muscles to get them to start working again.

So what can we say about this past weigh in. Some of us gained and some of us lost. And such is life right? I think I learned that I can't just eat what I want when ever I want. I learned not to drink a 6pk of soda a day. Some of you did great and lost over the holiday and those that did need to pat your selves on your back. You inspire me.

Congrats to our biggest losers:
1st Josephine 2%
2nd Jill S. .8%
3rd Kayanna .6%

I hope I can get my butt in gear again, I was soooo excited for myself the first few weeks but after last week I felt like "what's the point" But I know that's not a good attitude.


I added up all the numbers for the first 6 wks and here is the results with measurements added in. This gives me hope still.

Congrats: If the contest was over as of last thrus these are the results.
1st Jill S 4.8%
2nd April 4%
3rd Kate 3.9%
4th Jill W 3.4%

Sorry this is over a week late. Lots of stuff happening like holiday's and stuff like that. LOL Please forgive me. So we have numbers for the lbs lost and the inch's lost. What great progress we are making.

Congrats to our biggest Losers in LBS.
1st Britney Knudson 1.3%
2nd Kelcey Ward 1.2%
3rd Jill Ward 1%

Congrats to our biggest losers in INCH'S
1st Jill W and Kate M 5.2%
2nd Kelcey Ward 4.4%
3rd Sandy Knorr 4.2%

Total lbs lost this week is 17.2 that makes a total of 54.1 for the group since we started. That is AWESOME

Congrats to our biggest losers
1st Kate Merritt with 1.95%
2nd Sandy Knorr with 1.7%
3rd Kelcey Ward with 1.3%

OH MY GOSH, your girls rock. Walking each day has made a huge impact on me for sure. I feel better and have more energy. I am sleeping better and just feel all around more energetic.

The Challenge for this week is to keep a FOOD JOURNAL again. And we are adding a new bead. We were going to walk again, but since some of us "Kate Merritt" names will not be mentioned is walking over 10 miles aday. We are going to add a new bead for every 10 miles walked. So start tracking your millage.

Again if you want to walk with us we are meeting at the Quartz end of the Dry Canyon trail at 6:30pm. Most nights that is. Some of us are walking during the day at different times cuz we can't get there at the night walk. We have other friends joining us that are not in the challenge and I love the support we are getting. Chelsea you are an awesome walking buddy btw we love having company of others walking with us. I know when I have others going I am way more likely to go. The weather has just be beautiful too, perfect walking weather.

Kate is amazing me with how many miles she is walking she text me it was a little over 40. I walked over 18 miles last week and I am feeling it with some calf issues. And remember this is ALL in flip flops. LOL I love you Kate.

I know you can do this ladies. If I can you can. I hope we get to see our buddies in Spoaken soon. Jill will be in the area in July some time so we will have to kid nap her and take her walking with us.

If you have not been doing as well as you had hoped start NOW. We still have over 2 months left in this. It's anyones game. So get moving, and get eating better if that's what you need to do. I love you all.

What a fun week. We had a total weight loss of 16.58 lbs. And a few people did not make it to the meeting.

Congrats to our biggest losers.
1st Jill Ward with 1.8%
2nd Jill Stephenson 1.33%
3rd April Huey with 1.28%
4th Kate Merritt with 1.2%

Our Challenge for last week was to walk 5 miles and I think almost everyone pretty much did it. Kate Merritt walked over 30 miles last week, with 11 in one day. You are CRAZY girl. But very impressive.

Our Challenge for this week is WATER, WATER, WATER, drink half of your weight in water in OUNCES not LBS every day.

We are going to get T-shirts ordered, if you want one let me know. If you want to provide your own T its $8 to have the wording put on. If you want a T from them it's $15 for up to XL and $18 for XXL. I need to know ASAP so we can get them ordered. They are nice shirt's, I think called C-sport. Nice heavy duty shirts we have a few that they have made from the past.

Have a great week, if you want to walk with us we meet at the Quartz enterance of the dry canyon and walk to the bridge and back just little over 5 miles. We meet every night at 6:30pm. See you there.

We are up to 15 competitors now.

So Josephine from the RAC and Angie a friend of Britney's joined us. They are only a week behind, but Angie is allready talking smack. Now we have 15 people in the challenge. This is getting tuffer then I thought. So excited to see next weeks Results.

WEEK 1

Total Lbs. lost for our first week was 31.1

Congrats too our biggest losers.
1st place was April Huey with 2.34% LOST
2nd place was Laura Chapman with 2.24% LOST
3rd place was Jill Stephenson with 2.08% LOST

We had some very stiff competition this week. The challenge was to keep a food journal all week and most everyone did it. Good job. This is one of the first steps to being successful with a diet. I am not an expert by any means but I do know that more often then not if you track your food you will have better success.

So anyway, this week we talked about walking every night. We will meet for those who want to at the Quartz end of the Dry Canyon. We are walking about 4 miles and it will take about 1.5 hrs if kidos go.

The challenge this week is to WALK 5 MILES. I know we can do this. I would love to walk that every day if I can but I will try to go at least 3 times a week.

This means that 2 of our top 3 are from out of town. Come on REDMOND GIRLS. I know we can show our friends up north how it is done.

We have one more member.

Jennifer Mendes is going to join us, I went and weighed and measured her Friday. So the pot gets bigger and the competition gets tuffer.... WHOOT WHOOT.

Week 1

Oh my gosh what a great meeting. We had 9 people show up, 1 person weight in earlier and I know of a few more that might get in before this next meeting. I have 2 friends from Spokane who are joining us.

The Muffin Top Group is going to be very competitive. I think we have a few girls already making threats to be the winner. One of them is ME. So let's meet each other.

The local girls are:
Jill Ward
Kayanna Schultz
Heather Messinger
Kelcey Ward
Kate Merritt
Britney Knudsen
April Huey
Susan Sams
Linda Schultz
Sandy Knorr

Our out of town girls are:
Laura Chapman
Jill Stephenson

The Challenge
Keep a complete FOOD JOURNAL for the week. Write down everything that you put in your mouth. Track Track Track!!!!!! Every diet I have ever done, and been successfull with I have wrote down my food. So if we can get in habbit of this, I know we can learn from what we are putting in our mouth.

If you can add me on Facebook, Jill Smart Ward then find our page on FB and lets all add each other as friends so we can start talking smack.

Overview of our Challenge

Overview:

This is a 12 week challenge to lose the most amount of weight and inches. Competition begins June 2nd and ends on August 27th (Possibly September 3rd based on vacation schedules). If you would like to buy in and be qualified for the Weekly Weight Winner prizes and Grand Prize of over $1000, there is a buy in fee of $100 due by July 1st.

75% of the joining fee will go to the GRAND PRIZE WINNER!
25% will be used to buy prizes, awards, and parties.

Example:
10 people join (We have 14 already) at $100 each= $1000
At 25% to prizes= $250
At 75% means $750 GRAND PRIZE!!!!

The more people that join, the lower the percentage towards prizes and higher percentage towards the grand prize.


The Grand Prize Winner will be decided upon by your percentage of pounds lost combined with the percentage of inches lost, divided by two.

If you would like to forfeit the grand prize and qualify only for the Weekly Weight Winner, the buy in is $20.

If you would like to simply participate and forfeit all prizes, except beads, you are welcome.

Each Week:

Weigh in every week, measure the first Thursday of each month.

Weekly prizes will be based on pounds lost only.

New theme and challenge each week.

A different person will be asked to share their “Words of Wisdom” with the group each week. Sharing what they are doing, or some tips to help eachother out.


Weekly, you will earn beads to put on your lanyards to chart your progress.
Clear- inches lost

White- pounds lost
Pink-Weekly Weight Winner
Black- Challenge Champions

Weekly Weight Winner prizes are starting to come in from the community, including Outside In, Subway, The RAC, and also things such as a weeks worth of snacks.



Group Activities:

We will be having two movie nights at Kayanna's. Everyone will be asked to bring their favorite healthy snack to share.

We will be having a party at the end of the competition to celebrate our awesomeness!!

Tuesday mornings at 10 AM, we will meet at Canyon Rim Park and walk to Sam Johnson Park and back which is approximately 5 miles. This trail is paved, great for bikes, strollers, skates, etc.

Saturday mornings at 8AM, we will be hiking the Cline Buttes west of Redmond. The first month we will hike the first, adding a butte each month. We will also shake it up some weeks and do Misery Ridge, Monkey Face, Black Butte, etc. The goal is to work up to championing South Sister the first week of September!

(Mapquest 350 SW 89th St., Redmond, for directions to meeting point for Cline Butte.)


T-shirts will be made, preview and price to follow. At which time we will have a bedazzle party to cutie-pie up our shirts.

Rules:

Weigh in every Thursday. If you can not be there for a weigh in, you will not be qualified for that Weekly Weight Winner prize or the following week's weight prize.
Example:
Weight week 7 you weigh 189 lbs. Miss week 8. Weight week 9 you weigh 180 lbs.
Because weight for week 8 was not taken, if we counted 9 pounds lost week 9, that person would most likely win. Sorry, not fair!

You will not be disqualified from the grand prize, however, you will not qualify if you do not get weighed and measured your first meeting or last. Although, you will qualify for the Challenge Champion bead.

Support and Information:
All news and information can be found on our blog, be sure to follow!!!!

Some Favorite Applications and Websites include:

My Net Diary

Weight Watchers

myfitnesspal.com

You may contact Jill Ward at 541-279-6344 or Kayanna Schultz at 541-550-6476 with any questions, comments, additional sites or applications, recipes, tips, fitness information, etc, that you would like answered or put on the blog.

"Put a Stop to Muffin Top" starts in 2 days.

This is a 12 week weight loss competition, set up similar to the Biggest Loser. We will meet weekly on Thursdays at 7:30pm to weigh in and hand out awards. There will be weekly challenges and prizes. If you want to compete there is a fee for the challenge otherwise you are welcome to come and hang out to get some motivation. Those who want to compete will be in the running for the large prize at the end. The person with the... largest % of weight loss and inches combined will win. If you pay the entry fee and you drop out the fee is forfeited.

25% of the entry fees will go towards the awards and prizes
75% of the entry fees will go to the cash prize for the biggest loser

This is meant to be a fun challenge for anyone who feels like they need that extra support to get moving or get healthier. This is not meant to exclude anyone, anyone is welcome to come and weigh in for the motivation, they will, how ever not be eligible to win the weekly prizes or the cash prize at the end of the competition.

Each week someone will be the biggest loser. If you are not present to weigh in you will not be in the quality for this prize. You will also miss out on being the next weeks beggest loser. However you will always be abel to find out what the challenge is for that week and be able to participate in the next week challenge.

Contact me for the fee info. Final weigh in is Aug 25th