8- Week Challenge/SexyMoxieMamaHow are you doing on your New Year’s Resolutions to get healthy and fit? Did you know that 24% of people making New Year’s resolutions fail at their resolutions? If you have been struggling to succeed at your New Year’s resolutions to lose weight and get healthy in the new year, you have come to the right place for motivation. Below is a fairly simple health and weight loss challenge that I am doing with a mom’s group that I belong to. I wanted to extend the invitation to all of my readers here as well.

8- Week Health & Weight Loss Challenge

  1. The 8 Week #MLIChallenge starts on Monday, January 27, 2014. You’ll need THIS 8 Week Challenge Calendar to be able to complete this challenge. Please look over the calendar and then comment on this post to let the other know you’re joining.
  2. Each week you will get points for drinking water each day, eating your fruits and veggies, exercising, logging your food/exercise, and obtaining from processed/sugary foods.
  3. A weekly point calendar is available for each of 8 weeks to tally your points. Please use it and keep it until the end of the challenge.
  4. On Week #2 there is a double point challenge (highlighted in pink) that will give you more points for that particular category for that week only.
  5. You will receive points for exercise. You can exercise each day, but you will only receive points for exercising 5 days a week.
  6. You will receive points for eating healthy and staying away from processed and sugary treats. You can choose to not eat processed/treats each day, but you will only receive points for not eating sugar/processed foods on 6 days. A processed food is defined as: “…foods that are packaged in boxes, cans or bags. These foods need to be processed extensively to be edible and are not found as is in nature. In addition to going through many complex processing steps, processed foods often contain additives, artificial flavorings and other chemical ingredients”.
  7. Complete your food and exercise diary each day for accountability. Keep track of what you eat via Myfitnesspal.com. Please also allow for your food diary to be viewed by others. My username is CBBhattacharya.
  8. Weight yourself each Sunday morning, on an empty stomach, in the same clothes/no clothes each time. Write your weight in the space provided on the week you are beginning. You will need this weight at the end of the week.
  9. Example of weight loss points: You will get 1 point per pound of weight you lose during the week, 0.5 points for maintaining your previous weight and 0 points for gaining a pound of weight. For instance, you weigh in on Sunday morning and put your weight into MFP, the following Sunday you also weigh in and put your weight into MFP. If you have gained weight you DO NOT collect any points, if you lose 3 lbs you get 3 weight loss points, if you maintain your weight from the previous Sunday you collect 0.5 point.
  10. Comment each Sunday (before 9 PM CST) on this post with your weekly points for the week. Calculate your points by adding your weekly points with your weight loss/ gain points.

*Disclaimer: This challenge was inspired by and adapted from the SixSistersStuff.com 8-Week Weight Loss Challenge. The point system is similar but not identical to the original as items were added/deleted for simplicity purposes.