The Rules

8 points possible each day
50 points = a complete week
(6 freebies each week)
$10 to enter

HOW IT ALL WORKS

Now you will notice that 56 points are possible, but you can have a complete week with just 50 points. You have 6 freebies to use however you wish. THE GOAL IS TO GET 50 POINTS EVERY WEEK. The freebies help you to not get discouraged and feel deprived, or if you forget to do something. The first few weeks, I suggest you leave a few freebies for the end of the week in case you forget something one day. You can spread the freebies around or use them all in one day, it's up to you. Points cannot carry over week to week.

1. 30min of exercise daily
Whatever counts as exercise to you. Walking, running, yoga, weights, pushups, etc., just as long as it is AT LEAST 30 minutes. If you exercise more than 30 minutes, that's great! It still counts as one point, no matter how much longer you exercise after you hit the 30 minute mark.  Sundays are an automatic free day for exercise, but you get the point anyway.


2. 5 servings of fruits/veggies daily
At least one fruit or one veggie must be in this combo, meaning you can't eat all fruit or all vegetables. You may count ONE of your servings from a liquid form daily, but the rest must be from real fruits and vegetables. You know, like a V8 juice or what not. FYI, potatoes do not count as a vegetable!


3. 50 oz of water daily
Water only. No other drinks, including flavored water, count for the 50 ounces.

4. No sweets/soda
This includes cookies, cakes, candies, etc. But ultimately, this is AT YOUR DISCRETION! Your main goal in participating in this challenge should first and foremost be for your own health! You decide about grey areas like fruit salads with cool whip and things like that. Don't stress about what has sugar in it if it is healthy for you. If it has no nutritional purpose, don't eat it.

5. No eating after 8 PM nightly
You need to stop eating at 8:00 PM. You MAY have something to drink, but avoid heavy drinks such as smoothies since it is basically food blended down.

6. Brush and floss teeth
Brush your teeth twice a day and floss once. My secret? Floss and brush my teeth right at 8:00 pm. That way, I'm getting #5 AND #6 at once.

7. 7 hours of sleep
Now, this is based on your "intent to sleep." If you go to lay down at 10 pm and a baby/neighbor/dog wakes you up, you can still count it. You just need to make sure that you were really going to bed - no tv, computer, iPod, etc. You may add in a nap if you need to make up 30 min or an hour that you may have missed or you think you will miss.

8. Personal point
What do you wish you were doing better at? Is it reading your scriptures? Getting up early? Writing in your journal? Reading a good book? Practicing a hobby?


(Rules adapted from here)