Reporting Your Points
Click the link below that correlates to the current week of the challenge to report your points.
Download the Excel sheets you need to help you track and calculate your points by clicking one of the links below. If you need a Google version, just send me an email to request it.
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Watch the video for instructions on filling out your spreadsheets, or continue reading for written instructions. |
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Use the Excel sheet linked above that matches the program you are doing to track your points each week. You will fill in the "Yellow" cells, and report the "Blue" cells. The Excel sheets will do all the calculating for you, but detailed instructions for how to calculate points can be found at the bottom of this page or on the "Rules" page.
You will report your points each Friday (except for the first Friday*) using the buttons at the top of this page. Points must be reported by 10 p.m. (Mountain Time) on Saturday night. If your points are not reported when I post the points, your points from that week will not count at all. After you submit your points you should see a message that confirms your submission. If you make a mistake when reporting your points, just re-submit them and leave me a comment about which points to use.
*The first Friday you do not need to report any points. You just need to take your measurements and weight, and log them in your Excel sheet. Please note that you should only put numbers in the Excel sheet cells. Adding things like "lb" or "inches" will make it so the formulas will not work.
CHECK YOUR POINT SUBMISSION:
Once you have reported your points, check the link I will send you via email of your teams point report to make sure they went in correctly and to make sure all of your teammates have reported their points as well. If you see someone has not reported their points, send them a friendly reminder to do so before the deadline.
WEEKLY RANKINGS NOT CUMULATIVE:
When I declare the team that wins each week, I will NOT be posting the points each team reported. Weekly results are not cumulative from previous weeks. At the very end of the competition, you will get to see the point grand totals, and I will rank the teams and declare an overall winner.
BE HONEST:
Point reports are "on your honor". Please be honest when reporting your points. While the winning team does win a portion of the pot of money, the amount of money is not worth your integrity. Remember, the real purpose of this challenge is to build good, healthy habits. Your health will reflect your commitment to living the rules of this challenge.
I want to add here that the way to win this competition is not by being on the team that loses the most weight. It is to get your ENTIRE team to commit to getting perfect or almost perfect weekly points. One team member not giving his or her very best can lead to the whole team losing because of that person's low points.
You will report your points each Friday (except for the first Friday*) using the buttons at the top of this page. Points must be reported by 10 p.m. (Mountain Time) on Saturday night. If your points are not reported when I post the points, your points from that week will not count at all. After you submit your points you should see a message that confirms your submission. If you make a mistake when reporting your points, just re-submit them and leave me a comment about which points to use.
*The first Friday you do not need to report any points. You just need to take your measurements and weight, and log them in your Excel sheet. Please note that you should only put numbers in the Excel sheet cells. Adding things like "lb" or "inches" will make it so the formulas will not work.
CHECK YOUR POINT SUBMISSION:
Once you have reported your points, check the link I will send you via email of your teams point report to make sure they went in correctly and to make sure all of your teammates have reported their points as well. If you see someone has not reported their points, send them a friendly reminder to do so before the deadline.
WEEKLY RANKINGS NOT CUMULATIVE:
When I declare the team that wins each week, I will NOT be posting the points each team reported. Weekly results are not cumulative from previous weeks. At the very end of the competition, you will get to see the point grand totals, and I will rank the teams and declare an overall winner.
BE HONEST:
Point reports are "on your honor". Please be honest when reporting your points. While the winning team does win a portion of the pot of money, the amount of money is not worth your integrity. Remember, the real purpose of this challenge is to build good, healthy habits. Your health will reflect your commitment to living the rules of this challenge.
I want to add here that the way to win this competition is not by being on the team that loses the most weight. It is to get your ENTIRE team to commit to getting perfect or almost perfect weekly points. One team member not giving his or her very best can lead to the whole team losing because of that person's low points.
Calculating Points
The easiest way to calculate your points is to use the Excel Sheets provided at the top of this page. Using these sheets makes it so you don't have to do any calculations yourself. You just put your numbers in the yellow cells and report the points in the blue cells. I have included specific instructions so you can understand how the points are calculated and so you can double check if the sheet is working.
There are a few ways you earn points, so read thoroughly:
WEEKLY POINTS--
Each Friday you will report your weekly points in seven categories totaling 170 possible points.
WEIGHT LOSS POINTS--
This challenge is for EVERYONE trying to be healthy, not just those trying to lose weight. The plan you choose to be on for this challenge (Weight-loss, Maintenance, or Pregnancy) will determine how you calculate these points. This is where many people get confused. If you use the excel sheet I send out it will do all the figuring for you. Please do your initial and weekly weigh-ins at approximately the same time and under the same circumstances each week (empty/full stomach, before/after exercise, etc.)
Weight loss Plan:
If you are trying to lose weight, you will choose the "Weight Loss Plan."Each week when you weigh yourself if you are at or below your previous lowest weight you get 5 maintenance points plus, for each pound you lose you earn 10 points (2lbs = 20 points). For each tenth of a pound you earn 1 point (.4 lbs = 4 points). (If you lost one pound, you would get 5 points for maintaining plus 10 points for that pound, so you would report 15 points. If you lost 2.1 pounds, you get 21 points plus 5 maintenance points, so you would report 26 weight points.)
If you gained weight, you will report 0 points every week until you drop below your lowest previous weight.
If you maintained your previous lowest weight, you report just the 5 maintenance points.
Weight maintenance:
If you are happy with the weight you are at and are not trying to lose more, you will choose the maintenance plan. At the beginning of the challenge you will decide what weight you wanted to maintain throughout the challenge. For each week that you are at or below that weight, you get 15 points. If you go over that weight, you report 0 points.
Pregnancy Plan:
If you are pregnant, you will choose the pregnancy plan. Please don't worry about the scale, but you can earn 15 weight points by getting at least 153 weekly points (90%).
CALCULATING INCHES POINTS
Weight-loss and Maintenance Plans:
At the start of the competition and again at the end of weeks 4 and 8, you will measure your right bicep, chest, waist, hips and right thigh. For each 1/2 inch you have lost , you will get 5 points. It is important when you are measuring that you measure in the same spot. To help give you a visual of where to measure I have attached this photo from the Textile Merchandising Company:
There are a few ways you earn points, so read thoroughly:
WEEKLY POINTS--
Each Friday you will report your weekly points in seven categories totaling 170 possible points.
- Exercise: You can earn up to 35 points each week for exercise. You earn 5 points for doing 30 minutes of exercise and 7 points for doing 45 minutes of exercise up to 5 days per week. If you do more than 45 minutes of exercise or more than 5 days per week, WAY TO GO! But you do not get any additional points, and you can't carry the points or minutes over to future days or weeks of exercise. 7 points x 5 days = 35 points possible each week
- Sweets: You can earn up to 30 points each week for not eating sweets. Each day that you eat no sweets, you get 5 points up to 6 days per week. Each day that you eat one sweet, you get 2 points. If you eat two or more sweets in a day, you get 0 points. What constitutes a sweet? Brownies, cookies, cake, ice cream, candy, donuts, or anything sweet that's preventing you from being healthy. HOWEVER, PLEASE NOTE THAT EACH WEEK YOU GET ONE "SWEETS DAY" THAT DOES NOT COUNT AGAINST YOUR POINTS! Special occasions do not get extra free sweets, so use your free day accordingly. If you don't use your sweets day, you do not get any additional points. 5 points x 6 days = 30 points possible each week.
- Fruits/Vegetables: Each day that you eat at least 5 servings of fruits or vegetables, you get 3 points. Each day that 3 or more of those are vegetables, you get 5 points. According to https://www.choosemyplate.gov/, 1 cup of raw or cooked fruits/vegetables or 100% juice, or 2 cups of raw leafy greens can be considered as 1 serving. 1/2 cup of dried fruits is also a serving. 5 points x 7 days = 35 points possible each week
- Water: Each day that you drink at least 64 ounces of water, you get 2 points. 2 points x 7 days = 14 points possible each week. This is a hard rule to follow for some participants. Please check with a doctor if you have questions with this rule. It is an all or nothing score.
- 9 p.m.: Each day that you stop eating before 9 p.m., you get 2 points. 2 points x 7 days = 14 points possible each week
- Team: Each day that you are in contact with a team member by any method (email, phone, blog, text, voice mail, telegram, Facebook, U.S. Postal Service, etc.) you get 1 point. Through personal experience I've found that encouraging, motivating, sharing experiences, and staying accountable to others helps us to be more successful as individuals and as teams. Just saying "checking in" is not as motivating or beneficial for you. 1 point x 7 days = 7 points possible each week. **It really helps to have someone you see every day on your team**
- Weekly Challenge- Every week is different. Before the challenge starts, I will post the first weekly challenge. After everyone has gotten started on the first week, I will post the remaining 7 weekly challenges. As a team you can look at each of the weekly challenges and decide which one your team is going to do for that week. Your entire team needs to be working on the same weekly challenge. You cannot repeat a weekly challenge. By the end of the 8 weeks you will need to have done all 8 challenges. These weekly challenges are there to push you a little further or get you thinking about your health a little bit more. The weekly challenges are not necessarily things you should be doing every day, but things to help you realize your bad habits. Each week the bonus challenge is worth 35 points. I will give instructions how to score your weekly challenge with the challenge instructions.
WEIGHT LOSS POINTS--
This challenge is for EVERYONE trying to be healthy, not just those trying to lose weight. The plan you choose to be on for this challenge (Weight-loss, Maintenance, or Pregnancy) will determine how you calculate these points. This is where many people get confused. If you use the excel sheet I send out it will do all the figuring for you. Please do your initial and weekly weigh-ins at approximately the same time and under the same circumstances each week (empty/full stomach, before/after exercise, etc.)
Weight loss Plan:
If you are trying to lose weight, you will choose the "Weight Loss Plan."Each week when you weigh yourself if you are at or below your previous lowest weight you get 5 maintenance points plus, for each pound you lose you earn 10 points (2lbs = 20 points). For each tenth of a pound you earn 1 point (.4 lbs = 4 points). (If you lost one pound, you would get 5 points for maintaining plus 10 points for that pound, so you would report 15 points. If you lost 2.1 pounds, you get 21 points plus 5 maintenance points, so you would report 26 weight points.)
If you gained weight, you will report 0 points every week until you drop below your lowest previous weight.
If you maintained your previous lowest weight, you report just the 5 maintenance points.
Weight maintenance:
If you are happy with the weight you are at and are not trying to lose more, you will choose the maintenance plan. At the beginning of the challenge you will decide what weight you wanted to maintain throughout the challenge. For each week that you are at or below that weight, you get 15 points. If you go over that weight, you report 0 points.
Pregnancy Plan:
If you are pregnant, you will choose the pregnancy plan. Please don't worry about the scale, but you can earn 15 weight points by getting at least 153 weekly points (90%).
CALCULATING INCHES POINTS
Weight-loss and Maintenance Plans:
At the start of the competition and again at the end of weeks 4 and 8, you will measure your right bicep, chest, waist, hips and right thigh. For each 1/2 inch you have lost , you will get 5 points. It is important when you are measuring that you measure in the same spot. To help give you a visual of where to measure I have attached this photo from the Textile Merchandising Company:
Pregnancy Plan
Under the pregnancy plan, you're not in the business of losing inches, rather than losing them, so just give yourself 10 points for inches points in week 4 and again in week 8.
WEIGHT-LOSS PERCENTAGE POINTS
Weight-loss Plan:
Calculate your weight-loss percentage by subtracting your lowest overall weight (cell G36 on Week 8 tab of spreadsheet) from your initial weight (cell E33 on the set-up tab on the spreadsheet) and divide it by your initial weight. Then multiply that total by 100. This equals your weight loss percentage.
You earn 1 point for each .1 percentage. So if you multiply your weight loss percentage by 10, that will give you your weight-loss percentage points.
i.e Initial weight: 234
Ending weight: 225
[(234-225)/234]*100=3.8% Weight Loss
3.8*10 = 38.46 weight loss percentage points
Maintenance Plan:
If you maintained your weight 6 out of the 8 weeks, then give yourself 50 points. If you didn't maintain your weight for 6 out of the 8 weeks, you do not earn any weight-loss percentage points.
Pregnancy Plan
If you earned 90% of your weekly points in at least 6 out of the 8 weeks, you can add in 50 points for weight-loss percentage points.
Under the pregnancy plan, you're not in the business of losing inches, rather than losing them, so just give yourself 10 points for inches points in week 4 and again in week 8.
WEIGHT-LOSS PERCENTAGE POINTS
Weight-loss Plan:
Calculate your weight-loss percentage by subtracting your lowest overall weight (cell G36 on Week 8 tab of spreadsheet) from your initial weight (cell E33 on the set-up tab on the spreadsheet) and divide it by your initial weight. Then multiply that total by 100. This equals your weight loss percentage.
You earn 1 point for each .1 percentage. So if you multiply your weight loss percentage by 10, that will give you your weight-loss percentage points.
i.e Initial weight: 234
Ending weight: 225
[(234-225)/234]*100=3.8% Weight Loss
3.8*10 = 38.46 weight loss percentage points
Maintenance Plan:
If you maintained your weight 6 out of the 8 weeks, then give yourself 50 points. If you didn't maintain your weight for 6 out of the 8 weeks, you do not earn any weight-loss percentage points.
Pregnancy Plan
If you earned 90% of your weekly points in at least 6 out of the 8 weeks, you can add in 50 points for weight-loss percentage points.