June Healthy Games

In just a few short days, it will be June!  Yea!!!  That means summer is right around the summer!  I am a teacher, so I look forward to the END of June, just as much as the kids!  I still have to work, however, summer means more time at home to spend with my kids!

It also means.....swimsuits, amusement parks, pools, etc.

I am losing weight and feeling better about myself, but I want to be the best I can be for this summer!  That is why I am joining in the June Healthy Games.  The Healthy Games is a way that I keep myself accountable and keep on track with a healthy lifestyle....and you can win money!!!

Here's how it works:

All participants ante up $22.99 to play (that includes a $2.99 service fee).  To be qualified to win, you need to accomplish 2 goals:

1.  Meet your weight goal:  Each challenge has two categories for you to select from: Target Weight Loss, and Maintain.
      ***If you choose to participate in the Weight Loss category, you’ll need to lose at least 4% of your starting weight over the course of the challenge, and you’re free to lose up to 12%!
      ***If you are completing the challenge in the Maintain option, you have a different set of rules.  You will be given a bracket of weight which you will need to maintain your weight within.  You cannot gain more than 1%, or lose more than 3.9% in this category.

2.  Meet your Point Goal.
During the course of the challenge, you will be earning Participation Points for various activities.  There are many different daily, as well as weekly activities for you to participate in.  Each activity will net you points, and you will have to accrue a minimum of 1,000 participation points in order to qualify as a winner. 

If you accomplish those two goals, you are a winner!  50% of the pool of money from the participants gets divided among the winners.  The other 50% is divided into two groups of 25%.  One is used for prizes and incentives, and the other goes to the people who run the challenge.

So, now that you know about the challenge, why should you join in?

1.  You can win money!  If you are working on a healthy lifestyle, why not get some extra cash to help out!
2.  There is so much to learn!  Each day there is a reading that gives you information about creating optimal health.  Each week there is a webinar, and throughout the other activities, you will learn lots of information about drinking water, the importance of sleep, ways to increase your activity levels, eating healthy, and so much more!
3.  The best way to make a lifestyle change is to surround yourself with like-minded people.  The Healthy Games is a great community of people who want the same things you do....to be healthy!  What better way to get the support and encouragement you need from so many people!
4.  No one will see your before/after weight or photos.  Believe me....taking that first picture when I first began was not the best thing for my ego.  But, it is where you are at this point in time, and no one will see them or know what you weigh!  The ONLY people who will see your weight and your photos are you and the Meltdown Challenge Judge, unless you authorize it!!!
5.  It helps to keep you accountable.  The checking in, earning points, watching/reading keeps your mind on a health and making good choices.

Those are just a few reasons why you should join the Healthy Games for June.  It really is fun and motivating!  If you have any questions about it, or want to know more....send me a message!  

If you are ready to join, check out the link below and sign up!!!

                                                        June Healthy Games Invite


For now, I have to get back to doing some more school work....it's not summer vacation yet!

Have a great day!


***Are you interested in reaching Optimal Health?  I am a free Health Coach and can help you reach your goals!  Message me if you are interested in learning more!

Think and Eat!

Last week I was a rock star!  I was on plan!  I was drinking water!  I was going out for walks!  You could have called me the poster child for TSFL!  But there was one exception.

My weight was not moving.  It was the same all week long.  Each morning, I would get up, get on the scale, and my weight would be the same as it was the morning before.  I really could not think what was going wrong.  I knew I was on plan.  I was doing the right things.  Since I am the queen of excuses, I thought that maybe I was losing inches and my weight hadn't caught up yet.  My clothes were feeling better.

Then yesterday happened.  I started on plan, but blew it at lunch.  Didn't bring enough meals with me, and I ended up eating pizza and cookies.   I almost went off plan for the whole day...but there was something that was nagging me.

No, it was not my health coach, although she must have some kind of telepathy because I received a text from her asking about my weekend right as I was deciding if I was going to eat what I was making my kids, or if I was going to have a MF smoothie.

What was nagging me was a quote I have seen floating around Pinterest and Facebook.  It talked something about going off plan for an entire day because of one bad choice, is like slashing all of your car tires because one was flat.  One bad meal does not mean that I destroyed the entire day.  I should not let go of my plan because of one bad choice.  I ended up going with the smoothie and eating the rest of my 5 MF meals, and did not have what the kids were eating.

It felt good to be in control!

I am proud that I was able to make better choices, but in that, I learned something else I was doing wrong.  The week before, I was a rock star (see above).  I know I was on plan.  I was doing everything I needed to be doing, but the scale was not moving.

After my fallout yesterday, when I was cooking dinner for my kids and debating if I should just forget the day and just eat whatever, I realized that I was standing in the kitchen with a spoon full of peanut butter in my mouth.

Hello!  Peanut butter????

I really had no idea.  It was something that I always do, and I didn't even recognize I was doing it.  I began to think back to last week.  Yup.  I am sure I had a spoonful or two each day of peanut butter.  I didn't count it, didn't even realize I was doing it!

I love peanut butter.  I know peanut butter is a problem for me, yet, I still had it in the house.  Right in the pantry so I could see it as soon as I opened the pantry door.

It's the little things.  Those "little" spoonfuls, which I am sure were not little, added up and were making my weight loss stop.  When I realized that I was eating peanut butter, a light bulb went off.  I know I have a problem with peanut butter.  So, why do I need to have it in the house???

Last night the peanut butter went on vacation.  It is gone.  I am not going to buy it again.  But then I got to thinking.....I didn't realize I was eating that peanut butter....what else am I eating and not thinking about?  I am going to log my food on MyFittnessPal this week.  I am going to log every bite I take.  One of the reasons I love TSFL, is because you don't have to spend hours a week planning what you are going to eat every second.  There is still some planning with the lean and green, but being able to grab a bar or something and go is a life saver for me.  But that doesn't mean I don't have to think.

My goal is to obtain optimal health.  In order to get there, I have to be thoughtful about what I am eating.  I can't let a few bites of something cause me to stray from my journey.  If I am going to eat something off plan, I need to make a conscious decision to do so.  Every time I go to eat, I need to Stop, before I eat something. Challenge myself (is eating this going to help me reach my goals).  And Choose if I want to eat it or not.

Logging my food and reflecting on my choices is going to be my goal this week.  Are you thinking while you are eating????




***Are you interested in reaching Optimal Health?  I am a free Health Coach and can help you reach your goals!  Message me if you are interested in learning more!

A New Beginning

Today something exciting arrived!

My bars, cocoa, pudding, and smoothies came today.  I can not wait to have my coffee and cocoa tomorrow morning!  Coffee just isn't the same without it!  I always add the hot cocoa to a large Dunkin Donuts coffee.  I may just want to get up early tomorrow morning for that!

But something else arrived with it.

Want to guess????

Today, my TSFL Health Coach Kit arrived!!!

Yea!!!!!!

Since I decided that I wanted to pay it forward and help others, I just could not wait to get started!  I love the TSFL program.  It has helped me with more than just losing weight.  I am learning how to make better choices.  I am learning how to not eat emotionally.  I am in more control of my life, and of my health.  My ultimate goal is to maintain a healthy lifestyle.  No more dieting.  No more beating myself up when things go wrong.  I am making healthy choices everyday, and I am learning every day.  I still have a long way to go, but I am on the path to get there.

I purchased my kit on Saturday.  It took less than 5 minutes.  Once it was submitted, that was it!  I am a coach!  I received a few emails with some information to get my website activated and where I can find resources to help me coach others.  Even before I received my kit, I had a ton of information at my fingertips!  I will admit that I found a bunch of training videos and watched a number of them on Sunday.  I made myself stop because there were a few things that they referred to in the kit that I had not gotten yet (I did just order it the day before!).  Now I just finished going through everything in the kit to help me on my way.  I am making a list of questions and ideas so I can talk about them with my Health Coach.  In the next 30 days I will need to take a certification test, but I can start helping others as soon as....well, as soon as right now!


I am so excited to take this step.  I know that I can help others to "find their fit" in the same way as I have, because I have found my fit.  It is right here with TSFL.


**If you are reading this and want to find out more about the TSFL program, send me an email!  I would love to help you!!!