After 8 grueling weeks, our fitness challenge has come to an end. Wipe a tear. Though I'm sure this won't be the end as I think I've created a challenge monster in my mom (she and I are heading up a more lenient albeit lengthy 16 week maintenance challenge), plus I like getting points for doing healthy tasks. In this next one we're working to earn our own money back and the highest point earner will choose a charity to donate any forfeited money, so it's not nearly as competitive...but I digress...
Since the challenge was what got me started on this blog in the first place, I should really recap the end results. Five of us maintained perfect points, including Bishop and myself (shocker that I would be compulsive about such things as perfect points...and the prize money wasn't a bad perk, either, even if we did have to split it five ways). I'm totally impressed he did it - I tell you what, he's relished every morsel of food eaten after 9pm for the past couple of days! There was also a tie for most weight lost (both of them were also one of the perfect points earners), so that was really fun to see such great success. Both winners lost 10% of their body weight...I've always read about success stories but never actually been such an eye witness to it much before. And, not to harp so much on numbers because they hardly tell the whole story, but, as a group over 172 pounds were lost. I say that's pretty amazing.
Now, as with most things, the real challenge will be applying such success to the real world and not just reverting back to the way things were before.
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