Google Group & Unique Entry No.

For those of you who might be following the blog for information please note a few things:

1.  I have sent everyone who paid their fee an invitation to join the Google Group, ATAPC.  I need you to accept this invitation (it is free) because this blog will no longer be used after today and the best way for us all to stay in contact with each other is through the Google Group.  If you find you get too many individual emails once the competition begins you can change your settings to where you only get ONE email per day that gives you a list of the discussions that took place and then you can go to the group page and read/reply as you desire.

2.  I will be emailing each participant a private email to the email address I have on file for you.  I have more than one email for some of you but I tried to use the one provided in your Paypal payment unless I was told to use another.  At any rate, be watching for this email because you will need to know what your unique entrant number is so when the standings are posted on the Google Group page anonymously you will know who you are on that list :)

xoxo,
Helen

8 Days until registration ends!

I am very happy to report we have 3 "paid" participants so far and about 7 more who have said they will be signing up.

Remember, once you have paid either your $10 or $16 participation fee, I will send you an invite to the Google Group, ATAPC.  This group is where we will interact on a daily/weekly basis vs. using this blog.

Remember, there are only 8 days left to register & pay your entrance fee!  Looking forward to a good "healthy" competition :)

xoxo,
Helen

Optional Extra Incentive Challenge

Below are the details of an optional extra incentive challenge that my former teammate, Krisi, will be in charge of tracking.
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How It Works

I don't know about you but I need daily accountability.  So as a chance to have more daily accountability we will be giving everyone the opportunity to participate in a daily incentive challenge.  While you are accounting for things each day the reward will be every 4 weeks for this. It will be $6 to participate in this challenge - $2 will go toward each prize period.  The $6 would need to be paid up front for all three prize periods.  Prize periods will end October 29^th, November 26^th and December 23^rd

Here is how you would earn points.  There is an opportunity to earn 50 points each day (350 points each week):

10 points for exercise - 1 point for every 10 minutes of exercise; 1 point for every 20 minutes of physical activity - leisure walk, deep cleaning of your home, etc.  

10 points for H2O - 1 point for each glass of 8oz of water (1/2 can be a no calorie no sugar no caffeine beverage)
10 points for keeping to your food plan (0 points you went completely off plan; 5 for following your plan for the most part; 10 for sticking to the plan 100%)
10 points for sleep - 1 point for each hour of sleep each day
5 points check in - check in on the google group with how your day is going and comment back to others
5 points for breakfast - eating breakfast within 3 hours of waking up

Each day you will post the following with your point information:

Sat (_)Exercise (_)H20 (_) Food (_)Sleep (_)Check-in (_)Breakfast  =  __ (daily total)

Sun (_)Exercise (_)H20 (_) Food (_)Sleep (_)Check-in (_)Breakfast  =  __

Mon (_)Exercise (_)H20 (_) Food (_)Sleep (_)Check-in (_)Breakfast  =  __

Tues (_)Exercise (_)H20 (_) Food (_)Sleep (_)Check-in (_)Breakfast  =  __

Wed (_)Exercise (_)H20 (_) Food (_)Sleep (_)Check-in (_)Breakfast  =  __

Thurs (_)Exercise (_)H20 (_) Food (_)Sleep (_)Check-in (_)Breakfast  =  __

Fri (_)Exercise (_)H20 (_) Food (_)Sleep (_)Check-in (_)Breakfast  =  __

Weekly total =  ______  (out of 350 points possible)

Each week I will take your total points for the week and enter them into a spreadsheet.  When each four week period is up I will take each weeks points and generate and AVERAGE of them. The top TWO people with the higest AVERAGES (not TOTALs) will be the winners for that prize period.  This will allow someone to have a bad day/week and not mess them up for the whole prize period.  If there is a tie between 2nd & 3rd the winnings will be split.

Example:

10 people participating - $20 for each prize pool.

Each person would win $10.  Should the 2nd and 3rd person tie the 1st place would get $10 and 2nd and 3rd would get $5 each.