I WILL NOT GAIN... I WILL NOT GAIN...I WILL NOT GAIN CONTEST

Hello Ladies! I am so glad so many of you have chosen to focus on weight loss during the holidays instead of the dreaded New Year's Resolution!
Here are the rules:
Post today's weight. Decide your Jan 5th goal. Take a picture of today's weight and send that along with a $50 post dated check to Gwen. If you hit your goal, I will rip up your check. If you do not meet your goal, your check will be cashed and money will be split between those who hit their goal!
If you know anyone that wants to join mid stream, we will add to the fold!

Sarah 154.4 to 140
Kathy 199.5 to 181.5
Jen 151.2 to 130
Linda 183 to 172
Hilary 209 to 180
Gwen 160.5 to 125
Barbara 168.2 to 165
Lisa 155 to 140
Alison 164 to 144
Melanie 216 to 185

Reminder to email me your weight Nov 15th! That is only 3 weeks away!

And the winner is....

I won by a hair! Candi came very close! She was 3 lbs away from beating me. Thanks for the fun run and the motivation!

Week 12 Results

Gwen 18.91%
Candi 14.19%
Kristine 13.58%
Alison 10.66%
Heidi 9.94%
Greg 6.91%

Next week is the last week! We all still post on Monday and then the final weigh in is Wednesday at 8:15 at my house if you are a contender to win. Reminder that I will be cashing the checks this week!

Week 11 Results

Gwen 18.91%
Kristine 13.58%
Candi 12.90%
Alison 10.66%
Heidi 9.94%

Reminder that the contest ends Wednesday, October 7th. At this point the second part of the contest kicks in. If you miss next Monday or the following Monday's post, you are eliminated from the contest. The final weigh in is at my house, Wednesday anytime....in the same clothes you weighed in wearing. If you are not close to winning the $$$$$ then you don't have to come weigh in but you are WELCOME to if you like!

week 10 results

Gwen 16.82%
Kristine 13.85%
Candi 12.90%
Laurie 10.43%
Kammie 8.99%
Kim 8.86%
Heidi 7.73%
Greg 7.21%
Karin 4.30%

Week 9

Gwen 15.14%
Kristine 13.04%
Kammie 10.45%
Laurie 10.01%
Alison 7.90%
Heidi 6.91%
Greg 5.41%

week 8 results

Gwen 15.92%
Nikki 13.27%
Kristine 12.51%
Candi 10.97%
Kammie 10.27%
Laurie 9.42%
Heidi 6.91%
Alison 6.74%
Greg 3.00%
Karin 2.96%

No posts from

Stephanie
Kristi
Jana
Kim

Week 7 Results

Gwen 15.72%
Nikki 13.85%
Kristine 12.51%
Kammie 9.54%
Candi 8.39%
Laurie 7.75%
Heidi 6.19%
Greg 3.00%
Karin 2.91%

No posts from

Stephanie
Kristi
Jana
Kim
Alison

Week 6 Postings

Nikki 15.60% - AND SHE HAS PULLED AHEAD!!! NEW LEADER!!!
Gwen 13.62%
Candi 10.19%
Kristine 9.82%
Kammie 8.63%
Kim 7.60%
Laurie 7.27%
Heidi 6.08%
Alison 6.05%
Karin 2.91%

No posts from:

Stephanie
Greg
Kristi
Jana

Congrats to Nikki on moving into first place!!! If you look at most of you, we are looking at 6% - 9% losses in just a few short weeks! I am throwing out a goal for everyone to double their percent lost by the end of the contest. WHO IS IN FOR THAT GOAL???

Week 5 Postings

Gwen 12.26%
Nikki 12.11% - WOAHHHH NELLIE - she's close! I better start focusing now!
Kristine 9.55%
Candi 9.03%
Laurie 8.94%
Kammie 7.44%
Kim 6.34%
Heidi 6.13%
Greg 4.50%
Kristi 4.38%
Alison 3.75%
Jana 0.00%

No Posts

Karin
Stephanie

WEEK 4 POSTINGS

Gwen 11.31%
Kristine 8.21%
Laurie 7.51%
Candi 7.10%
Kammie 5.80%
Greg 5.41%
Heidi 5.25%
Kristi 4.38%
Kim 4.24%
Alison 3.17%
Jana 0.00%

No posts from
Karin
Stephanie
Nikki - she is sick with the flu so didn't weigh - we better watch out! Flu = weight loss!

Keep up the good work everyone! We have 8 weeks left! If everyone loses 3 lbs a week, we would all be down another 24 lbs!!! Let's shoot for that goal!

Week 3 Results

Gwen 10.01%
Kristine 8.48%
Nikki 7.45%
Kammie 7.07%
Laurie 5.60%
Heidi 5.25%
Kim 5.08%
Candi 4.97%
Greg 3.30%
Alison 3.17%

No posts from
Kristi
Jana
Karin
Stephanie

Keep up the good work guys! i am so proud of everyone staying focused. I haven't run a contest where this many people have stayed in the game after the first week!!!

Additional posting

Alison texted me and somehow I missed it! She is coming in at 3.17%! I figure I should have all of you email me instead of text so they sit in my inbox until I put them into the spread sheet!

Update to week 2

Some people posted late, I didn't get the email, etc but wanted to let you know where everyone is that has posted thus far....


Gwen 7.39%
Nikki 6.87%
Kristine 6.60%
Kammie 6.02%
Laurie 4.53%
Kim 4.24%
Kristi 3.98%
Candi 3.87%
Heidi 3.87%
Greg 3.00%
Karin 2.91%
Stephanie -0.52%

WEEK 2 RESULTS

Gwen 7.39%
Kristine 6.60%
Kammie 6.02%
Laurie 4.53%
Kim 4.24%
Kristi 3.98%
Candi 3.87%
Heidi 3.87%
Greg 3.00%

non posters with their last weeks percentage
Nikki 4.54%
Karin 2.91%
Alison 1.50%
Jana 0.00%
Stephanie -0.56%

We had some HUGE losses this week! Kim lost more lbs than anyone in one week so far! Great job!!!

I think I opened this up for anyone to post so let's see some recipes!!!

Kammie's position in the contest

For all of you that know Kammie, she doesn't want to know where she is in the contest for the next few weeks because she would like to eat and exercise 100% and not worry about the stats at the beginning. Also, since there are so many people in my neighborhood that are in the contest, please don't discuss with others who are in the contest, just discuss your own results because not everyone wants the world to know that they are trying to lose weight. (We all know that's not the case for me! I like to discuss my accomplishments and areas for improvement for motivation!)

Good losses this week....let's see them again next week!

Week One Results

Contestant
Week 1% Lost to date
Gwen 5.29%
Nikki 4.54%
Kristine 4.29%
Greg 4.05%
Kammie 2.92%
Karin 2.91%
Kristi 2.82%
Candi 1.81%
Alison 1.50%
Kim 0.21%
Jana 0.00%
Heidi 0.00%
Laurie -0.36%
Stephanie -0.56%

So that you all know, I had 3 different witnesses on my start weight on purpose because I am hoping for some big losses in this contest. Let's just say that once I stopped my affair with Ronald MacDonald and started putting healthy food in my body.....I enjoyed the scenery of my bathroom for most of Wed, Thurs and Fri!

I would LOVE for all of you to post recipe ideas on this blog since we are all trying to eat healthy and are ALL trying to figure out different ways to cook chicken or low calorie meals! Let me know if I need to do something to the blog to allow posting because I think you can post now!

GOOD LUCK THIS WEEK!!!! DRINK LOTS OF WATER AND UP YOUR PROTEIN!!!

Weight Loss Contest Rules

Date of Contest - Wednesday, July 8th 2009 to Wednesday, October 7th 2009

Weigh In - if you live local to Gwen, you must weigh in at my house - 457 Jay Street in Kaysville between Tuesday, July 7th evening and Wednesday July 8th evening. If you are not local, you must take a picture of yourself on your scale - so we can see what you are wearing because this is what you need to wear on the final weigh in - and then a close up picture of your feet on your scale with your exact weight. These pictures and your exact weight need to be emailed to me - gwen@JGEI.com between Tues and Wed.

Entry Fee - The entry fee is $105 - $100 goes toward the pot - $5 goes to me for running the contest. It is a lot of work to manage the beginning and end weigh in along with the weekly postings! NOW....because of funds on some checks not being in the accounts on some of the last contests I have run, I will be cashing all checks 2 weeks (September 23) before the end of the contest. I will send out an email in the previous week to make sure everyone remembers the date they will be cashed so that funds must be available.

Rules -
1) Any method of weight loss is acceptable EXCLUDING surgery
2) You must post your weight weekly to me on Mondays before 10 pm to gwen@JGEI.com and then the weekly results will be posted on this blog by Tuesday 10 pm
3) If you miss 3 postings throughout the contest, you will be eliminated because we don't want to create a situation where someone doesn't post for a few weeks, we assume they have given up, and then they throw a huge loss up on the next posting.
4) You CAN NOT miss the last 2 postings - September 28th and October 5th or you will be elilminated. It is not fair to those who are in the running not to know where their competition stands.
5) There will be a final posting on Monday,October 5th and then the final weigh in is on Wednesday, October 7th.
6)There are no refunds for any reason

WINNER is based on total percent lost. The person with the highest percent lost wins the entire pot of money!