Welcome!

Welcome to our Great in 8 family competition!  We are excited to start tomorrow!  Please use this blog to

1.  Keep a running tally of your points each week, then each Monday morning enter your total for the week along with your name on this blog.

2.  Ask any questions if you are unsure of rule, ie: if something says it is "whole grain" is this a good food?   answer:  no, the label MUST say "100% whole wheat or 100% whole grain" for this to count as a good food.

3.  Post any encouragement for your fellow competitors.  We don't want any hard feelings but a goal of a healthy family with a healthy competition.

4.  Each Sunday night we will post a list of things you can do for BONUS POINTS for that week only.  Stay tuned, I will post these soon!

All participants can give their $10 each (including kids 8 and up) to Bruce.  The competition starts tomorrow morning, remember to weigh in *only* each Monday morning and write it down so you can see if you get any points for a loss.  

We have added 3 new ways to get points in our competition, so please make note:

1.  One point per day if you floss
2.  One point per day if you got at least 7 hours of sleep the night before (it doesn't have to be un-interrupted sleep!)
3.  Only skim and 1% milk count toward good foods for a point.  2% and whole milk count towards bad foods for negative points. 



Make sure to READ THE LABELS on all foods you eat!!  One serving of something may not be what you think it should be, and there might be hidden ingredients etc that you didn't know about.  A friend who is a Dietician gave me a good rule of thumb for fruits--a piece of fruit or vegetable the size of a light bulb is one serving.