Flabbusters ~ Formerly Fablous4ever / Gut Busters - Week 4 team discussion thread

Week 4 Challenge ~ Roll Call & Merge Week! 9/28-10/4


Hellooooooo Competitors!

Before you do anything on week 4, have you let your team know that you are still playing the Games!  If not, please check in with your team!  The deadline is Sunday, October 1st! 

After that, we'll work behind the scenes to merge teams.  By next Thursday, we'll have everyone matched up in teams of active, enthusiastic players who are raring to go and who want to finish these 7 weeks of Games!!!  We will be keeping teammates together, so don't fret!  You'll be staying with friends :)

So... What about this Week 4?  This is a great chance for everyone to catch up or take a breather!  However, we will not leave you hanging, so for this week:

• Week 4, Part 1:  do your own 5 normal goals (3 daily, 2 weekly)
  • The Points:  Tell your scorekeeper by Wed, 10/4, that you did Week 4, Part 1 Strive and Be Happy for 10 points (scorekeeper will enter a 1, line 10).
• Week 4, Part 5: do your normal exercise routine or think about how you can incorporate exercise into your life, and
  • The Points:  Tell your scorekeeper by Wed, 10/4, that you did Week 4, Part 5(b) Get up and Move for 10 points (scorekeeper will enter a 5, line 49).
• Week 4, Part 7:  Start thinking about the statement you'll submit in week 6 (Oct 12 - 18).  See the topic information below!
  • The Points:  Tell your scorekeeper by Wed, 10/4, that you did Week 4, Part 7 Walking the Walk for 25 points (scorekeeper will enter a 1, line 67). 
• Week 4, Part 8:  You don't have to do anything with the points for Week 4, Part 8!  The Games Coordinators will take care of this for you and will let your Scorekeeper know how many bonus points you received for emailing your Brain Bender answer in week 3 (to enter 25, 50 or 75 points, part VIII, line 79 on week 4 spreadsheet :)  
  

Week 4, Part 7 (from above):  Here is the topic to start thinking about for week 6...

Think back to your life before calorie-count. Before you decided to live a healthier lifestyle. What were some of your bad habits? Overeating, smoking, too much stress, lack of sleep, anything that contributed to poor health? What might have happened to you if you hadn't decided to live a healthier lifestyle? What might have happened already? What types of conditions might you have developed? Do a little research about the condition(s) you may have developed and simply start thinking about it. This is important because it will come into play in 2 weeks during week 6!


Week 4 Points Sheet to submit to your Team Scorekeeper by Wednesday, 10/4.

• Part 1:       &nb sp;     10 points (enter a 1 on line 10)
  • for thinking about your goals, try to set and do 5 goals
• Part V(b):       &nb sp;       50 points (enter 5 on line 49)
  • for doing your normal exercise routines
  • OR  if you work on an exercise plan that is realistic for you because you have not been exercising.
• Part 7:       &nb sp;     25 points (enter 1 on line 67)
  • for thinking about the statement you will submit in week 6.
• Part 8:  --------  Bonus points for emailing week 3 brain bender answers.  (Scorekeepers will be advised of bonus points to enter 25, 50 or 75 points, part VIII, line 79 on week 4 spreadsheet :)   

Up to 85 Points in week 4 ~ Give your Week 4 points to your Team Scorekeeper by Wednesday, 10/4! 

Check your Team Submission Thread often for updates and for a quick reminder of when & where you turn everything in :) 

• Kick A$$ Team
• Neeners Nightmares
• Phat Fighters
• Dyn-o-mite
• Eliminators
• New Flab Busters (name pending) 
• Fabulous4ever
• Gut Busters
• Hard Body Hooligans
• Inchredibles

That's if for Week 4!  Still need the Old Weeks 1, 2 or 3 Challenges? Need to catch up?  That's ok if you were away, joined late or life got in the way.  Catch up and turn in your points to your Scorekeeper!

• Click here to get the old Week 3 challenge in reply #24
  • Click Here to the the Points Sheet for Week 3 found in reply #35
• Click here to get the old Week 2 challenge in reply #10.
  • Click Here to get the Points Sheet for Week 2 found in reply #19
• Click here to get the old Week 1 challenge in reply #3.
  • Click Here to Get the Points Sheet for Week 1 found in reply #9. 
     

Hello Everyone,

I'll post in a few hours what I have for team results, who I still am recording as active on the team, and my points breakdown for the week 4 challenge.

If I have not recorded you as active on the team it means that I have received no submissions for week 3. If you would still like to be on the team please try to submit points to me by Friday.

We will be letting the game organizers know who is and is not on our team (based on who has and has not checked in) on Monday morning.

Sounds great....

You work so hard for us, thanks

Hey guys!

okay, so I'm impatient and couldn't wait for an official declaration of anything. also my free trial of pspx is about to expire and then I'll be back to the slightly less purty patches so I wanted to get em done while they'd have a chance to be a lil better quality :)

ANYWAY!

So here are some new team patches. Y'all seemed pretty decided on Flab Busters so... but if y'all wanna change your name that's fine :) I'm more than willing to re-do!

I pulled the names from the submission thread and the old gut buster/fab 4ever threads...of people who said they were in, if anyone else comes along I'll see and get a new one up as well :)

Oh, also, if you click your patch, it'll take you to a slightly larger, slightly better looking version:)

EDIT: duh, forgot to link!

ROLL CALL ~ FINAL POINTS FOR WEEK 3: Here are the points I've collected for week 3 to date, I am planning on submitting these as final points unless I hear from people tomorrow. I need to submit points to the game organizers by Friday. I will collect ponits on this tread, the submission thread, or on my e-mail super.sized@hotmail.com up to 5pm EST on Friday.

Week 3 points FINAL POINTS:
Canadianchick - 280
Hubbaji - 260
Glamstarlet - 235
Phoenix 121 - 230
Supersized - 205


Renicki - 75 pts (assuming other points are submitted tomorrow).

I am counting the people above as our active team members. Points for week 3 can be submitted to me tomorrow for final changes. I you are not listed above on the active members I have now assumed that you have dropped out of the team for one reason or another. If you want to stay on the team the game organizers have asked that I submit names on Monday October 2nd, 2006, so pop your hand up before then.

Week 4 points submission sheet

Here is the points summary for everyone for week 4. Please feel free to use this sheet, the one above done by the game organizers, or the spreadsheet to submit your points. You can submit points on the team discussion thread, the team submission thread or to my e-mail at super.sized@hotmail.com

Part 1 - __________ 10 pts

For setting 3 daily goals, and 2 weekly

Part 2 ? Discontinued for week 4

Part 3 ? Discontinued for week 4

Part 4 ? Discontinued for week 4

Part 5a ? Discontinued for week 4

Part 5b - _______ up to 50 pts

10 points per day that you exercise (or plan to incorporate exercise) up to 5 days.

Part 5c ? Discontinued for week 4

Part 6 ? Discontinued for week 4

Part 7 - __________ 25 pts

Just for thinking about a statement that you will write in week six. That statement will be on your old habits before cc, and how they could have (or did) affect your health, and how your health may be fairing now if you had not started on cc.

Part 8 - ___________ ?? pts

Game organizers will tell scorekeepers what bonus points to enter for players who submitted answers to the brain busters.

Thank you Garnet....

Huggs

Hey supersized :)

People get 50 points if they do their *normal* exercise routine... like if they only work out 3 times a week... like, er, me... if' i'm lucky...  had to rethink that last week or so...  if people normally do 5, gr8... but some people went from 0 to 3 or 0 to 2 and that's huge!

Also... let me check something else.  Will brb!  jules

I generally let people assign their own points for each day of exercise. If that means they normally do 3 days and they did three days and planned to do the other two days to stay on track for three days that's fine.... if they normally do 5 and they do 5 that's fine. If they plan to spend 5 days reseraching what type of exercise program they would like to incorporate into their lifestyle that's fine....

Generally there's so many exceptions that I'm just happy when people submit any points. I don't censor team members points.

*wanders in from submission thread*

Hellooo! Anybody here?!?

*shrugs - sniffle - nobody around to play - sniffle*

Who ya gonna call? The fabulous, the flab-you-less, Flab Busters!

*exit - stage right*

Week 4 Points Sheet to submit to your Team Scorekeeper by Wednesday, 10/4.

• Part 1:   10    & nbsp;     10 points (enter a 1 on line 10)
  • for thinking about your goals, try to set and do 5 goals
• Part V(b):    50   & nbsp;       50 points (enter 5 on line 49)
  • for doing your normal exercise routines
  • OR  if you work on an exercise plan that is realistic for you because you have not been exercising.
• Part 7:   25    & nbsp;     25 points (enter 1 on line 67)
  • for thinking about the statement you will submit in week 6.
• Part 8:  --------  Bonus points for emailing week 3 brain bender answers.  (Scorekeepers will be advised of bonus points to enter 25, 50 or 75 points, part VIII, line 79 on week 4 spreadsheet :)

Yikes, I never know if I am doing this correctly, anyone?

I think that's right renicki - just incase you might want to email it to supersized. She is our official - keeper tracker:)

Who ya gonna call? The fabulous, the flab-you-less, the Flab Busters!

Yup that's right.... will catch up on points later... probably tomorrow.

ROLL CALL ~ FINAL POINTS FOR WEEK 4: Here are the points I've collected for week 4 to date, I am planning on submitting these as final points unless I hear from people tomorrow. I need to submit points to the game organizers by Friday. I will collect ponits on this tread, the submission thread, or on my e-mail super.sized@hotmail.com up to 5pm EST on Friday.

Week 4 points FINAL POINTS (including bonus points as submitted by organizers):
Phoenix121 - 85
Renicki - 85
Canadianchick -85
Hubbaji - 50
Supersized - 35
Daveka - waiting for submission
Glamstarlett - waiting for submission.

Get your Week 4 points in today ~ Wed, 10/4!!

About those Bonus points for the Brain Benders!!!

Update on Week 3 brain bender!  We'll award bonus points retroactively! Please go ahead and email your part 3 brain bender list of words to brain.bender@hotmail.com (note the "dot" between brain and bender in the email addy)!!!    Be sure to include your cal-count userid name and team name in the subject line!

Update on week 2 brain bender! We weren't real clear that everyone should post their answer to the team submission thread, so we will capture late answers and give those points retroactively!

Last check, all the teams are more than 1/2 active and still submitting points late, so we'll be keeping teams together! *yay*  I know your scorekeeper is just waiting for the points to roll in :)

Cheers, jules!  united2gether, games hostess

Week 5 Challenge ~ In a Heart Beat!!!  Thursday, 10/5 - Wednesday, 10/11


Half Time's Over!!! Whoo Hooo!

Congratulations for Enduring & Persevering!   Just 3 weeks left and we'll be wrapping up just before it's time to think about the winter Holidays! (& time to shop ;)

As you know, last week was roll call!  This week, we'll work behind the scenes to combine teams for scoring purposes!  For the most part, nothing will change ~ you'll stay with your teammates, keep your chat threads, post certain things to your submission threads and turn in points to your scorekeeper!  More good news!  The teams are full of active, enthusiastic players who are raring to go and who want to finish these 7 weeks of Games!!!  *\o/* *yay* *\o/*

So, what's up for week 5 ~ In a Heart Beat???  It's all about our health ~ why we try to eat and exercise appropriately!  Read all about it and pick up your Week 5 challenge and parts here!  Find Week 5 points sheet here? 

Up to 280 points available for week 5 ~ Your points and all entries are due by Wed, 10/11! 

Newsflash!!!  Earn 75 Bonus points if you catch up and finish all weeks, all parts by Wed, 10/11!  After that, we just have 2 weeks to wrap up and won't be able to receive late entries. 


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• If you would like us to email you a copy of the week 5 Challenge, Parts or Points Sheet (or old Challenges and Parts), please email brain.bender@hotmail.com. 
  • Please note the "dot" between brain and bender in the email address!
  • Please use "Challenge, Parts or Points Sheet" in the subject line.
  • Be sure to include your calorie-count userid name and your team name in your email with your request :)
• How to turn in your points to your scorekeeper: 
  • Let's try to keep it like what you normally do.
  • You can make your own points sheet or use ours.  Just email if you need a copy (see above for email info).   
  • Ask your scorekeeper or ask on your chat thread to find out what works for both you and your scorekeeper!
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• Trouble posting a copy of your Recipe or Link to the Team Submission thread? 
  • Then, please email your submissions to brain.bender@hotmail.com.
  • Please use  "Recipe" or "Link" in the subject line.
  • Be sure to include your calorie-count userid name and your team name in your email with your recipe or link.
  • We'll post them for you!
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• Don't forget to email your week 5, Part 3 List of Brain Bender words to brain.bender@hotmail.com.
  • Please note the "dot" between brain and bender in the email address!
  • Please include "week 5 brain bender" in the subject line.
  • Be sure to include your calorie-count userid name and your team name in your email with your brain bender answer!

Take a part or 2 a day and you'll be done before you know it!   The extra Food & Exercise for thought topics and reading are not required ~ just optional in case you are interested and have the time & inclination to read it :)

Most importantly ~ Enjoy! It's simply meant to be fun, a little inspirational and a bit thought provoking.