DreamSeeker
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Thank you! I really needed that rant!
Portions are the key!!! I'm so excited to learn this simple rule! I sort of cheated a bit...in a controlled way, last night with rice chips (dill pickle). Afterwards I thought ew that was sort of yucky tasting with all those chemicals!
I'm starting to crave healthy! Woohoo! I hope your legs feel better today. I will take you up ON that offer about Sparks. 1st question- points, what that all about? I didn't get the memo
Help!!
My legs feel a little better...I did strength training yesterday instead. Going for a long walk soon though!
When I first went to spark people I just had a little look around, didn't see much...but then I signed up and it was magic! I don't know what the points are for, motivation I think. I know there is a way to see who has the most points. I want to become obsessed about the points in order to lose!
They have a little trophy on the right hand side of your screen based on how many points you have. The more you get, you get a trophy. Here is what SP says about points:
While the bathroom scale and other physical measures are good ways to measure how you're progressing towards your goals, SparkPeople believes that there are many useful ways to measure the success of your program. One of these is SparkPoints. We designed SparkPoints to encourage people to perform activities and tasks that are proven to help our members reach their goals.
Our SparkPoints tab contains everything you'll need to track your points. Some tasks, such as tracking foods, are automatically recorded while others, like reading articles, require you to click a button to record your points. Next to each point-earning task you'll see an "Info" button that you can click to learn more about how the task can help you reach your goals and how to get points for performing the task.
Finally, if you want to show other members how well you're doing with SparkPoints you can click "SparkPoints Settings" and specify that you want your SparkPoints to appear next to your posts on the message boards and on the SparkPoints Individual Leaderboards.
We know that the more often people visit SparkPeople, the more weight they lose. So you'll earn SparkPoints daily just for logging in. To make SparkPoints more fun, you can spin the wheel to get your bonus login points for the day.
On most days you'll get a few points for logging in, but on some days you may earn a bonus of 10 points or more, or a prize such as a SparkPeople t-shirt!
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Cool huh? Love that place. Talk about motivation
You get points for:
Track Food Eaten (max 5 / day)
Track Cardio Minutes (max 24 / day)
Track Other Exercises (max 10 / day)
Track Other Goals (max 5 / day)
Make SparkPeople Recipe (max 3 / day)
Post To Message Boards (max 15 / day)
Read an Article (max 9 / day)
Drink at Least 8 Cups of Water 5 points
Use Healthy Lifestyle Scale
Login To SparkPeople Points From Wheel
Do a SparkPeople Web Search
Read SparkPeople Emails
And there are a bunch more. Anyone else have anything to add about spark points?
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