Challenge Info

Healthy Habits Challenge: Summer Edition

5-weeks of healthy eating, exercise and competition

Dates: July 2 to August 5

Requirements: Complete weekly challenges, exercise requirements, and personal habit choice. Respond to the form at the end of each week with your stats. Comment or post on the blog each week. Have fun and feel good!

Exercise: Exercise at least 3.5 hours each week or seven 30-minute intervals.

Weekly challenge:

Jul 2:  Eight (8) 8-ounce glasses of water

Jul 9:  No sweets

Jul 16:  Eat 4 servings of vegetables each day

Jul 23: “Power of one”-- Only one serving of a treat or sweet each day

Jul 30:  No eating after 8:00 pm

Last day August 5th.

Blog: Once the challenge starts you will receive an invite to be a blog author. Please post or comment once a week. Posts can be about anything that will contribute—successes, failures, funny stories or pictures, discussion topics, motivational quotes, tips or information. The blog sidebar will have each participant’s picture, current points, and weight lost percentage (not required, just for those who want to keep track.)

Personal Challenge: Before the challenge starts choose a habit you would really like to implement. It must be measurable and realistic. It may be one of those from the weekly challenge list or something of your own. Send it to me in an email and I will post it next to your profile picture in the blog sidebar.

Point system: Points will be awarded for completing the weekly challenge and personal healthy habit all seven days of the week and meeting the exercise requirements;  10pts will be given for perfect scores in each category.  If you miss a day you can still earn 1 pt per category per day. The blog and stats are all or nothing.

Break down:

10 pts. 7 days of weekly challenge

10 pts. 7 exercise intervals

10 pts. 7 days of personal challenge

10 pts Blog participation (at least one post or comment each week)

10 pts Stats on time (Return the google stats form each Sunday by midnight)

Example:

 7 days of weekly challenge = 10 pts

6 exercise intervals = 6pts

7 days of personal challenge = 10 pts

Blog: Yes, 10 pts

Stats: Yes, 10 pts

Total: 46 pts (or 50 possible)

Money: Before the challenge starts send me one (1) check for $3. This money is to ensure some commitment or “skin in the game” if you will.  The money will be put in a pot for the challenge winner, or the person with the most points at the end. If there is a tie, the winner will be the one with the greatest number of weeks with perfect scores.  I hesitate to require money but I figure by buying one less bag of sugar to bake with or one less bag of chips or M&Ms we’ll all save that $3 and can count it towards this instead. And then the winner will have at least $30.00 of fun money! That’s worth working towards, right? (I’m having visions of the clearance rack at Old Navy J)

Reward money: $3.00

Angela Paulsen

15591 Traverser Ct

Woodbridge, VA 22193

I will email you once I receive your check. Please have it in the mail by July 10^th.