How are you doing with your New Year’s resolutions to get healthy and fit? Everyone starts out with such high expectations of succeeding in their New Year’s resolutions but only a few achieve them. If you have been struggling to achieve (or start) your New Year’s resolutions to get healthy in the new year, a group challenge might be just what you need to get you motivate.
All over the internet health and wellness challenges are showing up. From plank challenges to clean eating challenges, everyone is challenging themselves to get healthy. Challenges help us keep our lives interesting while helping us strive towards new goals. Plus, a little completion with challenge group participants can also be highly motivational.
I have been very inspired by these challenge goals that I’ve chosen to reintroduce the 8-Week Health and Wellness Challenge. Below is a relatively simple health and wellness challenge that is geared towards giving you points for healthy eating and exercise. At the end of the week, tally up your points and compare them to other participants tally. At the end of the Challenge, the participant with the highest total of all eight weeks is the winner.
Healthy fun, food, and fitness! I dare you to challenge yourself today.
Tips
- The 8 Week Health and Wellness Challenge starts on Monday, (TBD).
- You’ll need THIS→ 8 Week Challenge Calendar (click link to view and print) to complete this challenge. Please use it and keep it until the end of the challenge.
- Each week you will get points for drinking water each day, eating your fruits and veggies, exercising, logging your food/exercise, and abstaining from processed/sugary foods.
- Starting on Week #2 a double point challenge (highlighted in yellow) will give you more points for that particular category for that week only.
- You’ll receive points for exercise. You can exercise each day, but you will only receive points for exercising 5 days a week.
- You’ll receive points for eating healthy and staying away from processed and sugary treats. You can choose to not eat processed/treats each day, but you will only receive points for not eating sugar/processed foods on 6 days.
- Complete your food and exercise diary each day for accountability. Keep track of what you eat via myfitnesspal.com (MFP). Please also allow for your food diary to be viewed by others.
- Weight yourself each Sunday morning, on an empty stomach. Write your weight in the space provided on the week you are beginning. You will need this weight at the end of the week.
- Comment each Sunday (before 9 PM CST) on this post with your weekly points for the week. Calculate your points by adding your weekly points with your weight loss/ gain points.
- Please look over the calendar and then comment on this post to let the other know you’re joining with your myfitnesspal username.
