🏅 Challenge Week #1 ~ Paris, France: July 20 - July 26, 2024 🏅

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🌎️ Challenge Week #1: Saturday, July 20th - Friday, July 26th, 2024 🌎️
✈️DESTINATION: Paris, France - 6,000 Miles ~ Meet Your Cheerleaders & Basic Metabolic Calculator✈️

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Attention all Challengers ~ please buckle up! Our first week may be a little bumpy!!

Please weigh in on Saturday, July 20, 2024. If you are a little late in joining your challenge team, you will still be able to record this important information. If you have not joined a team, please send a message to Ceriusly1 or hicim705.


This posting is for information only. PLEASE POST YOUR RESULTS ON YOUR CHALLENGE TEAM PAGE. Each team has a similar ‘set-up’, yet each team has their own ‘look & feel’. Any and all questions will be answered by your team’s leaders. Another good source of information will be from your fellow team mates on your team’s discussion board.


🌎️ Challenge Week #1: Saturday, July 20th - Friday, July 26th, 2024 🌎️
✈️DESTINATION: Paris, France - 6,000 Miles ~ Meet Your Cheerleaders & Basic Metabolic Calculator✈️

We will begin by visiting France and will likely end our Summer 5% Challenge with France again (since they are this year’s Summer Olympics host). France has hosted the Olympic games 5 times: two of those were the Paris Summer Olympics of 1900 and 1924.



The Summer Olympics of 1900, also known as Paris 1900 took place in Paris France from May 14th to October 28th, 1900. No opening or closing ceremonies were held and were the first Summer Olympics ever held in a non-leap year. The Olympics in 1900 Paris allowed women to officially compete and they were allowed to enter into the lawn tennis, croquet, golf, equestrian and yachting competitions. There were 23 female competitors in all.

The Paris games of 1924 saw a significant increase in the number of nations and athletes taking part and included live radio coverage for the first time helping to create a business model utilizing new technology which helped the Olympic movement and media thrive over the past century. Can you all imagine sitting around the RADIO to listen to and follow the Olympics?
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The challenge begins on Saturday morning. Meet Your Cheerleaders & Basic Metabolic Calculator done before SATURDAY DOES NOT COUNT!!!!

🏁 Race 🏁
You must exercise to earn air miles to get your team to the destination.
1 minute of exercise = 1 air mile. DAILY MAXIMUM 120 exercise minutes/air miles.

📝 Living the Good Life - Meet Your Cheerleaders & Basic Metabolic Calculator 📝
Chat with your teammates for encouragement and to make new friends on your special team. This is the focus of the 5% Challenges - a supporting and caring community. In addition, the support of an active team and caring fellow team members will help you to become more successful and help you be the best version of yourself!!



Find your team’s chat thread and participate. Make your chat an upbeat conversation and/or interactive communication, not a stark status update. Let your team know that you read their comments and that you are sharing your day with them too. If you are busy and don’t have time to read/catch up on all the chat since you last posted, that’s ok. Simply take a moment to post and let them know you are busy at the moment, but do let them know how you are doing. If your chat gets quite busy it’s ok to just read and respond to the last few posts.

Tips: If you are new to chatting you can share a funny story or joke, encourage a teammate, ask questions, share what you are doing for fun, your non-scale victory (NSV), progress with your dietary or fitness goals, or post a nutritious recipe you made recently, information about MFP, your plans for the weekend, or something you like about a teammate(s). Please note, you have up to an hour to edit your comment, so if you make a mistake or omit something, you can go back and edit!

Did you know that 5% Challengers can also blog? We have a team called:
✍️🖊️📓💻 Seasonal 5% Challenges ~ BLOGGERS!! ✍️🖊️📓💻
If you would like to join the team please send a message to Heidi ( @hicim705). Here is the link: https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/143978-️-️-seasonal-5-challenges-bloggers-️-️

When you blog you can copy the link of your blog to your team’s chat page and they can go there and read it, too (if they are a member of the Blogging Team).

This week enjoy socializing with your team!

Living The Good Life 2: BMR Calculator
A Calorie Deficit is the single most important factor for weight loss or maintenance. No matter what the diet trend is, the common factor among successful weight loss plans is a calorie deficit. A calorie deficit happens when your body uses more calories than you take in.

Your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) is how many calories you would eat each day to MAINTAIN your current weight. It is an estimate of how many calories you'd burn if you stayed in bed for 24 hours (idling); the minimum number of energy/calories needed to keep your body functioning, including breathing and keeping your heart beating. Your BMR does not include the calories you burn from normal daily activities or exercise.

How many calories do you need to maintain your weight or to lose weight?
Link to the BMR Calculator. https://www.calculator.net/bmr-calculator.html (click on US units)

When you joined MFP, you input your information and Your Daily Goal (calories) was determined. In MFP click on your “Food Diary” and scroll to the bottom to see it. https://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/

Knowing the calories you are consuming in your food and beverages and factoring in what you burn through activity are the two key elements to calculating your goal calorie deficit. For example, if you burn 2000 calories a day but only eat 1500, you’ll be in a 500-calorie deficit, and in a week that would be a total calorie deficit of 3,500 calories.
Note: 500 calorie deficit per day = 3,500 calorie deficit per week = 1 pound weight loss per week.

Understanding this relationship should help you make better food and activity choices. Will this food or activity get me closer or farther from my daily weight loss goal?
Keeping track of the calories you eat by measuring and weighing your portions, and recording the food will help you with these calculations.

When you look at your daily Food Diary calories today – ask did I lose? Gain? Or maintain my weight? What can I improve on? On special occasions if I exceed my planned calories, I will be careful not to exceed my Daily Calorie needs based on my Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) activity level; no loss but no gain. Note - Do not eat under 1,200 calories a day unless per a doctor’s order.

Examine your habits – both in the kitchen and gym – and decide where you can make sustainable changes to have long-term success in weight loss. If you are already pushing yourself 2 hours a day at the gym, but don’t pay attention to your diet, it might be time to cut out junk food, make better food choices and reduce your portions to see weight loss changes.



✔️To Score Points
1. Meet Your Cheerleaders - For each day you participate in Team Chat, score 10 points for the day. No chat no points.
2. View your BMR Calculator, calorie needs based on your activity level 15 points one time this week


🏆 Summary
🌠Record all exercise minutes. It's 6,000 Exercise Minutes/Air miles. DAILY MAXIMUM 120 exercise minutes/miles. Scoring: 1 minute of exercise = 1 air mile

⭐⭐ Living the Good Life - Meet Your Cheerleaders & BMR Calculator ⭐⭐
1. Meet the Cheerleaders = 10 points for the day. No chat, no points.
2. View your BMR Calculator, calorie needs based on your activity level 15 points - ONE TIME THIS WEEK


We will record this on one thread. (example)
Saturday (Please record the day you are reporting about)
My Exercise: 40
My Meet the Cheerleaders: 10
My BMR Calculator: 15 (Only 1 time per week)

🌟 Build healthy forever habits - Be a team player and get support to reach your goals 🌟

****Remember if for any reason your health does not allow you to participate in a challenge please do not attempt it. Always follow your doctor's orders.