Happy Sunday!


Rest day here. Went to the kids' greatgrandmother's for lunch.
Will be eagerly awaiting this week's Hunger Games challenge.


That is all.

Sherry: I really like the inspirational image for today. The emphasis should be that way so thanks for the reframe! You might have explained this already. If you did i missed it but what is the hunger games challenge?

Hey Ashley!! I joined an MFP challenge (my first) and it's based on The Hunger Games. It started about 4 weeks ago and it's a closed group with limited participation, so I feel fortunate just to have made it in. Each week we must meet certain goals (8 glasses of water per day, meet calorie goals every day, meet cardio exercise minutes per week, complete certain number of reps of weekly exercises such as pushups or squats, etc). It's awesome because they really put you into the world of The Hunger Games, because if our team doesn't beat the Capitol team, we must send tributes to the games and those tributes may or may not come back (might become absorbed by the Capitol team). Every Sunday, the results of the previous week's challenge are announced (to see which teams came out on top), plus the new weekly requirements are announced....but it's done as a narrative about how you're being chased by some other team and they throw a knife and you "duck" to not get hit and then you fall down and must push yourself back up off the ground again (so the challenge for the week is squats and chair dips to re-enact the storyline). It's very engaging and loads of fun and motivation. Besides the weekly cardio minutes, it's very compelling to keep all "exercises" strictly to the assigned ones, so that you can help your team score the most. That's why I've mostly only been doing the HG exercises, plus my afternoon jog/walks at the park to help with cardio minute requirements. Anyway, long explanation, but it's tons of fun.

Also, to answer you from yesterday, I've been here about 6 1/2 yrs & it's great living in Greece! It's been tough these past couple of years due to the crisis, but we're "hanging in there". We originally moved here because it made the most sense for our family. My husband (he's Greek) could come here and work in the family business and be available to take his son to and from school everyday (& I could be a SAHM)....whereas living in America, he was working from home and I was working & commuting such long hours that there were days that I didn't even get to see my little boy awake (only peaking at him sleeping in the a.m. before work and again at night when I got home). Of course, now we had a little girl since being here too and so I am happily occupied with the kids (& now, with taking care of my body and fitness).