🚨Important! Please Read!🚨Edit to add the Weekly Healthy Habits! Theme: Visions Of Self-Care!

Ceriusly1
Ceriusly1 Posts: 6,477 Member
edited December 14 in Social Groups
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2025 Winter 5% Challenge Healthy Habits Theme
Visions of Self-Care
New Beginnings, New Year, Bright, Shiny New YOU! This Winter, we are trying something different. Before we reveal the 8 Weekly Healthy Habits, we encourage you to pick ONE Healthy Habit you struggle with and make it your daily focus for the 8 weeks of this challenge. It’s your choice, but try to make it something in an area where you want to see change. The Scoring will be consistent throughout the 8 weeks. 10 points if you do it, 0 points if you don’t.

You may join this activity at any time during the challenge and start adding points for your team.

The scoring will look like this:

My Exercise: 120
My HH 1: 10
My HH 2: 10
My HH Focus: 10

This link is a great resource tool for identifying areas you may want to focus on.
Self-Care Wheel There is also a printable wheel you can use to document your own self-care ideas!

Healthy Habits By The Week
Week 1: Measurements, Meet the Cheerleaders, Journaling, and an 8-Week Healthy Habit Focus! For details of this activity, please read the instructions included at the beginning of this post.
Week 2: Water and Journal
Week 3: Sleep and Water
Week 4: Am I Hungry Snack Pack and Sleep
Week 5: Me Time and Am I Hungry Snack Pack
Week 6: Take Time to Breathe and Me Time
Week 7: NSV and Take Time to Breathe
Week 8: Dance and NSV
Ceri (Ceriusly1)
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  • deskjockey925
    deskjockey925 Posts: 6,255 Member
    LOVE this Self Care Wheel - Thank you! <3
  • nansbones7708
    nansbones7708 Posts: 709 Member
    Like it.
  • macrat12
    macrat12 Posts: 6,733 Member
    Love this idea
  • DNjoys
    DNjoys Posts: 8,951 Member
    This is what this challenge has been missing. Thank you!
  • Dianedoessmiles1
    Dianedoessmiles1 Posts: 14,241 Member
    <3 Self care is very important. So excited to bring this into my own life.

    I'm thinking what will I add to my wheel? I'm going to first sit down and free write it out, then read it over, and see what it is I truly want as my priority.

    Enjoy picking the healthy habit you'll focus on for the 8 weeks.
  • Evamutt
    Evamutt Posts: 2,794 Member
    great idea, this way it will truly be an individual challenge where we can grow
  • joywilson383
    joywilson383 Posts: 1,726 Member
    I need this. The self care wheel is an amazing idea.
  • DrewsAnna
    DrewsAnna Posts: 497 Member
    Ceriusly1 wrote: »
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    2025 Winter 5% Challenge Healthy Habits Theme
    Visions of Self-Care

    New Beginnings, New Year, Bright, Shiny New YOU! This Winter, we are trying something different. Before we reveal the 8 Weekly Healthy Habits, we encourage you to pick ONE Healthy Habit you struggle with and make it your daily focus for the 8 weeks of this challenge. It’s your choice, but try to make it something in an area where you want to see change. The Scoring will be consistent throughout the 8 weeks. 10 points if you do it, 0 points if you don’t.

    The scoring will look like this:

    My Exercise: 120
    My HH 1: 10
    My HH 2: 10
    My HH Focus: 10

    This link is a great resource tool for identifying areas you may want to focus on.
    Self-Care Wheel There is also a printable wheel you can use to document your own self-care ideas!

    I can't open this. Is there another link?
  • Ceriusly1
    Ceriusly1 Posts: 6,477 Member
    edited December 8
    @DrewsAnna Hello! Welcome back to the 5%! I am so happy to see that you have joined us again! The link is to a site outside of MFP. When you click the blue Self-Care Wheel, a new page opens that looks like this
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    Click the blue continue button to take you to the self-care wheel PDF.
  • Kurtize
    Kurtize Posts: 7,598 Member
    Like the self care wheel and yes it is very important.
  • vtoria3
    vtoria3 Posts: 4,041 Member
    The Self Care Wheel ROCKS! Thank you!
  • Dpecora653
    Dpecora653 Posts: 4,727 Member
    edited December 8
    LOVE THE SELF-CARE WHEEL IT ACTUALLY GOES VERY NICELY WITH THE HAPPY MIND CHALLENGE I JUST COMPLETED.

  • EclipsedAgain
    EclipsedAgain Posts: 4,933 Member
    Love this idea!! Thank you all for all of your hard work making these challenges great for the members!
  • SweetPeasMom55
    SweetPeasMom55 Posts: 3,562 Member
    Love the wheel! I'm going to share it with my co-workers.
  • DrewsAnna
    DrewsAnna Posts: 497 Member
    @Ceriusly1 thank you. I couldn't open it on my phone, I don't know why, I should have been able to. Now, I'm on my laptop and it's working just fine.
  • Dianedoessmiles1
    Dianedoessmiles1 Posts: 14,241 Member
    DrewsAnna wrote: »
    @Ceriusly1 thank you. I couldn't open it on my phone, I don't know why, I should have been able to. Now, I'm on my laptop and it's working just fine.

    I think it's the app today. I ran into this also today.
  • Dory_42
    Dory_42 Posts: 3,586 Member
    The healthy habit I need to focus on is getting on the Jiu Jitsu mats at least twice a week. When I'm in routine I'll easily do that and more but my routine hasn't been good for too long now and I'm in the habit of skipping training. I consider this to be a Keystone habit for me, when I get this right, the other healthy habits come easier. It's summer holidays here (but I work through them) so many of my normal commitments are on break, giving me plenty of time to focus on getting on the mats and building my fitness back up.
  • Patti241
    Patti241 Posts: 5,069 Member
    The wheel is a good idea and I am going to incorporate my self care ideas to the wheel.
  • Ceriusly1
    Ceriusly1 Posts: 6,477 Member
    This post has been edited to add the Healthy Habits by the Week! It's very important that everyone reads the entire post.
  • katiecondy1
    katiecondy1 Posts: 4,144 Member
    What a great add on..thank you so much for the wheel and the added focus tool!!
  • Musicfanno173
    Musicfanno173 Posts: 1,392 Member
    Thank you, Ceri!
  • NancyAnne52
    NancyAnne52 Posts: 1,151 Member
    Am I deducing correctly from HH1 and HH2 that we are to choose TWO healthy habits to focus on?
  • Ceriusly1
    Ceriusly1 Posts: 6,477 Member
    @NancyAnne52 The 8-week focus is optional, but you get points for your team if you do it. You choose one Healthy Habit to focus on daily for the entire 8 weeks of the challenge, preferably something you struggle with. That habit will not change, it is in addition to the two weekly habits that are requirements for all the teams.
  • Dory_42
    Dory_42 Posts: 3,586 Member
    I think I'll switch my personal healthy habit to daily yoga (even 5 minutes counts). I do need to get on the mats regularly but that is hard to score daily and yoga helps me to not get injured when I'm training so I want to get back into the routine of doing a short session every day. 10 minutes daily with occasional long sessions are best but even 5 minutes is possible on busy days.
  • cannems
    cannems Posts: 2 Member
    edited December 17
    Read. New to the challenges and looking forward to participating.
  • lauren_989
    lauren_989 Posts: 1,534 Member
    My healthy habit is going to make sure I complete my food journal every day. I was doing well until Halloween and then it has been hit or miss. I find that helps me lose weight more than oh, I think I still have calories left to eat this snack.
  • DrewsAnna
    DrewsAnna Posts: 497 Member
    My healthy habit #1: Journaling
    Healthy Habits #2 finish diary

    When do we start posting points in the thread?
  • Ceriusly1
    Ceriusly1 Posts: 6,477 Member
    @DrewsAnna The challenge starts on January 11. A welcome/practice week starts on January 4. A few days before that, you will be invited to join your team.

    For clarification, the eight-week Focus habit you choose is in addition to the two weekly Healthy Habits listed in the challenge details. If I misunderstood your post, and you are choosing two habits for the 8-week focus, Kudos to you!

    I'm happy you returned to the 5% Have a great challenge and if you need any help, reach out to a leader!