Announcements
VIP LOUNGE! Welcome to the 2025 Winter 5% Challenge!
Welcome to the VIP Lounge! We are so glad you have made the choice to join us! This is where you get your questions answered, share feedback, and get to know your fellow challengers. Please don't be shy! Let's make this a noisy, happy place to be! Please do all chatting here! Have fun, ask questions, and get acquainted!…
RULES: A Brief Outline of the Rules to Stay Active! Mandatory Read and Sign Off!
Rules to Stay Active 1. Post your points to the weekly Healthy Habits Challenges. Please post daily if you can. 2. Post your exercise minutes at least weekly. Please post daily if you can. 3. Post Weekly Weigh-Ins (you may post any day but no later than Saturday at 11:59 p.m.). 4. All numbers must be posted no later than…
✍ Blogging With The 5%✍
If you are interested in writing or reading blogs, please read all instructions so we can keep the page running smoothly. Thanks! 5% Community Bloggers Page Please post the link here each time you write a new blog.
🚨Important! Please Read!🚨Edit to add the Weekly Healthy Habits! Theme: Visions Of Self-Care!
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…
👋 Introductions: Please Say Hello and Help Us Get To Know You! 👋
Please copy these questions to your post in the comments. What do you like to be called? How did you learn about the 5% Challenges? How many 5% Challenges have you completed? What do you like to do for fun? What major city do you live in or near? State? Tell us a bit about where you live. What are your health/fitness goals…
🧮Final Figures For Fitter Fitness For Fall🧮
Final Figures For Fitter Fitness For Fall 2024 Biggest Loser~ cinebibliophile!! Other Top Losers If you are on the top losers list, please display your award on your profile. Thanks! Total Harvest Points Earned In The Competition Race To Break The Ribbon Team Placement in Measurements Team Placement in Healthy Habit #1…
☃❄2025 Winter 5% Challenge Theme❄☃
2025 Winter 5% Challenge Theme: Visions of a Bright, Shiny New YOU! Can you believe it? It’s a new year! 2025 is the 15th anniversary of the 5% Challenge! We are also in our 4th year on MFP! What a milestone year for us! Over those years, we’ve lost thousands of pounds. Yes, some of us have gained a few, too. One thing is…
5% Success Stories? Please Help Spread The Word!
Do you have a success story about the 5%? Do you enjoy the challenges? Have you made new friends on the teams? Why do you return for the next season? What prompted you to join the first time? Please follow the link below and share your thoughts to help us spread the word about the 5%.…
🔗🔗Links Library:Can't Find What You Need? Look Here!🔗🔗
Please let me know if you find a broken link! Thanks! RULES: A Brief Outline of the Rules to Stay Active! Mandatory Read and Sign Off! 💡💡Start Here - You Must Choose a Team💡💡 👋 Introductions: Please Say Hello and Help Us Get To Know You! 👋 VIP LOUNGE! Welcome to the 2025 Winter 5% Challenge! 💌Caring Hearts💌 Prayer Requests…
💡💡Start Here - You Must Choose a Team💡💡
EVERYONE MUST HAVE A POST FOR A TEAM CHOICE Please look below for your team. Click on the link and sign up just once. Please do not chat on this topic or on team sign up. Note - We need to balance team numbers so you may not get your choice. Thank you. Each week the Challenge starts on Saturday. You are expected to weigh…
Discussions
🧮 Countdown & Pre-Challenge Activity #6: STARTING MEASUREMENTS … with optional Before Photos (& a
🧮 Countdown & Pre-Challenge Activity #6: STARTING MEASUREMENTS … with optional Before Photos (& after photos at the end) 🧮 Every healthy lifestyle journey starts ‘at the beginning’ ~ usually with a strong awareness that YOU want to make a change. This could in fact, even include an urgent need to change (for health…
Tenacious GR8TERS
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🧮 Countdown & Pre-Challenge Activity #5: MINDFUL EATING vs. EMOTIONAL EATING 🧮
🧮 Countdown & Pre-Challenge Activity #5: MINDFUL EATING vs. EMOTIONAL EATING 🧮 In contemplating what Pre-Challenge Activities to explore for the 2025 Winter 5% Challenge, a suggestion was made to explore EMOTIONS and their relationship with food … in chatting a little further and doing a little research, we came up with…
🧮 Countdown & Pre-Challenge Activity #4: EXERCISE PLAN 🧮
🧮 Countdown & Pre-Challenge Activity #4: EXERCISE PLAN 🧮 🗬In thinking about pre-challenge activities for the 2025 Winter 5% Challenge, the goal was to present these activities in some order that might make sense. In the last activity we discussed meal planning. Anytime you think of a healthy lifestyle there are two things…
🧮 Countdown & Pre-Challenge Activity #3: MEAL PLAN 🧮
🧮 Countdown & Pre-Challenge Activity #3: MEAL PLAN 🧮 ❔What is the first thing you think of when you decide that you need to 'get healthy' and 'lose weight'? ❔What is at the top of the list when your doctor tells you that your blood pressure needs to be managed or that your cholesterol numbers are too high? More often than…
🧮 Countdown & Pre-Challenge Activity #2: SET SOME GOALS! 🧮
🧮 Countdown & Pre-Challenge Activity #2: SET SOME GOALS! 🧮 Plan your 5% Journey by SETTING GOALS. Our previous activity discussed why you are here and what you would like to get out of your 5% Challenge Journey. Please consider your thoughts about that first activity and expand upon those. Please think about this…
🧮 Countdown & Pre-Challenge Activity #1: INFORMATION and YOUR INPUT! 🧮
🧮 Countdown & Pre-Challenge Activity #1: INFORMATION and YOUR INPUT! 🧮 On behalf of the overall leadership team (Ceri @Ceriusly1 ~ Heidi @hicim705 ~ Barb @ladyluk1, and Diane @Dianedoessmiles1, as well as the leaders of our eight individual challenge teams (Fit Force ~ Mission Slimpossible ~ Positively Strong 4 Life ~ Rain…
Thinner Winners
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Any Team Is Great
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Rain Dancers
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