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This September I Will... Challenge
Happy September! If you have a goal you'd like to reach this month and you you need a little extra accountability and support, join the Building Health Habits group's "This September I Will" challenge. Accountability and support are our specialties!…
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This July I Will...
Happy July Everyone! The summer months can be a little dicey. Schedules change, kids are home, trips get planned and taken, and though it's a wonderful time of year, it's pretty easy to let our anchor habits such as eating well, sleeping well, and exercising fall by the wayside. Let's not let that happen! What's one…
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This August I Will...
It’s a new month! What health goals have you set for yourself for August? If you’d like encouragement and support along the way, join the Building Healthy Habits group in our “This August I Will...” challenge. https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10757565/this-august-i-will/ I’m always impressed with how much…
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This May I Will...
Spring is exploding all over the place and it's a beautiful sight to see! Every day, there's something new. A bud that wasn't there before. Shrubs that are blooming. Chives poking up through the soil. And the Eastern Phoebe that builds her nest every year over the motion detector on my garage...she's back too! I just love…
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This June I Will....Challenge
What healthy habit would you like to develop this month? What would you like to achieve? Join our very supportive "Building Healthy Habits" group and let's make June a spectacular month! https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10747201/this-june-i-will/p1
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This April I Will...
Hello Spring! Today was the day I always look forward to. After seeing my small herb garden take a pounding from snow, sleet, ice and wind over the last few months, today I ventured out, brushed away the pine needles, oak leaves and other debris, tilled the now unfrozen New Hampshire soil, and planted my arugula and Spring…
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This March I Will...
Oh yes. Oh yes! Oh YES! It's March! As of this posting, there are 19 days, 20 hours, and 33 minutes until the official start of Spring. I am more than a little excited (can you tell?). The first outdoor walk on muddy, partially frozen but snow-free ground will be downright glorious and I can't wait! March is the…
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This February I Will....
And Hello February! Let’s build some new healthy habits! What's your goal for this month and what's your plan for achieving it? Is there something new you'd like to focus on in February or does January’s goal need more attention before it’s part of your daily routine? Now is the time to select a goal, specify a plan, and…
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Nov 12 Weekly Challenge: Fall Declutterfest!
Theme: Healthy Practices Challenge: Fall Declutterfest! If Thanksgiving is at your house this year, we've got you covered....it's Fall Declutterfest! And even if you're headed out for Thanksgiving, or this is not a holiday in your neck of the woods, decluttering, reorganizing, and straightening up just feels good! I…
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This January I Will...
And Hello 2019!!! Happy New Year and may 2019 be filled with health and happiness and to you and yours. One thing I'm certain about this group: we will be celebrating a lot of healthy successes this year. Why am I so sure? Because any goal takes more than just desire: it takes a realistic plan with small, specific, do-able…
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2018 Move It Monday Challenge
Theme: Exercise and Movement Challenge: Move It Mondays! Last week’s procrastination challenge could be summed up by “just get started” and those three words are just as applicable to our challenge this week. This week, our challenge is to start off the week by exercising on Monday. What’s the big deal about Monday? Well,…
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This December I Will....
How can it be that we are now in the last month of 2018??? For many of us, the wonderful busy-ness of December too often means we let our healthy habits and practices slide and fall by the wayside. Let’s not let that happen! Sure, maybe some things will have to give, but our healthy habits should anchor our lives, helping…
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This November I Will...
Happy November! A new month? A new habit! What's your goal for this month and what's your plan for achieving that goal? Is there something new you'd like to focus on this month or does October's habit just need a bit more fine-tuning before it's a regular part of your daily routine? Now is the time to select a goal,…
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New Structure for the Building Healthy Habits Group!
Hello Everyone! After giving it considerable thought, I’ve decided to make some significant changes to the structure of our habits group starting November 1. I have been thrilled to see your responses to the new monthly challenges. To me, that’s what habit building is all about. Pick a goal, map out a strategy, select a…
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This October I Will...
Theme: Healthy Practices Challenge: This October I will... Happy October! It's a brand new month which means it's time to choose a new healthy habit we each want to work on this month. What for you needs some focused attention? What's been slipping a bit that needs a firm grasp? Or, alternatively, what's been going pretty…
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Oct 15 Weekly Challenge: Making Gratitude a Habit
Theme: Happiness Challenge Challenge: Making Gratitude a Habit We all have blessings in our lives, gifts that are given to us freely that make our lives better and often easier than they would be otherwise. These gifts may be our health, a supportive spouse, our children and grandchildren, a trusted confidant, our unique…
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Oct 22 Weekly Challenge: Making Sitting Less a Habit
Theme: Exercise and Movement Challenge: Making Sitting Less a Habit As we know, our daily habits have a tremendous impact on our health and wellbeing. In fact, small habit changes and tweaks to your daily routine are the most sustainable and, as such, can have a big impact on your life. Eating a few more fruits and…
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October Schedule of Challenges!
I am super excited about our slate of October challenges as October is Habits Month here on the Building Healthy Habits group! Now, I know what you might be thinking…”Denise, don’t we focus on habits every week in this group?” And we do, but in October we’ll be taking a closer look at the scientific research on habits…
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Learn Habits from an Expert for FREE!
Hi Everyone, Our weekly challenge that starts October 8 will focus on creating new, small healthy habits. We will be exploring how habits work, the 3 components of habits, and how we can tweak an existing habit to make it better work for us. I’m very excited about this challenge and I hope you are too. Whether we realize…
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Sept 24 Weekly Challenge: Balancing Act
Theme: Exercise and Movement Challenge: Balancing Act This week, let's focus on improving our balance. Better balance improves coordination, joint stability, agility, reaction time, and prevents falls and fractures. Balance is a core asset to our health and fitness and one that is frequently overlooked. As one balance…
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September Monthly Challenge: This September I Will...
Theme: Healthy Practices Challenge: “This September I Will” I am so excited about our new monthly challenge series as I believe it will help us make sustained progress on our health and fitness goals! But first, I need to back up a bit. When I took over as group leader in May 2017, I wanted to change the focus of this…
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Sept 10 Weekly Challenge: Nice to Meet You
Theme: Sharing Your Wisdom Challenge: Nice to Meet You! As we wrap up the summer (do we have to?) and transition to fall, our group will have a spike in membership. It's happening already and I expect it will continue through October. With so many new folks joining us and wanting them to feel welcome, I thought a round of…
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Sept 17 Weekly Challenge: Unsweetened
Theme: Healthy Eating Challenge: Unsweetened Having spent last week getting to know each other a little better, our challenge this week is kind of the opposite. This week, let’s put some distance between us and something that most of us love, but always seems to be thwarting the goals that we’ve set and the life we are…
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September Schedule of Challenges!
Are you ready for Fall? Hard to believe but September is knocking on the door. August is typically a very quiet month around here but I expect a lot of new members will be joining us in September. If you are new to our group, welcome! If you’d like to receive an email notification when a new weekly challenge is posted,…
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Aug 20 Weekly Challenge: New Years in August
Theme: Healthy Practices Challenge: New Years in August For this week’s challenge, let’s roll the calendar back a few months to the beginning of the year. Do you remember when 2018 was all sparkly new? Chances are you made a few goals or resolutions for the new year. Things that you wanted to accomplish this year…
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Aug 27 Weekly Challenge: Sticking With It
Theme: Exercise and Movement Challenge: Sticking With It Our challenge this week is simple but it's not easy. This week, let's stay on track and not veer away from our exercise habits and routines. Granted, there's a lot of competition for your time right now. It's the end of the summer and that means children and…
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Summer of Sleep
Please Note: Our June 4th Weekly Challenge: Better Sleep has morphed into a summer long effort to get more sleep. If you’ve joined us late or you know you need to make sleep a priority, please join us. We’ll be regularly tracking our progress and lessons learned. Theme: Healthy Practices Challenge: ZZzzzzzzzz For as long…
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August Schedule of Challenges!
And now we turn the corner into summer’s homestretch: August. I’ve again tried to select weekly challenges that are easy to work into our crazy summer schedules. We will continue to start off each week with our Move It Monday challenge and our Summer of Sleep challenge continues as well. If you struggle to get enough…
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July 30 Weekly Challenge: New to Me
Theme: Healthy Eating Challenge: New to Me We are squarely in mid-summer and with summer comes an abundance of fruits and vegetables, many of them locally grown. Grocery stores, farmer's markets, roadside stands, and CSAs are teeming with all kinds of interesting and delectable choices this time of year. But many of us buy…
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July 9 Weekly Challenge: Summer Declutterfest
Theme: Healthy Practices Challenge: Summer Declutterfest! Let the opening ceremonies of the 2018 Summer Declutterfest BEGIN! I am only too happy to make this challenge a quarterly event. I made great strides at our Spring Declutterfest in April on the upstairs bedroom and happily it remains reasonably clutter free. This…
