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5/1 Tuesday Day 1 SLBC: Why Sitting Is Harmful
Welcome to Sit Less Boot Camp! Over the next 3 weeks we'll give you lots of ideas and resources for sitting less and moving more. Some of the daily challenges will be more appropriate for some folks than others, but we think there will be something for everyone. If you've participated in Sit Less Boot Camp before, welcome…
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April 23 Weekly Challenge: Make Your Week Harder
Theme: Exercise and Movement Challenge: Make Your Week Harder Let's get moving! Dr. Mike Evans is a physician who has produced and narrated a series of white board videos on various health topics. One of the concepts he promotes is “Let's Make Our Day Harder” by looking for ways to add a little more movement into our day.…
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April 16 Weekly Challenge: Random Acts of Kindness
Theme: Greater Happiness Challenge: Random Acts of Kindness I've been reading Stephen Post and Jill Neimark's wonderful book, Why Good Things Happen to Good People: How to Live a Longer, Healthier, Happier Life by the Simple Act of Giving. Their book synthesizes numerous research studies that suggest that giving of…
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April 9 Weekly Challenge: Spring Declutterfest!
Theme: Healthy Practices Challenge: Spring Declutterfest! It’s BAAACK! One of our most popular weekly challenges is back and I think just in time! Several rooms in my house are in serious need of cleaning and decluttering. I’m going to start with the upstairs bedroom. Right now, the task seems pretty daunting, but I’m…
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Name change to Building Better Habits!
Hi Everyone, You might have noticed that I changed the name of our group from the Challenge A Day group to Building Healthy Habits. Since I took over as group moderator almost a year ago, I’ve been bothered by the name. And I finally decided to listen to my gut and just change it. I did this for several reasons. For one,…
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April Schedule of Challenges!
Here’s what’s planned for our April weekly challenges! If you are new to our group, we have an email reminder system in place. If you’d like to get an email when a new weekly challenge is posted, just email me at: buildinghealthyhabits2@gmail.com and I'll add you to the list. Please consider sharing our weekly challenges…
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April 2 Weekly Challenge: The Outer Ring
Theme: Healthy Eating Challenge: The Outer Ring Grocery store design and planning is big business. Every square inch of a grocery store is planned in advance with a single goal in mind: to get shoppers to spend more time and money in the store. About half of grocery purchases are for unintended purchases. We may go in with…
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March 26 Weekly Challenge: Micro Workouts
Theme: Exercise and Movement Challenge: Micro Workouts We’ve had a running theme going this month with many of our weekly challenges: the big impact of small changes. Whether it’s a tiny new healthy habit, a food swap, or another small change in our eating habits, small changes are the most sustainable and as such, they’re…
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Learn Habits from an Expert for Free
Hi Everyone, Our weekly challenge starting March 12 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 it or…
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March 19 Weekly Challenge: Big Impact of Small Food Changes
Theme: Healthy Eating Challenge: The Big Impact of Small Food Changes Last week we took a deep dive into habits, expanding our understanding of the 3 components of every habit and tapping into the wealth of habits research that’s been done in the last 20 years to create new or better habits that will help us reach our…
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March 12 Weekly Challenge: Building Better Habits
Theme: Healthy Practices Challenge: Habits 101 I am so excited about our challenge this week! My overarching goal for this group is to help us create new healthy habits. Each of our weekly challenges gives you the opportunity to test drive a healthy habit and see if it’s is a good fit for you. But we’ve never explored or…
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March 5 Weekly Challenge: My Creative Side
Theme: Greater Happiness Challenge: My Creative Side When you think of some of the many habits you could work on that will enable you to reach your health and fitness goals, regularly practicing your creative talents probably doesn’t come to mind. But it really should. According to Dr. Cathy Malchiodi, “Making art may be…
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Feb 5 Weekly Challenge: Fruits and Veggies Extravaganza
Theme: Healthy Eating Challenge: Fruits and Veggies Extravaganza Sometimes there's a pretty big gulf between what we know we should do and what we actually do. I know that fruits and vegetables should make up about half of my daily food intake. I know this. But most days, my fruits and veggies consumption falls short of…
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Feb 26 Weekly Challenge: Deskercise!
Theme: Exercise and Movement Challenge: Deskercise This week, let’s focus on getting more exercise and movement in at work, what’s sometimes called Deskercise. Even if you don’t have an office job, if you sit at your home office or in front of a computer or TV for much of the day, these exercises can really help. I’m sure…
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Feb 19 Weekly Challenge: Just Breathe
Theme: Healthy Practices Challenge: Just Breathe You always have with you a powerful tool that can quickly reduce your stress, lower your blood pressure, and re-energize you: your breath. It's easy to overlook breathing. After all, it's an automatic process and something each of us to do about 20,000 times a day. Because…
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Feb 12 Weekly Challenge: Overcoming the Obstacles
Theme: Sharing Your Wisdom Challenge: Overcoming the Obstacles It’s often said because it’s true: “If weight loss were easy, we’d all be at a healthy weight”. Losing weight and becoming a healthier, fitter person takes time, patience, and perseverance. And even when we’ve got these qualities, things never quite go…
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March Schedule of Challenges!
Here’s what’s on the the horizon for our March weekly challenges! If you are new to our group or you just enjoy emails, we have an email reminder system in place. If you’d like to get an email when a new weekly challenge is posted, just email me at: challengeaday2@gmail.com and I'll add you to the list. Please consider…
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Jan 15 Weekly Challenge: The Missing Piece
Theme: Exercise and Movement Challenge: The Missing Piece I love my treadmill. On most days, I use it several times a day. I use it to exercise, to read Kindle books, watch videos, answer emails, and scan MFP and Facebook. There are so many things that I used to do sitting down that I now do while walking slowly on my…
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Jan 22 Weekly Challenge: Overcoming Procrastination
Theme: Healthy Practices Challenge: Let’s Get Started (Part 1: Overcoming Procrastination) Our Healthy Practices challenge this week is focused on understanding and overcoming our natural tendency to put things off and delay acting on things that are important to us. Most of us procrastinate to some extent. But for some…
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February Schedule of Challenges!
Here’s what’s on the calendar for our February weekly challenges! If you are new to our group or you just like emails, we have an email reminder system in place. If you’d like to get an email when a new weekly challenge is posted, just email me at: challengeaday2@gmail.com and I'll add you to the list. Please consider…
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Jan 8 Weekly Challenge: Your Best Tips
Theme: Sharing Your Wisdom Challenge: Your Best Tips! As I mentioned in the January schedule of challenges, I’m adding a new theme this year to our weekly challenges. Our group is full of members who have learned a lot about health and fitness. For some people, it’s information that has been gleaned over many years and…
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Jan 1 Weekly Challenge: If You Bite It, Write It
Theme: Healthy Eating Challenge: If You Bite It, Write It Happy New Year! I thought we’d kick-off our 2018 weekly challenges with a “back to basics” challenge: food logging. For most of us, the MFP food diary was the first tool we were introduced to when we joined MFP and it remains the main tool we use to track our daily…
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Welcome to 2018 and January Schedule of Challenges!
Happy New Year! Let’s make 2018 our best year yet by focusing on making the healthy habits that will enable us to live the life that we want! I’m kicking off the new year with two changes to our group. As I mentioned last fall, I’m going to be running many of our weekly challenges again. At least one of our weekly…
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Dec 11 Weekly Challenge: Random Acts of Kindness
Theme: Greater Happiness Challenge: Random Acts of Kindness I always enjoy putting together our weekly challenges. I enjoy reading up on the topics and finding resources that I think will be helpful to you. I like learning more about almost anything. I’ve especially enjoyed assembling this week’s challenge — Random Acts of…
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My year-end question to you
I have a year-end question for you. Thinking back over 2017, what has changed for you personally this year? How is your life better this year? Do you have an achievement or accomplishment you’re especially proud of this year? Did you learn a new skill or pick up a new hobby that has made your life better? Maybe taken a…
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Dec 4 Weekly Challenge: Stress Less
Theme: Healthy Practices Challenge: Stress Less Do you feel you manage your stress pretty well or does stress manage you? This week, let’s work on reducing our stress. Having a set of stress-busting tools we can reach for when needed is one of healthiest habits we can establish. It’s just as important as a healthy diet or…
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Nov 13 Weekly Challenge: Fall Declutterfest
Programming Note: I won’t be around too much this week as I’m having surgery on Wednesday. As such, I’ve decided to repeat one of our most popular weekly challenges...Declutterfest!! There’s just something very rewarding about diving into projects that have long been on our to do list. I’ll be back in touch towards the end…
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Nov 20 Weekly Challenge: Thankful
Another Programming Note: Thanks for all your good recovery wishes and prayers! I am definitely on the mend but need a few months to fully heal. I’m pretty tired and am scaling back on my commitments. As such, I’m repeating our gratitude challenge from this summer. On the week that many of us will be celebrating…
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Schedule for December Challenges
We now have an email reminder system in place. If you'd like to get an email when a new weekly challenge is posted, just email me at: challengeaday2@gmail.com and I'll add you to the list. Please consider sharing our weekly challenges with your MFP friends. It’s always great to have more people join us! Here's what's…
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Nov 27 Weekly Challenge: Bean Counters
Theme: Healthy Eating Challenge: Bean Counters This week, let’s focus on adding some beans to our meals. It’s hard to beat beans. A nutritional powerhouse, they’re an excellent source of B vitamins, iron, potassium, and fiber. They are also packed with cancer-fighting anti-oxidants, help regulate blood sugar, and can lower…
