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Check-in: 15 Minutes for Me
If you are joining us for this week's challenge, how is it going for you? Can you see yourself making this part of your daily routine?
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Schedule for August Challenges
Here's what's planned for our August weekly challenges! July 31 - Aug 6: Theme: Exercise and Movement Challenge: "Make Your Week Harder" Dr. Mike Evans developed and promotes the concept of "Make Your Day Harder" by looking for opportunities to add a few more steps and a little more activity to your daily routine. This…
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Check-in: Changing it Up
If you are participating in this week's challenge to increase the variety of foods eaten this week, how is it going for you?
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July 17 Weekly Challenge: 15 Minutes for Me
Theme: Happiness Challenge Challenge: 15 Minutes for Me This week let's focus on looking at time differently. Let's use "micro-minutes" to relax, restore, and rejuvenate us. Or alternatively, let's use a little chunk of each day to lay the foundation for making progress on a goal or aspiration that you have. Something that…
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Check-in: Just Breathe
For those of you participating in our deep breathing challenge this week, how is it going for you? Are you finding that a quick deep breathing session calms and relaxes you, or re-energizes you? I'm looking forward to hearing your updates!
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July 10 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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Check-in: Lots of Squats!
For those of you participating in our squats challenge this week, how are you doing? Are you finding a couple of spots in your day to slide in a few sets of squats? How do you feel?
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July 3 Weekly Challenge: Lots of Squats
Our exercise challenge this week is squats. Bluntly, I know very little about squats, but I do know they’re an important tool in our exercise toolbox. Fortunately, my good friend Jen is a certified personal trainer and health coach and Jen has agreed to help craft our exercise challenges! I greatly appreciate Jen’s…
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Check-in: Our Fruits and Veggies Challenge
For those of you participating in our fruits and veggies challenge this week, how are you doing? It's such a great time of year to eat more produce. Lots of delicious options! Alternatively, if you're having trouble finding your veggie groove, post that as well... there is likely someone in our group who has experienced…
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"Lots of Squats" Challenge: July 3 - July 9
The Challenge-a-Day group's challenge this week is Lots of Squats! We want you to join us! http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10573046/july-3-weekly-challenge-lots-of-squats
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June 26 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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Check-in: How's Gratitude Journaling Going?
For those of you participating in our gratitude challenge this week, how is it going for you?
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Schedule for July Challenges
Here's what's cooking for our July weekly challenges! July 3 - July 9: Theme: Exercise and Movement Challenge: "Lots of Squats!" Yes, we'll be focused on squats this week because this compound exercise works major muscle groups and belongs in almost everyone's exercise toolbox. This challenge has been crafted just for us…
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June 19 Weekly Challenge: Cultivating Gratitude
Theme: Happiness Challenge Challenge: Cultivating Gratitude 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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Check-in: How is Decluttering Progressing?
For those of you participating in Declutter Fest 2017, how is it going for you so far?
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June 19-25: Gratitude Challenge
This week's challenge on the Challenge-a-Day group is Cultivating Gratitude. If that strikes a chord with you, join us! http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10568091/june-19-weekly-challenge-cultivating-gratitude
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June 12 Weekly Challenge: Declutter Fest 2017
Theme: Healthy Practices Challenge: Declutter Fest 2017 I have been waiting for this week to arrive. A few days ago my daughter asked, "Hey, can we clean out the closet? It's getting really hard to find things in there and there are lots of things we don't use anymore". This was on top of our observations that the kitchen…
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Check-in: How's Step It Up Going?
Hi Everyone! For those of you who are participating in our Step It Up challenge this week, how is it going for you so far? --Denise
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June 5 Weekly Challenge: Step It Up
Theme: Exercise and Movement Challenge: Step It Up! This week's challenge is to increase our daily movement, to Step It Up! One interpretation of the challenge is, of course, to increase your daily step count. If you have a Fitbit or another activity tracker, you might review your last few weeks of activity and set a…
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Check-in: How's Food Logging Going?
Hi Everyone, For those of you participating in this week's challenge, how is food logging going for you? Please share any successes, frustrations, and insights, as we can all learn from each other!
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May 29 Weekly Challenge: If You Bite It, Write It
Theme: Healthy Eating Challenge: "If You Bite It, Write It" Since we will be concentrating on the fundamentals in our healthy eating challenges, I thought it made sense to start with the most fundamental of the fundamentals: food logging. For most of us, the MFP food diary was the first tool we were introduced to when we…
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Schedule for May/June Challenges
Without further ado, here is the schedule for the May/June challenges: May 29 - June 4: Theme: Healthy Eating Challenge: "If You Bite It, Write It" Making sure our food diaries are accurate and reflect what we really ate that day. For those who find food diaries too stressful or cumbersome, food journaling is an excellent…
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June 5 - June 11: Step It Up Challenge
Hosted by MFP's Challenge a Day Group June 5 - June 11: Theme: Exercise and Movement Challenge (By Request): "Step it Up!" Whether your goal is 10,000 steps a day or something else, let's all spend this week trying to get a move on. Hey, it's been two weeks since we've had a sit less challenge. It's long overdue. :) The…
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The Future of This Group...Please Read and Respond
Hello Everyone, As most of you know by now, this group has not been very active since Auna's laptop died last October, forcing her offline. I know she intended to resume her daily postings as soon as possible, but that hasn't worked out as she intended. I hope she comes back soon! She has deftly led this group for several…
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5/21 Sunday Day 21 SLBC Please Share Your Accomplishments!
And now we cross the finish line of Sit Less Boot Camp! Theme: Our Sit Less Accomplishments! Today’s Challenge: On the last day of Boot Camp, please share the progress you’ve made in sitting less and moving more. Nothing is too small or too big to be noted and celebrated. And if you’ve encountered some frustration and…
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5/19 Friday Day 19 SLBC
Theme: Next Steps & Survey We are now in the homestretch of Sit Less Boot Camp, with three daily challenges remaining. I have thoroughly enjoyed the last 3 weeks and I’ve gotten re-energized by your enthusiasm for sitting less and moving more. As Boot Camp winds down, it's a good time to think about the progress you’ve…
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5/18 Thursday Day 18 SLBC
Theme: Turn Off the TV, Turn up the Music! Today's Challenge: When the TVs on we tend to sit, but when the radio is on or the music's playing we want to move. Today's challenge is to trade in some TV time and crank up the music instead. Spontaneous dance party....oh yeah!!! And if yesterday's spring cleaning project is…
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5/17 Wednesday Day 17 SLBC
Theme: Spring Cleaning Project 3! Today's Challenge: What's the last spring cleaning project will you accomplish today for this month's challenge? We've all got small projects around the house that we've been meaning to get to...now's the time! After this challenge, you will have completed three house projects that have…
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5/16 Tuesday Day 16 SLBC
Theme: Make Your Day Harder People who are committed to an active lifestyle look for ways to be more active and get more steps in throughout the day. They don't settle for the easy shortcut. So today, let’s try to make things just a little more difficult for ourselves. Today’s Challenge: Please watch (standing up!) the…
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May 29 - June 4: If You Bite It, Write It
Hosted by MFP's Challenge a Day Group May 29 - June 4: Theme: Healthy Eating Challenge: "If You Bite It, Write It" Making sure our food diaries are accurate and reflect what we really ate that day. For those who find food diaries too stressful or cumbersome, food journaling is an excellent alternative and we'll have some…
