Healthy Habits Challenge

Last year, my friend, Suzanne, held a Healthy Habits Challenge. It was a twelve week program where you were challenged to keep ten healthy habits per day. You got a point for each habit you kept per day and reported your points at the end of the twelve weeks. This was the motivation I needed to kick some of my bad habits and work on some of the things I should be doing. So, to save Suzanne a little stress, I told her I would be in charge of the challenge this year. I decided since I have already broken my new year's resolution for healthy eating, it is time to start

The 2010 Healthy Habits Challenge!

It starts on Monday, Feb 1!
Here are the rules:

The Habits

1. 7 hours of sleep: naps count
2. 30 minutes of exercise: doesn't have to be all at once, taking a walk counts
3. No sweets/unhealthy snacks: you know what "sweets" are to you.
4. 64 oz. of water
5. 3 servings of veggies, 2 servings of fruit: or whatever combination of 5-a-day you get!
6. No soda: the aim is to avoid sugar, artificial sweeteners and caffeine
7. No eating after 8:00 PM: unless you are pregnant or nursing, in which case you can eat healthy food after 8:00 if you have or have had and extra serving of veg/fruit.
8. 15 minutes of inspirational reading (preferably scriptures, but any reading that uplifts you counts)
9. One journal entry in the journal type of your choice: blogging, letters, gratitude journal, whatever else you do to keep a record of your life counts.
10. Choose you own habit: this is something that you will work to do daily. Another 30 min of exercise? Service? Eat breakfast? Flossing? Whatever you want to work on personally!

How it Works

-Keep track of you points daily and at the end of each week (Sunday) you may either email me (melissahoyal@gmail.com) or comment on the healthy habits blog (more info to come) with your total points for that week.
-You can earn up to 10 points per day.
-Sundays are days off- you get to take a break with no points earned or lost.
-When we are all done I will take out everyone's "worst week" total and toss it out. So if you have a bad week, go on vacation, need a break, etc. you have a little bit of room.
-At the end the winner is the one with the most points.

Thanks to the beloved internet, anyone can participate, no matter where you live! If you are interested, email me, or leave a comment, and I will send you a spreadsheet that you can use to keep track of your points. The Challenge starts next week, February 1, so let me know before then! I am looking forward to the Challenge this year and hope I will have some fierce competition to keep me on track!