10-Week Wellness Challenge Update & A Giveaway

I can’t believe that we are almost finished with the 10-Week Wellness Challenge!  It seems like only yesterday that The Iowa Food & Family Project invited me to join their team!  I was so excited when they did and I had such high hopes of blowing it out of the water this year!  HA!  Well, then life happened!

I’ve struggled with being healthy for the majority of my adult life!  I’m, what I call myself, a coping anorexic!  If you look at me today you wouldn’t guess that to be the case, but it’s true!!  You see,  being healthy has several different definitions.  Obtaining a healthy lifestyle depends on your own personal situation.  For me, being healthy is finding a balance with my eating and exercise.  All of this, along with “life” during the 10-Week Wellness Challenge has gotten me to these realizations:

• Good intentions only go so far! 

  Last year I placed 1st on the IFFP team in activity minutes!  I had the intentions of doing so again.  Well, let’s just say that life happened and in a few instances, I was lazy.  So, nope, not placing first this year!  While I had the best of intentions, if I don’t turn those intentions into actions, my goal of a healthier lifestyle won’t occur!

• It’s all about balance! 

  Something I constantly have to work on is balance!  It’s easy for me to sway one direction or the other when it comes to eating!  So, while I love to embark in the 21 Day Fix and focus on eating clean, I also know that it’s easy for me to bury myself  in extreme eating.  I often follow the theory of eating clean, but am also working to balance my life!  Not only work/play, but also clean/non-clean eating!

• Trying to be healthy is better than nothing! 

  One comes to a point in their life that they realize that trying and getting halfway there (to a healthy lifestyle) is better than nothing!  While I was often eating clean during the day while participating in the 10-Week Wellness challenge, I attended basketball games at night, met friends for dinner, and had date-nights (and vacation) with my husband.  Those times resulted in me usually not eating clean!  I struggle with beating myself up over that!  It’s easy for me to do, however, in the last 9 weeks, I’ve come to realize that any efforts I make to lead a healthy lifestyle is better than none at all! (Thankfully, my Garmin Vivofit helps me stay on track by telling me when I’ve sat too long and need to get up and move!)

• The people at the Iowa Food & Family Project rock!  

  For the second year in a row I’ve been blessed to be on their team for the 10-Week Wellness Challenge and for the second year in a row they have given me the opportunity to give away some outstanding prizes to my readers!  So, what’s up for grabs this time?  How about a $25 to Scheels?! What better way to get motivated to move and become more active than with a gift card to buy some new shoes or workout clothes?!  Get entered below!

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As part of the Iowa Food & Family Project team, I was offered incentives.  All opinions and thoughts are 100% my own.  Please see the disclosure tab for full details.