The human body is an amazing gift. We are given our bodies and our health to
help us find joy and to serve others.
When our bodies are strong and full of energy, the Lord can use us more
efficiently in building his kingdom.
This challenge is meant to stretch us,
but not stress us. Use it to try out
healthy habits. If you already have that
healthy habit, adapt the challenge in a way that will make you have to work at
it. That is the only way you will
benefit from this!
There
are ways to get daily points and weekly points.
1
point is earned each daily for the following achievements:
(7
challenges x 7 days = 49 possible points weekly for these things***)
· Daily Personal Challenge (You
pick one personal goal to work on daily.
Examples are not biting nails, no soda, not yelling at children, keeping
a particular counter clutter-free, flossing your teeth, etc). You do not have to disclose what your
personal challenge is.
· Daily Prayer (one point for
praying morning and night)
· Scripture
Study (Whatever you are currently studying -- at least one chapter)
· No “sweets”
(candy, sugar cereal, or other typical desserts)
· No eating after dinner
unless it is a small, healthy snack
· Exercise
(at least 30 minutes of whatever work-out you desire)
· Rotating
challenge point: The rotating challenge
is something healthy that we should be doing daily.
This challenge changes every week. You are not expected to do one week’s rotating challenge in addition to past weeks rotating challenge (but of course you may if you want). Just focus on the current week.
The weekly challenges are as follows:
This challenge changes every week. You are not expected to do one week’s rotating challenge in addition to past weeks rotating challenge (but of course you may if you want). Just focus on the current week.
The weekly challenges are as follows:
1. Keep
a daily food journal (Like on myplate on livestrong.com or other system or
smart phone app)
2. Drink
the proper amount of water
3. Get
the proper fiber intake
4. 100
sit-ups or crunches (may be broken up)
5. Eat
the recommended daily servings of fruit
6. Get
the right amount of sleep
7. Eat
the recommended daily servings of vegetables
8. 50
push-ups (may be broken up)
9. Only
eat carbohydrates that are whole grain (this includes breads, pasta, pitas,
tortillas, breakfast cereals, etc)
10.
No processed food (think
anything packaged/transformed… including crackers, chips, sugary “granola
bars”, ready-to-eat breakfast cereals….you decide what your goal will be!)
We will email you a nifty chart
that you can use on your computer to track your points. It will automatically
fill in your bonus points. You can also print it up and keep it handy.
***There is one cheat day
each week for each daily point. You
decide which day is your cheat day for each thing. If you finish all 6 days of something, you
still get a point for your 7th day, even if you “cheat” (for
example, even if you eat cheesecake on Sunday, you will still get 7 points for
that week. But, if you eat cheesecake on
Saturday and Sunday, you will only get 5 points for that week for that thing).
1
point is earned each week for the following achievements:
(3
weekly possible points + 49 daily possible points =
52 points possible per week)
· Weekly Personal Challenge
· Holding
Family Night (If you are not LDS, this
basically means that you will dedicate a portion of one evening per week for
spiritual family instruction and a bonding activity of some sort. It does not need to be elaborate, only
intentional).
· Mystery
point: Think of this as a funny bonus
point. Each week on Sunday you will be
sent an email telling you what you had to do for the mystery point that
week. You can only look back in the week
to see if you did it or not. You cannot
go and do it once you know what it is.
Each
Sunday you will be sent a quick survey to complete. You MUST complete the survey by Monday night!
It is how we will track our points and how we communicate with each other about
how we are doing, what we are learning and how to help each other. I will keep
a running total of everyone’s points and email the list (and other fun
information) out to the group every Tuesday.
Remember, there are 52 points possible per week if you do everything
perfectly.
We also can communicate through
the Fit For The Kingdom blog at www.moresaviorlikethee.blogspot.com
If you are on Facebook, please search for and request to join the More Fit For
the Kingdom group! It will be fun to cheer each other on! We will start on Monday, August 5th!!!
One
more thing: CHEERLEADERS NEEDED! I need 9 people to volunteer to “Sponsor” one
week each. I will sponsor the first
week. This entails you doing a little
bit of research before the week that you pick (Say you pick the “fiber”
week). You will then share with the
group (just email me and I will forward it to the group) a summary of what you
learned (ie: How many grams of fiber are
recommended for an adult man and woman, helpful websites or charts, great sources
of fiber, tricks on increasing fiber intake, etc). You can then send me an email or two during
the week if you want to cheer everybody on and encourage us to keep up the good
work. This will ease my burden and help
the group hear from different voices than my own.
