March Beachbody Challenge

Summer is coming up quickly!!!!!  That means shorts, tank tops and (gasp) bathing suits!!!! So, to get ready for this revealing season, I challenge you to commit 60 days to transforming your health, your body and your mind.  That means for the next 60 days, I want you to make some promises to yourself.

I want you to promise that you are going to workout at least 5 days a week.

I want you to promise that you are going to put forth every effort to eat right.

I want you to commit to these promises and hold the knowledge in your heart that if you do this, you will reap the benefits.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM ATHENA MARCH CHALLENGE!!!!

For 60 days, we are going to eat right.  We are going to eat within our calorie range (everyone's is different) and we are going to push play and work out at least 5 days a week.  We are going to post our check-ins everyday to show that we are actively working and we are going to post our struggles and reach out when we need help.  *Please post your daily check-in on the Team Athena Challenge Group wall on Facebook.  Check-ins should include what workout you completed that day, any feelings you have about that workout, and whether or not you stuck with your eating plan.  Please be honest!  One of our goals is to learn about our food triggers and how to combat them.*  

You may use 2 cheat meals during this 60 day period, but you must post when you use one.  This WILL NOT count against you.  A cheat meal is any meal that causes you to exceed your daily allotment by over 200 calories.  For example, if you need to eat 1800 calories a day to lose 1 lb and you eat a burger that is 1,000 calories and fries that are 500 calories, this combined with the rest of your food that you eat the rest of you day will make you go over your daily calorie limit.  REMEMBER: 1 lb = 3,500 calories!  Everyone's calorie needs are different!  You may calculate yours at http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/ or see the calorie calculator section of your nutrition guide that comes with your program.  A meal is ALSO a cheat meal if it contains more processed foods or chemicals than whole foods (and especially if it contains ZERO whole foods like most candy does).  So if you need to eat some chocolate, eat something made with cocoa and milk and sugar.  Not something with cocoa flavoring and high fructose corn syrup and a ton of unpronounceable chemicals.  

During these 60 days, we will also have weekly challenges.  These may consist of adding more veggies to each plate everyday, going a week with no diet soda and drinking 8 glasses of water, or taking out the Starbucks run before work for a week.  These weekly challenges will not have prizes but are meant to help teach tools and exercise willpower so that you will be stronger when temptations come your way in the future.

At the end of the 60 days, the winner will receive a prize (this remains to be decided but it will be a cool one - I will post what the prize will be once the challenge is full).  The winner will be determined by whether you checked in daily and whether you stuck to the plan.  Every day you post your check-in that you exercised and ate well, your name gets entered into a "hat."  Any day you miss a post, you don't get your name entered.  If you miss a workout, you lose an entry.  If you use a 3rd cheat meal, you lose an entry.  At the end of the 60 days, your name will be drawn randomly.  The more you post and the more you push, the better your chances are.

I HIGHLY RECOMMEND USING SHAKEOLOGY FOR THIS CHALLENGE!  Shakeology is a great weapon against temptations.  If your family/boyfriend/girlfriend/husband/wife whoever around you is eating dessert?  Make a shake!  Make sure you are armed and ready so that you can stay on track.
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GETTING STARTED:
Please start with posting a before photo.  You don't need to wear a bikini or a speedo.  A fitted shirt, preferably a tank top, and yoga pants or fitted pants/shorts of some kind will do.  If you are toning up, I recommend showing skin.  It's easier to see a difference in muscle tone when you can actually see skin.  Please stand in front of a plain background - in front of a door works great.  It makes it easier to compare your before and after.  I know it's embarrassing to post a before photo, but it's really fun to see the afters.

Your daily check-in should include the workout you've completed and whether or not you've stayed on track and within your calories that day (and the night before!!!)  If you "cheat," please post anything you speculate might have been a trigger for food.  Were you bored?  Did your significant other come home and start eating?  Stressful day?  A commercial?  Think about it.  This is the key to get you to get out of the fridge when you don't need to be putting food in your mouth.  :)  You may vent all you want or talk about your workout, whatever you want to say.  Just keep checking in.  And encourage each other too! Comment on each others' check-ins.  It makes this easier to stay with when you work together and form a bond of support.  

**********Please note, in order to be eligible for prizes you must be registered on Team Beachbody with TurboRachel or CoachKara85 as your coach.  We are unable to award prizes for anyone who is not registered under us.  If we are not currently your coach, please email coachrelations@teambeachbody.com and ask to have your coach set as TurboRachel or CoachKara85.************