So what is your plan for the rest of the year?

It can be so discouraging that good habits take focus, effort, sweat and toil to forge. And it seems you can fall out of them with ease. An injury, sickness, vacation or any other disruption can cause you to lose all of the progress you have made and completely fall out of your good habits. 

And so here we are nearing the end of another healthy living competition. You have worked so hard and hopefully you have seen some progress in energy levels, mental health, weight loss and an overall feeling of accomplishment. 

I am hoping that even if you aren’t one of our top point earners you have at least forged some healthy habits that are blessing your life.

There is a saying I like that goes “If you do what you did you will get what you got.” In other words if you continue with these healthy habits you will continue to enjoy increasing benefits to your overall health. But if you consider the competition completed and go back to your old habits you will reap what you did when you fell into those habits before.

So for the last challenge of this 8 weeks of competition I would like you to consider some of the healthy challenges you have experienced during this or previous rounds of competition. You can find all of the past weekly challenges on the blog. Here are 25 healthy habits (most are past bonus challenges)  that you might want to consider continuing:

1. Eat at least 5 servings of fruits and vegetables daily.
2. Exercise daily
3. Use myfitnesspal.com to record your daily food and exercise as you learn portion and weight control. 
4. Limit how many days per week you eat sweets
5. Drink plenty of water daily.
6. Dance daily for mental and physical benefit.
7. Eat local, seasonally fresh produce
8. Use cold showers and saunas to benefit your health
9. Use myfitnesspal to track your fiber, protein or other important nutrients
10. Follow healthy influencers on social media, read their blogs and booksGet sunshine daily 
11. Learn healthy habits to help you sleep deeply each night 
12. Get regular medical and dental check ups as well as the tests designated for your age (mammogram, colonoscopy etc.)
13. Learn meditation techniques and make it part of your daily practice
14. Make sure your work outs include stretching, strength training and aerobics.
15. Learn what the ideal body weight is for your height and frame and work toward getting to that weight and maintaining it,
16. Eat the rainbow
17. Work on your posture
18. Enjoy fermented foods regularly.
19. Make sure you are getting adequate Vitamin D
20. Cultivate some stress relieving habits when you need to self soothe (rather than sugar or overeating)
21. Experiment with time restricted eating
22. Eat mindfully and slowly. Chew your food well.
23. Eat a variety of food and vegetables each week. Try to get in 30 different ones.
24. Do a plank challenge 
25. Give up artificial sweeteners 

There are many others on my blog site. 

So our last weekly challenge is this. Read over these 25 weekly bonus challenges, think about what habits you feel have really benefited you and make a detailed plan of how you want to handle your health for the rest of 2022. Then write me an e-mail (MomSandee@aol.com) and tell me your plan. When I get that e-mail you have earned your final 35 weekly bonus points.