Joining the 2014 Fit & Fab Program
Those who choose to join Fit & Fab 2014 will receive a program T-Shirt, some Cards to hand to friends, support and encouragement in developing a healthy lifestyle, the opportunity to join fitness programs and challenges with fellow employees, and an invitation to a Facebook group offering support and motivation.
The goal is a renewed commitment to health and wellness for a new year. The individual will achieve a healthier lifestyle that leads to feeling FAB-you-lous!
To join the program, simply complete a weekly journal. The journal must indicate which four of the fourteen possible wellness topics you focus on that week. The four topics do not have to be the same four topics for the duration of the program, but they must be four of the listed topics. The weekly journal page will be reviewed, so it needn’t be painstakingly personal, but it does need to show thoughtful reflection on each of the topics that are reflective or what activity and the duration of that activity for the active topics.
The Reflective Topics are as follows: Tick-Tock (sleep improvement), Stress Busters (managing stress better to feel less stressed), Mental Challenge (exercising your brain to improve its overall health), Positive Attitudes (becoming the glass half-full person instead of the glass half-empty), Daily Affirmations (talking nice to yourself), and Spirituality (learning about new spirituality or enhancing your existing relationship with a higher power).
The Active Topics are as follows: Gym Rats (using a gym regularly), Tick-Tock (sleep improvement), Couch Potato No More (taking action to avoid sitting on the couch watching TV in every spare moment), Hydration Station (how did you get more water?), Mental Challenge (exercising your brain to improve its overall health), 10,000 Steps (how did you get more steps?), Fantastic Fruit (what new fruits did you try?), Valuable Veggies (how did you prepare a tasty veggie dish?), Community Contribution (how did you improve the community?), Meal Planning (how do you create better meal plans and execute them, and how well do they succeed?).
Every topic can be reflective, and every topic can be active. The last two paragraphs offer guidelines.
Your topics can change every week. The first week, you may focus on water, fruits, veggies, and walking. Awesome. Write about how much water you drank and how that felt, how you added fruits, what kind of veggies, and how you added steps. Next week, you may choose to get better sleep, challenge your brain, come to the gym, and increase your spirituality. Journal about how many hours you achieved, what kind of brain challenges you completed, what you did at the gym and for how long, and what new spiritual activity you completed. Or you may choose the same four as the first week: water, fruits, veggies, and walking. It doesn’t matter. It only matters that for that week, you’re focused and feeling better every day.
As always with these programs, they evolve and change as new inspiration hits, so there may be short contests with prizes and cash available to participants. Only participants will qualify. We will give advance notice when possible so other employees may join at those points. Sometimes adequate notice will not be available – for example, we may join a last minute 5k with a prize to those who sign up and an award of $50 for the fastest time. To be fully eligible when the time comes, participate!
This time, to avoid the usual trouble with our busy environment and employee turnover, etc, we have completed enough weekly newsletters, special fitness episodes, and a handful of handouts that will differ from the weekly newsletters to last until the end of 2014.
There’s no penalty to start later and no penalty to quit, so keep watching. For those of you ready to be Fit & Fab in 2014, indicate your interest by turning in the first journal page by Monday, January 13, 2014, with your first four topic choices.
Good luck! I hope you want to make the effort with me to be Fit & Fab in 2014!
Kari Kounkel, 01.06.2014
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