Meet Emily

Name: Emily

Age: 9 ½

Where do you live: Lehi, UT

What do you do for a living: Go to school and play sports

Favorite Hobbies: Play basketball, soccer, volleyball, and catch with any ball. I like to dance for fun and read some books.

Favorite Food: stroganoff (that I make myself)

What is the hardest thing for you to keep up with on this challenge? No sugar and the 8 pm cutoff

What is the easiest thing for you to keep up with? Getting my fruits and vegetables in and exercising.

Meet Camille

Name:  Camille Evans

 

Age: 37 (barely)

 

Where you live:  Rexburg, Idaho

What you do for a living: I'm an employment recruiter and a WAHM

Favorite Hobbies:  playing the piano, riding my bike, and I just picked up fishing.  I wonder what I'll pick up next...

Favorite Food (healthy or not): chocolate peanut butter ice cream (Reed's Dairy brand of course!) scones and honey butter

 

What is the hardest thing for you to keep up with in this challenge? (sleep, water, exercise, etc):

eating the sweets and drinking my water!  I only crave water when I'm thirsty.  I feel water-logged when I'm not.

 

Which is the easiest thing for you to keep up with in this challenge? Any tips you'd like to share?   Well, I'm no expert, but I've realized the reason I eat sweets is because they're more convenient and accessible to eat!  So, I've kept a fruit basket on my table, ready for the eating when I'm ready to snack. 

Who's Reed?!

Week 5 Winners!

Only three more weeks to go!

Some of you have mentioned that you have given up and/or lost motivation. Don't give up! The ultimate goal of this challenge is to get yourself in the habit of making healthier choices. Even if you don't get the highest points each week, if you walk away from this with healthier teeth and gums from getting in a flossing habit (or whatevs), then you're better than you were at the beginning of the challenge!

Start fresh today with a new outlook on the challenge, and keep at it. You'll be happy you did!

Congratulations to our random week 5 winners:

Brenda Finlinson 

and

Paige Norton!

Meet Hannah

Age: 30 (YIKES! That's the first time I've had to write that since my birthday!)

Where you live: Saratoga Springs UT

What you do for a living: Mom to 3 boys, HypnoBirthing Childbirth Educator

Favorite Hobbies: Reading, blousing around pinterest pretending like I'll make everything I pin, Playing outside with my kids, and I'm trying to get better at quilting and small sewing projects 

Favorite Food (healthy or not): I LOVE cold red grapes. And I LOVE the Cafe Rio tortillas dipped in house dressing.

 

What is the hardest thing for you to keep up with in this challenge? (sleep, water, exercise, etc):

The hardest thing for me to keep up with is NO SWEETS. Exercise comes in at a close second though.. just saying... 

I am a sugar addict. I used to have a Sonic drink almost every day and I thought that would be hard to give up. Surprisingly it was the easiest for me to let go of (after the first 3 days of headaches!). But it is so hard for me to say no to treats. 

Maybe I should eat all the sugar in my house so that there won't be any left! :)

 

Which is the easiest thing for you to keep up with in this challenge? Any tips you'd like to share? (how you get 30 mins of exercise in each day, how to keep track of water, etc):

Drinking the 50 oz. of water has been super easy for me. I use the mug I got at the hospital when I had my babies (I know it's time for another baby when my mug is all cracked and unreadable! just kidding- kind of!) I just keep it on the counter by my kitchen sink and I drink one mug-full by lunch time and finish the second mug-full by dinner time. The rest after that is bonus aqua. :)

Meet Brenda

Name: Brenda Evans Finlinson

Age:  35

Where you live: A money pit in Murray (at least that is what it feels like this week ;) )

What you do for a living: Mommy & dabble in the oil industry on the side

Favorite Hobbies: Digital scrapbooking, photography, craftiness ;)

Favorite Food (healthy or not): chocolate chocolate chocolate

What is the hardest thing for you to keep up with in this challenge? No sweets

 

Which is the easiest thing for you to keep up with in this challenge? Probably the water, I love to drink water. Or the fruits/veggies...I've been trying to get my kiddos to eat a rainbow of fruits/veggies each day - so thats what I eat too & it makes it easier for me.


Mmmmmm...chocolate.

Meet Andy

Name:  Andy

Age:  61

Where you live:  Spanish Fork, UT

What you do for a living:  Bookkeeping for a dairy products company

Favorite Hobbies:  Reading and staring mindlessly at the TV

Favorite Food (healthy or not):  Cookies and milk

What is the hardest thing for you to keep up with in this challenge? (sleep, water, exercise, etc):  Eating FIVE servings of fruits and veggies and NOT eating sugar-laden treats.

Which is the easiest thing for you to keep up with in this challenge? Any tips you'd like to share? (how you get 30 minutes of exercise in each day, how to keep track of water, etc):  Getting 30 minutes of exercise each day.


 People have said that I remind them of a movie star.

Meet Alisha

Name: Alisha Shepherd

Age: 29

 Where you live: Roy, UT

What you do for a living: Full-time mommy to two boys, ages 2 and 3 months

 Favorite Hobbies: Music, reading, organizing and snuggling with my boys

Favorite Food (healthy or not): Baked chicken

What is the hardest thing for you to keep up with in this challenge?

 exercise - finding something to fit into my routine and that will be flexible enough when the routine changes because the baby woke up early.

Which is the easiest thing for you to keep up with in this challenge? 

 7 hours of sleep. We go to bed early because the kiddos wear me out.


Thanks Alisha! I know all too well about babies ruining routines:)