Contests

How about taking the food diary challenge? Send an e-mail to wellbeing@washingtonian.com with your contact information and why you think you’d make a good diarist!

For this week’s post check out “What an Intern Eats: The Food Diaries”. This diarist eats lots of fruits and veggies, but nutrition expert Rebecca Bitzer thinks she might be too strict with her eating! Check out Rebecca’s great advice and send an email to take the challenge!

Visit our Facebook Fan Page and Comment on it to win prizes. During the holiday season we will be promoting lots of new holiday tips and programs to help make your holidays successful. We will choose one person each week to receive a special holiday gift. http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pages/Greenbelt-MD/Rebecca-Bitzer-and-Associates/85945163588

Hey everyone, sorry I’m a little late with today’s post. Welcome to Week 2 of the exercise challenge! Everyone did a great job with week 1 and thanks to Sarah for all your motivational posts! Please comment all of your exercise on this blog and we will tally up the results on Saturday. Good luck to all!

Hi Everyone, just a reminder that the exercise challenge, week 1 runs from August 1-August 7 and we are aiming for 5 days this week. Please comment all your exercise for week 1 on this blog. Refer to our post for more information and motivation from our client Sarah! Good luck everyone.

Hey everyone! We have had a lot of requests to have another exercise challenge for our readers. We decided to do a 2-week long challenge starting Sunday August 1^st through Saturday August 14^{th “}Let’s Beat the Heat!”. For this challenge we would like you to participate in some type of exercise 5 days a week for these two weeks and comment on this blog so we can keep track of your exercise! We know it has been a hot summer so we want you to be creative with your workouts, even walking up and down the stairs 5 times is a great workout!

One of our clients, Sarah Costello has some experience with creative workouts after participating in the program at The Biggest Loser Resort at Fitness Ridge. She wanted to share some tips for exercise and motivation that she learned!

Hi, my name is Sarah Costello and I have been a client of Bobbi’s since March.  It was around then that I really started focusing on my health.  When I began with Bobbi, an exercise challenge to work out 5 days a week for 30 minutes began to celebrate Nutrition month.  She encouraged me to participate and afterward said that maybe I could be an inspiration to others because I do such a variety of exercise.  I hope that this could be true – exercise can be and is fun and there are so many ways to do it!

We are about to embark on another exercise challenge – Let’s Beat the Heat!! Don’t let the heat be an excuse – there are ways to get around it.

I knew I wanted to go away to celebrate my 30^th birthday as I enjoy traveling. I saw the commercial for The Biggest Loser Resort at Fitness Ridge in Utah and knew that is where I wanted to go.This was the best birthday present a person could get or give themselves = health! So many people celebrated birthdays there. I went to Fitness Ridge because I wanted to start the 30s off right. I wanted to embark on my journey of a healthier lifestyle.  I was able to return again in June.  My experience there has been life changing.  The people that I met there will be a support to me throughout my journey.  I hope that this blog can form the same sort of support, accountability and encouragement to reach our goals!

You may question yourself sometimes – why are you doing this – committing to getting healthy by eating right and exercising. But the question you should be asking (which was brought up in my time at Fitness Ridge) is Why not? You are worth it, you deserve it, and you can do it! This was said frequently during my time at Fitness Ridge and I believe it for all of you!

If there is only one message that I share with you – IT’S THAT YOU ARE WORTH IT AND YOU CAN DO IT!

So let’s Beat The Heat together and commit to working out at 5 days a week! We can do this!  Throughout this exercise challenge I’ll share things that I learned at Fitness Ridge and quotes from lectures and speaker, Matt Hoover, Biggest Loser Season 2 Winner, who was on my team in June.

Everyone get ready! I will post a blog on the first day of the challenge!

Listen to favorite music , Enjoy a relaxing nap, Enjoy a long, warm bubble bath or shower, Visit a museum or art gallery, Go for a walk, Practice yoga, Relax outside, Relax in a whirlpool or sauna, Physical activity (of my choice), Say or read a spiritual prayer, Attend a caring support group, Practice deep breathing, Do stretching exercises, Reflect on positive qualities “I am…”, Write my thoughts and feelings in a personal journal,  Concentrate on a relaxing scene, Create a collage representing the “real me” are some of the activities that we discuss with our clients to inspire exquisite self-care.

How posting your self-nurturing activities?  I think it will be a great way to keep us thinking about self-care and inspire others to do the same.

The suggestion for this challenge came from a client of mine, Kathe Kramer who has been regularly sharing her thoughts and ideas and it is a pleasure to be able to share her fresh outlook.

Thanks to everyone who participated in our exercise challenge. Everyone did a great job tracking their activity and logging motivating others. Even though the official challenge is over, we encourage you to keep up with your routine and feel free to post your workouts if you find it helpful. Thanks again!

Winners who did 5 days a week for a month:Kathe Kramer, Melissa Kramer, Paul Evans, and Sarah Costello.

Winners who completed the challenge: Dianne, Linda Ferguson-Lyles, and Autumn McElroy, Leslie Anderson, Frank Anderson, and Florence Perry.

The RD’s have your prizes!

Congratulations!

Thought you would enjoy this photo!  I am sure that I will not see you all on the moving staircase

Here it is, the final week of the exercise challenge! Congratulations for making it this far, keep up the good work this week! Starting tomorrow, Monday, March 22nd, post all of your exercise for this week. Here is a recap of week 3 as of now, I will update it once everyone has posted today’s workout. I also posted the summary for week 2 under the “Week 2 Exercise Blog”.

Hi Everyone,

I am so glad that so many people have been participating in our first exercise competition.   Great job with week 1 and 2!

I enjoy reading your comments and seeing you all inspire each other.  I am working on staying “unplugged” from the computer on Sundays, but I know that Kait who tallies up the exercise totals is on vacation so she will tally them up when she returns.

Keep on logging your exercise either daily or weekly or whenever you have a chance.  Remember our bodies are meant to move (not sit in front of TV screens or  computer screens for extended periods of time), so get up and move!  Signing off now so I can get up and move, enjoy the last few hours of the weekend.

Week 3 starts tomorrow, it is not too late to participate so tell your friends!

Hi everyone, congratulations on your week 1 success!  Tomorrow morning starts Week 2.

Here is where you can post everything you do for week 2–starting Monday.

We totaled everything for this first week and everyone is doing great. We will post results from week 1 under week 1 at the end of today, so if you have not written your information under week 1, it is not too late to log it under week 1.

Keep up the good work!