A Healthy Lifestyle Works

Meet Our 8 Contestants
Lisa Bourdeau – Newburyport
Sharon Clark – Amesbury
Eric Hoover – Newburyport
Tim Lamprey – Byfield
Cheryl Morris – Newburyport
Michael O’Connell – Newburyport
Debbie Tateosian – Groveland
Maureen Willey – Salisbury

Week 30

Having Success by Allowing for Imperfection

In our groups, I make it a point to have everyone share their successes from the prior week. Yet many of the participants still have challenges from time to time, and this became a topic of conversation during the past couple of weeks. Even though we are six months into the process and everyone has made significant changes, old beliefs and patterns still come up and make it difficult to fully stay on track. That is to be expected, and that is why maintaining healthy and active lifestyles are so challenging.

Yet these challenges are also opportunities to face what is really going on and to create additional strategies to deal with them. Every season brings with it a new set of food associations, exercise obstacles, ingrained patterns of behavior and trying situations. And every season you get to experience what these are and then determine if you need a new mindset or strategy to address them. Right now the summer is bringing cookouts and outdoor parties, heat and humidity, and for our groups some illnesses and injuries. By talking through these scenarios, they got fresh ways to handle them next time.

Follow The Contestants’ Experience on Our Contest Blog
Hosted by Newburyport Today community blog

Read the latest blog post and contestant comments
Post: You Don’t Have to Be Perfect to Get a Great Body

Also follow my Healthy Living blog where my other groups will be sharing their experiences as they go through the same 2 year program.

Read the latest blog post and the other groups’ comments

Contestants and the other groups of participants will be shown how to make healthy choices that are satisfying, address mindset challenges, overcome sabotaging obstacles, stay motivated, and maintain lifestyle changes in order to sustain their goals for the long-term.

The program will not involve any extreme fitness activities or dietary changes. This is not a boot camp, and extreme changes in weight is not the goal. Instead this is a healthy lifestyle program that will lead to regular exercise, healthy eating and positive self care as a way of living, and with that, weight loss will occur naturally and safely so it can be sustained.

Read a brief overview about how this contest came about.

Be a NEW YOU 2010 Success Yourself

Click here for 12-week program used in the contest.

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Media Coverage

In the News
Keeping Mind, Body and Spirit in Shape – May 2010
Our Own Food Revolution on North Shore of MA – April 2010
Contest Challenges Community to Embrace Healthy Lifestyle – Jan 2010

Press Releases
3 New Winners Get Results from Healthy Lifestyle Choices – July 2010
3 Winners See Major Improvements – April 2010
Seeking 8 Contestants for Healthy Living Reality Contest – Jan 2010