Holiday Countdown Challenge

By WLR's Site Manager, Laurence Beeken

Want to lose a stone and look more beach buff than beach bum this Summer?

Our fabulous new Challenge with a specially devised food and exercise plan will help you lose weight and shape up for Summer – without depriving you of all your favourite Summer treats…

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There’s still time to make a big difference to your body for Summer so you look and feel fabulous on the beach or by the pool. With our Holiday Countdown Challenge you can expect to whittle your waist, shape up and win yourself a great prize into the bargain.

So start counting down to your holiday and join the WLR Holiday Countdown Challenge today!

How To Get Going

Welcome to the Holiday Countdown Challenge. This food and exercise plan is designed to help you boost your weight loss in time for the holidays and show some skin on the beach or in the park.

The food plan has been carefully put together to ensure good quality nutrition, with a lower fat and increased protein nutritional profile, to make sure your body can make the most of the exercise plan. It covers 14 days to give you a kick start. We also have a handy 3 weeks to summer shorts plan.

The challenge runs from the 16th May to 31st July.

To meet the challenge you must complete at least 6 full weeks of hitting the food and exercise targets.

Do that for 6 weeks, using our hints and tips too and you could win a fabulous prize as well as getting in shape for your hols!

Why not take a 24 hour free trial and take a closer look at the WLR Holiday Countdown Challenge.

Food Diary and Calories

Once you ‘opt in’ to do the Challenge, you must fill in your Food Diary each week you are taking part in the Challenge.

Each day, you will need to fill in your food diary with everything you choose to eat and drink.

In the Food Diary there is a 'Browse Plans Database' button. You will find the Holiday Countdown Challenge Food Plan in there and this will give you the menus for the Challenge.

If you're not following the specific plan you'll need to add all your food and drink directly from the food database or your favourites.

For those of you who do not always have access to your computer, there will be a button in your challenge calendar to click when you have completed a week’s worth of details - so, if you can’t fill it in straight away, you can still take part.

Once you have completed a week's worth of your food diary, staying within your calories, you'll receive a stamp on your challenge calendar to show your achievement.

Exercise Diary

The second part of the Challenge is exercise. We have three categories of exercise that need to be completed each week for the right amount of time and the right number of times during that week. These can be done alongside the exercise you normally do. They are:

• 5 minute tum – 3 times a week
• 20 minute tone – 3 times a week
• 30 minute burn – 3 times a week

Each time you complete any exercise you will need to add it to your Exercise Diary. You can either follow the exercise plan provided and add the challenge items to your exercise diary, or devise your own routine. All aerobic style exercises added to your diary will count as burn, all toning style exercises as tone. Any toning exercises that target the tummy area will count towards tum.

Our Challenge Exercise Plan gives detailed instructions for a range of exercises to cover all three targets.

Once you have added the exercise to your diary, you will get a stamp on your Challenge Diary to say you have completed that particular exercise.

To get a ‘completed’ stamp for the exercise part of the Challenge each week, you will need the correct amount of stamps.

• 3 stamps for tum
• 3 stamps for tone
• 3 stamps for burn

Detailed instructions for the Holiday Countdown Exercises

How To Win The Prizes

As long as you complete both parts of the Challenge for the 6 weeks within the challenge period, your name will be entered into the prize draw.

The top prize is a one night midweek spa break for 2 at Champneys. (Terms and conditions apply)

Summary

To join in with the Challenge, decide how many weeks you would like to do it for and sign up for Weight Loss Resources. Then follow the link on the homepage to sign up for the challenge.

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Complete each week by doing the right number of exercises for the right amount of time and filling in your Food and Exercise Diaries.

Do both of these things and you will be put forward for the prize draw.

The 6 weeks do not have to be in a block, so if you have a bad week don't worry - there's plenty of time to try another.

The Challenge winner will be chosen in August 2011.

So, if you want to get that beach body and lose weight for your holiday, get cracking and join in the Holiday Countdown Challenge!

Good luck!