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Holiday Countdown Challenge

by WLR Dietitian Juliette Kellow

Want to look more beach buff than beach bum this Summer but think you’ve left it too late? Think again! Our fabulous new Challenge with a specially devised food and exercise plan will help you lose weight and shape up in time for your holiday – without depriving you of all your favourite Summer treats…

Even with just two weeks to go before jetting off for your Summer break, there’s still time to make a big difference to your body 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 is a kick-start food and exercise plan, designed to help you boost your weight loss in time for the holidays.

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.

The exercises have been chosen to help you get the shape you want but can be done alongside any exercise you would normally do.

You can decide to take part in the challenge for 2, 3 or 4 weeks. You just have to use the 'Quit Challenge' button when you're done.

There are two elements to the Holiday Countdown Challenge – Food and Exercise.

You must complete the Challenge Exercises and add them to your Exercise Diary each week.

Do that for 2, 3 or 4 weeks, using the hints and tips from Juliette Kellow BSc RD 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

You can decide whether you are going to do the Challenge for 2, 3 or 4 weeks, depending on how many weeks there are before your Summer holiday. Once you ‘opt in’ to do the Challenge, you must fill in your Food Diary each week you 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 from the Holiday Countdown Challenge Food Plan, or from your own favourites.

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.

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 diary, you will receive a ‘completed’ stamp on your calendar for that week. You will need the correct amount of stamps at the end of your chosen duration for the Challenge to be in with a chance of winning the prizes.

When you have completed the amount of weeks you want to sign up for, you can quit the Challenge.

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 – 5 times a week

Each time you complete any exercise you will need to add it to your Exercise Diary. For the special Challenge Exercises there is a ‘Challenge’ button in your Exercise Diary which will give you the three special categories -tum, tone and burn. For the tum and tone, see the Challenge Exercise Plan.

There is a list of 'burn' exercises you can do on the Challenge Exercise Plan too. Or choose one from the drop down list in the Challenge section of your Exercise Diary.

Select the correct one and type in the minutes you did it for. Once you have done this, 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
5 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 amount of weeks you have opted in for, your name will be entered into the prize draw.

There will be two prizes for the 2 week Challenge, two prizes for the 3 week Challenge and two prizes for the 4 week Challenge.

We have chosen three different prizes and, if you are one of the lucky winners, you will be able to choose from this selection.

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.

Start Free Trial

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.

Don’t forget to quit the Challenge when you have completed the amount of weeks you wanted to do it for and your Challenge results will be logged.

If you have a bad week, just restart the Challenge and all of your previous information on your Challenge Calendar will be reset, ready to start again.

The Challenge will run for the whole of the Summer so the winners will be chosen in September 2009.

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!

 

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