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100 Day Wellness Challenge 2012! 

The 100 Day Wellness Challenge is a great way to kick off your fitness goals for 2012.  Through a fun, friendly team competition, we can motivate each other to reach a healthy weight, get more active or both! 

Does it work?  In 2011 Children's employees lost 2,376 pounds and logged in 14,839 hours of activity!  The 100 Day Wellness Challenge starts January 23 and runs through May 1, 2012.

This is the 4^th year for Children’s to participate in the 100 Day Wellness Challenge, and we’ve made some improvements in the program.  If you’ve participated before, please note the changes to the program in red below. 

If this is your first time to take on the challenge, WELCOME!  Know that you will have lots of support to accomplish your goals.

The challenge is now open to all Children’s employees, as well as contracted employees (not paid from Children’s), friends and family.  You must be a Children’s employee (paid by Children’s) to be eligible for the reimbursement* of the participation fee.

The following is an overview of the how the 100 Day Wellness Challenge works

1. Form your team of 2 – 10 people. You may also include non-employees.
2. Pick your captain.  The team captain is responsible for registering the team online and keeping the team motivated. The captain must be a Children’s employee.  The captain will gather email addresses and t-shirt sizes for team members before registration.
3. Set your team goals.  Decide if your team wants to work on weight loss, increasing exercise or both.  
4. Choose a team name.  Have fun creating your team name to reflect your work area, your goals or your attitude.  Your team name could win you a prize!
5. Sign Up! Your captain will register your team online by going to our new site www.LiveHealthyChildrens.org.   The group ID to use is LHCHILDRENS.  Registration opens January 3 and continues through February 10.
   
   
   1. The Captain will send an email invitation to others who want to be on the team.
   2. Each participant will set up his/her profile and pay his/her own $20 participation fee with a credit or debit card.  Because the participation is now open to non-employees, the participation fees will NOT be payroll deducted.  
   3. Children’s employees who provide a valid employee ID number at registration will be eligible to get the entire fee reimbursed* by completing the challenge by logging in weekly data at least 12 times.
6. Track your weight and/or activity weekly. As a participant, you will have your own, private dashboard to log in your own weight and/or activity time. Competition between teams will be based on percentage of weight lost or team average minutes of activity.
   
7. Get healthier and get prizes! All 100 Day Challenge participants will receive:

• Live Healthy America training t-shirt
• The chance to win team prizes from Live Healthy America throughout the 100 Day Challenge
• Weekly activity, nutrition and recipe tips via e-mail
• A personal online tracking page
• Personalized meal plans, customized workouts and more!
• Upon logging onto your personal dashboard, a one-year subscription to one of the lifestyle magazines choices.

In addition, Children’s employees will be eligible for prizes from Children’s and reimbursement* of the participation fee if you log in your progress for at least 12 weeks of the challenge. 

*IRS regulations require that the reimbursement be considered taxable income.

Watch the Daily Briefing for updates on the 2012 challenge.