11/7 Whole Life Wednesday

Siri and Noah row hard in the 6am class. Nanook does what he does best. 
We are in the final week of our Fall Nutrition Challenges. The Whole Life Challenge ends this Friday and the Macrostax Challenge ends on Monday. We are retesting our challenge workout, The Ghost, in class on Friday. 
In the lead in our Whole Life Challenge is Meg, followed Joaquin (close friend of Coaches Leslie & James), and Duane in third. It takes a lot of hard work to stay consistent over the 6 week challenge. Everyone who finishes these nutrition challenges should be proud of the lifestyle and nutrition changes they have made. This stuff is not easy! 
AS I have been doing for the past 5 week, I'm sharing with you the special weekly lifestyle practices of each challenge. This week's Macrostax lifestyle challenge is to actually hit your macros for every day. Here's some information on the benefits of 100% compliance. 

This week's WLC weekly lifestyle practice is to write a short message to someone important in your life. The instructions are simple:

1. Each day, send a brief message to someone important. It can be a message of thanks, acknowledgement, gratitude, or just to say you’re thinking about the person.
2. You are encouraged to use text message for this, but emails are also fine.

The WLC folks think this is an important healthy lifestyle practice because:

"The people in our lives do a lot to keep our lives running smoothly. If we really take a step back, it becomes easy to see just how much we don’t (and can’t) do life alone. Not and have it work out the way we want it to, at least.

Yet, it’s not uncommon to take this simple fact for granted. Other people are doing their thing; I’m doing mine. Given that perspective, it becomes easy to think it’s silly to acknowledge or thank people for just doing what they’d do to make their lives work.

But without the network that exists around us and to support us, our lives would likely be a total mess.

Taking a moment to remind yourself and someone else that the relationship you have is not just important, but vital can bring a sense of connection, gratitude, and ease to your life. It can remind us how special this whole thing called life is, how amazing human beings can be, and how supported we all really are.

Therefore, this week’s Well-Being Practice is an exercise not just in gratitude for our support system, but in becoming more deeply aware of its existence and its breadth."

Who is your life would you like to send a short message? Tell us in the comments. You could even write a short message to your coaches:-) 

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