The Six Week Health Challenge
There’s been an overwhelming response to my posts surrounding health, diet and training here on Steemit. So first, let me say a big thank you for everyone who has been reading and commenting on my blog posts. Second, make sure you keep reading if you want to win Steem in exchange for getting healthier!
For those new to me, you can check out my #introduceyourself post, A Tale of Not Being Good Enough HERE and my Sixteen Week Transformation HERE. Thank you to everyone who has voted for my various articles on health, nutrition and training so far.
I’m blown away by the interest in good food and healthy lifestyles shown by the Steemit community so far. I really hope we can continue to foster that enthusiasm for investing in our health, as a team.
Challenge YOUR health, in six weeks, and WIN!
Over the next six weeks I’m going to be running a Six Week Health Challenge. Each week I’ll be posting a new challenge, aimed at helping you boost your health, energy and well being. To join in with the challenge, all you need to do is make your own post about how you are joining in with the challenge that week, with the tag #sixweekhealth.
But there's more. Every single week, you have the chance to win ! If your post is one of the best four posts, you'll be entered in to the vote. The post with the highest number of votes in the comment section will win sixty Steem. And it gets even better. At the end of the Six Week Health Challenge, the top three authors will be chosen to go in for the final vote. During this final vote, you the Steemit community, will vote for the author whose posts you thought were best and they will win.
That means we have a prize pool of for you guys to win!
I have seen the passion for healthy living from many in this community. This challenge will allow more people to engage with the discussion and share some of the ways that they incorporate health into their lives.
If you want to improve your health, lifestyle, nutrition and fitness over the next Six Weeks with us, with the possibility of winning a bunch of Steem, type ‘I’m in’ in the comments below and upvote this post. Let’s see how many people are committing to their health this year!
Week One Challenge!
Cook a new HEALTHY recipe
For the first week of these six challenges, we’re going to get cooking. Your challenge this week is to cook at least one new healthy recipe. A recipe that you haven’t tried to make before. You can find the recipe online, in a cook book or make it up yourself - it doesn't matter.
People complain regularly about healthy eating being boring. This challenge is designed to help change their minds! Cooking interesting, new and different healthy food is the key to keeping things interesting.
Your post can be written however you like, but it must have a new healthy recipe in it. It could have the recipe and a picture of the finished dish or instructions in the form of photos or extra information on the healthy ingredients you used or anything else you can think of. Get creative! Think about what could be helpful and interesting to others trying to improve their health and energy, just like you.
Every single week I’ll be setting a new challenge to help you bring better health, happiness and confidence to your life. You can enter the challenge every single week. All you need to do to enter the challenge is to make a blog post, documenting your participation in the challenge, and post it to #sixweekhealth (for the full rules, see below).
Remember, at the end of the week the best four posts will go in for the final vote to win their author sixty Steem – the votes will be cast by you guys in the comment section! Even better than that, at the end of the full Six Week Health Challenge, everyone who joined in will be considered for the final short list of three authors to win themselves two hundred Steem.
The Rules - READ CAREFULLY!
To enter for your chance to win sixty Steem you must:
1. Create a post with the tag #sixweekhealth about your NEW healthy recipe.
2. You must upvote this post.
3. Your post must include at least one photo or video.
5. Your entry must be include Week ONE and Six Week Health in the title.
6. Your entry must be submitted by 10.30am GMT on the 24th of January 2018.
7. Again, make sure you tag your post #sixweekhealth to be in for a chance to win.
Make sure you’ve submitted your entry by 10.30am GMT on the 24th Jan to be in with a chance to win sixty Steem.
Remember, the best four posts about healthy recipes with the tag #sixweekhealth, will be voted on by you guys at the end of this week's challenge.
If you're as excited to get involved as me, and want to have the chance to win up to five hundred and sixty Steem, then type 'I'm in' in the comments and up vote this post. And then - get writing your blog post to enter in to our WEEK ONE (cook a healthy recipe) challenge!
Let me know if you have any questions,
Yours in health,
Coach Ben #coachben #sixweekhealth
Kudos to everyone participating, I'm enjoying how I'm eating at the moment:)
Great!
Awesome!! Can't wait to take up the challenge! Loving your energy for this topic, one of my passions as well!
I love sharing knowledge with passionate people - it's going to be great to hear your recipes and thoughts @victoriacalloway :D
The response to this challenge has been amazing. It's been a privilege reading all of the recipes and comments.
There is just five hours left to submit your recipes to the challenge this week - posts must be in by 10.30am GMT on the 24th of January. They must be tagged #sixweekhealth.
The final short list will go up at 00.01amGMT on the 25th of January - I need all of you guys to get over to that post and VOTE for your favourite recipe to see who will win 60 Steem :)
Don't worry if you didn't manage to participate this week - we'll have a new challenge every single week for the next five weeks that you can join in with! I'll let you know more about that on the 25th of January.
Again, well done for everyone who joined in and thank you for everyone who commented and voted!
Yours in health,
Coach Ben @coachben
#healthsquared
Hello again! I said I might consider join this challenge. And maybe I will.I read again and seen that if we're not up for the next challenge we can stop.so, this is it if you dont have time. I have a question though: 1post/week for that weekly challenge its minimal? I mean, we can post several photos for the contest or only one? If we can post many, all of them are considered for selection?or just the first one? :d thank you in advance!
Hey @missdeli, you can do just one week of the challenge if you want or all of them. For this week's challenge you need only post one recipe but if you'd like to post more then you can - they will all be up for consideration :)
Ok. Then I'm in too! :)
What a great challenge! I look forward to join! :) Helen
Can't wait to read your recipe! :D
A little late to the party but I'm in!
Never too late (unless it's after the 24th of January :p). Can't wait to read your recipe @nishyfishy
Consider myself participating. I’m in.
Yes @street.yoga! Looking forward to reading about your healthy recipe this week :) make sure you tag it #sixweekhealth and post before the 24th of Jan to be in to win a bunch of Steem!
Am in as well. I've been trying to loose weight for so long. It's just the best way to start up the year.
Good idea! Love this! I’ve always said though, eating in moderation is the key. You don’t need to stop eating what you love, but need willpower to simply eat less. I only eat between 9-5 and that’s it, unless I’m going out of course with family/friends. Take care fella!
Thanks @l5taylor. Post about your favourite recipe in #sixweekhealth and let's spread your philosophy of health to others. Plus you could win a bunch of Steem if you join in ;)
The concept of caloric restriction is as old as humanity itself. In Japan where you eat until you are only 80% full this is called hara hachi bunme, the islamic concept were you reserve 1/3 for your food, 1/3 for your liquids, and 1/3 for your breath in your stomach, soundly represents the yogic mitahara, with half the space for food 1/4 for liquids and 1/4 for air. Pythagoras, Jesus, Buddha, Muhammad, they all fasted for 40 days, ramadan still commemorating this idea.
560 Steem is a good price. This will be very interesting :)
Are you in @tiffanyrej? I want to see a healthy recipe from you this week in #sixweekealth, will you join the challenge?
I'm very interisting for challenge health...
#savehealth
Great! Please join in with this week's challenge and submit a post with your healthy recipe. Tag it #sixweekhealth and you could win 60 Steem :) man, you guys rock - so many people interesting in taking the health challenge
wonderful i believe if i follow these challenges by the end my healthy would have greatly improved
Get involved! Post about a healthy recipe you've tried this week with the tag #sixweekhealth and then you can get healthy AND win Steem
@healtsquared A few questions here:-
Thanks and keep up the good work :D
Hey @wilhb81,
Thank you for your questions!
Thanks for the intelligent questions!
Thanks for the prompt reply and this contest is what we're looking for...
Good luck for all the participants :)
I'm so in for this. I'm currently like 3 weeks in on keto, and am a fairly experimental cook, so it's a neat challenge to find something I haven't made yet.
Love it @pingucat, I'm looking forward to seeing your recipe this week! It's important to keep a healthy diet interesting. Make sure you tag it #sixweekhealth and post before next Wednesday!
I'm in!! I am working on tweaking my diet to remove the majority of dairy so creating new recipes is happening quite often...a sign I likely should have done that sooner. I will be looking forward to seeing what your other challenges will allow me to explore about my health!
There are probably a few people who can't eat dairy. It will be great to have a recipe to help those people find alternatives to dairy! Great idea.
I'm in
Great to have you in @toddwong123. I'm looking forwards to seeing your healthy recipe!
Thank you for the concern for our health! This #sixweekhealth is really good for us! I will try to create or search one healthy recipe before Jan. 24. Namaste!
Great @icy-anne. I can't wait to read about it and make it! Together we can become healthier. Thank you for joining in x
This is a great idea and makes people to do something for their health! Therefore: I'm definetly in ;)
Hope to see also some interesting healthy food posts this week :D
Thank you for that!
Thank you @kusatsuri, I'm glad you are in. I'm looking forwards to learning lots of new recipes this week too - it will be great to read yours!
Also it will help us all try new ways to be healthy and support each other :) double check the rules to make sure your post gets entered in to the challenge #sixweekhealth
I will make shure to check them twice ;)
But first I have to look in some food books and blogs and ask my fantasy to create something ^^ This may take a while :D
I am sure it will be amazing! Thank you for helping all of Steemit get healthier :)
Very good initiative, health and steem together that better motivation hahahaha
I know, right? Are you going to post about your favourite healthy recipe this week? The Steem and health could be yours if you enter :p
#Interested. Nice to see your post in #trending
What can I say, health is very trendy :p Are you joining in this week's health challenge? I would love to read about your healthy recipe ideas.
Count me in ..
i like challenges .
Can't wait to read your post in #sixweekhealth. I wonder what your recipe will be? Exciting
thanks
will do it for sure.
Great @cbeep. I can't wait to see your entry for Week One of the challenge. Make sure you read the rules in this post carefully :)
Yes i will follow rules.
So glad you are joining in :)
I'm in.
Great! Can't wait to read it :)
You better be able to read German😉😂. Nah, just kiddin. A really cool idea! Upvoted resteemed!
Haha, I would have to use Google translate to read it :p Your English is much better than my German!!
I'm inside @healthsquared , I love cooking very much, and recipes always invent one.#Sixweekhealth
am so in!
I'm in .
Great to have you all in @darlens01, @marialara and @susanalara :D
Hello Ben,
how will you choose the four posts that are able to win those 60 Steem?
Btw I'm in ;)
@kellerkulturist, great question. I have a panel of three judges, including myself. We will be looking at content, creativity and engagment to help us narrow things down! If we get stuck we might get some help from Steemit too.
I'm looking forward to seeing your recipe! #sixweekhealth
I'm in, spectacular for me, I have insulin resistance and I always look to improve my nutrition, a doubt I have @healthsquared is whether it is a weekly post or a daily one. Thanks in advance for your wonderful idea.
Hey @xioran, just one recipe this week :) it doesnt need to be daily! Can't wait to read your post
Hi, I'm in, I love healthy food naturally.
That's amazing. I can't wait!
I'm in and I am excited to make this my first post on Steemit. I have a couple of dishes on my mind and am planning to post one of them, hope to guys like my ideas. Thank you @healthsquared for this contest, cheers!
I'm privileged to be part of one of your first Seemit posts :D Can't wait to read your recipe.
Definitely joining! 💕🌺 I'm so excited!
I'm excited to read your entry. We are going to have so many healthy recipes for us all to try to keep us healthy :)
I'm in! Good nutrition is the start to a healthy lifestyle and looking forward to seeing all of the good recipies and healthy foods :)
The Steemit community are amazing. So many people who care about their health. Looking forwards to yours and everyone's recipes!
This is such a fun way to promote good health! Thanks for the encouragement Ben!
Oooo, @foodieconfession, I hope you submit a recipe to the challenge this week :D any ideas?
I first time saw your posts....you are doing great👍 happy to know about you...followed you✌ keep rocking🔥🔥
@nageen, thank you! Join in the challenge this week - make a post about a healthy recipe that you have cooked and tag it #sixweekhealth. Want to give it a go? I would love your support :)
I will surely share when i'll cook anything...but actually m a lecturer...so busy in that 😊 but will surely participate soon...best wishes for you 👍👍👍✌✌✌
Entries must be in before the 24th of January. Even posting a quick recipe and photo of your food would be great! We all need ideas for fast meals that we can all cook :)
You are actually doing great...in our busy routine we need such type of things...i will try to share👍
Thank you for your kind words :)
You are most welcome 😍
I'm in
@agememnon, that is great! Looking forwards to your blog :)
I follow you, we need your valuable suggestions.
I'm inside, with a lot of expectation of what this challenge will be @healthsquared
And this is only the first week! New challenges every single week to help Steemit get healthy
I seriously need to get in shape and lose some weight before my wedding. So, i'm in! 😉
I am marrying my fiance in September - we'll get in shape all together! Congratulations :) Looking forwards to your article :D
We're getting hitched in September too! What a lovely coincidence! Looking forward to write & hopefully get chance to win as well!😃
I'm in!
@marialara, glad you are in! I'm looking forward to seeing your recipe :D
I am inside, one day I got sick with heart arrhythmia, from there I made a natural, vegetarian and healthy diet.
Great! I would love to learn how to cook tasty vegetarian food :)
I got a great chicken potato recipe!
Hhaha! I can't wait to cook your chicken and potato... :p
how can i participate in it ?
@abdulmanan, read through the rules in the post. All you need to do is write a blog with a healthy recipe in. You can include photos or videos or both. You need to tag it #sixweekhealth to enter the challenge, before the 24th of January! Good luck
ok brother i got it ..thanks
I'm in!
Well done @boladyl, I wonder what you will cook and show us! Make sure you follow the rules to enter the chance to win 60 Steem :) #sixweekhealth
Sounds fun and interesting! I'm in! Lets get healthy together..
@connie1018, let's do it!
Wow. This is really amazing. I am in!
Well done for doing something big for your health this week AND helping all of us too :)
am so in!
Yessss @sharpivy, can't wait to learn your recipe. Make sure you tag #sixweekhealth!
I'm in! Thanks! Polish power😀
Yeesssss, I want to learn a new Polish recipe :D Thanks for joining in @jozef230
waow! i hope it's not too late for me to join. though i'm very busy would still try to create a post.
Definitely not too late. You just need to submit your post by the 24th of January :)
So i was able to try something out, please take a look.
https://steemit.com/sixweekhealth/@crownit/just-the-perfect-balance-sixweekhealth-week-one
@healthsquared, what a great idea! Can't wait to participate in Week One of the #Sixweekhealth challenge. Win or lose, if I'm eating healthier food it's a good thing. Look for my recipe to come. All the best!
Ooo, I'm looking forwards to learning how to cook some vegan food! Thank you for joining in @atmemestable :) Can't wait to read your post
We've had some GREAT entries in to the Six Week Health challenge this week so far. Check them out https://steemit.com/trending/sixweekhealth.
Shout out to @sharpivy, @stree.yoga, @sswilh, @marialara and @hrishikesh for posting their recipes so far! Can't wait to see more of your recipes coming in to #sixweekhealth
This is great! Great initiative Coach Ben
:D Thank you @adetorrent, very kind words
thanks for sharing this idea to all . i am allso a food lover . see one of my deliciaus food recipi
https://steemit.com/food/@hrishikesh/chicken-vegetable-soup-for-you
Looks amazing! @hrishhikesh, you need to join in with this six week challenge! Make a post about a great healthy reciple this week, following the rules in the above post, and tag it #sixweekhealth. You'll get entered in to the challenge to win 60 Steem :) looking forwards to you joining in!
i am in .
:D brilliant.
Thanks
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