Lighten Up SUNNYBROOK:
100 Day WELLness Challenge!!
Change Your Choices. Change Your LIFE.

WELLness Ministry Mission: “To Honor God Daily with my Whole Self (Body, Mind, and Spirit) as a “Living Sacrifice”, a Temple that is Holy and Pleasing to God. We do this to be the Hands and Feet of Jesus to the World.”

Lighten Up Sunnybrook 2008 will help families, LIFE groups, or individuals at Sunnybrook Community Church JUMP START healthy lifestyle habits to help adults and their children feel better, look better, and live longer, healthier lives to be more like JESUS and SERVE our family, friends and community!!

What is Lighten Up Sunnybrook? A FUN, team-based “100 Day Challenge” designed to promote the healthy lifestyle choices of daily physical activity and healthy eating habits. Sunnybrook Community Church will be taking part in Lighten up Iowa (LUI) which is a state wide program that started in 2002 by the Iowa Sports Foundation and is locally sponsored by the Iowa Health System (St Luke’s is the local affiliate hospital), HyVee, Iowa Dept of Public Health, ISU Extension and others.

Dates: Lighten Up Sunnybrook “100 Day WELLness Challenge” runs from Jan 16th to April 24th, 2008

Here's How To Get Involved in Lighten Up Sunnybrook:
1)--Put together a Team of 2-10 people (LIFE group members, families, friends, individuals)
2)--Select a Team Captain (Your team captain will register your team online at http://www.lightenupiowa.org by Jan 15, 2008 and MUST use the Group Registration Code “LUISUNNYBROOK” to be eligible for Sunnybrook incentives!!
3)--Attend a “Know Your Numbers” session at Sunnybrook Community Church’s gym to determine your; Weight, Body composition (muscle vs fat weight), blood pressure, and inches at your waist/ hip and thigh for females and chest/ waist and bicep for males, and take a digital photo to document your transformation. (This is NOT Mandatory to be involved in Lighten Up Sunnybrook, however is recommended)
--Date and Times for “Know Your Numbers” are Friday January 11th from 7 to 9pm and Saturday January 12th from 10am to 2pm.


--Your TEAM may compete in one or both divisions for this 100 day WELLness challenge;
1) Weight loss division that is based on the total % weight loss by the team. Honor weight is submitted and reported online weekly.

2) Minutes of Activity Division. Each team member records their weekly minutes of physical activity, that is outside of their normal work/ daily activities (such as exercise time, walking, etc.), and this number is recorded online.

Cost of Lighten Up Sunnybrook WELLness Challenge
--A Per person entry fee of $10 and a $10 per TEAM entry fee (2-10 people per team) for each team is required for the shipping and handling of Lighten Up Iowa TShirts, Processing of each team and Many other benefits noted below… (Make checks out to Sunnybrook Community Church and in memo line write “LUI WELLness Challenge”)
--These Per Person and Team Fee’s may be turned in at the Know Your Numbers dates noted above or to Meaghen the Secretary at Sunnybrook Community Church no later than Jan 16th, 2008.

--Lighten up Iowa T-Shirts for each team member which are sent to the Team Captain’s home address
--Personal tracking log for daily nutrition/ physical activity online at LUI website from your very own personal dashboard (Your team can also personalize your homepage with a photo of your TEAM)
--Receive a One year's FREE subscription to a health/ fitness magazine such as; Fitness magazine, Mens Journal, Heart-Healthy Living, Ladies Home Journal and others
--Chances to win monthly incentives and prizes from LUI (Sunnybrook Community Church will also set up their own internal incentives)
--Access to online health tools from Fitness Magazine such as; Personalized meal plans, customized workouts, video exercise demonstrations, community discussion board, music play list downloads, calorie charts
--Fitness and Nutrition Resources from Fitness Magazine
--Weekly emails from LUI containing tips about nutrition, fitness and healthy living
--A Leaderboard where you can see and track where your team ranks within Sunnybrook Community Church, Sioux City, Woodbury County and across Iowa during the Lighten Up Sunnybrook (Iowa) 100 day challenge
--NOTE: At Sunnybrook Community Church we will track how many teams and people that are involved in Lighten Up Sunnybrook to award internal incentives, and to have FUN challenging each other for improved health and living well!!

Erik Nieuwenhuis will be the Administrator and is able to track each team’s progress and individual participation (follow through) through receiving a “Group Registration CODE” “LUISUNNYBROOK” that all teams must use when their team captain register’s online.

Sunnybrook Community Church will award Incentive PRIZES during Lighten Up Sunnybrook at days 25, 50, 75 and at Day 100 will award Team grand prizes for the top team with the highest percentage of weight loss and the team that logs the highest number of physical activity minutes/ hours.

Two Grand Prizes will be $100 gift certificates to Olive Garden for an evening of FUN, fellowship and Celebration of your awesome TEAM and Individual WELLness accomplishments!!

For more information or to get your questions answered RE Lighten Up Sunnybrook contact; Erik Nieuwenhuis at 712-293-1625 or ErikNie@msn.com

Let’s Challenge Each Other to “Lighten Up SunnyBrook” and have FUN in the process of LIVING WELL to SERVE OTHERS in Jesus Name!!

Check out http://www.lightenupiowa.org/ and use the group registration code LUISUNNYBROOK to sign up your team, track your teams progress during this 100 day challenge and also check out http://3dwellness4life.blogspot.com/ for WELLness tips and winners every 25 days throughout this challenge!!