LIVE HEALTHY SUNNYBROOK:
100 Day WELLness Challenge!!
January 20---April 29, 2011 Change Your Choices. Change Your LIFE

If your 2011 goals and resolutions are to Lose weight, Build muscle and Tone your body, Improve your energy level and Quality of LIFE, then this is the Team Based Wellness Challenge is for YOU.

This will help adults of all ages to feel better, look better, and live longer, healthier lives! and allow you to serve God with your Whole Self (Body, Mind and Spirit) daily as a “living sacrifice”.

New for 2011: For the first 15 teams that register from Sunnybrook, each team will receive one copy of the new book “Eat Right for Life” by Dr. Ann Kulze MD. Each team will share this resource during the 100 day challenge and then decide who on their team should win this resource at the end of the challenge. See Sunnybrook library for copies of this book (two are available for checkout in library).

WELLness Ministry Mission: “To Daily Honor God 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 within my family, Sunnybrook Community Church, in my workplace, across Siouxland, and the World.”

What is Live Healthy Iowa “Sunnybrook” (LHI)? Live Healthy Iowa/ Sunnybrook is a FUN, team-based “100 Day WELLness Challenge” designed to promote the healthy lifestyle habits of daily physical activity and healthy eating habits. LHI 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), Hy-Vee, Iowa Dept of Public Health, ISU Extension and others.

To Celebrate it’s 10th Anniversary, Live Healthy Iowa is giving away incentive prizes including gift cards, ipods, bikes, and a Carribean cruise for two to participants throughout the 100-day challenge who complete their weekly online weight and physical activity minutes updates each week throughout the program.

In 2010, Sunnybrook Community Church had 5 teams and 31 people involved who lost 174 pounds with a percentage of body weight lost average of 3.15%, and total physical activity time of 2,625 hr for 10,500 miles of physical activity. The team champions for % weight loss were JungeKolarDinks with a 5.28% average and Team champions for Minutes of physical activity average was Temples in Transformation with 6,959 miles of physical activity!!

Who Should Get Involved? Live Healthy Iowa/ Sunnybrook 2011 will help LIFE groups (Sunnybrook small groups), families, or individuals within Sunnybrook Community Church JUMP START their healthy lifestyle habits to help you meet and stay accountable to your New Year’s Resolutions and Goals for 2011!

To be successful it is important to daily ASK Jesus for direction, and self control in this transformational process.

When: Live Healthy Iowa/ Sunnybrook “100 Day WELLness Challenge” runs from January 20th to April 29th, 2011

Here's How To Get Involved in Live Healthy Iowa/ Sunnybrook 2011:
* Pick up Live Healthy Sunnybrook information at Information Desk at Sunnybrook!
1. Put together a Team of 5-10 people from your Sunnybrook LIFE group (small group), family, or friends from Sunnybrook Community Church, or your neighborhood, or workplace. You must be at least 13 years old to take part in this wellness challenge.
2. Select a Team Captain, and choose a team name, gather each team members valid e-mail address and T-shirt sizes.
3. Your team captain will register your team online at www.livehealthyiowa.org between Dec 15th 2010 to Jan 19th 2011.

Registration is only $20 per participant with FREE shipping OR $15 with Hy-Vee discount promotional code. To receive a $5 discount per team member enter the promotional code (see online Dec 15th) into the promotional code box (only 1 needed per team). This code can be found online at www.hyvee.com on December 15th 2010 provided by Hy-Vee Food Stores. Make any checks out to “Sunnybrook Community Church” and in the memo line of the check write “Live Healthy Iowa/ Sunnybrook”.

Use the Group ID of LHISUNNYBROOK when registering your team online.

4. Team Captains turn your team’s registration money into the Sunnybrook Community Church office (c/o Tiffany Bligh) or Erik Nieuwenhuis Wellness Ministry Leader by Wednesday January 19th, 2011. Thank you!!

--Your team may compete in one or both divisions for this 100 day wellness challenge (see options below);

1) Weight Loss Division that is based on the total % weight loss average by the team. Honor weight will be submitted and reported online weekly, (typically each Friday of the 100 day wellness challenge) at your personal dashboard that will be setup at www.livehealthyiowa.org with your personal username (email address) and password.

2) Minutes of Physical Activity Division. Each team member records their weekly minutes of physical activity and/ or exercise, that is outside of their normal work/ daily activities (such as exercise time, walking, scooping snow, work projects around the house, mowing your lawn, taking the stairs instead of the elevator, cleaning the house, etc.), and this number of physical activity minutes is also recorded online each Friday.

--Call or email Nicole Bruce at Live Healthy Iowa at 888-777-8881 ext. 118 or nicole@livehealthyiowa.org for more information and to answer your questions.

5. (Last Step) Attend a “Know Your Numbers” session at Sunnybrook Community Church behind the Information Desk on any of the following 3 dates;
· Saturday Jan 15th from 9am to Noon, OR
· Sunday Jan 16th between the services OR
· Wednesday January 19th from 5 to 7pm to determine your weight, blood pressure, body composition (fat vs muscle), BMI (body mass index) and inches (waist, hips, thighs, chest and bicep).

What Is In It For Me?—For Only $20 ($15 per person with the Hy-Vee promotional code noted above) You will Receive

Make any checks out to “Sunnybrook Community Church” and in the memo line of the check write “Live Healthy Iowa/ Sunnybrook”

--Live Healthy Iowa T-Shirts for each team member which are sent to the Team Captain’s home address starting in February, 2011
--Personal tracking log for nutrition, and physical activity online at LHI website from your very own personal dashboard
--You will receive a One year's FREE subscription to a health/ fitness magazine such as; Fitness magazine, Men’s Journal, Heart-Healthy Living, Ladies Home Journal, Parents, Motor Trend and others
--Chances to win individual and team incentive prizes from LHI and Sunnybrook Community Church (See below how prices will be determined)
--Access to online health tools such as; Healthy recipes, Fitness plans, Workout videos, Event calendar, Community, and Healthy Lifestyle section and more
--Weekly physical activity, nutrition and recipe tips via e-mail each Thursday of the 100 day wellness challenge
--Team Leaderboard where you can follow and track where your team ranks within Sunnybrook Community Church, Sioux City, Woodbury County and across Iowa during the LHI 100 day challenge

Sunnybrook Community Church at Day 100 will award Team and Individual incentive prizes for the top team with the highest percentage of weight loss average and the team that logs the highest number of physical activity minutes/ hours average. Teams must have between 5 to 10 people to be able to win the team incentive awards and each member of your team must be at least 13 years old.

We will also award individual incentives to the top individual leaders (male and female) in the following categories; 1) Male and Female with the Highest percentage of weight loss 2) Male and Female with the Highest number of physical activity minutes 3) Male and Female with the most muscle gained and 4) Male and Female with the most inches of fat lost

NOTE: To win most muscle gained and most inches of fat lost incentives you MUST attend the beginning and final “Know Your Numbers” sessions at Sunnybrook Community Church.

For more information or to get your questions answered Regarding Live Healthy Iowa/ Sunnybrook contact; Erik Nieuwenhuis at 712-293-1625 or ErikNie@msn.com

Let’s Encourage and Challenge Each Other Daily to “LIVE Healthy SunnyBrook” in 2011, and for LIFE!

So that WE can be the hands and feet of Jesus across Siouxland, within our Family’s and Workplaces, and across the Sunnybrook Community Church Family and the World!!