May 092016
 

Hello again!  We are back with more updates from the My Heart Challenge!  Eventually, I will be posting each week, but for now, I am going to catch up with what we have done over the past couple of weeks.  From our last post, we started the challenge on the 14th of April.

During this challenge, there are several classes that we will be attending that cover everything from exercise to nutrition to some overall change classes.  We attended the first of these on the 19th.

It was the creating change class, that had some good tips on how to get our minds ready to change habits and lifestyle, as well as be good parents during this change.  It was very informative.

It was good for us, but we had already started changing!  We took the kids bowling on the 18th.  Brenda and I have not been bowling for years, and Amelia and Tristan had never been.  They had fun just learning how to get the ball down the alley.  We went to a place that had bumpers that would raise for the younger kids, and retract for the older ones.  It all proved quite a challenge for everyone, and more of a workout than we were expecting.  That happens when you swing all of that weight for a couple of hours.  We bowled 2 full games and part of a third before we were finished.

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May 072016
 

Well Hello!  To those of you who are new here, welcome.  For the next few weeks we are going to be chronicling our experience in the IHC My Heart Challenge.  The challenge this year is for families.  They chose 8 families to participate, and we were picked, based on this video:

 

After we were chosen, we had a couple of weeks to get ready for the whole challenge.  This challenge is all about being more active and heart healthy, with diet and exercise changes that will make all of our hearts stronger and ultimately let us all live longer!

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