Take the Living Well in Louisiana Challenge
The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, through the Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, is launching Living Well in Louisiana, a three-month wellness challenge in which you earn points through exercise, weight loss and healthy eating. Participants track their progress through our online wellness center. There is no cost to participate.
NOTE: Before beginning any new diet or exercise program, you should check with your doctor.
Take the Living Well in Louisiana Challenge in three easy steps:
We all have a responsibility to own our own health and take good care of ourselves so we can feel better, live longer and have a higher quality of life. Making wellness part of your daily routine is a good way to start on the path toward better health, and there are simple steps you can take now:
As you get ready to start living well, think about how you want to be healthier, whether it's eating more fruits and vegetables, starting a workout routine, quitting unhealthy behaviors or assessing your risk for chronic conditions like diabetes or heart disease so you can take steps to prevent them. Then, you are ready to use Living Well in Louisiana as a launch pad for a healthier you!
Living Well in Louisiana makes fitness fun, with physical activity and healthy eating challenges designed around different themes. Although each challenge is aimed at a specific group (schools, families, etc.), you are welcome to choose any challenge. Pick the one that will be most interesting to you, so you'll be motivated to stick with it and keep going. These challenges are interactive, so you'll be able to track your progress online and see how everyone else is doing. You will be able to take a challenge alone or with a team.
Living Well in Louisiana features four challenges, each hosted by a celebrity:
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Healthy Workplace Challenge is an exciting "Get Fit Crime Mystery Challenge," where participants earn miles equal to a race around London searching for clues to solve a case. |
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Family Challenge is designed to incorporate one activity with your family from the family challenge list and track its progress. Families can choose from an indoor, outdoor and/or social activity. |
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Fit Schools Challenge allows kids to track their miles as a race charting legendary explorers Lewis and Clark's trip to the Pacific and back! |
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Community Weight Loss Challenge Allows you to watch yourself virtually fly over the horizon in a hot air balloon as you track your fruits and veggie intake, shed pounds and get lighter by the week. This challenge encourages healthy, sustainable weight loss (one to two pounds per week). |
Sign up by yourself or with a team and create an online profile!
For Teams: Captains sign up first and add their team members following the instructions online. Then, every team member signs up and completes the profile page. If there is an existing team you want to join, you can do that through the website, also.
Follow these steps to register online:
To earn points, teams or individuals enter their steps if using a pedometer, or enter the amount of time it takes them to complete activities. Teams' progress is constantly updated, and can be viewed by clicking on 'Challenge Progress,' then scrolling to the bottom of the page and seeing the rankings. Team captains and individual participants can report their totals via the website or can send an email to: livingwellinlouisiana@gmail.com.
There's an App for That! 
The Living Well Physical Activity and Nutrition Challenge formed a partnership with Core Health Technologies, Inc. and created the CoreMobile app to help you track your steps, weight loss, nutrition and more! To view the tutorial on how the app works, click here.
The integrated pedometer function lets you:
Living Well In Louisiana encourages you to set realistic goals and make informed decisions to own your own health. After registering through the online wellness center, you receive:
