Healthy sELF Challenge

by 41 Comments

Hi Friends!

As you guys know, I teamed up with one of my best blogging buddies, Elle from Nutritionella to create the Elf for Health Holiday Challenge. It was a huge success, much bigger than we had ever dreamed of with over 900 elves spreading health & wellness during the holidays! As it turns out, our elves LOVE supporting one another so much they requested we keep the challenge going throughout the entire year. How awesome is that?

Naturally, we needed a new name and logo fit for every season, not just for the holidays.

Our elves voted to rename the challenge Healthy sELF – it keeps the spirit of the original Elf for Health Challenge and also encourages us to make healthier choices for ourselves all year round.

Here are the details!

The Healthy sELF challenge will officially kick off on February 4th. To make Healthy sELF sustainable for everyone, we scaled back to three weekly challenges – Mondays, Thursdays & one on the weekend. Elves will not be paired like they were for the last challenge so we really encourage participants to be active on Facebook, Twitter, and/or Instagram!

That being said, there is a new Healthy sELF Facebook Group! It’s a great place to meet new elves, give encouragement, boost your self-confidence, share recipes, healthy tips, workouts, personal successes – whatever you like! Just request to join and we’ll add you to the group.

A couple of fun things we’ve added to this challenge:

  • a new hashtag – use #healthysELF when you’re Tweeting & Instagramming so other elves can get to know you
  • a monthly newsletter with the month’s challenges plus short health-related articles & posts from our very own elves
  • elf spotlights within the Facebook group
  • healthy sELF ambassadors – we recruited some awesome, health-inspiring girls to help with the tasks of running the challenge so keep them on your radar for challenge reminders, social media shout-outs, newsletter submissions & elf spotlights

 

We’ve put together a challenge calendar using the Elf for Health survey results to plan the upcoming challenges through the month of May. We like to plan ahead, can you tell? This calendar as well as the monthly newsletter signup form can be found on the Healthy sELF pages on our blogs.

 

Enjoy!
–Lindsay–

WANT TO FOOD PREP LIKE A PRO?

Get my top 3 tips!
Plus quick, healthy recipe ideas right to your inbox every week!

Reader Interactions

Comments

  3. eeeeee!! This makes me so very happy. I knew there was talks of it continuing but I have been patiently waiting to here an official word on it ever since the voting went down. I like that there is a little bit less pressure this time around. I loved being matched up with elves, I loved that you were my last elf… But life started eating me up so much toward the end there that if I didn’t respond in a timely fashion I would feel so guilty. or if I missed a day I would mentally kick myself in the booty.

    So fun. Thank you gals for putting in the work to make this happen. I know things like this take time and since both of you are busy bees, we all appreciate it more than you know!!!

    Reply

    • eeeeee!! This makes me so very happy. I knew there was talks of it continuing but I have been patiently waiting to hear an official word on it ever since the voting went down. I like that there is a little bit less pressure this time around. I loved being matched up with elves, I loved that you were my last elf… But life started eating me up so much toward the end there that if I didn’t respond in a timely fashion I would feel so guilty. or if I missed a day I would mentally kick myself in the booty.

      So fun. Thank you gals for putting in the work to make this happen. I know things like this take time and since both of you are busy bees, we all appreciate it more than you know!!!

      Reply

  13. Can’t wait to begin! I have been looking forward to this!!

    I can’t get the buttons to work on my blog… any idea why??!

    [WORDPRESS HASHCASH] The poster sent us ‘0 which is not a hashcash value.

    Reply

  14. I didn’t get in on the Elf for Health Challenge, but I am excited to participate in this one! I have a question though, if the challenge is for a Monday, does it count if it’s done on a Tuesday, for example?

    Reply

  15. I am very excited about this challenge! Such a great way to stay motivated and to be inspired by others!

    I cannot get either button to upload to my blog. It’s accepting the links, but won’t show the picture. Any ideas on why??!

    Reply

  18. I got so sick over the course of the holiday challenge that I totally failed after the first two weeks. (Though, I LOVED my partner for the first two weeks!) I love this idea, because I watched the group every day, and it really was such a success!!

    Reply

  24. So excited!! I was hesitant to do the Elf for Health because of the parnters– I was afraid I wouldn’t have time to email my partner. Great that we can all participate individually! 🙂

    Reply

Trackbacks

  1. […] how to join? GO HERE or HERE (DO IT NOW!) – you can sign up to be a part of the fun, and subscribe to the monthy newsletter […]

    [WORDPRESS HASHCASH] The comment’s server IP (66.155.8.213) doesn’t match the comment’s URL host IP (66.155.11.238) and so is spam.

    Reply

  2. […] always up for a challenge and I can’t wait to begin the Healthy sELF Challenge, starting February 4th! This challenge is brought to you by the same bloggers (The Lean Green Bean […]

    [WORDPRESS HASHCASH] The comment’s server IP (65.254.224.23) doesn’t match the comment’s URL host IP (65.254.248.218) and so is spam.

    Reply

  5. […] If anyone remembers, I said awhile back I had to make a green smoothie for the Healthy sELF Challenge. My previous experiences with green smoothies had not been very good, but this one is a […]

    [WORDPRESS HASHCASH] The comment’s server IP (216.151.210.48) doesn’t match the comment’s URL host IP (76.74.254.123) and so is spam.

    Reply

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published.