get fit challenge

There are only two weeks and two challenges left in our Get Fit For 2011 giveaway. We created weekly health and fitness challenges to help you stay on track for the beginning of the year. If you missed any of the challenges, now is your chance to play catch up and complete any you might have missed. Remember the more you participate, the greater your chances of winning!

This week's challenge: Complete any of the previous challenges by creating a blog post in our Get Fit For 2011 community group. Here's a list of all the challenges — have you completed each of them?

• Write up your fitness and health goals for 2011
• Write a blog post of your food journal
• Share a photo of your fitness life
• Upload a healthy recipe
• Share a workout
• Tell us your healthy go-to snack
• Review a fitness DVD
• Share your fitness must haves
• Give up a vice for a week and blog about it

By completing any of these challenges, you will be automatically entered for a chance to win our weekly prize — a $100 New Balance gift card and our grand prize! At the end of the three-month challenge, we will pick a grand prize winner at random from all of the weekly challenge entries. Remember, the more you participate, the more chances you have to win the grand prize: a Get Fit Boot Camp in Los Angeles that includes a round-trip flight to Los Angeles, a four-night stay at the W Hollywood, a personal training session with celebrity trainer Jeanette Jenkins, a nutrition consultation with C & J Nutrition, and four workout sessions with our very own FitSugar editors that will be featured on PopSugar LivingTV.

If you're ready to join the fun and feel the community support, log in and head directly to Get Fit For 2011. Need a little help making a blog post? Here are tips on posting in our group.

You have until 11:59 p.m. PST on Sunday, March 27, to complete any of these challenges. Ready. Set. Catch up!

This is your year to get healthy and fit, and FitSugar is here to help. We've created weekly challenges for our Get Fit For 2011 giveaway that will help you stay on track.

This week's challenge: Give up a vice for a week and blog about it in the Get Fit For 2011 community group. Even if you're not religious, you can use the season of Lent to break some bad habits. Giving up sugar, meat, or caffeine are just a few "vices" worthy of an experimental breakup. Come on now — it's only for a week. What's your vice?

By meeting this challenge, you will be automatically entered for a chance to win our weekly prize — a $100 New Balance gift card and our grand prize! At the end of the three-month challenge, we will pick a grand prize winner at random from all of the weekly challenge entries. Remember, the more you participate, the more chances you have to win the grand prize: a Get Fit Boot Camp in Los Angeles that includes a round-trip flight to Los Angeles, a four-night stay at the W Hollywood, a personal training session with celebrity trainer Jeanette Jenkins, a nutrition consultation with C & J Nutrition, and four workout sessions with our very own FitSugar editors that will be featured on PopSugar LivingTV.

If you're ready to join the fun and feel the community support, log in and head directly to Get Fit For 2011. Need a little help making a blog post? Here are tips on posting in our group.

You have until 11:59 p.m. PST on Sunday, March 20, to complete your 10th challenge. Ready. Set. Give it up!

This is your year to get healthy and fit, and FitSugar is here to help. We've created weekly challenges for our Get Fit For 2011 giveaway that will help you stay on track.

This week's challenge: Share your must-have fitness gear in a blog post with images, or maybe even a video, in our Get Fit For 2011 community group. Do you heart your heart rate monitor? Tell us why. Are your kicks the bomb? Share a photo of your sneakers to show your love. Coveting a new gym bag? Show it to us — we might need it too.

By meeting this challenge, you will be automatically entered for a chance to win our weekly prize — a $100 Nike gift card and our grand prize! At the end of the three-month challenge, we will pick a grand prize winner at random from all of the weekly challenge entries. Remember, the more you participate, the more chances you have to win the grand prize: a Get Fit Boot Camp in Los Angeles that includes a round-trip flight to Los Angeles, a four-night stay at the W Hollywood, a personal training session with celebrity trainer Jeanette Jenkins, a nutrition consultation with C & J Nutrition, and four workout sessions with our very own FitSugar editors that will be featured on PopSugar LivingTV.

If you're ready to join the fun and feel the community support, log in and head directly to Get Fit For 2011. Need a little help making a blog post? Here are tips on posting in our group.

You have until 11:59 p.m. PST on Sunday, March 13, to complete your ninth challenge. Ready. Set. Share!

This is your year to get healthy and fit, and FitSugar is here to help. We've created weekly challenges for our Get Fit For 2011 giveaway that will help you stay on track.

This week's challenge: Write a blog post reviewing a fitness DVD in our Get Fit For 2011 community group. We want to know why the workout rocks or just doesn't float your boat. Include an image of the cover and we might just post it on FitSugar!

By meeting this challenge, you will be automatically entered for a chance to win our weekly prize — a $100 Nike gift card and our grand prize! At the end of the three-month challenge, we will pick a grand prize winner at random from all of the weekly challenge entries. Remember, the more you participate, the more chances you have to win the grand prize: a Get Fit Boot Camp in Los Angeles that includes a round-trip flight to Los Angeles, a four-night stay at the W Hollywood, a personal training session with celebrity trainer Jeanette Jenkins, a nutrition consultation with C & J Nutrition, and four workout sessions with our very own FitSugar editors that will be featured on PopSugar LivingTV.

If you're ready to join the fun and feel the community support, log in and head directly to Get Fit For 2011. Need a little help making a blog post? Here are tips on posting in our group.

You have until 11:59 p.m. PST on Sunday, March 6, to complete your second challenge. Ready. Set. Review!

This is your year to get healthy and fit, and FitSugar is here to help. We've created weekly challenges for our Get Fit For 2011 giveaway that will help you stay on track.

This week's challenge: Share your favorite healthy snack in the Get Fit For 2011 community group. Include a stellar photo of your dish, and we might just post it on FitSugar!

By meeting this challenge, you will be automatically entered for a chance to win our weekly prize — a $100 Nike gift card and our grand prize! At the end of the three-month challenge, we will pick a grand prize winner at random from all of the weekly challenge entries. Remember, the more you participate, the more chances you have to win the grand prize: a Get Fit Boot Camp in Los Angeles that includes a round-trip flight to Los Angeles, a four-night stay at the W Hollywood, a personal training session with celebrity trainer Jeanette Jenkins, a nutrition consultation with C & J Nutrition, and four workout sessions with our very own FitSugar editors that will be featured on PopSugar LivingTV.

If you're ready to join the fun and feel the community support, log in and head directly to Get Fit For 2011. Need a little help making a blog post? Here are tips on posting in our group.

You have until 11:59 p.m. PST on Sunday, Feb. 27, to complete your second challenge. Ready. Set. Snack attack!

The following post was written by C&J Nutrition, a duo of registered dietitians based in NYC and LA, to help you get a handle on this week's Get Fit For 2011 giveaway snacking challenge.

We are big fans of snacking. Why do we love snacks? Our top 3 reasons are . . .

1. Knowing we'll be having a snack in between one meal and the next makes it easier to stop eating a meal when we're "satisfied" versus "full."
2. Snacking keeps us from arriving at meal time ravenous — helping to avoid "grab the first thing I see and eat a lot of it" situations.
3. Snacks help us fit in nutrients we may not otherwise get enough of in our meals. Low on calcium-rich foods in meals? Try yogurt as a snack. Not fitting many veggies into meals? Pair some crudites with hummus. Short on fruit? Dip apple slices into peanut butter.

We're regular snackers and suggest AT LEAST one snack per day to all of our clients. We recommend pairing two of the three main nutrients (carbohydrates, fat, protein) together into a snack. Other than this general premise, we get pretty creative with our snacks and hope you take some of our ideas and give them your own awesome spin.

• Apple slices with peanut buttery dip
• Baby carrots and grape tomatoes with hummus: Pair 1/2 cup grape tomatoes with 1/2 cup baby carrots and 1/4 cup Tribe Origins hummus. (Tribe doesn't use any artificial preservatives!)

Keep on reading for more snack ideas!

FitSugar reader fitgirl792 shared her fitness goals for the sixth challenge of our Get Fit For 2011 giveaway, and you should too!

TOP TEN FITNESS AND HEALTH GOALS:

1) decrease my body fat by five percent

2) get long, lean dancer legs (Fergalicious)

3) tight toned abs like that of Britney Spears in her hey day

4) high, perky butt

5) increase my endurance and VO2 Max

6) cut down on as many processed foods as possible, whenever I'm hungry I will eat fruits or veggies as a snack

7) bring my water intake to about 90 ounces a day

8) remember to take all my supplements every morning:)

9) drop down a size or two . . .

10) hopefully get my favorite person in the whole world (my sister) to join the journey with me!!!

It's catch-up week since we are midway through in our Get Fit For 2011 challenge. If you missed any of the first five challenges, here's your chance to enter to win a Nike gift card and a chance to win our grand prize — a four-day fitness boot camp in LA!

FitSugar reader debnicole shared her fitness goals for the sixth challenge of our Get Fit For 2011 giveaway.

I missed out on writing about my health and fitness goals for 2011 . . . so without further ado.

My #1 goal is to train for and complete a half marathon. I've started the training part — but signing up for one will definitely "seal the deal" for me — which I've yet to do. I think for me, my biggest hurdle will be overcoming the negativity in my mind on my ability to complete it and be proud. The training plans that I've found have helped me at least feel like I can accomplish this; but race day, I just know, will definitely be a mind over matter thing.

I do have a 2nd goal and that's just to "tone up." I focused more energy on running in 2010, so this year I'd like to focus equally on strength training. My husband decided he wanted to do P90X again (he did it back in 2008) . . . so I thought that was PERFECT timing. I could run when I got home in the evenings and then afterward (since he gets home after I do), we can do the P90X workouts together. So far so good — we're in Phase 2 of the program! Accountability is such an important aspect . . . this definitely provides it! Plus it's allowed him to re-evaluate his eating habits, which in turn has "cleaned up" our grocery list. I've always been pretty health conscious when it comes to food — but now I feel like I'm definitely buckling down more. Making sure servings of fruits AND veggies are hit each day, limiting the amount of whole grains, and cleaning up, if not eliminating the amount of processed foods.

I'm hoping 2011 will provide the courage and results I'm looking for!

It's catch up week since we are midway through in our Get Fit For 2011 challenge. If you missed any of the first five challenges, here's your chance to enter to win a Nike gift card and a chance to win our grand prize — a four-day fitness boot camp in LA!

This is your year to get healthy and fit, and FitSugar is here to help. We've created weekly challenges for our Get Fit For 2011 giveaway that will help you stay on track.

This week's challenge: Week six marks the midway point of our challenge, and we invite you to play catchup. If you've missed any of our previous challenges, here's your chance to get up to speed. Here are the first five challenges — have you done them all?

1. Write up your fitness and health goals for 2011
2. Write a blog post of your food journal
3. Share a photo of your fitness life
4. Upload a healthy recipe
5. Share a workout

By meeting these challenges, you will be automatically entered for a chance to win our weekly prize — a $100 Nike gift card and our grand prize! At the end of the three-month challenge, we will pick a grand prize winner at random from all of the weekly challenge entries. Remember, the more you participate, the more chances you have to win the grand prize: a Get Fit Boot Camp in Los Angeles that includes a round-trip flight to Los Angeles, a four-night stay at the W Hollywood, a personal training session with celebrity trainer Jeanette Jenkins, a nutrition consultation with C & J Nutrition, and four workout sessions with our very own FitSugar editors that will be featured on PopSugar LivingTV.

If you're ready to join the fun and feel the community support, log in and head directly to Get Fit For 2011. Need a little help making a blog post? Here are tips on posting in our group.

You have until 11:59 p.m. PST on Sunday, Feb. 20, to complete your second challenge. Ready. Set. Catch up!