Family CCC

June 25, 2012

by Meg Wallace

One way we work towards obtaining optimal health at GPP is through our Crash Course Challenges. I love the CCCs! Yet, I never feel I can really participate since I am one of the trainers, but during this last CCC I was inspired to create a points system to help change some habits in my family this summer.

In my families CCC there is not a single winner, but instead we are all working toward an opportunity to eat out (something my children love and something Damon and I have begun to do too often). To keep it simple and allow for choice and accountability and mistakes we must each have eight days in a fourteen day period where we obtain all 12 points and then we go out to eat.

Daily Points Breakdown

4pts- 4 glasses of water

3pts- 3 servings of vegetables

2pts- 2 servings of fruit

1pt- workout

1pt- vitamin

1pt- no treat

For me and my daughters (Damon has been out of town so we are excited to get him involved this next week) this has been a great starting point to getting back on track with some important healthy habits.

GPP is about optimal health. Becoming healthy does not happen in isolation because life is not an isolated experience. Share what you have done and are doing in addition to your GPP workout to become healthy!

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I Am Not My Body

June 12, 2012

By Megan Wallace

I was surprised the first time my daughters asked me to measure them. I shouldn’t have been, because I know how much they see and follow what I do. Yet it surprised me. Not only did they want me to measure them, they also wanted to be weighed. After we finished weighing and measuring they ask me if they were ok. This concerned me. Of course they were ok; in fact they were more than ok they were and are perfect. But they needed to know that, they needed me to tell them that they were perfect, and they needed to know why. I believe their question had to do with self assurance and little to do with actual body shape and size.

An amazing woman, Stephanie Neilson said “I am not my body,” and neither are you or your children. We are all so much more than our bodies. But today the world would have us believe our bodies are everything.

There is an idea that there is one perfect male and female body. I reject that. When we accept, promote and agree that there is one perfect body shape we must either all work for that one body shape or accept defeat and second best. We must not do that. We can not become obsessed with body image. We must work to gain fitness, to shape our bodies, to be the healthiest and fittest we can be, but remember we are much more than that.

GPP has always been about optimal health and fitness. It is what we do, and who we are. We are not a normal gym. We do not encourage or suggest you ignore all other aspects of your life to achieve the perfect body. We want to help you improve and create the healthiest, fittest, most beautiful you and we want you to love it. We do this in the most affective, fastest way possible that encourages and allows you to improve every aspect of your life.

Additionally, we want to assist you in helping your children develop their fitness and positive body image. Teach by example. Your children see what you do, they recognize if mom is always complaining about her body, or if she is happy with herself. They know if dad is obsessed with his biceps, or physically strong. You must lead. Your children will follow. You are not your body!

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