Instagram Challenge #5: @myhealthrev

Good evening everyone,

Hope we all have enjoyed dusting off those old albums today, getting our playlist ready to propel us into new goals and new achievements...especially for our new year. Today, I collected a bunch of my favourite gym music, trying to set the workout mindset I'll need next week when I can start to show exercise challenges. Also, I couldn't help myself with a little Motown as well cooking away the dinner again...the best!

Tomorrow we have challenge #6: New Year Nutrition

@myhealthrev

So get ready and stay motivated, remember everything so far and let the music help motivate you if you feel the motivation slip at any point...also come and join our Instagram and get support through it all :)

please share, start a discussion and join us, more updates tomorrow...enjoy your New Year's Eve :)

The Sound Of Instagram

Good afternoon everyone,

Challenge#5. Music To Motivate

let's try something different today. How important is music in your life? It could be used as the source of motivation when you're on your last lap, helping override those thoughts of submission. It could be used as the pick-me-up when your mood is a little lower, or it could be blamed for swinging you partner around the floor all night, crying in laughter. The list is endless...

As James Kerr has said:

"Never be too big to do the small things that need to be done"

If you don't already have some music playlists set up, I suggest you use today to put together some of your favourite tracks to increase motivations when required. I have several for the gym, one for cooking, one for studying and one for just relaxing...they're an amazing tool to have. Simple is effective! Once the challenges continue, you will see the true value of music for our progress.

Stay motivated and have some fun...this is for your healthy lifestyle,

@myhealthrev

Help share us, share your track list with us or start a discussion. See you on Instagram.

Challenge #4 Done

Evening again everyone,

Challenge four done...we're well on the way to completing our first stage! Some Great feedback so far, Loving it! Hope you all have had the chance to try some new ways of including water into your diet...for me it was a matter of including one more glass with each meal, it's still surprising every time how stuffed you can become during meal times.

A Splash Of Instagram

Good morning everyone,

Great! So now we have fruit, vegetables and one new behaviour to exercise throughout our lives. No fireworks display yet...but foundations often don't. So now we focus on H2O. Drinking more water...it can be a chore to think about, or it could be the only thing on your mind when your on that last lap and are pretty sure your about to drop. So...nice and easy, let's find ways to introduce some water to our life. Fill a water bottle, overflow a glass or blend up some smoothies to increase your intake. 

Remember the previous blog when going through your day:

Performance = Capability + Behaviour 

Over-looking these small details allows a unstable foundation, let's give us the best possible chance of Performance...

In the words of Shannon Briggs "LET'S GO CHAMP"

@myhealthrev

Help share, discuss and let others know if your taking part...see you on Instagram

Instagram With Veg: @myhealthrev

Evening everyone,

Challenge three complete! Feeling motivated. I hope some of you have tried some of that long lost fruit that before today, sat there gathering dust. Today I had a 'proper 'fruit salad, which I first tried on my International exchange to Finland...that being fruit and salad. It's in the title I know, but it's not that common to eat in Scotland. It's a strange mixture to eat soft banana with crunchy lettuce...but it was the challenge for today to introduce vegetables, so I took one for the team, no problem.

Instagram and Those Veg

Good morning everyone,

Challenge #3. Pick-UP Those Veggies

Instagram and Fruit: @myhealthrev

Evening everyone,

Challenge #2. Fruity Thirst

Challenge two done! Easy. Hope you all enjoyed trying some new fruits or throwing in some of the old favourites to be chopped up and demolished. My first serving of fruit shown was a pleasant change to the morning routine. I have to admit though the second one was the one that did it for me...that mango was incredible! If you took part, how did you get on? Did you get to try anything new? Let's keep the motivation high and power through the next one tomorrow. I suggest that for each stage, we practice each of our challenges to help build up an array of resources for our disposal to help us along the way.

Challenge #3. Pick-Up Those Veggies

As always, look out tomorrow for some insight into how you can get involved. Let's learn new ways to bring passion back to those dreaded bland vegetables...and find ways to re-invent our dinner plate.

See what's going on tomorrow @myhealthrev

Share with friends, start a conversation, or come and take part...let's get excited about these changes and encourage others.

Instagram and Fruit

Good morning everyone,

Challenge #2: Fruity ThirstToday is a little different from what we may be familiar with. It is all about re-discovering some passion with fruit. Get yourself to try some new ones, put some together in a bowl, blend a smoothie or just devour one of your old favourites. Don't forget to continue our theme from yesterday, but the end of the stage we will be in strong steads to making our follow-up challenges easier.

Let us know on Instagram how you get on and some of the ideas you have come up with. This was my rather bland looking breakfast this morning (above), the bowl of fruit however was amazing, surprisingly filling. Take it nice and easy, this week is just to get us back into simple things we already know..more difficult challenges will come a little later throughout the challenge...so get ready!

Please share, discuss with friend or start a discussion.

@myhealthrev
healthrevd@gmail.com

Challenge Yourself: Instagram

Our 12 week challenge has been started, come join in.

Stage 1: Curb the JunkChallenge: Notice the 'BAD' foods

First day challenge completed! No issues. Keep yourself updated through Instagram to get clues to our daily hints. Our first stage will start slowly, but I'm looking to create lasting change, not temporary fixes...so from this moment onwards, we have to consider ourselves as our own sculptors. Gradually chipping away at those small issues until you reach the outcome you deserve, and best of all we have each other for encouragement.

Lets see some of you get excited for your own reasons and let me know if your willing to take part at healthrevd@gmail.com. Let's see and spread all of your passions through food, sports, coffee, spending time with loved ones...whatever it may be, Lets encourage health in everyone and help them however we can.

Challenge 2: Fruity Thirst

See whats going on tomorrow @myhealthrev

Share with friends, start a conversation or come and take part...let's make this happen :)

Bring On Instagram

Good morning everyone,

Hope we are all feeling great. Can we make Instagram encourage our health?

This challenge I have spoke about in previous blogs is now underway! Commitment made. Here's what I'll be doing...combining my body transformation process through the stages offered through HealthRev. I'll be uploading pictures giving slight clues to what that challenge may be...the blueprint to the results I achieve!

The process that I will be using to gain these results will be the same model offered to users of HealthRev. I'll show you the stages and the objectives that will help shape my results. Future blogs will detail my thoughts throughout this challenge which I hope will encourage you to come and take part and share your own story.

If you want to challenge yourself, come and join! I would love to support everyone to make their changes!

@myhealthrev

Share your passion for food, exercise, lifestyle and hobbies to help inspire others to make some bug changes in the new year.

Please share, discuss or start a conversation

Get in contact if you want to take part and get more details at healthrevd@gmail.com

What If Things Change?

Good afternoon everyone,

(working on myHealthRev in sunny Scotland)

Hope we are all feeling great? Let's jump right in then...

What if you could change things? When I say this, I don't refer to mundane things such as changing the carpets around your home... or better yet, the T.V channel! I want us all to get creative. Surprise yourself, surprise your friends (and blog followers ;)) then discover another piece of you to share with the world.

If you have been following the blog up until now, you'll know a rough outline about HealthRev and its purpose. If you are just getting the chance to have a look now, then welcome!...come on in the water's fine.

"That's just the way things are". How many times have you been told this? If you are anything like me, you'll have more than changing T.V channels to discuss. So what's my position on this?

When I was young, I had a form of leukaemia...surprisingly though I rarely think about this. I'll borrow a phrase that I come across that describes the 'philosophy' I was taught, "Attitude determines Altitude"...I'll give you a second to clean up the cliche-vomit all over your keyboard. Actually, the reason I began designing this app was to help those who I have grown up around...trying to take my so-called 'positive attitude' and produce something tangible to remind them 'things' matter. The 'things' can be something I could see insignificant...but that's not the point. We are all different, we need to search for what helps a person, not what hinders them...and we need to keep searching because theres people out there who may just need your advice...your voice, experience or simply, your support.

What am I looking to change? How we think about health and what steps we take towards improving it! By no means would I waste your time or my own by throwing information at you that you can get in any of the other million sites dedicated to that dreaded food pyramid. I get it...your not interested! If you are, your having to do more than rely on 'guidance' from a neatly divided triangle or my favourite "did you know your BMI says you are overweight?"...out comes the Ben & Jerry's again.

HealthRev...It's built with you and for you. Theres no other way of saying it. I need to make our concept of health become something we become passionate about..something that makes us get hungry over helping others. So here it is again...What if you could change your health? What if you could help another person change theirs? What if you inspired them to overcome any difficulty as best as possible and continued supporting them...the same way we support each others blogs. With the initial like, then the encouraging comment...then by being yourself and truly reaching out to them...

What if we could change things?...would we do it?

How about this...I'll be starting an Instagram 'challenge' very soon. myHealthRev will be about my journey of losing weight (24 pounds) which I'll be showing you just how I will go about the process. I would love to see you all joining for your own reasons and together we can spread our support to those who we know. So share your passion for food, exercise, lifestyle, hobbies or your story and help inspire others @myhelthrev.

Thank you all for supporting me so far...this makes the change happen, it lets me know you are on board for our journey. I had a chance to speak to some readers who had vey personal stories to tell and it's incredible to see their input towards this project...it shows the Attitude...need I say the rest :)

So please share, discuss it with friends, or just start a conversation, let others know your story or if you have anything you want to change :)

healthrevd@gmail.com

App Update: HealthRev

Good afternoon everyone,

 

 

I am excited to be able to show you all some graphics that I have created for HealthRev. Some readers got in touch regarding some of the features the app will offer and how it may be presented.

So...as you can see from the graphics offered, users are guided through the main menu to reach the first option (let's get some thoughts on how the logo should look :)). There will be a few more steps in the set-up process of the app not shown, such as creating accounts and the option of linking it with your social media accounts.

The second graphic shown has given a brief detail of the options that can be presented to the users, ranging from physical, psychological, lifestyle or HealthRev (aspects of each area).

The third graphic has shown my thoughts of how the various aspects may be offered on the mobile screen. The screen can be broken down into four sections. The first section gives and overview of the users profile, with the stage achieved and how much progress has been made towards your next level of progress. The idea would be for this information to be available to all friends and contacts linked to the user profile, allowing  friends to see your progress and encourage you through each objective. In addition to this, friends would be able to see any achievements unlocked or photos you have taken to show proud moments towards progressions towards your health.

The second section doesn't give details away at the moment...helps keep it secret 😊 Our SocialRev will be a revolutionary way to integrate health and social aspects never seen before! This has been built from the advice of many people who I have questioned over long periods of time, to help shape what I believe to be something truly special...but a little at a time 😊.

The third and fourth section are going to be worked on next to get them to a quality I hope you will all be happy with. This will include the user achievements that will have to be earned as well as methods which can be used in order to help spread your own personal Health Revolution. I plan to make this seamless with all social networks to allow for easy transition and to gain support from your friends or gain further support from our community, who will be more than happy to help :)

As always, please let me know what you all think, share it, discuss it or just send a message...it will all help bring this a little closer to making your own HealthRev happen or for someone else who you may be able to help 😊

Get in touch at healthrevd@gmail.com

Also, you can catch us on Instagram @myhealthrev 😊