Emily Beers, Author at Whole Life Challenge https://www.wholelifechallenge.com/author/emily-beers/ The Game That Changes Your Whole Life Tue, 15 Sep 2020 18:59:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.7 How Dani Weaver Lost 110 Pounds with the Whole Life Challenge https://www.wholelifechallenge.com/how-dani-weaver-lost-110-pounds/ https://www.wholelifechallenge.com/how-dani-weaver-lost-110-pounds/#respond Tue, 15 Sep 2020 15:00:15 +0000 http://www.wholelifechallenge.com/?p=12702 Dani Weaver didn’t weigh herself for two years. She knew she was overweight, but she didn’t want to know the number on the scale.

“I had always assumed I was around 275 pounds,” said the five-foot-seven Dani.

In September of 2017, she decided to find out for sure. She stood on the scale and watched it spit out a number: 307.…

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]]> Dani Weaver didn’t weigh herself for two years. She knew she was overweight, but she didn’t want to know the number on the scale.

“I had always assumed I was around 275 pounds,” said the five-foot-seven Dani.

In September of 2017, she decided to find out for sure. She stood on the scale and watched it spit out a number: 307.…

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]]> https://www.wholelifechallenge.com/how-dani-weaver-lost-110-pounds/feed/ 0 Carolyn Baker: 75 Going on 50 (Thanks to Whole Life Challenge) https://www.wholelifechallenge.com/carolyn-baker-75-going-on-50-thanks-to-whole-life-challenge/ https://www.wholelifechallenge.com/carolyn-baker-75-going-on-50-thanks-to-whole-life-challenge/#respond Wed, 19 Jun 2019 07:01:41 +0000 http://www.wholelifechallenge.com/?p=13217 While many people feel like they’re winding down in life once they hit the age of seventy, Carolyn Baker is ramping up.

And she credits the Whole Life Challenge for this.

Carolyn Baker signed up for her first Whole Life Challenge this spring because she wanted more balance in her life — at the age of 75. A self-proclaimed workaholic, the Denver, Colorado, native continues to work full-time running an architectural design business.…

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]]> While many people feel like they’re winding down in life once they hit the age of seventy, Carolyn Baker is ramping up.

And she credits the Whole Life Challenge for this.

Carolyn Baker signed up for her first Whole Life Challenge this spring because she wanted more balance in her life — at the age of 75.…

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]]> https://www.wholelifechallenge.com/carolyn-baker-75-going-on-50-thanks-to-whole-life-challenge/feed/ 0 Playing the Whole Life Challenge Revealed My Blind Spots https://www.wholelifechallenge.com/playing-whole-life-challenge-revealed-blind-spots/ https://www.wholelifechallenge.com/playing-whole-life-challenge-revealed-blind-spots/#respond Wed, 05 Jun 2019 07:01:48 +0000 http://www.wholelifechallenge.com/?p=13153 When you ask most people why they sign up for the Whole Life Challenge, it usually comes down to one of two specific reasons:

  1. “I want to lose weight.”
  2. “I want to get fit.”

This wasn’t the case for 64-year-old Jim Warnock. At 5-foot-11 and 170lbs, Jim was not overweight, nor was he out of shape.

Jim, a native of El Dorado, Arkansas, has long had a passion for long-distance hiking, sometimes tackling 100-plus mile long trails, including finishing the 180-mile Ozark Highlands Trail in Arkansas and the 211-mile Jim Muir Trail in California.…

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]]> When you ask most people why they sign up for the Whole Life Challenge, it usually comes down to one of two specific reasons:

  1. “I want to lose weight.”
  2. “I want to get fit.”

This wasn’t the case for 64-year-old Jim Warnock. At 5-foot-11 and 170lbs, Jim was not overweight, nor was he out of shape.

Jim, a native of El Dorado, Arkansas, has long had a passion for long-distance hiking, sometimes tackling 100-plus mile long trails, including finishing the 180-mile Ozark Highlands Trail in Arkansas and the 211-mile Jim Muir Trail in California.…

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]]> https://www.wholelifechallenge.com/playing-whole-life-challenge-revealed-blind-spots/feed/ 0 The Amazing Way the WLC Changed Her Life (and Also His) https://www.wholelifechallenge.com/amazing-way-wlc-changed-life/ https://www.wholelifechallenge.com/amazing-way-wlc-changed-life/#respond Wed, 27 Mar 2019 09:00:14 +0000 http://www.wholelifechallenge.com/?p=12938 When Amber Williams signed up for the Whole Life Challenge, her friend Judy Campbell was brought to tears.

“Judy had been telling me to do it for a while, and I remember the day I signed up I texted her and she called me back crying. ‘You have no idea how happy I am that you’re doing this. You don’t even realize what you’re in for,’ she said to me,” Amber remembered of her conversation with Judy in September of 2018.…

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]]> When Amber Williams signed up for the Whole Life Challenge, her friend Judy Campbell was brought to tears.

“Judy had been telling me to do it for a while, and I remember the day I signed up I texted her and she called me back crying. ‘You have no idea how happy I am that you’re doing this.…

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]]> https://www.wholelifechallenge.com/amazing-way-wlc-changed-life/feed/ 0 How Did the “7 Daily Habits” Come to Be? (#BecauseScience) https://www.wholelifechallenge.com/how-did-the-7-daily-habits-come-to-be-becausescience/ https://www.wholelifechallenge.com/how-did-the-7-daily-habits-come-to-be-becausescience/#respond Mon, 04 Mar 2019 10:00:33 +0000 http://www.wholelifechallenge.com/?p=12835 When we think about habits, we often think about bad habits — things like biting fingernails, or the five-year-old who still sucks his thumb. Part of the reason habits are so powerful is that they’re often subconscious in nature. And since we don’t realize we’re doing them, they can be very difficult to break.

But the same can be said for good habits.…

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]]> When we think about habits, we often think about bad habits — things like biting fingernails, or the five-year-old who still sucks his thumb. Part of the reason habits are so powerful is that they’re often subconscious in nature. And since we don’t realize we’re doing them, they can be very difficult to break.

But the same can be said for good habits.…

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]]> https://www.wholelifechallenge.com/how-did-the-7-daily-habits-come-to-be-becausescience/feed/ 0 “I Decided I Was Going to Fight for My Life, Body, Mind, and Spirit” https://www.wholelifechallenge.com/going-to-fight-for-life-body-mind-spirit/ https://www.wholelifechallenge.com/going-to-fight-for-life-body-mind-spirit/#respond Wed, 02 Jan 2019 10:00:15 +0000 http://www.wholelifechallenge.com/?p=12522 Three years ago, Peggy Jindra’s goal was to be able to walk the 200 feet to her mailbox.

“I remember thinking, ‘If I could just make it to the mailbox and back, I’d be so happy,’” said the 54-year-old Peggy, who lives in Rogers, Minnesota. “I never dreamed of moving further than the mailbox.”

At 5-foot-9 and 305 pounds, Peggy was overweight and unfit.…

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]]> Three years ago, Peggy Jindra’s goal was to be able to walk the 200 feet to her mailbox.

“I remember thinking, ‘If I could just make it to the mailbox and back, I’d be so happy,’” said the 54-year-old Peggy, who lives in Rogers, Minnesota. “I never dreamed of moving further than the mailbox.”

At 5-foot-9 and 305 pounds, Peggy was overweight and unfit.…

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]]> https://www.wholelifechallenge.com/going-to-fight-for-life-body-mind-spirit/feed/ 0 How the Whole Life Challenge Became a Way of Life for Phill Kane https://www.wholelifechallenge.com/how-the-whole-life-challenge-became-a-way-of-life-for-phill-kane/ https://www.wholelifechallenge.com/how-the-whole-life-challenge-became-a-way-of-life-for-phill-kane/#respond Mon, 17 Dec 2018 10:00:31 +0000 http://www.wholelifechallenge.com/?p=12476 When Phill Kane signed up for his first Whole Life Challenge in September 2013, he braced himself for what he thought was going to be a short-term and extreme “diet.” A few weeks of clean eating and regular exercise was his plan at the time, he explained.

Little did he know, it would be the start of a journey that would change everything about his life, not for a few weeks, but for good.…

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]]> When Phill Kane signed up for his first Whole Life Challenge in September 2013, he braced himself for what he thought was going to be a short-term and extreme “diet.” A few weeks of clean eating and regular exercise was his plan at the time, he explained.

Little did he know, it would be the start of a journey that would change everything about his life, not for a few weeks, but for good.…

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