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Health Blog: SO FIT Challenge Week 2

Her Campus Placeholder Avatar Jamilla Bailey
Her Campus Placeholder Avatar Erica Markle
This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Suffolk chapter.

Update: Week Two
            I have come to realize a good rule in working out, when you want to be truly physically healthy you need to MAKE TIME to exercise no matter what.

Over the course of week one, I found some more helpful tips to dieting and working out.

1. Plan Ahead! To prevent cheating on your diets, plan some of your meals ahead. If you use this rule when going food shopping for the week it will lessen your chances of getting too little healthy food, or too much unhealthy food. Also, day-by-day, if you create a loose blueprint of what you will eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, it will weaken your chances of cheating and eating other snacks.

2. Find A Partner! When dieting it would be wise to find someone to work out or diet with; someone who matches your level of seriousness with loosing weight. The buddy system will create an understanding level of support through the ups and downs of staying healthy.

3. Be Comfortable! Working out is difficult enough; don’t make it harder on yourself and your body by working out without appropriate shoes, sports bra, or comfortable clothing. Allowing yourself some comfort while working out will give you the bodily peace to work out longer.
 
To end So Fit Wellness week one it is mandatory for everyone to fill out the online point system created by So Fit Wellness to help track your wellness. The point system is very simple. It takes about five to ten minutes to check off everything that you have done for the week, and you only have to have it done before every 12 o’clock every Monday. What I like the most about the point system is that when you check what you did or didn’t do you are able to see other options and tips for you to cut back and become healthier. These other options and ways to get points will definitely help you get kicked into hear to be healthier next week.

To kick of week two the recipe of the week is the Island Insanity Burger, and the work wut of the week is a simple 10-minute Jump Cardio exercise that you can do in your room or living room as long (as you have something to mark a half way line on the floor). And just as last week, there is a fully stocked list of health events; all located on campus, and most free.
 

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Originally from Connecticut, Erica attends Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts. She is a senior, majoring in public relations, and minoring in marketing. She founded Suffolk's chapter of Her Campus along with co-Campus Correspondent, Mackenzie Newcomb. has interned at a few start-up companies including Quincy Apparel and Good to Go Organics. She was also a public relations intern at Regan Communications Group, and is currently the advertising/marketing intern at The Improper Bostonian Magazine. Erica also works on Newbury Street at Jack Wills University Outfitters, a British clothing company that is expanding across America. She is very interested in the world of fashion, and hopes to make it big doing marketing/PR for a fashion magazine or as a publicist in New York City or LA upon graduation. In her free time, she enjoys shopping, hanging out with friends, going to the beach, reading, writing, and dancing.