Due to the Covid 19 pandemic that’s turned everything upside-down the past few months, it changed a lot of the ways people, companies, and organizations are conducting business. Extension is adapting to this new norm as its becoming, and continuing to address the needs of the people in Mississippi. One of the needs this pandemic has pointed out, is people with diabetes, hypertension, and obesity have more complications with the new virus than do heathier individuals, at least as a norm.
Starting this May the Winston Extension office will launch its first ever program to be conducted through email correspondence. The program is the “COVID 19 Weight Loss Challenge.” This is a ten week program that we hope will help Winston’s recently quarantined population that may have gained a few more pounds that they otherwise would have, start shedding the extra weight.
If you’d like to lose 19lbs in ten weeks, this program is designed to help you do just that. Following these research based facts about healthy lifestyle changes will give you an informed start to shed weight the right way, losing one to two pounds weekly is considered healthy weight loss, and research has proven if you can sustain a healthy lifestyle for ten weeks, you’re likely to continue it.
This program will challenge you to not just lose weight, but start a healthy lifestyle that will continue for the rest of your life. So, let’s say out with the temporary fad diets, whatever body cleanses, and mail in foods, and in with starting eating and exercise habits that will last.
We will be keeping up with participant’s progress, and the top three weight loss challengers will get a very sought after prize pack ushered in by the days of Corona Virus, and a spotlight article in the Winston County Journal about their success after the ten weeks.
Are you ready to get started?
Here’s what you do, email tracy.gregory@msstate.edu to sign-up by giving her your current weight (be honest), and did you gain weight during quarantine. Email correspondence will start coming May 11th and continue for ten weeks. More instructions will come concerning the Challenge format throughout the program. Don’t worry confidentiality will be maintained.
Come on Winston County, let’s turn Covid 19 into at least one positive, and make this the time when you started a new healthy lifestyle by losing the Covid 19.
Good luck!
Winston Extension contact is 662-773-3091
