FAQ

A Live Healthy badge is way to award participants for living a healthy lifestyle.

Visit the LHI homepage, and click Join Today. Under the Sign Up header, you will see a blue Register Your Team box and the Group Teams section. If you are only registering one team, click Register Your Team. If you are registering a team within a company or organization, enter your Group ID in the labeled box. 

Each team will have a designated captain who will have regular access to a computer and the internet. To create a team, this person will need the names of all team members, email addresses (if possible) and T-shirt sizes. Each team can have 2-10 team members. Upon completion of the registration form, you will be prompted for payment for your entire team. Registration is $20 per team member with free shipping.

Break your team up into two teams, one of six and one of five.

The fee includes a training T-shirt, weekly health and nutrition tips sent via email, chances to win monthly incentives, an Access Card, free entry into the Winter and Summer Games Fitness Walks, weekly motivational emails containing activity, nutrition, and recipe tips. As a paid registrant, a one year subscription to a lifestyle magazine is included with the program.

Your personal dashboard also includes an online daily journal to help you track your weight loss or physical activity, an online messaging center that will allow you to communicate with your teammates to support each other in your progress, and gives you the ability to see your team's ranking on the leaderboard.

T-shirts will begin shipping to team captains Feb. 8, 2012. Team packets will be shipped in order of registration.

The program begins on Jan. 23, but we will continue to take registrations until Feb. 29, 2012. 

No, you have the option of entering the weight loss division, the accumulated minutes of activity division, or both. Please keep in mind that the entire team needs to agree on what division they are participating in.

Record your progress as often as you like during the 100 Day Wellness Challenge!

To record your progress:
- Go to www.livehealthyiowa.org, click LOG IN and enter your assigned username and password
- When logged in, you will land on the myProgress tab of your personal dashboard
- Enter your weight and/or activity information, and click Submit. This information can be entered as often as you like and will accumulate throughout the week in a table just below the data fields. 

All entered data will accumulate throughout the week and be automatically totaled each Friday at midnight. Participants may edit recorded totals if needed by clicking on the blue View Other Weeks button.  Each recording period is open for two weeks.

There is a maximum of 35 hours of recorded activity and 20 pounds of weight lost per week. 

If a team member quits, the captain will be able to make adjustments to your team roster, and your team can continue in the Challenge.

This person can still participate on a Live Healthy Iowa team. The team captain can report this person's weight and/or minutes of activity from their own personal team captain dashboard. It will also be the responsibility of the captain to pass the weekly tips and health information on to this participant.

In most cases, the badges will be automatically awarded when the task is completed.  However, there are several badges that will be recorded at the end of each recording period (Food badge, recording badge, weight badge and team badges).

The team captain can add additional members by logging in to their personal dashboard. Select the myTeam tab, and click on the blue 'Add Members' button. Enter the name, email address and T-shirt size for your new member and click Add Additional Members. To avoid shipping and handling charges, add team members by Feb. 6, 2012.

After you are registered for the Challenge by your team captain, you are automatically sent your own personal username and password in a confirmation email which allows you to log in to the LHI website.

Go to www.livehealthyiowa.org.
Click the orange LOG IN button.
Type in the username and password that you were given from your confirmation email.
If you are logging in for the first time, update your profile and select your magazine.
If you have logged in before, click on the 'edit profile' button toward the right-hand side of the page.
Click on the blue button labeled 'CHANGE PASSWORD', and update the password to something unique.

As a paid registrant, you can sign up for a subscription of your choice to 10 magazines upon logging on to your personal dashboard.

Click 'Edit Profile', fill out the required information, and choose your magazine.

There is no limit to the amount of badges you can earn!

Activity Badge (5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 hrs) – The points are awarded based on the activity badge awarded.  If you receive the 5 hour Activity Badge you will be awarded 5 pt.

Captain Badge – 5 points

Download Recipe Badge – 1 point

Electronic Reading Badge – 1 point

Login Badge – 5 points

Recording Badge – 5 points

Star Badge – 5 points

Video Badge – 1 point

Weight Badge – 5 points

Each badge is associated with a number of points.

A Group ID is a code given to businesses, organizations and communities that want to sign up three or more teams as part of their business, organization or community wellness program/initiative. This Group ID gives an Administrator of the business, organization or community the ability to track the teams that sign up using the Group ID code.

Activity Badge (5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 hrs) – Awarded when a participant reaches the corresponding number of activity hours.  A participant earns the 5 hour badge when they record 5 hours of activity, 10 hour badge for 10 hours of activity, etc.  A participant earns each hour badge one time. 

Captain Badge – Awarded for being the Captain of a team.

Download Recipe Badge – Awarded after participant views a recipe.

Electronic Reading Badge – Awarded after participant views an article.

Login Badge – Awarded after participant logs in for the first time.

Recording Badge – Awarded after completing weekly recording. The participant has recorded information at least ONCE during the recording period.

Star Badge – Awarded after any personal goals are entered and completed.

Video Badge – Awarded after participant views a video.

Weight Badge (5, 10, 15 and 20 pounds) – Awarded when a participant reaches the corresponding number of pounds lost.  A participant earns a Lose 5 Pounds badge when they lose 5 pounds (from their starting weight to their current weight.)

Group Activity Badge – Awarded to the participant that had the most activity on their team for the recording week.

Group Weight Lost Badge – Awarded to the participant that lost the most weight on the team for the recording week. 

Team Recording Badge – Awarded to a team when every person on the team has recorded at least once during the recording period.

Data is recorded on a Saturday through Friday basis. Each week of recording begins fresh on Saturdays and includes the next Friday's data. Friday is the day to enter the past week's information.

The program starts on Monday, Jan. 23.  The initial start weight is recorded on this day.  Activity/weight loss data starting this day will be recorded on Friday, Jan. 27.