FAQ

Each Live Healthy Iowa member will receive:
-Program incentive (i.e. Burst Your Thirst participants receive a water bottle)
-Weekly activity, nutrition and recipe tips via e-mail
-A personal online tracking page
-Unlimited access to healthy recipes, health tips and more
-Opportunities to win individual prizes and team incentives

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.

Visit the LHI homepage, and click Join Today. If you are only registering one team, click "Submit" under the Start a Team column. If you are registering a team within a company or organization, enter your Group ID in the labeled box. 

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 May 31, 2013.

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

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 water ounces 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.

Burst Your Thirst begins on June 17th, but we will continue to take registrations until June 28, 2013. 

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.

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.

Record your progress as often as you would like throughout the challenge! All data will accumulate throughout the week and be totaled each Friday at midnight. Data is recorded on a Saturday through Friday basis. Each week of recording begins fresh on Saturdays and continues through the next Friday's data.

For example, the program starts on Monday, June 17. Activity and ounce data recorded starting this day will be subtotaled on Friday, June 21. Data recorded on Saturday, June 22 will be subtotaled on Friday June 28.

Record your progress as often as you like!

To record your progress:
- Go to www.livehealthyiowa.org, click LOG IN and enter your assigned username and password
- When logged in, click 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. 

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

Click here for more information on Wellness Challenge badges.

Click here for more information on Nutrition Challenge badges.

Click here for more information on Lifestyle Challenge badges.

Click here for more informaiton on Steps Challenge badges.

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).

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

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.

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

Each badge is associated with a number of points.  When awarded a badge, you will also receive badge points that display on your dashboard.