If you’re ready to lose weight and get fit, this might be the program you’ve been looking for!  Conducted by Athens Regional and sponsored by local businesses, Lighten Up Georgia is a FREE team-based community weight-loss challenge.

It’s a simple challenge.  Find three friends, family members, neighbors or co-workers and register at  www.lightenupgeorgia.com. Lighten Up Georgia supplies the online resources and you provide the determination!  As their website says, you simply “Team Up.  Lose Weight.  Win Prizes.”  And, the biggest prize of all is increased health and wellness.

This 16-week program gives you access to healthy recipes, eating and exercise tips, cooking and fitness videos and information about local health and fitness-related events. Athens Regional provides great classes such as yoga and aquatic exercise, and the Lighten Up Boot Camp produced by WOW Boot Camp is always a huge hit with teams. Other sponsors like BodyPlex provide free three-month memberships and Subway and Smoothie King give great discounts to Lighten Up Georgia participants.

Are you ready to Lighten Up?  Go to
www.lightenupgeorgia.com today to get more
information and registration information.

Marjie
Foster

about author

Marjie Foster, editorial director for Global MOVE Media, has a career in publishing, editing, writing and brand management that spans more than 30 years. For 10 of those years, she was also managing partner in a company that recruited, trained and scheduled baseball, basketball and softball officials. Marjie was a collegiate tennis player and is a 15-year veteran of a champion recreation softball team. Her two sons played five sports (each) through high school as well as baseball and football in college. She has been involved with them in their interscholastic and recreational sports careers as a coach, spectator, parent, official, timekeeper and cookie baker for more than 20 years.