CONTEST! A game of healthy things you can do at home–and prizes!

by | Mar 29, 2020 | Exercise, Food, Happiness, Health Tips, Healthy Habits

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CONTEST!

Staying on top of healthy habits like exercising, eating nutritious food, limiting junk food, maintaining social connections, curbing tv and other screen time, and practicing gratitude can be tough at the best of times. But in these days of COVID-19 self-isolation, physical distancing, and quarantine, those habits can be even harder to maintain. 

I saw a fun BINGO card (thanks T.R.!) bringing light to this with tasks like “took a shower,” “changed my clothes today,” and “braved the grocery store” on it. I thought, why not do one that would actually help motivate us to keep healthy? 

So, I’ve created a BINGO game for ways to stay healthy when stuck at home. I have some notes at the bottom about how you might be adapt it to fit your particular needs, abilities, and situation.

My mom had also independently (great minds? ?) come up with a BINGO game idea for the residents of the assisted living centre that my 100-year old Nana lives in.* 

BINGO game for ways to stay healthy at home

Check it out here and scroll down to see how I’m making this a game where you can actually WIN something.

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Or the downloadable PDF version: BINGO card for staying healthy at home

Prizes!

Yes, there are prizes! While of course everyone who participates in staying healthy with daily habits is a winner, I want to add to your motivation. I’m a competitive person (ask me how my mom got me to land a double flip jump when I was a young figure skater), so I’m not against propping up your efforts. 

Grand prize at the end of all this: One free treatment or TCM consultation with me (60 minutes; value $100-160). 

Weekly prizes:  To be announced weekly. May include one free TCM online or by phone consultation (30 minutes), press needles or ear seeds mailed to you, access code to my TCM Health Through the Year webpage, one of my ebooks with health tips I’m working on, OR a surprise even I haven’t figured out yet.

Rules

  • Prizes will be awarded by draw. One card entry allowed per day. Enter as many days as you like.
  • Complete a straight line (across, up/down, or diagonal) and get 1 daily entry.
  • Complete the whole card and get 3 daily entries.
  • Post or send me images or tell me some of the ways you’re accomplishing each task for extra entries (1 bonus entry per new image or new written method).
  • Yes, you can share this with friends. Please do! Weekly prizes can be emailed or mailed anywhere.
  • You can win more than one prize, but when I draw your name and you win a weekly prize, that draw entry will be removed from the box of entries I’ll be accumulating.
  • I will draw a name from the entries every Monday morning (for entries up to the day before).
  • To complete your cards:
    • Print it out and put an X, circle, colour, or other indication that you completed that task on the card.
    • Download the PDF and using your computer, put an X, circle, colour, or other indication that you completed that task on the card. (I use Adobe Acrobat Reader DC for free to do this.)
    • Or simply let me know that you completed a line or a whole card.
  • This contest is fully on the honour system, but here are ways you can let me know you qualify for entries:
    • Email me your daily completed card (yes, you can email me every day if you qualify every day).
    • Take a picture of your completed card and email that to me.
    • Share a picture of your completed card on Instagram with #healthybingocard and tag me @acumelissa (https://www.instagram.com/acumelissa/)
    • Post your completed card on Facebook and tag me “DrMelissa Carr”(https://www.facebook.com/Dr.MelissaCarr)
    • Simply tell me that you completed a line with a list of items you completed or tell me you completed the whole card. 
  • This contest starts now and goes until I’m allowed to be back in clinic, seeing patients face to face.

* As a side note, my mom and are are working on a BINGO game that has different items in each square because she wanted to find a way to keep the residents engaged, active, and keeping as healthy as possible when all their activities are cancelled, the amount of individual care they get is reduced (no volunteers or family allowed in and staff is overwhelmed busy), and they are bored and getting weaker!