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    Kelly Dreyer: Using the Whole Life Challenge to Come Back from Stroke

    Reading Time: 4 minutes Kelly Dreyer was your average, multi-tasking 37-year-old mother, wife, coach, and occupational therapist from Cincinnati, Ohio. All of that changed on January 27, 2014, when she suffered a catastrophic stroke. The effects of the stroke rocked almost every corner of...
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    My Big Fat Take on the Whole Life Challenge

    Reading Time: 4 minutes Excerpt from Jessica’s Take I didn’t write down the date I started my first Whole Life Challenge, but I’m pretty sure it was in a January. I had lost some weight on Weight Watchers a few years earlier and had gained a lot of it back. This completely freaked me out...
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    How to Get Healthy Even When You Live in Vegas

    Reading Time: 5 minutes Note: What follows is a story written by a WLC player. We felt the obstacles he faced (being a young, single man in Vegas amid all the unhealthy temptations) might resonate with some of you, and inspire you on your own WLC journey. When I started the Whole Life Challenge...
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    I Didn’t Think I Could Get Healthier—And I Was Wrong

    Reading Time: 3 minutes Heather Herbeck is a professional kayaker and owner of Fitness and Sport Evolution in the Columbia River Gorge I was definitely skeptical going into this “Whole Life Challenge” thing. I didn’t have any idea what it was really about and no one around me seemed to be able...
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    How the Whole Life Challenge Helped Me Lose 100 Pounds

    Reading Time: 4 minutes John Daniels works in computer systems in Minneapolis. He is an avid gamer, photographer, and robot enthusiast. When he’s not doing that, he’s hanging out with his wife and his dog. Three years ago, my health was at a dangerous place: I was 34 years old and weighed 300...
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    How the Whole Life Challenge Prepared Me to Hike a 14er

    Reading Time: 11 minutes We’d all just turned off our headlamps and could see the peaks take shape in the distance. The landscape came into focus: tufts of green grass turning to gray and brown scree as the trail climbed upward. At just under 13,000 feet, we were well above the tree line. A...
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    Fwd: 6 weeks – after years of a mess

    Reading Time: 8 minutes This article isn’t really an “article.” It’s the text of an email — one we received third-hand via Cyrus’s friend Abby, who forwarded it to Andy, our co-founder. His story was too incredible not to share, and we do so with Cyrus’s blessing. – Ed. In late September, I...
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    The Surprising Way the Whole Life Challenge Changed a Woman’s Life

    Reading Time: 6 minutes Every fall and winter, Judy Baker Campbell’s life gets busy. Judy, 42, lives outside of Toronto, Canada, with her husband and three teenage children. She also owns a vacation rental company in Mexico with 120 properties. When winter hits and everyone wants to escape the...
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    The WLC Lessons This Player Learned After 10 Challenges and 7 Years

    Reading Time: 6 minutes Courtney Pillsbury was there at the beginning. The 44-year-old participated in the very first Whole Life Challenge in 2011, back when founders Michael Stanwyck and Andy Petranek offered the Challenge — then eight weeks long — as a way for members of their gym, CrossFit...
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    How the Whole Life Challenge Became a Way of Life for Phill Kane

    Reading Time: 8 minutes When Phill Kane signed up for his first Whole Life Challenge in September 2013, he braced himself for what he thought was going to be a short-term and extreme “diet.” A few weeks of clean eating and regular exercise was his plan at the time, he explained. Little did he...
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    “I Decided I Was Going to Fight for My Life, Body, Mind, and Spirit”

    Reading Time: 7 minutes Three years ago, Peggy Jindra’s goal was to be able to walk the 200 feet to her mailbox. “I remember thinking, ‘If I could just make it to the mailbox and back, I’d be so happy,’” said the 54-year-old Peggy, who lives in Rogers, Minnesota. “I never dreamed of moving...
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    How the Whole Life Challenge Gave This Man a Whole New Perspective

    Reading Time: 6 minutes When Scott Bolt, age fifty, played the Whole Life Challenge for the first time in 2012, he wasn’t sure he needed it. Scott already exercised regularly at CrossFit 714 near his home in Orange County, California. He always felt he followed a good diet, he never smoked, and...
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    How Taylor James Found Hope Through the Whole Life Challenge

    Reading Time: 6 minutes In his late twenties Taylor James, now 31, was living the life of an elite athlete. A professional dancer, he rehearsed almost every day. When he wasn’t rehearsing, he spent hours in the gym. Taylor faced intense pressure to have a perfect body and dieted constantly...
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    How to Stop Drinking Diet Coke (And Like Yourself More)

    Reading Time: 5 minutes For 25 years I have known the sweet, chemical sting of my first early morning Diet Coke. Watering eyes. The flavor unlike anything ever made in nature. The carbonation. All of it was my routine — until I started the Whole Life Challenge. The Whole Life Challenge changed...
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    The Amazing Way the WLC Changed Her Life (and Also His)

    Reading Time: 6 minutes When Amber Williams signed up for the Whole Life Challenge, her friend Judy Campbell was brought to tears. “Judy had been telling me to do it for a while, and I remember the day I signed up I texted her and she called me back crying. ‘You have no idea how happy I am that...
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    Playing the Whole Life Challenge Revealed My Blind Spots

    Reading Time: 6 minutes When you ask most people why they sign up for the Whole Life Challenge, it usually comes down to one of two specific reasons: “I want to lose weight.” “I want to get fit.” This wasn’t the case for 64-year-old Jim Warnock. At 5-foot-11 and 170lbs, Jim was not...
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    Carolyn Baker: 75 Going on 50 (Thanks to Whole Life Challenge)

    Reading Time: 5 minutes While many people feel like they’re winding down in life once they hit the age of seventy, Carolyn Baker is ramping up. And she credits the Whole Life Challenge for this. Carolyn Baker signed up for her first Whole Life Challenge this spring because she wanted more...
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    How Dani Weaver Lost 110 Pounds with the Whole Life Challenge

    Reading Time: 7 minutes Dani Weaver didn’t weigh herself for two years. She knew she was overweight, but she didn’t want to know the number on the scale. “I had always assumed I was around 275 pounds,” said the five-foot-seven Dani. In September of 2017, she decided to find out for sure. She...
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    The Power of Small Habit Change: Building a Better You, One Step at a Time

    Reading Time: 7 minutes In a world obsessed with overnight transformations—think crash diets, intense fitness boot camps, or 30-day productivity challenges—it’s easy to fall into the trap of believing that big, dramatic changes are the only path to self-improvement. But what if the secret to...
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    How Small Habits Rewrote My Life: A Journey Beyond the Gym

    Reading Time: 6 minutes I used to think health was about hitting the gym hard, eating kale salads, and tracking my sleep like a scientist. I’d scroll through fitness blogs on sites like Whole Life Challenge, nodding at the advice—move more, sleep better, eat clean. It all made sense, but it felt...

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