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EA SPORTS Active Retreat Vlog & March of Dimes Charity Auction

Michele — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:00:58 +0000

Many of you know that I was a 6 week challenger for EA SPORTS Active. I participated in the 6 week challenge using More Workouts over the holidays. Check out my final challenge vlog post to see how well I did..

After the challenge, all 12 of us challengers met in Beverly Hills for a retreat and charity party. I had THE most AWESOME time. I loved meeting all of the challengers and the EA SPORTS Active folks. We stayed in the most glamorous hotel I’ve ever stayed. It was the SLS Beverly Hills hotel and words just can not describe what this hotel was like. You’ll have to check out my vlog post about the room.

I finally got to meet @Active_Girl (Kathryn Peck) in person and had the opportunity to meet with Gerard (@Active_Trainer) to discuss our personal goals both short and long term. He also answered a lot of our questions about the product and fitness. He was a wealth of information and made exercise sound like a lot of fun.

We all got celebrity makeovers and then had our “after” shots taken by a professional photographer by the pool (and it was about 75 degrees in January).

March of Dimes Charity Event

The highlight of the entire trip was going to a celebrity charity event hosted by Nancy O’Dell and sponsored by EA SPORTS Active. Nancy and her friends set up personalized workouts on the More Workouts and then signed a Wii. Those systems and games are currently being auctioned off at Charity Buzz. Be sure to check out the auctions. All the money raised goes for a very worthy charity, March of Dimes.

The trip would not be complete without a few dinners out with good friends and of course a 4.4 mile hike.

Sometimes the best way to tell you about a fantastic event is to show you. I created this (not so) short, but really fun video of our entire retreat. Enjoy!

disclosure: EA SPORTS Active sent me a copy of More Workouts to use in the 6 week challenge and paid for my entire trip to the retreat. All opinions are my own.

Ready for another challenge? Join me and EA SPORTS Active for a Couples Challenge. I need to get my hubby to complete either the 30 day or the 6 week challenge and there is my opportunity. Grab a partner and come along.

EA SPORTS Active Retreat Vlog & March of Dimes Charity Auction originally posted at Scraps of My Geek Life.

EA Sports Active 6 Week Challenge Completed

Michele — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:00:00 +0000

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This past week I completed my 6 week challenge with the EA Sports Active More Workouts fitness product for the Wii. The challenge began the week before Thanksgiving and ran through New Year’s Eve. Talk about a challenge!! Last year during that same time period, I gained 10 lbs. This year in spite of 3 holidays, a trip with my husband, several holiday parties, lots of holiday cookies and a crazy chaotic schedule, I lost 6 lbs and 5.5 inches over the holidays. It was definitely due to the 6 week challenge. I am so excited and thrilled with the results I got.

I worked out at least 4 times per week and I watched what I was eating. I did not diet and I did not deprive myself when I was at parties or traveling. I really didn’t think it was possible to lose weight during the holidays and not feel deprived. I proved to myself that it is possible. Losing weight is always great, but I noticed a lot of other benefits from the 6 week challenge:

I slept much better and I didn’t wake up feeling tired.
Felt more energetic.
My clothes fit much better.
I wasn’t as hungry all the time and I craved more healthy foods.
My family was more active this holiday season than in the past.

My final vlog post for my EA SPORTS Active 6 week challenge:

Now that the New Year is upon us, I am starting my 2nd round of the 6 week challenge and I am going to track all the foods that I eat and keep my calorie intake to no more than 1500 each day. I know with that combination, I’ll be back down to my desired weight in no time.

How did your 6 week challenge go? Tell me all about it!!

Getting Fit with the EA Sports Active Challengers – Jan 04,2010 (blogtalkradio.com)
I’m Workin’ It…Using the EA Sports Active More Workouts (scrapsofmygeeklife.com)
EA Sport Active 6 Week Challenge – Week 6 (momspark.net)

EA Sports Active 6 Week Challenge Completed originally posted at Scraps of My Geek Life.

EA Sports Active Retreat Day 1 Overview

Michele — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:15:20 +0000

I am here in Beverly Hills with all my EA Sports Active Challengers. The hotel is really modern and really fun.

We ate at Bazaar, a 4 star restaurant of the year here in our hotel last night. They brought out tray after tray of exotic foods with fascinating presentations and it never stopped. Just when you thought there couldn’t possible be any more food, they bring more out.

This whole meal took about 3 hours and they were bringing fancy trays out for the whole three hours. We started with appetizers and then moved to salad type of foods to meats and finally ended with desserts. Here are a few of the treats they brought out to us.

The table with tic tac toe pink lights

Mashed potatoes in an egg shell.

Philly Cheesesteak sandwiches

Deep fried chips with yogurt type dip

Cotton Candy with Duck Liver Salmon Eggs

Now before you all get excited thinking I turned exotic and I’m not eating fancy foods, WRONG! This is pretty much what I stuck with:

Basically fancy chicken nuggets

And the coolest thing of the night? The Magic Mojito.

The mojito tasted really yummy. It tasted like a regular mojito only frothier (is that a word?)

We wined and dined for 3 hours and then I was exhausted after a 6 hr flight from the East Coast and I crashed about 10pm in this room:

I am really having a blast and the weather is awesome. It’s 76 degrees here and 27 at home. Yes, I’m rubbing it in.

EA Sports Active Retreat Day 1 Overview originally posted at Scraps of My Geek Life.

Attend the EA Sports Active Retreat with Us Virtually

Michele — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:02:24 +0000

This is why I LOVE technology. Connecting with people virtually gets me so excited. I can not attend every event or conference, yet I can sit at home in my jammies and feel like I’m part of the event. I want to bring you along with me on my trip to Los Angeles for the EA Sports Active retreat. All 12 of the 6 week challengers will be meeting up this weekend for a retreat. You can keep up with everything that we are doing right here. As usual, I’ll be tweeting, whrrling, blogging, vlogging, qiking, 4squaring and anything else I can come up with.

When I’m broadcasting live, you’ll see my qik stream right above.

As I mentioned yesterday, we will have a live USTREAM broadcast on Saturday at 4pm PST.

You can follow our tweets right here:

&amp;lt;a href=”http://twubs.com/easactive” mce_href=”http://twubs.com/easactive”&amp;gt;#easactive&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;

And here is the latest Whrrl story:

If you’ve missed any of my past videos about EA Sports Active, here they are:

&lt;a href=”http://www.yubby.com/c/21696/” mce_href=”http://www.yubby.com/c/21696/”&gt;You are watching channel ScrappinMichele&amp;#039;s EA Sports Active Channel&lt;/a&gt;

Be sure to check these areas for more pictures, videos and fun:
My EA Sports Active Flickr Pics

USTREAM: Click on the link below the video to chat with us live at the USTREAM site.

Live Broadcasting by Ustream

Check back often as we have a very full schedule. Send us a shoutout on Twitter (hashtag #easactive).

Leave me a quick comment below so I know you stopped by.

Attend the EA Sports Active Retreat with Us Virtually originally posted at Scraps of My Geek Life.

EA Sports Active 6 Week Challengers LIVE from LA on Saturday

Michele — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:31:28 +0000

This weekend, all 12 of us are getting together along with @Active_Girl and @Active_Trainer for a retreat after finishing our 6 week challenge on the EA Sports Active More Workouts.

On Saturday, we will be broadcasting LIVE from Los Angeles and you don’t want to miss this!!

Who: EA Sports Active 6 Week Challengers, @Active_Girl, @Active_Trainer

What: Live USTREAM broadcast with chat

When: Saturday, January 9, 2010 @ 4pm PST

Where: Live Broadcasting by Ustream">USTREAM http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ea-sports-active

Why: You can meet us and ask us any questions about the challenge, the product or fitness. The 6 week challenge was for the entire community and we want to get to know our community.

How: Go to the link above to see the live broadcast and chat with us at the same time via chatroom and/or Twitter. Go to the link above and RSVP so you’ll receive a reminder.

EA Sports Active 6 Week Challengers LIVE from LA on Saturday originally posted at Scraps of My Geek Life.

I'm Workin' It…Using the EA Sports Active More Workouts

Michele — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:19:41 +0000

I have completed week 4 of the 6 week challenge in the EA Sports Active More Workouts. During the 4 weeks I encountered several obstancles including Thanksgiving, a trip to Atlanta with my husband which included many parties, Christmas cookies and several Holiday parties. Despite all that, I managed to lose 5 lbs and 4 inches so far. During this same time period last year, I gained 10 lbs. I also feel much stronger and more energized. My 13 year old son even said to me (when I was all dressed up for a holiday party), “WOW Mom you look nice. That EA Sports is working.”

Here are a few videos of my weekly recaps:

Week 4 Recap

Week 3 Recap

Week 2 Recap

Week 1 Recap

What I like best about the EA Sports Active is that I don’t feel like I’m working out. I’m having so much fun.

I'm Workin' It…Using the EA Sports Active More Workouts originally posted at Scraps of My Geek Life.

EA Sports Active More Workouts Update

Michele — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:00:12 +0000

I haven’t done a formal update since I started the 6 week challenge on November 20th. In case you didn’t know, I am part of the EA Sports Active More Workouts 6 Week Challenge. There are 12 Challengers and we started on November 20th and will finish on December 31st.

You can check out my 411 at the EA Sports Active website and the article I wrote for cafemom about how EA Sports Active helped my family learn to be healthier.

I am much better at showing you how excited I am about this, so here was the first vlog I did on Day 1:

I wasn’t going to do a second video right away, but I was so excited, so I did this one:

Yes, I really did that!!! So, unlike me. Day 3 was a killer. It was a lot of arms and an abs workout where you raise both of your legs up in the air. I am still sore today and today was my day of rest. I know that this challenge is really working because I wake up sore every morning so I’m working muscles that I haven’t worked in a long time. It’s a really good hurt.

For Thanksgiving I am all prepared to do my workouts all week and I plan to do an extra workout on Thursday before dinner. I do plan to eat my dinner and have dessert and I’m not going to worry about the calories or fat. I will do an extra workout and probably run twice this weekend.

EA Sports Active More Workouts Update originally posted at Scraps of My Geek Life.

Digital Soul Hour: EA Sports Active More Workouts 6 Week Challenge Show Replay

Michele — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:02:35 +0000

EA Sports Active More Workouts

6 Week Challenge Edition

10 p.m. EST, Tonight

on MomTV.com

Join me as I welcome Kathryn Peck (@Active_Girl), EA Sports Community Manager and several of the 6 week Challengers tonight as we discuss the new More Workouts fitness product. I will be doing a LIVE demo of More Workouts and Kathryn will be available to answer any of your questions about EA Sports Active for Wii.

The EA Sports Active has gotten my family to be more active and live a healthier life. It is an amazing product. This past October, my 2 older kids and I ran a 5k after training using the EA Sports Active Personal Trainer. Many of you followed the 30 day challenge this past May when the Personal Trainer launched. Starting on November 20th, we will begin the 6 week challenge from the More Workouts product which launched yesterday. Get the details on the fitness product and the challenge and then join us this Friday as we embark on a new healthy lifestyle change.

PRIZE: We will be giving out 1 copy of the EA Active Sports More Workouts to 1 random participant. You must be present to win.

Links from the show:

EA Sports Active More Workouts 6 Week Challengers (begins on November 20):

Kathryn (@Active_Girl)
Michele (@ScrappinMichele)
Christy (@reallifeadv or @shrinkingjeans)
Laura (@lauramcarter)
Amy (@momspark)
Jackie (@umagurl)
Roger (@renyart)
Mike (@mjsi24)
Donny (@daddyclaxton
Monica (@mommybrain)
Renee (@reneejross)
Jennifer (@mombloggersclub)
Julie (@momspective)

Other Articles about EA Sports Active on My Blog:

EA Sports Active stores open in Boston and San Francisco (joystiq.com)
EA Sports Active gets More Workouts Nov. 17 (joystiq.com)

Digital Soul Hour: EA Sports Active More Workouts 6 Week Challenge Show Replay originally posted at Scraps of My Geek Life.