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Oct 27, 2008 5:30 pm US/Mountain

Fitness Challenge Helps Denver Nurse Get Healthy

Written by CBS4 special projects producer Libby Smith
Reporting
Karen Leigh
AURORA, Colo. (CBS4) ― Employees at the University of Colorado Hospital at the Anschutz Medical campus wrapped up an America On the Move six week challenge Monday. Fifty teams made up of 500 people counted their steps for six weeks to find out who's on top.

Joy Mulder, a nurse in the Seniors Center, was among the participants. Mulder teamed up with 7 other center staffers to make up the "Senior Stair Steppers."

"The support of the group has been very helpful," Mulder said.

She clipped on a pedometer and started logging her steps every day. In her job at the Seniors Center, Mulder spends about 85 percent of her time on the phone or on the computer. She says it's a challenge for her to get 4,000 steps a day.

She tells CBS4 that taking part in the challenge has made her more health conscious.

"It made me set some personal health goals for myself."

In the course of counting steps, Mulder lost 10 pounds and is off the blood pressure medicine she had recently started.

"It motivates me to continue to try to do more."

Mulder says participating in the challenge started other dialogues in her life. She talked with co-workers and family members about nutrition and making healthy choices in life.

She says she knows reaching her long term goals is really apart of her everyday living and making simple healthy choices on a regular basis.

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You don't have to be a part of a workplace to do a six week challenge with America On the Move. Register now to get started yourself.

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