Attention: All Associates

Hey, E-team! Congrats on crossing the finish line and completing the 10K-A-Day challenge! We're super proud to see so many of you keeping up healthy habits throughout the challenge and strengthening relationships with coworkers as you pursue a common goal. 

While you're ALL winners in our mind, we do have loads of prizes to give out to reward you for your effort. Scroll down to see who won, and all the fabulous ways that participants scored points good for gift cards through our Essex Associate Rewards program.

Winning Teams
Congratulations to the winning teams!

1st Place Teams - each team member earned 4,000 Points worth $100
Team SmashinOnEm!

• George Hoang
• Martin Gonzalez
• Renato Pineda

2nd Place Teams - each team member earned 2,000 Points worth $50 
Team The Motivators!

• Ariana Castaneda
• Jorgina Castaneda
• Graciela Lizaola Montiel

3rd Place Teams - each team member earned 1,000 Points worth $25 
Team Savages!

• Efrain Vergara Hernandez
• Misheel Battumur
• Vamberto Da Silva
• Roberto Valdivia

Winning Team Names
Most Awesome: Mission Slimpossible

• Romeo Ban
• Kioni Garcia
• Jessica Harrison

Funniest: The Young & The Breathless

• Kiara Valdivia
• Amanda Brown
• Jennifer Esquivel
• Odelkis Padron Pampillo
• Jameel Sumra

Most Creative: Cirque du Sore Legs

• Erin Lemmon
• Lorinda Anky
• Sandy Cabral
• Monica Gonsalves
• Christine Grant

Weekly Drawing Winners
Our weekly drawing winners were announced throughout the competition. Here's the full list of who won! 

• Elizabeth Rodriguez
• Kimberly Gould
• Kelly Covents
• Karina Alcantara
• Jessica Luna
• Sherry Conquest
• Seang (Stephanie) Te
• Miguel Cervantes
• Sagi Alkobi
• Christian Jimenez
• Ernie Samora
• Roberto Valdivia

Individual Prizes 
Individuals who completed certain milestones also scored prizes:

• Hot-Shot - Associates who completed 10,000 steps each day for the full 6-week challenge receive 4,000 points worth $100
• Rock-Star - Associates who log steps of any amount for the full 6-week challenge receive 800 points worth $20
• Super-Star - All associates that log 30 or more days of steps of any amount received an extra entry into the grand prize drawing. Check out the grand prize drawing winners below!

Health Hero Rewards
Associates who enrolled in the 10K challenge earned 400 points on Health Hero. Plus, you continued to receive up to 10 points a day for the 10,000 steps walked (1,000 steps = 1 point on Health Hero). Yup, you earned double rewards!

Grand Prize Drawing Winners 
Did you win a prize in our drawing? See if your name is listed below!

1,000 Points worth $25 (20 winners)

• Pedro Mendez
• Steven Tran
• Shivangi Dalal
• Haley Howell
• Wendy Zhou
• Cesar Mendez Rodriguez
• Juan Puente (Puente Mejia)
• Kyle Poirier
• Luis Acevedo Estremera
• Carrie Wallace
• Martin Gonzalez
• Jennifer Fougere (Flores)
• Julia Ho
• Luis Pimentel Mercado
• Christopher Johnson
• Lisa Acosta
• Karen Wilson
• Richard Wolverton
• Jorge Alvarez Zamarripa
• Eduardo Rosales

2,000 Points worth $50 (10 winners)

• Leonardo Campos
• Bhavana Sampat
• Toni Polet
• Jonathan Alvarez
• Michael Rohrbach
• Nate Wilcox
• Stephanie Gray
• Kalyn Turner
• Geoffrey Burk
• Marcos Lopez Aparicio

4,000 Points worth $100 (5 winners)

• Erik Vazquez
• Graciela Medina
• Gordon Resos
• Verenice Alvarez
• Sergei Sachkov

*Grand Prize* 8,000 Points worth $200  (1 winner)

• Mayra Perez

Weekly Wellness Tip: What is diabetes? Can you reverse it?
Diabetes is a disease in which the body’s ability to produce or respond to the hormone insulin is impaired, resulting in abnormal metabolism of carbohydrates and elevated levels of glucose in the blood and urine. Learn more at the Mayo Clinic's website.
 
Can you reverse diabetes? Each case is different, and depends on a number of factors including how long you’ve had the condition, how severe it is, and your genes. Certain lifestyle changes such as diet and exercise are key to managing diabetes, but whether you can turn back time so that it’s like you never had diabetes is a different matter. The term “reversal” is when people are able to stop taking medication, but still must engage in a lifestyle program in order to stay off medication. For some people, reaching a healthier weight will result in fewer medications, or in rarer cases, no longer need medication.

Stay tuned for more! 
Thanks to everyone who participated! We have another fitness challenge planned for later this year. Until then, reach out to us with any questions or feedback at  benefits@essex.com.