Our Office Challenge contestants are in for a real treat this week. Their mission? To make a recipe for roasted turkey breast with grilled apples. Yum!

Here’s the best part: A serving has around 400 calories and almost 40 grams of protein—just what their slimming bodies need.

While our contestants are making the dish for bonus points on the Office Challenge contest, you should work the recipe into your routine, too. Get it right over here.

Want to keep track of all the Office Challenge fun? Join the conversation on Twitter by following @BeWellPhilly or search for the hashtag #BWPOfficeChallenge.

It didn’t take long for our smartphone-owning Office Challenge contestants to find apps and websites to help them lose weight. Such programs can use useful when it comes to tracking calories, logging workouts and getting inspired to stick with it. I wanted to know which apps are working for them—so I asked.

Go here to see our contestants’ picks, and let us know if you use an app that’s not on the list. We’re all ears!

Want to keep track of all the Office Challenge fun? Join the conversation on Twitter by following @BeWellPhilly or search for the hashtag #BWPOfficeChallenge.

Many of our Office Challenge competitors were initially intimidated by last week’s spaghetti squash recipe. Once they tried it, though, they realized it was both simple to make and delicious to eat.

This week’s recipe couldn’t be less nerve-wracking. It’s a simple spinach salad with goat cheese and figs. I’d love this for lunch (I might add some grilled chicken) or as a side with dinner.

Want to give it a whirl? Check it out over here on our Office Challenge blog.

If you’ve ever set a goal to shed a few pounds, you know it’s all about the victories along they way. If you don’t count ‘em, you end up losing sight of your goal all together—and oftentimes, throwing in the towel.

I figured many of our Office Challenge contestants were in that boat. They’re now more than halfway through the eight-week contest, just about the time the initial excitement finally wears off. So I wanted them to remember why they signed up for the challenge to begin with, and take stock of the victories they’ve already experienced in just four weeks’ time.

Boy, did they fill my inbox with inspiring victories: learning to eat healthier, running two miles—no stopping—for the first time, dropping a dress size. Check out all their victories over here, and help cheer them on to the finish.

Four weeks to go, contestants. You can do it!

We hosted our first of two nutrition webinars for the Office Challenge teams earlier today. The lovely Andie Rowe from UnitedHealthcare provided our teams with tons of great tips and advice for how to break through weight-loss plateaus.

Her talk couldn’t have come at a better time: We’ve reached the halfway mark in the contest, the point at which weight loss, for some, starts to slow down.

The trick, says Andie, is to actually eat more food to coax your body into greater weight loss. Neat, right?

Find out why—and learn lots more—in our recap over here on the Office Challenge blog.

I’m so psyched for this week’s Office Challenge recipe. It’s a dish I’ve been wanting to make for ages, but one that I’ve always shied away from, convincing myself it’d be too difficult for my meager kitchen skills.

Turns out, spaghetti squash is super easy to handle. You just roast it, then scoop out the guts, and voila—you’ve got a pretty nifty faux-spaghetti. Our nutrition expert and recipe creator, Maura Manzo, insists you can’t tell the difference between the veggie version and the real stuff.

Our Office Challenge contestants will be busy making this recipe this week, but you should take the challenge, too! Get the recipe over here.