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Each season, we host a free 7-week community-based health & fitness challenge. The CSE Challenge is free to join (you will need access to our meal plan, either with a printed book or subscription to our app), and participants follow our meal plans as we work together and motivate each other to reach our goals. At the end of the 7-week challenge, we choose winners based on “biggest overall transformation” during the seven weeks, with separate winners for “Beyond the Challenge” (BTC). We also run fun mini challenges on social media each week with awesome prizes!

The CSE Challenge is absolutely free. All you need to do is download the FREE CSE+ app, where you will register and take “before” and “after” photos. You will need to have at least one CSE meal plan (we recommend the current challenge season!) or CSE+ premium app subscription to follow along with the recipes. Signing up for the challenge does NOT grant you access to the recipes.

This extra challenge is for those members of the CSE Squad who’ve been around for a while and have participated in two or more challenges. Your transformation photos and testimonials submitted must span at least two full challenges (at the end of the current challenge) and could encompass several years. We’ll pick winners to also take home the grand prize. Participants who sign up for BTC will also be considered for the 7-week challenge.

The four winners (2 for the 7-week challenge, and 2 for BTC) will each receive $1500 cash and free protein powder for the entire year! Some prizes we’ve awarded for our weekly mini challenges on social media and JJ’s fitness challenges include CSE gift cards, product bundles, fitness gear, cash for groceries, app subscriptions, and more! Everyone is welcome to participate in the mini challenges, regardless of whether you have entered the CSE Challenge.

A public account is not required, but if you want to enter some of the weekly mini challenges, you will sometimes need a public account, so that we can see your entries. Many challengers choose to set up a separate account just for their CSE posts.

Download the CSE+ App for iPhone or Android, or make sure your app is up to date (a paid app subscription is not required to participate in the CSE Challenge, but you WILL need access to the recipes with a subscription or printed book). The free signup will open about a week before the challenge starts. To enter, fill out the simple form inside the app and take “before” pictures using the camera inside the app. You’ll also need to upload your starting pictures for “Beyond the Challenge” if you plan to enter that.

Be sure to follow us on Instagram and sign up for text or email messages to be kept in-the-know on upcoming CSE Challenge dates! The Challenge section inside the CSE+ app will also have a countdown!

Winners are selected at the sole discretion of Clean Simple Eats authorized representatives. Due to the virtual nature of the competition and the inherent “honor system” required, we utilize a holistic approach to assess the biggest overall health transformations of our challengers. Be sure to take the opportunity to tell us how your life and health were changed by participating in the challenge. There is no requirement to submit a food or exercise diary, but we do ask that you utilize our recipes and/or products during the challenge, and recommend you keep records for your own benefit.

You will take all pictures for the challenge (with the possible exception of starting BTC pics) inside the app. Be sure to take front, side, and back, following the instructions inside the app. We strongly encourage you to download the photos to your phone after you take them.

Photos should be taken in clothing that could potentially be worn to the gym or outside the house, such as a sports bra, tank top, shorts or leggings. No underwear, bathing suit bottoms, or normal bras, please. You should try to wear the same thing in both the Before and After photos.

No information or photos submitted will be shared publicly without your consent. Typically, our challengers are so excited about their progress at the end of the challenge that they are proud to share their before/after images and transformation stories. You will have the opportunity to grant/deny consent to share your images and story publicly at the end of the challenge.

This is optional! We include two different types of workouts inside each meal plan: bodyweight and advanced. All workouts in the app are free! We also have a great library of full "Workout Wednesday" videos you can utilize. You are welcome to use our CSE workouts, or do whatever exercise works best for you! We have even had challengers focus solely on food and not work out at all. You will be asked to describe the workouts you did at the end of the challenge.

All challengers will need to have the CSE+ app installed on their own device. If you're having issues signing up for the CSE Challenge via our CSE+ app, please make sure you have downloaded the most recent version. Email hello@cleansimpleeats.com for assistance, answers to your questions, or to provide suggestions or feedback on the app.

Please see the video below to learn how to set up for the CSE Challenge within our app. (SAVED HERE)