Welcome to the March Edition of The #MTL Monthly. In this month’s video, Sara and Kelci discuss Motion Month, the Trilogy Bracket Challenge, St. Paddy’s Day, and more! Click on the image above or here to watch.

Featured Club: Cabochon Club at Trilogy Sunstone

Each month, we feature the #MTL Calendar’s spotlight community in a fun video. This month, learn about Trilogy Sunstone’s Cabochon Club! Click on the photo above or hereto watch. Want to learn even more about Sunstone? Click here!

March is Motion Month

March is officially here, which means that it’s time to get moving and grooving during Motion Month at Trilogy! Over the next few weeks, Trilogy Members nationwide have the unique opportunity to improve their health and wellness in a fun way with Fitness Bingo!

Head to your Athletic Club or Concierge Desk to pick up your 2023 Fitness Bingo Card. You may also click here to download and print your Bingo Card at home. Once you have received your Bingo Card, you can begin completing activities to achieve a Bingo or a Blackout.

But the fun doesn’t stop with Motion Month Bingo! To celebrate Motion Month in style and keep you fueled all month long, we will be offering specials in both the #MTL Shop and when you order a salad via eHungry from your community’s signature restaurant*.

15% Off MTL Shop
During the month of March, take 15% off all products in the #MTL Shop using code MM2023 at checkout! Click here to shop.

10% Off Salads When You Order Online
The next time you order online via eHungry from your favorite Trilogy restaurant, make a healthier choice by ordering a salad and enjoy 10% off* using code MM10 at checkout! You may use this code as many times as you’d like in the month of March. Discount valid on salads and salad upgrades.

*Certain restrictions apply. May not be available at all communities. Discount valid on online orders only placed via eHungry. 

For full Motion Month details, click here!

Pick It For Tickets in the Trilogy Bracket Challenge!

Get those bracket boards ready – the Trilogy Bracket Challenge tips off once again on March 3rd! Enter for your chance to win tickets to one of your favorite local basketball team’s games.

Make your best picks in both the Men’s and Women’s Tournament Brackets for double the chance to win this year’s great prizes, including:

• One Individual Grand Prize for the Overall Winner
  • A $500 eGift Card to Your Local Basketball Team’s Ticket Broker (Ticketmaster, SeatGeek, StubHub, etc.)
• One Grand Prize Winner from Each Club (Not Including Overall Winner)
  • $100 eGift Card to Your Local Basketball Team’s Ticket Broker (Ticketmaster, SeatGeek, StubHub, etc.) or a $100 Club Credit
• Best Club Team (Determined by Point Average of Participating Members)
  • Winner of the Trilogy Bracket Challenge Trophy!
• Any Member who correctly picks the last four teams in either tournament will be entered into a raffle to win a $50 eGift Card to Your Local Basketball Team’s Ticket Broker (Ticketmaster, SeatGeek, StubHub, etc.) or a $50 Club Credit. One winner will be chosen per community.

The Trilogy Bracket Challenge is complimentary and is open to all Trilogy Members. Have fun competing against individual Members from across the Trilogy network, while representing your Club in our head-to-head challenge! 

Registration for brackets in both the Men’s and Women’s College Tournaments opens this Friday, March 3rd. Keep an eye on MTL for full details.

The How of Healthy Longevity with Dr. Roger Landry

It is my honor and privilege to continue our journey together to wellness and healthy longevity. Last year, we explored the science and research behind the lifestyle associated with better health throughout our lifespan i.e., healthspan. In our six recorded virtual presentations, we drilled down on the five pillars of wellness: Physical Fitness, Emotional Confidence, Spiritual Well-Being, Intellectual Enrichment, and Social Connection with the goal of better understanding the need for a holistic approach to healthy aging.

This year, we’ll be focusing on the HOW of experiencing a healthy longevity. In our first virtual presentation, in January, we dealt with the WHY of healthy longevity. In our society, we tend to focus on the WHAT of any attempt at lifestyle change. Successful change must begin with the WHY, a very personal thing, that has to do with preferences such as our purpose in life, what our bucket list is, what we want our eulogy to be. From there, we’ll next explore the HOW in order to achieve the WHAT.

To get us started, there are ten tips on how to achieve healthy longevity from my book, Live Long, Die Short: A Guide to Authentic Health and Successful Aging. They are:

1. Use It or Lose It
2. Keep Moving
3. Challenge Your Brain
4. Stay Connected
5. Lower Your Risks
6. Never Act Your Age
7. Wherever You Are…Be There
8. Find Your Purpose
9. Have Children in Your Life
10. Laugh

Next, we’ll be offering a four-presentation virtual course on resilience. On April 15th, we will provide an Overview of Resilience: what it is, why we need it, and how we build it. On August 19th, we will explore the topic of Stress, Health and Resilience. October 7thwill bring our focus to Mindset, Health and Resilience. Lastly, on November 18th, we’ll address Emotional Intelligence, Health and Resilience.

Why are we dedicating four presentations to resilience? We have experienced life throwing us curve balls as we age. In fact, all of us, no matter what age, have had to deal with the major challenge of the pandemic. Nearly every aspect of our lives was disrupted in some way. Many found this to be overwhelming while others, the more resilient ones, weathered this and even saw it as a positive opportunity for reevaluating their lives. So, it is easy to see how resilience is the bedrock of a healthspan.

In our exploration of resilience, we will discover that resilience is not something you either have or do not. We can indeed build it. Enriching resilience, however, requires an honest look at some very personal characteristics that drive how we navigate our world. Are we basically a half-full, or half-empty person? Do we have a flexible or more entrenched view of others? How well do we recognize and manage our emotions? What about the emotions of others? And how do deal with stress? Do we generate or attract stress in our lives? How do we manage stress?

I encourage you to take part in this course on resilience. Do not feel it’s necessary to have attended all previous sessions, although you may very well find them valuable and with recordings available through your local Blue Star personnel, you can indeed access them. Even if you cannot attend all four of the next presentations on resilience, you will find any single one valuable, and again, be able to review others at your leisure.

Trilogy and BlueStar are dedicated to not only your quality of life, but also to your health and longevity. My recent visit to Vistancia in Peoria, Arizona made it clear to me that wellness is not a sound bite, or just an unavoidable necessity of the community. Wellness is a foundational characteristic of all that happens within Trilogy. I was indeed impressed with the talent, resources, and commitment within the community. Where you live is a key factor in a better aging experience. I applaud Trilogy members for choosing such communities and strongly encourage you all to take advantage of all the lifestyle-enhancing resources available. Of course, I consider our presentations to be part of those resources.

See you on the internet,

Roger Landry, MD MPH

Dr. Amy’s Wellness Journal

Liver Health

We used to think of liver disease as something that happened to a particular few and usually related to excessive alcohol intake, or to the unfortunate acquisition of a virus that affected the liver, but over the last several years we have seen an incline in the rate of a disease called non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), and to its more damaging progression of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), or in laymen’s terms: fatty liver. Fatty liver occurs when the body begins to store elevated amounts of fat into the liver itself. It is common, and painless, but its presence should not be ignored. The good news is, it can be reversed.

Click here to read the full article. You can read all of Dr. Amy’s Wellness Journals at any time on MTL by clicking on More Fun Stuff > Dr. Amy and then selecting the Wellness Journals tab.