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Name that Cat

Ok, this has nothing to do with weight or fat or fighting, well there is an offline fight so maybe it is relevant.

The Renee household has a new member...

...the actual fight is what name to go with. One person says Binky. One person says Kodi/Cody. Here's a brief reason why each name was picked:

Binky, a pretenious snooty name from years ago, as the kitten is extremely cute and royal looking, it seems to fit her.

Kodi/Cody, as in Kodiak bear. From the back she looks like a tiny bear running across the room. She's extremely fluffy and stout.

Right now she responds to neither name and would much rather climb onto your chest to get a whiff of whatever it is you are eating, so now is the perfect time to name her.

So please help us name this kitty!

Keep the Beat Calendar

Got an email about a really cute calendar coming out for the fitness folks in '08. Put away your Daniel Craig calendars and get on the bandwagon with the Keep the Beat Calendar!

Do you want to make healthy choices in 2008? This colorful wall calendar includes spaces to write down nutrition and physical activity goals each month, like “cut down on portion sizes” or “take a walk with the family after dinner.” Check the “active today” circle when you are physically active and use the charts in the back of the calendar to keep track of your weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar.

Enjoy heart healthy recipes such as New Potato Salad — onions and spices give this low-sodium dish plenty of zip. So start the new year by making a plan to eat healthy, aim for a healthy weight, and be physically active!

Real Change, Real Women

Curves just partnered with General Mills to produce a new line of cereal and granola bars, which are meant to "help women achieve and maintain long-term weight management goals in a healthy way." They are also sponsoring a contest together called Real Change, Real Women to celebrate women who have made a positive change in their lives and diets. The grand prize for the contest is a free year-long membership to a local Curves (worth $5000) and a chance to be the on Curves products. The contest can be found at the Curves foods homepage.

Food Fight!!

Ever wanted to get into a messy gooey dripping wet food fight? Well now you can. Online!

Check out the Good Food Fight online game. It's a game specially designed as a unique way to raise awareness of the types of healthy recipes featured on EatBetterAmerica.com. So not only do you stay sticky-free playing a virtual game, it's also calorie free

Have fun!

New body, new jeans

You know what sucks about losing weight? I mkean besides being all svelte and healthy and stuff...always having to buy more clothes!

The good folks over @ Special K cereal has come up with the coolest promo every for fat fightin' folks...

Special K’s Drop a Jean Size Promotion

By participating in the Special K Challenge, women are not only able to lose weight but Special K is encouraging them to get new jeans to fit their shape by offering a $10 voucher to help with the cost of new jeans. By purchasing specially marked packages of Special K products, participants will receive a $10 voucher to spend on the latest fall fashion. Participants can receive the $10 voucher by mailing five tokens and a completed official order form from the Special K products. (more info)

Inspired by Diabetes Contest

Diabetes is a cause that is close to my heart as my 9 year old godson has it. I got an email about a new campaign to bring diabetes to the attention of the world. There is a contest for people who've been touched by the disease to enter and win money for a charitable cause and a trip. Details below...

InspiredbyDiabetes.com, a global campaign designed to bring diabetes to the world’s attention. The site is the sponsor of the Creative Expression Competition, which asks anyone who has been touched by the disease to share his or her story through some sort of artistic work. The Grand Prize winners in two categories - U.S. and global - will each receive a $5,000 USD contribution to charity and a trip to the U.S. or global Inspired by Diabetes art exhibition. We’re hoping to get as many people as possible to enter.

My Yoga Online

Too hot to lift weights or do cardio? Try out some online yoga in the comfort of your home. I got this email a few days ago.

If you wish to try out our site to review and/or share a free week full membership to your readers you can provide them with the following code to input on our join now page... bg1782

Go here to try it out and if you do, leave a comment about your experience

Free Yoga

Wake up each morning to a free one-hour yoga class from beautiful Jackson Hole, Wyoming. World class yoga instructors Adi Amar, Neesha Zollinger and Sarah Kline will take you through a session that focuses on strength building, flexibility, stamina, and meditation-in-motion. Yoga Today delivers a new show, 7 days a week, keeping your workouts fresh and energizing.

Something to enjoy this "wicked" Friday the 13th. Enjoy!

Fibersure

Get a free sample of Fibersure.

Q: What is Fibersure?
A: Fibersure is a fiber supplement for those who want to add more fiber to their diets. It's made from inulin, a 100-percent-natural vegetable fiber. Fibersure can be added to most foods and liquids. You also can cook and bake with it.

Fat to Fit Book Winner

Sorry for the flakey posts the last 2 days Was getting the posts ready and still being sick *cough* wasn't paying proper attention

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And the winner of the Book Giveaway for Fat to Fit From Fat to Fit: Turn Yourself into a Weapon of Mass Reduction . is Diana!

I'll contact you offline for shipping information. Thanks to all for playing.

Book Giveaway: From Fat to Fit

I was very lucky to get a copy of From Fat to Fit: Turn Yourself into a Weapon of Mass Reduction to giveaway to a lucky fatfighter. .

Here's the book description from amazon.com:

This guide chronicles how one woman’s very public journey to lose weight mushroomed into a community quest to get fit. At the age of 60, Carole Carson broke the taboo of speaking about obesity when she openly admitted her shame and guilt about being fat and out of shape on the front page of the local newspaper. As she recounted her transformation from butterball to butterfly in a weekly newspaper column, she gradually inspired more than 1,000 people in her Northern California community to join her. People who had struggled with weight loss and fitness suddenly found that when they joined with their friends and neighbors they could accomplish together what they could not do by themselves. They learned a completely new way of living and discovered that getting fit was fun and in the process lost the equivalent of a school bus! Through the guide’s seven-step process, among other practical strategies and resources, readers will find a framework for duplicating the Nevada County Meltdown’s successes in their respective communities—their congregation, their office, their friends and family—realizing the power of partnership and revitalizing their ties with each other.

Details on how to enter and who can win are below:

Entering for a chance to get a copy is easy, just leave a comment saying "Fat to Fit!"

Please make sure you use a valid email address. I don't post email addresses on the site and don't spam my commenters. Comments will be accepted from the time this entry posts, till 8PM EST Friday July 6th. I'll put all names in a hat and the winning name will be picked over the weekend. The winner will be announced on Monday the 9th and will have 24 hours to confirm the win by replying to my email with their mailing address. If they don't reply, I'll award the book to the next name I pull out of the hat. Sorry I have to be strict about that, I don't like dragging contest out for weeks on end and would like to promptly send out the book a week from today.

Lastly, the drawing is only open to US residents. Sorry everyone else. I've shipped prizes to other countries and it's quite pricey. Oh and please enter only once, multiple entires will be ignored and uh, that's about it. Easy right?

Prize Update

I'll be contacting the contest winners by the end of this weekend with an update on the book. All books should be shipped on or around May 15th. Thanks for being patient.

Winners Notified

Contest winners have been notified via email. Please reply to the email with the requested information by the deadline date. Unfortunately, any replies sent after that date will not get a copy of the book. Thanks.

Congrats to...

And the winner of the Book Giveaway for Think Yourself Thin is....drumroll please...

EVERYBODY!!!!

[Oprah voice]

Everybody gets a book...Everybody gets a book...Everybody gets a book...

Congrats to you all: Lynn, Janey100, Peggy, Gina, Mrs. Chubster, Allison, Bret, Suzanne, Shelley, neca & jodi!!!

Give me a few days to get things sorted, the end of the month is hectic for me in general and especially when it comes to site maintenance. Later this week/early next week I'll contact each of you offline to get your shipping address.

Congrats again and I hope you enjoy the book & CD. Thanks for playing

PS: The contest is over.

Kashi GOLEAN Crunch

Get a free sample of Kashi GOLEAN Crunch.

Book Giveaway: Think Yourself Thin

I was very lucky to get a copy of Think Yourself Thin to giveaway to a lucky fatfighter. As for the book itself, I've read it and really like it. It also comes with a CD to help you work on hypnotizing yourself and if you are looking for a different approach when it comes to weight loss and consider yourself open minded, may as well give it a try.

Details on how to enter and who can win are below:

Entering for a chance to get a copy is easy, just leave a comment saying "Think Thin!"

Please make sure you use a valid email address. I don't post email addresses on the site and don't spam my commenters. Comments will be accepted from the time this entry posts, till 8PM EST Friday April 27th. I'll put all names in a hat and the winning name will be picked over the weekend. The winner will be announced on Monday the 30th and will have 24 hours to confirm the win by replying to my email with their mailing address. If they don't reply, I'll award the book to the next name I pull out of the hat. Sorry I have to be strict about that, I don't like dragging contest out for weeks on end and would like to promptly send out the book a week from today.

Lastly, the drawing is only open to US residents. Sorry everyone else. I've shipped prizes to other countries and it's quite pricey. Oh and please enter only once, multiple entires will be ignored and uh, that's about it. Easy right?

5/1/07: The contest is over.

Fruity Cheerios Family Fun Contest

I just got word of the following contest:

The Fruity Cheerios "Family Fun" contest encourages families to capture how Fruity Cheerios contributes to family fun by creating a picture or video inspired by Fruity Cheerios and featuring family members.

Between now and May 18th, 2007, we'll be gathering Fruity Cheerios-inspired photo and video entries. A panel of judges will select five finalists in each (photo and video) category, and then we'll take the final decision to the Modern Mom community!

Modern Mom visitors will vote for their favorite entry in each category June 8th through June 16th, and the Grand Prize winner in each will win a case of Fruity Cheerios (YUM!) and $500 in cash!

So get creative and get your entries in before May 18th! Get in on the fun!

More info here.

As Heard On

This past Sunday I got a chance to be on the Dr. Fitness and the Fat Guy show. It was a great experience and I had a lot of fun doing it. You can hear the interview that I did.

It's not just me for the hour. I got to hear them interview THE. TAMILEE. WEBB. AKA The Buns O' Steel lady……I was too speechless to say anything. She gave some really sound advice when it came to fitness, I was nodding my head in agreement through most of her segment.

It's a really great show, they are funny guys and if you hear snickering in the background, I confess, it's me. Best of all, they rally get blogging and what it's all about. It's all still so surreal. I can't yet bring myself to hearing what I sound like, so enjoy and I hope I don't sound too dorky.

Happy New Year!

Great New Year's Resolutions To Make

1. To finally find out if that treadmill you bought back in 2004 actually works.

2. To never wear another pair of sweats with a hole in the rear.

3. To break off your relationship with the pizza delivery guy once and for all. Yes, he's a sweetie, but you can do better!

4. To reacquaint yourself with fruit and all its juicy qualities.

5. To make your kids eat their vegetables...so you have to, too.

6. To learn to ice skate with your six-year old like you said you would last winter.

7. To find a new favorite activity to replace your couch potato expertise.

8. To take a veggie tray to every single potluck you attend in 2007. Especially if the invite says "cookie exchange."

9. To never purchase another can of any soda that doesn't say "diet" on it.

10. To never eat another meal that comes in a paper bag and smells like grease.

Happy New Year fellow fat fighters!