GIVEAWAY CLOSED
Last week I wrote about how I was once again trying to lose weight. Seems this gal got a little too friendly with the Cherry Cordial ice cream, letting her late night snacking habit get the best of her, and now she’s paying for it with drumstick thighs and a new ginormous rear end. {Creepy talking in 3rd person, right??}
Well if you’ve checked in over at Cincinnati Losers you know that one of the main things I am doing to help myself achieve success is using a site called SparkPeople.com. Spark People is a great (FREE) weight loss resource that offers meal & calorie tracking, fitness tracking, support and a myriad of healthy resources (including recipes).
They also have a great iPhone application that let’s you enter food items (even fast food/restuarant) and check the calorie/fat levels before you order. It’s been a life saver – keeping me from eating items that sounded healthy, but in fact were not! {Unfortunately I did not use the application when we ate at Olive Garden and I trusted their menu when it said “low fat.” I checked online when I got home, and to my surprise “low fat” meant 17 grams of fat – UGH!!! Lesson learned.}
So, how am I doing so far with my weight loss you ask? Well I am happy to report that after my first week of watching my diet and exercising, I have lost just over 2lbs! It’s working and I am psyched.
To celebrate this first milestone. This step towards getting my “sexy back”, I am giving away two copies of SparkPeople.com’s new book, The Spark. Written by SparkPeople.com’s founder Chris Downie, The Spark is a 28-day plan for losing weight and getting in shape that just came out December 28th (Initial pre-order efforts put the book on Amazon’s (#8) and BN.com’s (#2) top 10 best-seller list in less than 4 days!).
WIN IT — Two lucky Mommy Bits readers will win a copy of SparkPeople.com’s book, The Spark.
There are several ways to enter, you can do one or all of them for additional chances:
- Leave a comment sharing one of your favorite dieting tips or weight loss tricks.
- Add my blog to your blogroll and leave a comment letting me know you did so.
- Follow the Mommy Bits blog on Facebook’s Networked blogs (left side bar, click follow this blog) and leave a comment letting me know you did so.
- Subscribe to my blog, and leave a comment letting me know you did so.
- Follow me on Twitter – @Shannanb, and leave a comment letting me know you did so.
- Tweet “Check it out, @shannanb is giving away copies of @sparkpeople’s book The Spark on her blog http://ow.ly/TPEd” and leave a comment letting me know you did so.
Submissions are due by 5 pm on Friday, January 15th, 2010. Winners will be selected using a random number generator. Contest open to US residents only. Winners will have 48 hours to respond.
For those of you who are interested in purchasing The Spark, it is available online at Barnes & Noble, and through Amazon.
Thank you to SparkPeople.com for providing me with copies of The Spark to giveaway to my readers!