Another Weight Watchers Membership Giveaway

First of all, congratulations to Tori, winner of my first Weight Watchers Membership Giveaway. Tori was comment #88 and I just KNOW she will love Weight Watchers as much as I do.

Now it’s time to enter my second contest, which ends at 11:59 p.m. May 15. Here are the details:

Weight Watchers just launched the Momentum Walk-It Challenge, and to celebrate, they’ve given me two 3-month memberships to give away on my blog!

These memberships can be used for Weight Watchers in-person meetings or for Weight Watchers online. Meeting attendance costs $12 per week, plus the one-time registration fee unless you join during a free registration period. And the online membership costs about $65 for three months. So, these 3-month memberships are pretty valuable. Plus, you can get healthier and thinner and learn new/better eating habits, etc. etc. So, they’re actually priceless.

You can read more about the Walk-It Challenge and my confidence in the Weight Watchers program here.

Now, onto the contest:  To enter my second Weight Watchers Membership contest, all you have to do is post a comment below about why you want to win the membership and you’ll be entered into the drawing. Be sure to include your email address in the post so that I can contact you if you’re the winner. Again, the contest deadline is 11:59 p.m. May 15. The winner will have three days to respond to my email or the prize will go to someone else.

For additional entries:

• Subscribe to this blog in a reader or via email (see the buttons in the upper right sidebar). Be sure to post an additional comment that you did this.
• Tweet about this contest, and again, post an additional comment with the link to your tweet.
• Blog about this contest, and post an additional comment with the link to your blog post.

Good luck.

Weight Watchers Lose for Good

I mentioned in a previous post that I’m a big believer in the Weight Watchers program.  I’ve struggled with my weight for most of my life (like since puberty).  Weight Watchers it the ONLY program that has ever worked for me.  I’m a lifetime member and a regular meeting attender.  It works ladies (and guys).  Really.

As if losing weight and keeping it off wasn’t motivation enough, now Weight Watchers is doing something REALLY COOL.  The company is kicking off a Lose for Good campaign through which it will donate one pound of food for every pound Weight Watchers members lose.  The donations will go to Share Our Strength, the leading organization working to make sure no kid in America grows up hungry, and Action Against Hunger, which helps feed people in trouble parts of the world. The campaign lasts through Oct. 18. 

This campaign hit home with me. A few months back, I was sitting in church watching this video of children in some other part of the world who were starving.  I remember saying to my husband, “Gosh. I wonder how those kids would feel if they knew there were people here who pay money for drugs that make them less hungry so they can lose weight, or who pay money to surgeons to put bands around their stomachs so they won’t eat so much.  It would be incomprehensible to them to know that some people have so much food that they need help keeping weight off, while they have so little food that they can’t keep enough weight on to stay healthy.”  Then, I opened my September/October issue of Weight Watchers magazine (which is a great magazine, full of motivational stories, ideas and awesome recipes), and there was announcement of the Lose for Good campaign.  The campaign dialogue,   which I will paraphrase here, is awesome.  “Why is that some of us have enough and some of us don’t? When did balance lose its balance?  What if you and me and he she started taking a little better care of we?  What if we could help each other by helping ourselves — by taking what we didn’t need and giving it to people who needed it –   not everything, just what we could stand to lose?  The more we all lost, the more they’d gain. Then one day, hungry might just become happy.”

Doesn’t that just make sense?  So if you are among the masses who wants or needs to lose weight, and if you’d love to be down on the scale before you have to start worrying about those extra pounds that are the unwanted “present” of the holidays, then now is the perfect time to join Weight Watchers.  Your loss will be someone else’s gain — for real.