Hear ye! Hear ye! It's Monday July 27 and all is well!!!
In fact, all is VERY well here on Diet.com today... particularly for ONE hard-working member who has been named the GRAND PRIZE winner of our Get Fit for Summer Weight Loss Challenge!
I am
especially excited about this winner because she has consistently been one of our most optimistic and energetic members over the past several years!! Her hard work and dedication to herself during this Challenge helped her conquer several of her Milestones!
The lucky winner will be taking home a full 1-year membership to her nearest
Gold's Gym, as well as:
- Jillian Michaels'
No Trouble Zone fitness DVD
-
1,500 Calorie-A-Day Cookbook - Delicious meals in just 30 minutes or less, by Nancy S. Hughes
Whoohooooo prizes are so exciiiiiting!!! Who doesn't love winning prizes?! And so without further ado, it is my distinct pleasure to announce that the GRAND PRIZE winner of the Get Fit for Summer Weight Loss Challenge is....
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Kasssy!!!!!
CONGRATULATIONS KASSY! Kassy participated throughout the Challenge and improved her sleeping patterns, increased her water intake...She even took up boxing! It was a pleasure to read along with her journey as she got into the sport!
Check out her before and after pictures here... and read her Challenge narrative below:
Challenges on Diet.com has always been a motivational tool for me to just keep on going and get me through all the struggle on the big bulge I have been carrying and still carrying. It's been 2 years and yet every each challenges still has its own way of taking you a step closer to your goal - the healthy way. The impatient becomes patient and the depressed get to wear a smile again.
This challenge didn't just help me through the weight loss but it also led me to the direction wherein I was able to re-evaluate my entire physique as well as health condition. It gave me the opportunity to internally be cautious. I got back into the game together with the milestones. All these made me feel much more accomplished especially knowing everything else should be out on broadcast; there's this sense of accountability not just within myself but together with others.
Albeit I don't get to surf 4x a month or as often as I used to, I just got myself going and caught myself shadowboxing, get into boxing classes and always reminded me on what every movement mean to the journey.
My Milestones were hard to achieve but I'm glad I was able to accomplish them over the course of time. I went through hard times but the challenge also helped
me emotionally on fighting through hard times and to keep on going, get through the day. This challenge comforted me over those days I felt helpless, hopeless and crying buckets during those times I felt worthless. Being a Personality Development Professor not too long ago, this challenge also gave me the inspiration to walk the talk that regardless of how or what you look like, its what you are overall that counts and how you take good care of yourself.
I now sleep earlier and though I have been struggling through early morning runs (I swear I have been for over a year now! ) this time, although its been two days - I finally got up and threw ... Continue