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Fall 15 Kick Off Tracking Contest

September 30, 2010 By 3 Comments

Want to lose 15 pounds this fall? Plus Size Bloggers wants to track your progress and reward your efforts!!

Every blogger that loses 15 pounds by the end of our 12 week challenge period will be entered for our Special Gift Drawings!

  • A Free Rebounder ($72.39) (I used to go on a rebounder at my Grandma’s house as a kid — she still has one. FUN!
  • One Free Video Design from Fresh Video Design to Celebrate Your Goal. ($250 Value)
  • A Six Month Membership to Fat Loss Quickie from Scott Tousignant. ($59.95 Value)
  • A Free Header Logo from Shannon – The ME Within ($100 Value)
  • A Free Blog Critique & 1 Hour Coaching Session to make the most of your weight loss blog from Vera Raposo ($150 Value)

Our Plus Size Bloggers Summer15 Tracking Contest starts on Monday October 4th and will end Monday, December 20th

Your Goal: Lose Fifteen Pounds in Twelve Weeks!

Contest Details:

  • Submit your information in the form below to be included – deadline to join is October 4th.
  • You must post your starting weight on October 4th & your final weight on December 20th – You must lose at least 15 pounds to be in the Special Gift Drawings.
  • To qualify for the drawing at end of this challenge, you must have reported (posted to your blog) on your weight loss efforts for at least 10 of the 12 weeks in the tracking period, giving us an update on your weight and what you’re doing. We’ll visit and take note of your progress for our weekly tracking updates here on the Plus Size Bloggers site.*
  • If you skip publishing a weigh in post more than twice during the fall , you’ll be dropped from the tracking list and will not be eligible for the final drawing. (Accountability will help you stay on target!)
  • Your post does not have to include a video or picture of your weigh in, but it sure is fun if there is and we may feature one of your videos here at Plus Size Bloggers.
  • We’d love for you to include your beginning measurements in your first post and ending measurements in the last post – it is not required but I’m sure it will motivate you!
  • Your post MUST be obvious on your blog and posted on Monday of each week (we will check for your weigh in every Monday evening after 6pm PST (9pm EST).
  • You must have a Plus Size Bloggers graphic posted on your blog sidebar throughout the tracking contest.

*Your tracking post must be entitled ‘Plus Size Bloggers Weigh In: Date’ so that we can find it easily.

Filed Under: Plus Size News

Do You Take A FREE Day?

September 27, 2010 By 3 Comments

The one thing I do is take a free day, free from exercise, free from the word “diet” and free from thinking hard about it all. :) How about you?

Filed Under: Tracking Reports

Plus Size Bloggers: Summer 15 Contest Winners

September 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Here’s our Winners! :)

  1. Tracy ‘Ziemba’ Besek won a new blog design by Freshnets
  2. Ali won – a video design by Fresh Video Design
  3. Mass Response won blog hosting from Reliable Webs
  4. Shannon Johnson won the 6 month membership from Fat Loss Quickie & Fitness Set!
  5. Sheila Penrod won the MP3 Biggest Loser Workout!
  6. AthleteComes Back won the Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred!

EVERYONE - won 1 mp3 download just for coming! :)

Note to the winners: You must email me at supportATplussizebloggers.com to claim your prize(s) by Friday of this week.

Thank you to all for making the webinar a great success and an exciting start for the next contest!

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Summer 15 Winners Revealed In Conference Room With Twitter & Facebook Party!

September 20, 2010 By 10 Comments

Ready to PAR-TAY?!

I love to party! There is so much life to be enjoyed and shared that I am REALLY looking forward to our party. This is very special to me and I’ll explain to you inside the room exactly why I took over this site and started on my own health track success.

The purpose this conference is:

1) Announce & Celebrate the Winners from the Summer 15 Contest

2) Hand out lots of fun prizes even if you didn’t participate in the contest

3) Talk a tiny bit about the contest for this Fall 2010 – We will announce the contest on a later date

To Participate In The Conference:

Date: September 20th, 2010

Time: 6pm – 8pm PST

1) Log into the conference room: Meet us in the conference room for the celebrations! Log in with your name and the password is psb. The only thing you need is a computer to listen and a headset if you want.

2) Get on Twitter:  To participate in the Twitter Party, just follow and tweet with the hashtag #plussizebloggers - we are at twitter.com/psbloggers

3) Get on Facebook: To participate on Facebook then “like us” (If you like us ;) and follow there too!

Prizes For The Conference:

Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred

The Biggest Loser Workout Mix

The Biggest Loser Workout Mix Individual MP3′s

= Lots of chances to win! :)

I can’t wait to see you there!

-  Vera Raposo

PlusSizeBloggers.com

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Plus Size Bloggers: I’d Like To Introduce You To Kristin & Find Out What Your Thoughts Are About Sharing Your Loss In Public

September 15, 2010 By 7 Comments

I “virtually” met Kristin today on Facebook. I’ve been putting some effort into connecting with people on facebook and will do the same soon on You Tube.  I encourage you to do it too sometime, you just never know who you are going to meet. I was so impressed with Kristin’s transparency AND spirit that it got me thinking…

Why am I embarassed to let my friends & family know about what I’m doing? I gather it’s fear that I won’t be supported or worse that they would think I was wasting my time.  As I was thinking this, there was Kristin with far more weight to lose than me, just putting it all out there for people to see and I noticed something….

People actually were supporting her! And in a big way too.

I wrote on her wall and asked her this question:

Just wanted to stop by and say hello to a new friend. Kristin, you have changed something in my mind today. I run this site for Plus Size Bloggers but haven’t shared it on my “personal” FB page because of my doubt feeling that people in my offline world would support me — you are changing my thoughts and feelings on t…his. I guess it’s the family/friends that I feel would maybe try to sabotage me? How did you deal with that? Would love to hear your thoughts — Vera. :)

Here was Kristin’s response:

First, THANK YOU Vera! That was such an amazing compliment to wake up to this morning! I am SO proud of you for deciding to put yourself out there! That is a HUGE step in the right direction! I know EXACTLY how you feel. For me, it was simp…ly a decision. I decided that I no longer was going to hide who I was, or my challenges and triumphs. I created this weight loss page (and my blog) and invited EVERYONE from my other FB page to come over here and support me! Naturally, the people that WANTED to, came over, the ones that didn’t…stayed away. I wanted SURROUND myself with love and support! That was my INTENTION and this i EXACTLY what I got!! :) Be CRYSTAL CLEAR about what you want, EXPECT that you will get it, and you WILL!! :) Have there been people come over to my page that have been less than desirable additions? YES!! Here is the cool part…I REMOVE THEM FROM MY FRIENDS! :) It’s THAT easy!! I am SOOO excited for you! Let people into you life, KNOW that you will attract the good and supportive ones and you will!! You will more than likely that people you thought you would NEVER get support from, will actually be your BIGGEST fans! One more thing…Never Pre-Judge. Just do things how YOU want to do them, be in INTEGRITY when doing so, and the cards will fall into place! I hope I answered your question! xo – Kristin

I LOVE what she said — if you don’t want someone there — just remove them! Makes sense right?

I’m not sure what Kristin’s start weight was but I found this status update on her Facebook page:


So she’s down to 521 — Way to go Kristin!! YOU inspire me today.

What are your thoughts about sharing your weight loss publicly?

Filed Under: Plus Size Inspiration

An Open Letter To Our Summer 15 Plus Size Blogging Trackers

September 14, 2010 By 3 Comments

Here you are, you made it!

You climbed that mountain and boy did it hurt.  Step by step you took one more, then another and just one more step to the top.

You made it! You are at the top of that mountain — YES! YOU are at the TOP!

It doesn’t matter if your mountain was  your first blog post,  your first tweet, or the complete transparency you had through  your journey. Maybe your mountain is just reading this post and commenting for the first time. Sharing with us your struggle, we are here for you too.

You did it! I’m SO proud of you!

I am planning a celebration for you, Monday September 20th @ 6pm – 8pm PST. We will be having a live chat in our conference room AND a twitter party to announce our winners. You are all such amazing people, you completely inspire me to do better. There will be prizes, friends & fun — I cannot wait!

Thank you for being a part of my life — I can’t wait to join the next challenge!

- Vera

PS. go back and remember our first open letter here.



Filed Under: Plus Size Inspiration

Summer 15 Tracking Update #12

September 14, 2010 By 5 Comments

This is a wrap up on Weight Loss Reports posted last week!

And the results are….

Note for Trackers:

Please Make Your Weight Loss or Gain Numbers Super Obvious In Your Blog Post (Don’t make us do math or watch videos to find out… it takes sooo much time!)

Remember, even if you don’t gain or lose we need to see a report post!

If we visit your blog and find no report more than twice during the challenge, we’ll drop you from the list and that will bum us out for sure!

Filed Under: Tracking Reports
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