Who wants to Win a Bike?
May 5, 2008
I told you all I had some exciting news to report. Well, here it is!… FindingFlabuless, in conjunction with Lipton Diet White Tea and Flabuless’s new website DownsizeTV are excited to announce the Lipton Win-A-Bike Competition.
Lipton’s diet white tea is not only a yummy and refreshing thirst quencher on a hot smoldering day but is also good for you because it is rich in protective antioxidants. Now, I don’t usually like diet drinks…they are usually too bland for my overactive taste buds…however, I was pleasantly surprised when I tried the Peach Papaya flavour though it was subtle and smooth in flavour it hit my palate with a punch and left a pleasant and refreshing after taste which is always a good sign in a diet drink. 
You guys know me…I wouldn’t blog about something that I don’t believe in but this is such a great product that I was ecstatic when Lipton approached me to run this competition for all my readers. So without further or do…here is how you can enter:
There are a number of things you can do to enter this competition actually…
1. You can blog about the competition with links back to this post in findingflabluless and also downsizeTV. This sort of blogging entry would count for 2 entries to win the bike.
2. You can register at downsizeTV and submit your first video cast (which can be streamed in from any of the major video servers such as youtube, revver, bliptv etc) video blogging about your weight-loss or health and fitness journey and why you need the bike and deserve to win- that would be worth 5 entries. *make sure you submit it under the ‘Lipton Win a Bike’ Category.
3 You could do both of the above for the full 7 entries into the competition.
4. And as a bonus, on the downsizeTV site people can rate your video and the 3 top rated entry videos will get 10 bonus entries, 6 bonus entries and 4 bonus entries respectively from highest to lowest…so for maximum chance at winning the bike get as many people to register on the downsizeTV site, and rate your video entry, as possible.
This competition will run for 4 weeks and the winner will be drawn at 8pm NZST on the 6th of June I will be video casting this event for everyone to see. Please note-it is ONLY open to US residents. The total prize package will include:
- a Lipton branded Fuji Crosstown 2.0 bike
- 5 coupons for a free 1.5 Liter Bottle of Lipton White Iced Tea
- $75 check for professional bike assembly
Be sure to write comments below this post so that I am aware of your entries and submissions into this competition so that I can check and keep records. Any questions just holler…I hope this will be an interactive and exciting time for us all. I wish you all good luck! and look forward to receiving your entries!
Flabuless
Disclaimer: The Pepsi/Lipton Partnership will provide a check for $75.00 to be used for professional assembly of all Lipton Fuji bicycles awarded. Neither Pepsi Co. nor Unilever is liable for any injuries, damages or accidents that may result from the receipt, assembly or use of this bicycle.
231lbs (March 2008)
April 6, 2008
I just had to share this with you guys…this photo was taken 3 weeks ago and whenever I look at it I get amazed. Haha I look so slim and toned…Wow I HAVE come a long way since my ‘Big Momma’ days. Its sort of like one day you wake up and look at yourself and you can finally see the difference…Its funny that everyone seems to notice our weight-loss before we do!! Perhaps we are just blinded to our own success. Still this photo seemed to bring it all back home to me. I think I deserve a pat on the back…lol
The Religion of Perfection
July 28, 2007
The honest truth is that in every respect I have been made to feel like I am not good enough…As a FAT woman, I fall below the mark… My X Husband used to refer to me as a ‘big fat cow sitting on the couch eating chocolate’ to all his mates at work…and wouldn’t touch me sexually or affectionately, for that matter, for months at a time…its a miracle I have two beautiful children really. My parents, took me to a ‘fat’ doctor when I was 9 cause they were concerned about my weight even then.
‘Fat’ to all sense and purposes in this world is just plain wrong! How can I hope to experience the fairy tale; a knight in shining armour that is crazy about me, ‘true love’, an empowered life, successful career, super mom, if I am constantly burdened by this handicap of Fat’ness. How will people take me seriously and accept me ‘Just as I am’ when first impressions are just so darned important.
I guess I have bought into the religion of perfection that permeates in the world today. I am not a size 0 and somehow that makes me less than perfect…no not even that…it makes me ‘null’. No matter what I do, how smart I am, what a great sense of humour I have, or how nice I am. It makes no difference because I am FAT, a statistic, an ‘undesirable’, the humiliation of society. The ‘obesity epidemic’ is given more coverage than the famine/hunger in third world countries. This is not a cry for acceptance, or a shout for you all to tell me how wonderful and special I am…I know that I am…’Just as I am’…but unfortunately the world doesn’t and to mold myself to the ‘worlds’ standards I must lose weight.
However, It would be a dream to actually be accepted, successful and loved ‘just as I am’ by someone else for a change…not just me…
Deep, deep down I want it to be true that you don’t have to be a size 0 to live the fairy tale which is partly why I have been filling my head with books like
Conversations with the Fat Girl
I know my life will NOT be complete as soon as a drop the pounds, I know the fairy tale wont just begin then…but, at least then…I WILL have a fighting chance! At least THEN…I wont have this ‘handicap’ of a negative first impression, before I have even sat my huge butt down.
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