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Showing Love: Valentine’s Day Giveaways

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We want to send out some Valentine’s Day love to the BWLW sisterhood this month with these giveaways.  Winners will be selected on Feb 14th by random selection.

DietBet Bonus Stakes: Two participants in our February DietBet will be selected at random to receive a $25 Amazon Gift Certificate (via email).

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fun fit water bottleInstagram Hashtag Bonus: We are giving away a Sipping Schedule Motivational Water Bottle from Fun Fitness in Transit. We will select at random one Instagram user who has posted using our official hashtag, #BWLWFeb, between Feb 6 and Feb 13 as the winner.  Instagram pages must be public so that we can find the posts.

Valentine’s Day Bonus: We will select two people from our email list (randomly) to receive a $25 Amazon gift card (via email).

Winners will be notified via DietBet profile, Instagram post or email (depending on the bonus) by 11:59pm Feb 15th EST. An email address and/or physical address will be required to receive the gift.

Join our February DietBet Today 

Read the Full February Challenge Details and Tips on our Blog

October 2014 Challenge – Photo Accountability Challenge

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october challenge 2014Our October Challenge will be a PHOTO Accountability Challenge.  We want you to post your photos to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or your personal blog/website using the tag #BWLWOCT to participate.  When you sign up for this challenge you are agreeing to post a photo related to your weight loss journey at least 3 times a week.  Feel free to post everyday if you like.   My personal goal (this is Ajima) is to post photos of what I’ve eaten everyday.  I would love to post roundups of your great photos on our blog, Facebook page, Instagram and Pinterest profile to motivate the group (linking back to YOU).

Sign up by leaving a comment below and letting us know where you’ll be posting your photos.

Goal:

This challenge is all about Accountability!  With this challenge, you are showing the proof of your journey through photos and being accountable to the group.  Your photos will show the action you are taking to get to where you want to be.  You might want to share your ups and downs.  You may be sharing a major victory or lesson you’ve learned.  You may just be posting a photo of your breakfast or the read out of calories burned on your favorite elliptical machine. Just like we tell children who are doing their math problems to “Show your work” we will be showing ours to the world.

If you participate in this challenge, I promise you that it will be motivating.  You will truly be challenged to see what you’re actually doing in terms of eating, exercising and how you feel when you see those photos staring back at you.  Also, taking photos is a great way to document your progress and victories, so that if you feel discouraged in the future you can reflect on those photos for encouragement.

Don’t want to show your photos to the world?

That’s fine.  You can still join this challenge by doing the work of recording your journey in photos in October for your own benefit.  You will also have a record of your process that you can be proud of.  You may consider posting photos to your private Facebook page, Instagram or Twitter feed to encourage your friends and family.  You could also do this challenge with a friend and trade photos back and forth.

Are you In? Ready to join us?  Sign up for the challenge by leaving a comment below. Let us know where you will be posting your photos.  Give us your username for Twitter, Pinterest or Instagram.  Post the link for your blog. Post the link to your Facebook page. We want to follow you!  If you’re not posting publicly, let us know how you plan to be accountable on your journey in October.

What kinds of photos should you post?  It’s up to you. Ideas:

  • Photos of what you’re eating – meals and snacks
  • Photos of you working out or at the gym
  • Photos of the read out screen on exercise equipment showing your calories burned, time, heart rate, etc
  • Gym Selfies after working out
  • Smoothie Photos
  • Photos of the new outfits you can now wear since you’ve lost pounds.
  • Photos of your dream outfit
  • Quotes and Inspirational images you find online that inspire you and speak to your journey
  • Photos of recipes you want to try
  • Photos of your meal prep routine
  • Photos from the grocery store
  • Photos from when you are eating out with friends
  • Progress Photos
  • Before and After Photos

Don’t forget to tag your posts with @BWLWOCT so that we can find them and check out your photos all month.

October Giveaways

Those who sign up and participate by posting at least 3 times a week will be eligible for our weekly giveaways in the month of October. Winners will randomly be chosen and notified via email. You will learn about the giveaways via email, so make sure that you are signed up for our email list.

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I look forward to seeing all of your photos!!! – Ebony Ajima

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Share Your Weight Loss Story

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We are looking for great weight loss success stories because we want to inspire women to eat good food, embrace fitness and live vibrant, healthy lives. We want sistas to know that their weight loss goals ARE possible! Send us your story and before/after photos today! (NO COST! NO FEE to post your story.)

You’ll find our interview questions below. If you would like to be considered for a feature, you can submit your information one of 2 ways:

  • Via email – This is the best option and the quickest way to be considered. Send your photos, answers to the questions below and other story details to info@blackwomenlosingweight.com
  • Via Facebook inbox to our page – If you are submitting your story this way, please include your email address for contact as well.

Before and After Photos: We need photos of where your face and body are visible in both shots (no sunglasses or phones in the way of your face).

Interview Questions – The more details, the better! The goal is to help other women understand what you did to release the weight. We want to know how you changed your life. Please include the following…

  • What was your motivation? What inspired you to keep going, even when you wanted to give up?
  • How did you change your eating habits? (What foods did you stop or start eating? Let us know if you used a specific plan or program.)
  • What is your workout routine? (Cardio, weight training, Zumba, etc.)
  • How often did you work out?
  • What was your starting weight? What is your current weight?
  • What is your height?
  • When did you start your journey? How long did your transformation take?
  • What is the biggest lesson you’ve learned so far?
  • What advice do you have for women who want to lose weight?
  • Is weight loss surgery part of your journey? If so, what procedure and when did you have surgery?
  • What is your social media info? (Instagram, TikTok, etc.)

Please provide as much detail as possible in your answers. We review all of the stories we receive. and post 99% of them. Thank you so much for you interest in sharing your story with our readers.

Disclaimer for Use of Submitted Photos and Information: By submitting the photographs to Black Women Losing Weight (BlackWeightLossSuccess.com), you grant Black Women Losing Weight and its employees acting under its permission or authority, the right to publish, reproduce, distribute, and/or otherwise use your name, statistics, the story you share with us and your photographs in any media now known or hereinafter devised, in such manner, for such purposes, and with such frequency as Black Women Losing Weight shall determine in its sole discretion without further compensation or consideration to you and without further authorization by you. We also reserve the right to omit any advertising, product information, product endorsements or information that could make a reader assume that we endorse a product. Please share only photos you have taken personally or for which you have permission from the photographer or copyright owner to share.

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