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		<title>By: Scott Tousignant</title>
		<link>http://fatlossquickie.com/blog/6-ways-that-you-win-with-transformation-contests/#comment-1126</link>
		<dc:creator>Scott Tousignant</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great comments Meredith. I&#039;ve been a contest flunkie in the past as well. There were a few times that I entered Body For Life and never finished. That&#039;s pretty darn common.

I&#039;m so excited to see your new outlook and feel your confidence shine. It&#039;s going to carry you through any contest or challenge that you face.

Thanks for being a valuable member of both Unstoppable Fat Loss and Fat Loss Quickie. You ROCK!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great comments Meredith. I&#8217;ve been a contest flunkie in the past as well. There were a few times that I entered Body For Life and never finished. That&#8217;s pretty darn common.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m so excited to see your new outlook and feel your confidence shine. It&#8217;s going to carry you through any contest or challenge that you face.</p>
<p>Thanks for being a valuable member of both Unstoppable Fat Loss and Fat Loss Quickie. You ROCK!</p>
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		<title>By: Meredith</title>
		<link>http://fatlossquickie.com/blog/6-ways-that-you-win-with-transformation-contests/#comment-1119</link>
		<dc:creator>Meredith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am a transformation contest flunkie who is trying to turn into a contest junkie...

I&#039;ve entered a few contests but never seem to finish them.  I get off track and then give up.  It looks like I&#039;m going to finish the home office fitness transformation having make some great changes in my outlook. 

That success has inspired me to enter a local 12 week body comp contest - they have divisions based on weight and since I&#039;ve already been lifting -- I have a good chance of a) finishing with my head held high and b) possibly actually winning (you never know...)

For those of you wavering on Scott&#039;s contest -- I say give them a try... even if you get off track -- you&#039;ll make some major mindset shifts and get to listen to some very motivational speakers -- give it a try :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am a transformation contest flunkie who is trying to turn into a contest junkie&#8230;</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve entered a few contests but never seem to finish them.  I get off track and then give up.  It looks like I&#8217;m going to finish the home office fitness transformation having make some great changes in my outlook. </p>
<p>That success has inspired me to enter a local 12 week body comp contest &#8211; they have divisions based on weight and since I&#8217;ve already been lifting &#8212; I have a good chance of a) finishing with my head held high and b) possibly actually winning (you never know&#8230;)</p>
<p>For those of you wavering on Scott&#8217;s contest &#8212; I say give them a try&#8230; even if you get off track &#8212; you&#8217;ll make some major mindset shifts and get to listen to some very motivational speakers &#8212; give it a try <img src='http://fatlossquickie.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Scott Tousignant</title>
		<link>http://fatlossquickie.com/blog/6-ways-that-you-win-with-transformation-contests/#comment-1097</link>
		<dc:creator>Scott Tousignant</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Russ, it&#039;s pretty darn cool how great connections are made across the Internet... and go figure... You&#039;re just up the 401 from me ;)

I enjoyed your blog post &quot;Do What You Love&quot;. 

You&#039;re right... the fountain of youth is not found in a pill or an actual fountain... it&#039;s living an active and happy life and sharing your love with those around you.

I appreciate you!

Scott Tousignant</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Russ, it&#8217;s pretty darn cool how great connections are made across the Internet&#8230; and go figure&#8230; You&#8217;re just up the 401 from me <img src='http://fatlossquickie.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>I enjoyed your blog post &#8220;Do What You Love&#8221;. </p>
<p>You&#8217;re right&#8230; the fountain of youth is not found in a pill or an actual fountain&#8230; it&#8217;s living an active and happy life and sharing your love with those around you.</p>
<p>I appreciate you!</p>
<p>Scott Tousignant</p>
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		<title>By: Russ</title>
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		<dc:creator>Russ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 03:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Scott

I found your link through the Problogger forum so I&#039;m looking at your post from the technical writing perspective first.  I thought you did an awesome job with your list - catchy points with just enough explanation to keep me reading.

Here&#039;s the real test.  You got me as a subscriber!  :)

At age 55, I just celebrated my first anniversary with my gorgeous wife.  Sometimes I still can&#039;t believe I attracted this petite Asian beauty into my life.  I am truly motivated to stay fit and in shape for her.  She is 12 years younger than myself, and has two daughters - age 13 and 6 - from her previous marriage, so it&#039;s a veritable fountain of youth for me.  In fact, I tease Maggie all the time that I&#039;ll still be kicking her butt when I&#039;m 100!  :)

Scott, much continued success to you and your blogging.  I look forward to your insights and inspiration in my quest for a better body!

All the best from Toronto,
Your ProBlogger classmate,
Russ</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Scott</p>
<p>I found your link through the Problogger forum so I&#8217;m looking at your post from the technical writing perspective first.  I thought you did an awesome job with your list &#8211; catchy points with just enough explanation to keep me reading.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the real test.  You got me as a subscriber!  <img src='http://fatlossquickie.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>At age 55, I just celebrated my first anniversary with my gorgeous wife.  Sometimes I still can&#8217;t believe I attracted this petite Asian beauty into my life.  I am truly motivated to stay fit and in shape for her.  She is 12 years younger than myself, and has two daughters &#8211; age 13 and 6 &#8211; from her previous marriage, so it&#8217;s a veritable fountain of youth for me.  In fact, I tease Maggie all the time that I&#8217;ll still be kicking her butt when I&#8217;m 100!  <img src='http://fatlossquickie.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Scott, much continued success to you and your blogging.  I look forward to your insights and inspiration in my quest for a better body!</p>
<p>All the best from Toronto,<br />
Your ProBlogger classmate,<br />
Russ</p>
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		<title>By: Scott Tousignant</title>
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		<dc:creator>Scott Tousignant</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 01:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yes, you got it Jessica! Abs are definitely made in the kitchen. You can&#039;t out work poor nutrition.

2 years old is a very cute (and busy) age. Our kids are now 6 and 8. And they are still our babies too ;)

We&#039;re really looking forward to seeing your success with the Unstoppable Fat Loss Transformation Contest. It&#039;s going to ROCK!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, you got it Jessica! Abs are definitely made in the kitchen. You can&#8217;t out work poor nutrition.</p>
<p>2 years old is a very cute (and busy) age. Our kids are now 6 and 8. And they are still our babies too <img src='http://fatlossquickie.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>We&#8217;re really looking forward to seeing your success with the Unstoppable Fat Loss Transformation Contest. It&#8217;s going to ROCK!</p>
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		<title>By: Jessica</title>
		<link>http://fatlossquickie.com/blog/6-ways-that-you-win-with-transformation-contests/#comment-986</link>
		<dc:creator>Jessica</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Awesome post here.  It touches on the most important keys to not just losing the weight but keeping motivated, and keeping the weight off.  

A little about me, I&#039;m a 25 year old stay at home Mom. I have a 5 year old daughter &amp; a almost 2 year old son.  I know all about the baby weight and how hard it is to be consistent with a workout program when you have little ones under your feet trying to &quot;help out&quot; with your workout!  I can&#039;t tell you how many times I&#039;ve benchpressed them so they could get in on the fun LOL! I had to resort to getting up at 5am bright &amp; early to be able to focus fully &amp; be able to complete my workout.  I not only feel great starting my day off right, by working out early, I get it out of the way for the day!

Holding yourself accountable for everything you put in your mouth is definitely one of the most important things. I read somewhere that abs are built in the kitchen, so you can be exercising all you want, but without eating clean, or at least eating healthy, you won&#039;t get that &quot;ripped&quot; look or that 6 pack that so many of us want!

Thanks for creating the Unstoppable Fat Loss Transformation Contest.  You&#039;re not just blogging about what you know, you&#039;re creating actual programs that allow us to join in right along with you!  
Like you said, without a plan to achieve this, it&#039;s only a dream.

I&#039;m throwing a birthday party for my 2 year old &quot;baby boy&quot;;) (he&#039;s still my baby), and getting his 2 year old pictures taken Sunday, so I won&#039;t be able to join in on the contest this weekend.  But Monday for sure you can count on it. I&#039;m in!  

I&#039;m looking forward to keeping my furnace stoked to burn that fat! 

SO glad I found this website,

Jessica</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Awesome post here.  It touches on the most important keys to not just losing the weight but keeping motivated, and keeping the weight off.  </p>
<p>A little about me, I&#8217;m a 25 year old stay at home Mom. I have a 5 year old daughter &amp; a almost 2 year old son.  I know all about the baby weight and how hard it is to be consistent with a workout program when you have little ones under your feet trying to &#8220;help out&#8221; with your workout!  I can&#8217;t tell you how many times I&#8217;ve benchpressed them so they could get in on the fun LOL! I had to resort to getting up at 5am bright &amp; early to be able to focus fully &amp; be able to complete my workout.  I not only feel great starting my day off right, by working out early, I get it out of the way for the day!</p>
<p>Holding yourself accountable for everything you put in your mouth is definitely one of the most important things. I read somewhere that abs are built in the kitchen, so you can be exercising all you want, but without eating clean, or at least eating healthy, you won&#8217;t get that &#8220;ripped&#8221; look or that 6 pack that so many of us want!</p>
<p>Thanks for creating the Unstoppable Fat Loss Transformation Contest.  You&#8217;re not just blogging about what you know, you&#8217;re creating actual programs that allow us to join in right along with you!<br />
Like you said, without a plan to achieve this, it&#8217;s only a dream.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m throwing a birthday party for my 2 year old &#8220;baby boy&#8221;;) (he&#8217;s still my baby), and getting his 2 year old pictures taken Sunday, so I won&#8217;t be able to join in on the contest this weekend.  But Monday for sure you can count on it. I&#8217;m in!  </p>
<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to keeping my furnace stoked to burn that fat! </p>
<p>SO glad I found this website,</p>
<p>Jessica</p>
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		<title>By: Scott Tousignant</title>
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		<dc:creator>Scott Tousignant</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Betsy, thanks for stopping by and sharing a bit about yourself. My wife Angie is a primary teacher by profession but work-at-home-mom by choice ;)

One of the reasons why you want to lose the fat and improve your health is great. Many women have shared the same concern about not wanting their kids to wonder why they are so fat. There&#039;s something about the school drop off that must trigger some emotions because it&#039;s been a common experience for so many women.

It&#039;s great to try different workout videos. I have nothing against most workout programs and videos. If you find something that you enjoy and can put all your effort into, you will succeed. Trying new programs is a great way to incorporate variety and keep your motivation high. That&#039;s why all of the workout programs that I have developed offer a new form of training each month.

Your &quot;LOVE To Cook&quot; is something that we can definitely tackle in future articles and audios. &quot;Love&quot; and &quot;Hate&quot; are strong words. Often times I hear people saying, &quot;I LOVE chocolate&quot;, &quot;I LOVE pizza&quot;. And then they say, &quot;I hate dieting&quot;, &quot;I hate exercise&quot;.

We have to be careful of how we associate words with certain things. You can LOVE to cook and cook fun healthy meals.

And this is not about perfection. So allowing yourself to cook 2 not so healthy and fun meals each week may satisfy that love of cooking for you.

Angie just walked into the room and read this note. She just told me that she loves to cook too. And believe me she definitely does. She has a lot of fun creating healthy meals and she has fun making us treats too ;)

We&#039;ll get into further detail soon.

I can&#039;t thank you enough for bringing up this great topic and sharing your thoughts. Your comments truly mean a lot to me.

You ROCK!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Betsy, thanks for stopping by and sharing a bit about yourself. My wife Angie is a primary teacher by profession but work-at-home-mom by choice <img src='http://fatlossquickie.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>One of the reasons why you want to lose the fat and improve your health is great. Many women have shared the same concern about not wanting their kids to wonder why they are so fat. There&#8217;s something about the school drop off that must trigger some emotions because it&#8217;s been a common experience for so many women.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s great to try different workout videos. I have nothing against most workout programs and videos. If you find something that you enjoy and can put all your effort into, you will succeed. Trying new programs is a great way to incorporate variety and keep your motivation high. That&#8217;s why all of the workout programs that I have developed offer a new form of training each month.</p>
<p>Your &#8220;LOVE To Cook&#8221; is something that we can definitely tackle in future articles and audios. &#8220;Love&#8221; and &#8220;Hate&#8221; are strong words. Often times I hear people saying, &#8220;I LOVE chocolate&#8221;, &#8220;I LOVE pizza&#8221;. And then they say, &#8220;I hate dieting&#8221;, &#8220;I hate exercise&#8221;.</p>
<p>We have to be careful of how we associate words with certain things. You can LOVE to cook and cook fun healthy meals.</p>
<p>And this is not about perfection. So allowing yourself to cook 2 not so healthy and fun meals each week may satisfy that love of cooking for you.</p>
<p>Angie just walked into the room and read this note. She just told me that she loves to cook too. And believe me she definitely does. She has a lot of fun creating healthy meals and she has fun making us treats too <img src='http://fatlossquickie.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>We&#8217;ll get into further detail soon.</p>
<p>I can&#8217;t thank you enough for bringing up this great topic and sharing your thoughts. Your comments truly mean a lot to me.</p>
<p>You ROCK!</p>
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		<title>By: Betsy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am a HS teacher by profession but a stay at home mom by choice. I have two little girls who keep me busy. I was a very active athlete up until I graduated from college. I no longer had practice 6 days a week for 3 hours a day. I wasn&#039;t lifting weights, I was out lookinf for a job. Within 6 months I put on 20 pounds. Over the years and two kids later, I managed to pile on a total of 55 pounds. I don&#039;t want my little girls to look at me when I take them to school and say mommy why are you so fat? I have P90X, Biggest Loser, Hip Hop Abs, and a few others.(Don&#039;t worry I didn&#039;t pay for them I got them recycled from other people.) As a teacher I have done lots of research about the modern way to work out. I can do the treadmill at differnt speeds and intervals which I love. I can do the P90X. I have a hard time sticking with it. My biggest problem is FOOD. I love to cook. I want to learn how to change my life with food and exercise together.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am a HS teacher by profession but a stay at home mom by choice. I have two little girls who keep me busy. I was a very active athlete up until I graduated from college. I no longer had practice 6 days a week for 3 hours a day. I wasn&#8217;t lifting weights, I was out lookinf for a job. Within 6 months I put on 20 pounds. Over the years and two kids later, I managed to pile on a total of 55 pounds. I don&#8217;t want my little girls to look at me when I take them to school and say mommy why are you so fat? I have P90X, Biggest Loser, Hip Hop Abs, and a few others.(Don&#8217;t worry I didn&#8217;t pay for them I got them recycled from other people.) As a teacher I have done lots of research about the modern way to work out. I can do the treadmill at differnt speeds and intervals which I love. I can do the P90X. I have a hard time sticking with it. My biggest problem is FOOD. I love to cook. I want to learn how to change my life with food and exercise together.</p>
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