Be sure to check out the December Holiday Challenge that will be posted on the blog this Friday. You’ll be able to win a free subscription to Family Doctor Magazine
November was a busy month for WalkingSpree.
New Feature:
The Body Tracker now has a Waist/Hip Ratio to provide even more information if you’re at higher risk of coronary heart disease, diabetes and stroke.
We have several new features launching in the next couple of weeks. Stay tuned for a review of our completely revamped Food Tracker coming next week.
Halloween Contest
We held our 1st Halloween Count Step a lot Challenge and was thrilled by the feedback we received from our WalkingSpree members.
Pete Manczyk, from American Financial Group won as Joe the Human Pedometer. Congrats again Pete! View other favorite entries.
“This easy parfait would be welcome on any holiday menu. Preparation time is 15 minutes. This recipe is from The WEBB Cooks, articles and recipes by Robyn Webb, courtesy of the American Diabetes Association.”
In a mixing bowl, combine the pumpkin puree, vanilla pudding mix, pumpkin pie spice, evaporated milk and skim milk. Blend together until smooth; place in parfait glasses and chill until set.
We have to say that we were absolutely thrilled at the number of entries we received for this challenge. Thank you to each of you who took the time to enter the contest. We hope you had as much fun doing it as we did looking at all of them.
We would love to be able to show you all the photos, but there were just too many.
So congratulations to our winner Pete Manczyk as “Joe the Human Pedometer”. We loved your creativity and detail. Even including the USB port! Pete, you are the winner of a $30.00 Amazon Gift Certificate.
The runner up entry is from Sheila Anuszkiewicz with her “Walking is no “joking” matter entry. Well done. We almost felt like that pedometer could possibly explode or do all manner of nefarious things in true Joker style.
Honorable Mentions.
It was great to see such a diverse amount of entries from all our members. To those of you not shown, we say again. Thank you for sending them. We loved the 80’s style photos. We loved the vampires, the Britney Spears, the graveyards and so on.
It’s Halloween time again, a perfect way to take more steps and have fun at the same time. And if you’re likely dipping into the Halloween goodies, a great way to burn off some calories too. To help motivate you to take more steps this Halloween, whether it’s out walking with your kids from house to house, dancing up a storm at a Halloween party or traipsing to the door handing out treats, we’re offering you this challenge.
Send us a photo or a video of you wearing or holding your pedometer with some sort of Halloween theme in the picture and you’re eligible to win a $30.00 gift certificate from Amazon.com. You can be dressed up, or you can be in front of a Halloween decorated yard as long as it’s Halloween theme related. The winning photo or video will be posted on the WalkingSpree blog. You must have your pedometer showing in the photo or video or you won’t be eligible for the prize.
All entries must be in by noon EST. Monday, Nov. 3rd.
Some tips to keep you on the straight and narrow this Halloween. Here’s a handy treats calorie calculator to figure out how many steps you need to walk off those calories.
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