According to Time magazine, “lose weight and get fit” is the most commonly busted New Year’s resolution. Shocking, huh?
But if 2015 is the year you absolutely, positively, seriously mean to get in shape, this week’s giveaway can help.
The 2015 Fitness Boost package contains a handful of items to support your goals. You still have to do the work, of course, but at least this will start you off with new stuff.
The winner will receive:
- Black duffel bag with carrying strap (Scottrade logo): This nice-sized bag has room for gym gear and/or swimsuit
- Water bottle with built-in straw (Valpak logo): Staying hydrated can help make you a little more comfortable
- Fitness journal (Chase logo): A lined journal with attached pen, to keep track of your workouts
- Flashing disc (Experian logo): Pin this on your jacket when running in early morning or at night, so motorists can see you
- Post-It notes (Country Financial logo): Stick reminders (“8 a.m., personal trainer”) and encouragement (“Lost 5 lbs! WTG!”) all over the place to stay on track
- Analgesics: Ten tablets of Advil, in case you feel a little sore at first
- Vitamin sample: Sundown Naturals adult gummy multivitamins — am I the only one who finds “adult” and “gummy” pretty funny when used in combination? — plus a $2 coupon off your next purchase
I’m also throwing in a $5 Starbucks card, which could come in handy as the carrot on the stick: Get through a week’s worth of changes and you can stop for a beverage. Naturally you’ll choose something healthy like green tea, right? Right?
As for all the logos, well, what can I say? I go to conferences.
To enter:
- Leave a comment below
- Subscribe via e-mail or Feedburner
- Sign up to follow Surviving and Thriving on Twitter or Facebook
If you do any (or all!) of these things, please leave separate, additional comments to get credit for each entry.
The deadline is 7 p.m. PDT Tuesday, Jan. 6. If I don’t hear back from the winner by 7 p.m. PDT Wednesday, Jan. 7, I’ll pull another name.
Note: Due to the high cost of international shipping, a winner from outside the United States will receive an Amazon gift card.
What a fun giveaway. I don’t wait for New Years to start my resolutions, but I can make good use of everything in the giveaway. Hope I win!
Getting fit is ongoing for me!!!
Conferences are fun, especially the stuff they give you!
What a great idea for a New Year’s giveaway!
Exercise gives you energy and helps keep you healthy. Thanks for the giveaway!
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My goal is to do a 5K in under 30. Since I’m over 50, this is ambitious. This would help!
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Sign me up….I follow on FB
Fantastic give away, Donna! I would love this prize package.
Ooh…and I follow you on Facebook too.
I started my fitness routines last year, so now I just need to keep going. This would be awesome!
Yaaaa – that sounds awesome.
Thanks for holding another giveaway!
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Creative way to upcycle the conference stuff! Put me in the contest please.
I’d love to win.
I follow you on Facebook.
Great giveaway. This would help with my goals for this year!
i’m already on the fitness train since June, but all of the goodies would come in handy! I follow via email. Thanks
I’m a former couch potato that WILL walk 2015 miles in 2015.
As always, thank you for the giveaway. Started the year our with a bang. Walking daily and trip to grocery store for a kitchen full of healthy meals.
I follow on FB, too.
I’m bound to not miss one of your posts. I get email also.
And, even though I am not a huge Twitter girl, I follow there, too.
Again, thank you!
Donna I love how you recycle/regift all of your conference “goodies” and we benefit from it!
I’ve decided to continue my yoga journey this year and would love a new bag to carry my clothes to and from work!
I am already a runner and go to the gym, so can put this to good use! Thank you, and happy new year!
Am also a subscriber
Great giveaway! Thanks.
I subscribe by email.
I follow on twitter.
I am looking for a new bag for the gym. This would be very helpful. Thank you.
I subscribe vía email.
Crossing my fingers.
Like and follow you on Facebook.
Subscribe via email as well.
This challenge is pretty nice. Thanks for thinking of all of us “resolution breakers”!
Thanks for the exercise crap giveaway.
I subscribe to your emails.
I’m a facebook follower too.
Only thing missing from the giveaway is perseverance! Thanks.
Sounds like fun!
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I’m in! i’d love to win this prize package!
Need to get my fitness program restarted, its easy to quit hard to start.
I gained 9 lbs. last month. This would help motivate me for sure.
My resolution is to work out more often this year. I need all the motivation I can get.
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I like you on Facebook.
I’d love this! 🙂
This would be a big help in 2015!
Nice giveaway! Let’s stay fit!
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How did you know that was my resolution? 🙂 This would be so helpful! I subscribe by email
I would love to win this giveaway!
Great giveaway for New Years!
I subscribe via email.
I follow you on twitter…(but you’re not very talkative there…)
I am an e-mail subscriber.
Fit is good.
Best wishes to you for a Happy New Year. Surviving and Thriving is at the top of my must-read list!!
Thank you, Carol.
Donna – been a fan since 2008.
My goal for this year is lose a pound a week. I think its doable.
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I would love to win. I subscribe by email.
I would love to win. I subscribe by Facebook too.
Email!
Facebook!
Great giveaway.
I follow on Facebook.
I also follow on email.
And anywhere else I can find you.
This is a great prize, I would love it!
Happy New Year, Donna –
Thanks for the giveaway chance, Donna. I thought adult gummies were bizarre, too–until I received a sample and tried them. It beats the daylights out of swallowing more pills. I’ve since converted several of my daily vitamins to gummies–now it’s like a daily snack!
Excelent Giveaway!!
I also subscribe to your e-mails
And now, also on Twitter
I subscribe via email!
Through a great deal offered at work, I’ve recently joined a gym. This giveaway would be an excellent (additional) incentive for me to hit the gym! Thanks for the opportunity!
Happy New Year. Great giveaway.
I follow by email.
Nice motivation for all the healthier resolutions! Happy New Year!
Incentives!
Facebook too.
I follow you on FaceBook. This is a great giveaway – I could use everything in the package. I started walking awhile back to combat depression following my husband’s death, and to lose weight prior to a high school reunion. Depression is gone and I’ve lost most of the weight I needed to lose. Started out walking one-eighth of a mile (just couldn’t do more), and gradually worked my way up to walking 3.5 miles daily. Hope to increase to 5 miles/day by year end. So even if my name is not chosen – I’m still a winner! Thank you for all you do for your followers. It IS going to be a great 2015!
I’m sorry for the loss of your husband. Thank you for sharing your example of how we often can change our circumstances.
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Happy New Year Donna! Love your blog and articles!
Thanks, Becky — and thanks to everyone else who’s expressed greetings.
Such a nice giveaway!
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Great way to begin the New Year! Let’s focus on our goals. 🙂
I happily follow you on Facebook, I’ve shared the love and had friends sign up too 🙂
I follow you on Twitter, wouldn’t mind more updates, hint, hint.
Try following me on my other Twitter stream, @DLFreedman. I know it’s awful but I keep forgetting to post on the @SurvivngThriving. 🙁
Longtime email subscriber here, this is the year I could finally use some fitness inspiration.
I’m cutting it close, since I’ll have limited access to email until Wednesday, but please count me in! What a lovely-and timely-package.
Happy New Year, and as always, thanks for the giveaway.
been following you since your MSN days
Would love to win this — thanks for the giveaway Donna!
I follow via email too
I would love to win this! I need to get in shape in 2015.
I also subscribe via email.
AND I already follow you on Facebook and Twitter!
I’d love to share this with my grandkids!
I subscribe to your emails.
I follow you on Twitter!
I’m determined to get healthier. The majority of my focus is on nutrition right now but i intend to add exercise, as well. I also plan to accomplish a few more goals, even though the thought of some them terrify me.
I follow you on Facebook.
I subscribe to your e-mail.
This is a great giveaway!
I subscribe via email.
I also follow you on Twitter and FB.
Thanks for the giveaway.
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Thanks for the giveaway Donna!
I follow you here on your blog, as well as on Facebook, but I am fine with only one entry in the contest. My lose weight/get fit commitment started in September, so January is just a continuation—so much easier to continue what I all ready have started, as opposed to a brand new resolution! A personal trainer and a change in eating habits (as opposed to a “diet”) have helped me to lose 14 pounds so far. I feel GREAT…and not everyone my age (70) can say that! Good health is a real reason to have an attitude of gratitude! Blessing to you in the New Year & I do have Talkeetna on my bucket list for 2015.
I could use these for my 2015 goals
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I have been trying hard to get healthy and exercise more, so this would be a great help.
I am a email subscriber
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I follow you on twitter @fhammons
Going to add some extra walking. Maybe just maybe have a dry January too.
This seems like a wonderful incentive to get started. I follow and enjoy your blog.
Wow — everyone wants to win this one! So do I, so do I.
My best weight loss hack: reduce portions, increase fluids, increase activity. It never fails. I don’t have to worry about what I’m eating, or if I went to the gym: I just make sure that the pedometer gets to at least 7,000 steps a day, and track food/calories in either a planner or on a website like My Fitness Pal. They seem to be the best.
Thanks for the great giveaways.
This type of support (offering a duffel bag & the other items) could make all of the difference for some & inspire them to stock to their new years resolution! Thanks!
This would be a good jump start for anyone to help with their fitness plans for the new year.
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Fitness is actually my goal this year!! I just bought a recumbent bike.