A Tip and a Reminder

A quick reminder that there’s still one day left to vote for ‘100 Ways’ in The People’s Book Prize, just click here. Every vote makes a difference!

Now we’ve got that out of the way, here’s the tip we promised you.

Flab-Fighting Tip No. 20 – Whiten your teeth.

Bright gnashers are always attractive and one of those kits where you have put the bleaching gel in the rubber dental moulds and clamp them over your teeth for hours on end are relatively inexpensive and effective. They also make it totally impossible to eat.

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10 Days to Go!

There’s still ten days to vote for ‘100 Ways to Fight the Flab – and still have wine and chocolate’ in the People’s Book Prize.

You are the judge for this competition which means that every vote counts! So, we need your help to get through to the next round.

If this book helped you, or at least made you chuckle a few times, it would be great if you could find the time to vote. Just click here!

Huge thank you to everyone who has voted or is going to.

We’ve Been Nominated!

That’s right! ‘100 Ways to Fight the Flab – and still have wine and chocolate’ has been nominated for The People’s Book Prize.

What makes this prize special is that it’s judged by YOU! That’s right, the public decide which books deserve to get through to the next round of the competition.

So, if you liked the book, or it helped you when trying to lose weight, maybe you could find the time to vote. Just click here!

A huge thank you to everyone who has already voted and those who plan to.

100 Ways to Fight the Flab Competition – Top 12

Taa-Raaa – we have the first set of results of the Fight the Flab Competition, judged by Janie Milman, co-owner of the fab Chez-Castillon, Morgen-with-an-e-Bailey – blog-designer extraordinaire and me. Thank you so much to everyone who entered. Morgen has been the organised one and done all the admin, so over to her….

Hi Morgen here

Yes, that’s right – the entries were so impressive that we couldn’t agree on just ten.

Five of the twelve received a vote from all three judges, the other seven were picked by two of us.

Below are the shortlisted twelve and we shall be putting our heads together to pick out a winner… we may be some time! 🙂 Only kidding, we will be posting the Top 5 here on Saturday 11th May then the winner on Saturday 18th May… listen out for the fanfare. 🙂

For a reminder of the prize…

The entrants had to: Write a diet or fitness tip in no more than 250 words. Entries were be judged on originality and entertainment value.

The author of the best tip will win: a week’s writing course with Jane Wenham-Jones, September 28th-4th October 2013 at Chez Castillon (see http://chez-castillon.com for full description) including meals and accommodation (flights not included) – worth £875.

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and now for the Top 12… (in alphabetical order by surname)

Name	Tip Name
Karen Booth	The Regulating Waistband Plan
Philippa Bowe	Clean out your colon
Tracy Fells	The E-Plan
Ninette Hartley	Sleep The Fat Away
Jessica Kennedy	Stop Doing the Dishes
Cathy Lennon	Acquire a Labrador
Jane Lovering	Bum’s Away
Clare Mackintosh	The upside-down diet tip: a poem
Jan Newton	Make Rejection Work for You
Janet O’Kane	Why join a gym when you can work out at the supermarket?
Rebecca Stanley	In a Spin
Tony Tibbenham	Roll 6 for Chocolate

So good luck to those 12 and watch this space for the top 5 next weekend and the winner the weekend after!