Thursday night we had a party here at the club to celebrate our Lose Weight Challenge winners, and it was a HUGE success! A big "THANK YOU" to all who came out, and to Garden of Light Natural Foods Market for providing snacks for our attendees.
Our overall winners for the challenge were as follows:
- Missy Gottier - 10.8% body weight lost
- Amy Power - 10.18% body weight lost
- Sam Stancati - 9.35% body weight lost
Missy was our proud and happy winner, stating that, "...it was a great chance to work hard at a goal and do something good for Gifts of Love!" She not only lost quite a bit of weight, but she's motivated to continue to a healthy weight, and she won a gift card to the Big Y, an easyFIT activity monitor, and 6 months of free membership to the club.
Amy slid in at a very close second, and had to work on Thursday night, though she sent some representatives to receive her prizes for her. She received a dinner for two at the Meat House, and 3 free months of membership! Sam came out of no where once he started doing personal training with Brian, and ended up losing 9.35% of his body weight during the challenge. He was traveling for work and was unable to make it (can you believe that he chose VEGAS over us??:)
Now, for the most important part: our donation to Gifts of Love! We ended up donating enough weight for a $518 check to Gifts of Love! According to Lori Shields from Gifts of Love, that's enough for $5,000 worth of food in their pantry through Food Share! CONGRATULATIONS, MEMBERS! Thank you all for participating in the challenge and helping us do so much for so many in our community. I hate to say it, but it could be anyone at anytime down on their luck and needing assistance from Gifts of Love, so it's really great to be able to help out and get the community more involved in the program.
As a final surprise on the night, Mark Betancourt arrived to announce that even though he did not win this challenge, he was going to donate his $140 from the weight loss challenge he participated in at the club from January-March. So all in all, Snap Fitness and friends donated over $650 to Gifts of Love... that's $6,000+ worth of food for the charity! We hope that everyone continues to work hard toward their weight loss goals, and will be walking in the Food Share walk against hunger tomorrow in Hartford!
Snap Fitness Avon would like to thank our following sponsors for supporting our program and providing prizes to our weekly & overall winners:
- Entertainment
- Russell Speeders
- Aloha Tanning
- Big Y
- The Meat House
- Battisons Cleaners
- The Garden of Light
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