Poetry Contest Winner!

We got some great entries, and several more arrived via email, so it was a really tough call!

And the winner of the SanDisk slotRadio Player is... Scale Junkie!

Thank you all SO much for playing!

Giveaways, Grouchiness, and Silly Stuff

(Yes, I used this drawing by Dylan before. I just like it!)

So it's Friday, which means things are all a bit random here in Cranky Land. However, if you click enough links you'll discover we're hosting a poetry (!) contest with a very cool prize for the best poem, haiku, limerick, or full length opera. We've also got an Especially Annoying Health News Item, followed by some Very Fine Fitness Links (including a video featuring the awesome MizFit in a totally different setting than usual). And there are some other Random Funny Things at the end of the post! So even if you're excited about the poetry Contest and Prize, I hope you remember to come back here for the rest of the stuff.

Shall we begin? First up: the Annoying News Item.

Exercise: Dissed Yet Again!

So Time Magazine recently featured an article called "Why Exercise Won't Make You Thin." It doesn't just suggest that the impact of exercise on weight loss has been exaggerated--no, the article goes much further. Since exercise can make one hungry, and some people overeat because they feel entitled to scarf extra calories after exercising, the article concludes:

"You should exercise to improve your health, but be warned: fiery spurts of vigorous exercise could lead to weight gain. I love how exercise makes me feel, but tomorrow I might skip the VersaClimber — and skip the blueberry bar that is my usual postexercise reward."

Oh gosh, me too!! I'm gonna skip boot camp class; it will probably just make me gain weight. Because obviously if I go out and get some vigorous exercise, I will then have to make stupid-ass food choices the rest of the day. Why should I let a bunch of other studies, common sense, and a several decades of personal experience convince me otherwise?

Hand me my slippers and the TV remote, gosh darn it! I want to lose weight!

Actually, this article came out almost a week ago and I wasn't in the right cranky frame of mind to jump on it. It wasn't all that long ago that I came to the defense of physical exertion after I read another unfair anti-exercise article by a major media outlet. By now, you've all probably read all about this. But in case you haven't, there are some great posts about the Time article over at Truth 2 Being Fit, Feed Me I'm Cranky, and Weight for Deb.

And over at the L.A. Times blog, Booster Shots, they have a very thoughtful analysis and critique of the Time Magazine article that left me realizing anything I had to say would be just be superfluous.

Which doesn't usually stop me from going on for a few thousand words anyway! But perhaps I'll just leave it at this: to say that exercise won't help you lose weight (if you eat a whole bunch of extra food afterwards to compensate) is like saying that hammering a bunch of boards together won't help you build a barn (if you set fire to it once you're done).

Er, maybe you better go check those other links for a better analysis.


Go see MizFit be adorable!

It was Core and Abs week over at the Juice, and guess who showed up in one of the core videos to give some tips? The Amazing Mizfit! (As well as the awesome Jenn from Fit Bottomed Girls, and a couple of other fitness bloggers I hadn't been aware of before, but they're fun too). Go see it, MizFit's on first! Plus there's the official Juice video with a knowledgeable boot camp instructor giving more great core tips. Oh, and because of the grocery store $100 giveaway (ends this Sunday) I offered up some tips on avoiding fake grocery store bargains. I learned a lot from writing that post! For example, if you forget you're not on your own blog and use the word "crap" in boldface type on a corporate-sponsored site? They won't necessarily fire you! (Yet).

(What word would you suggest I test them on next week?)


So Where's The Poetry Contest and Giveaway?

It's over on the Cranky Fitness Product Page. You could win a cool music player thingy which comes pre-loaded with 1,000 songs from top selling artists, gives you the ability to read minds, and has an FM tuner. (And two of the three claims in that last sentence are actually true!)


And What About the Funny Stuff?

I have kind of a blog-crush on Sarah Haskins, because why else would I post a video about doofy husbands? I do not own one myself, and doofy husbands are not a fitness-related topic. (Unless perhaps you want to bench press yours, or use him as a kettlebell).



And speaking of "making fun of husbands who are only trying to help," there was a great post over at Jennsylvia about the fine art of photographing celebrities (and their buttocks). And I could totally relate to Jen's poor husband Fletch and his difficulties taking pictures! Have you noticed there are rarely photos on this blog unless they are downloaded from elsewhere? Well, there is a good reason for that.

Got any thoughts on exercise causing weight gain? Or on the whole doofy husband issue? (And don't forget to go to the product page for the contest!)

The Moji Knee Cold Wrap Winner

So thanks so much, everyone, for participating in the Moji Giveaway. The Random Number Generator has spoken, and the winner is: Samsam26!

Congratulations, Samsam26! Please double check the size chart and email us your name, address, and size information, and we'll have the Moji folks send one right out to you.

The email address is Crabby McSlacker @ gmail dot com (you can probably figure out how to put that together) and please check in by Saturday night to claim your prize!

Achy Breaky Knees and Giveaway!

So the Random Number Generator got all riled up after we pulled it out of the Cranky Fitness basement last week, and it made such a ruckus about being locked up again that we felt we had no choice but to do another giveaway this week.

This one will be of special interest to anyone (like me) who has knee issues. I'm often complaining about how my knees are trashed and I can't run nearly as often or as far as I want to. So I was curious to try a product designed to help with this problem, called a "Moji."

"Moji" sounds sort of sweet and cuddly, doesn't it, like a dog's name? ("C'mere Moji; stop rolling in that dead skunk!") Or maybe Moji sounds more like a tropical fruit, now available in an antioxidant-rich beverage blend. ("Try new Cranberry flavored Moji, now with 50% more Vitamin C!)

But no, as it turns out, Moji is not a dog, nor is it a beverage.

Want to know more about Moji? Like what the heck it is, how well I liked it, and how you could win one? Well, please follow me over to the Cranky Fitness Product Page, where all shall be revealed. That's where today's main post is. Plus, the giveaway is open to international folks too!

Back already? Well, I've also got a few other random items to tell you about.

Over at The Juice, they've still got the $200 Patagonia gift card giveaway going ('til August 3rd) and your chances look mighty good because they don't have a ton of entries yet. Also, this week I diagnosed myself with a debilitating mental illness, called SNAD. Perhaps some of you suffer from it too and don't even realize it!

And over at Half-Fast, clever Vanilla has discovered a new exercise gadget that is unintentionally and hilariously X-Rated. How many of you ladies would purchase the Shake Weight?

Fitness Magazine Prize Pack Winner

So the Random Number Generator chose Beanie as the winner in the Fitness Magazine Giveaway. Congrats, Beanie! Just email us at Crabby McSlacker at gmail dot com with your mailing info and we'll get you set up.

Thanks for the great comments everyone!

Primal Blueprint Giveaway Winner

So the winner of the Primal Blueprint Giveaway is Katie Jane Wennechuk!

Katie, please email us by Sat, June 27th at Crabby McSlacker @ gmail dot com (some assembly required) with your mailing address and we'll have Mark or one of his busy bees send you a copy!

Thanks for your comments, everyone!

Crabby vs. Grok; Primal Blueprint Giveaway

Many of you are already fans of Mark's Daily Apple, the blog by Mark Sisson and his clever and dedicated "worker bees." (Note to Merry: hmm... Worker Bees? Suhweeeet! Do you think we could get some too, and just pay them in pollen and house them in hives?)

Anyway, as many of you know, Mark's Daily Apple is a great resource for healthy living tips, recipes, and news about the latest fitness and nutrition studies. Mark is an advocate of the "primal" lifestyle, and now has a book out called The Primal Blueprint. In it, he explains why you should eat and live more like "Grok," a caveman from 10,000 years ago.

What happens when a modern-day slacker like Crabby meets up with her hairy cave-dwelling ancestor, Grok? And how can you win a free copy of the Primal Blueprint? Please follow us over to the Primal Blueprint giveaway post over on our product review page to find out!

--Crabby

The End of Overeating Giveaway Winner

The random number generator has chosen Chelsea as our End of Overeating giveaway winner!

Congrats ! Please email us at Crabby McSlacker @ gmail dot com to claim your prize by Wednesday June 24th!

The End of Overeating: Review and Giveaway

Sometimes people fail to realize that we have two bloggers at Cranky Fitness: Crabby McSlacker and Merry Sunshine.

(Crabby is the Crabby one, and Merry is the Nice one.)

Of course, some of the confusion comes from the fact that our byline gets dropped on some feed readers and email subscriptions and there's no way to figure out who wrote the post.

Note to self: FIX THAT SOMEDAY!

And other times, folks have noticed a similarity in our styles and come to suspect that we are actually the same person writing under two different names.

Well, in case you had any doubts, here is proof we are two different bloggers entirely:

If Crabby and Merry were the same person, "Crabby" would not have undertaken to write a book review post the day after "Merry" wrote a thoughtful, entertaining, and informative book review post! She would have given you a cat video instead, or she would have, as "Merry," written a lamer, lazier post so the contrast wasn't so obvious.

But, alas, Crabby is a whole different person from Merry, and did not think to check with Merry before scheduling this review and giveaway. So somehow, Crabby has to entice you to read her book-related post, even though we just ran one yesterday on a different book.

Hmm... How to do this?

By taking the low road, that's how!

So here are 5 good reasons why you should follow Crabby over to the product review page to find out more about "The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite."

1. The End of Overeating is near the top of the New York Time Best Seller List and everyone else is reading it so you might want to at least find out what it's about!

2. You might want to learn all about "orosensory self-stimulation" and the "hedonic hotspot," even though the first term is not actually as dirty as it sounds and the second is not the name of a trendy new nightclub in L.A. where you can spot celebrities.

3. The book has some fascinating accounts about what the food industry does to make you willing to sell your grandmother for another bite of their strangely compelling concoctions.

4. You can WIN A COPY of the book by leaving a comment!

5. And, in a completely pathetic bid to compete with Merry's scholarly analysis, I've included a whole new photo of the nearly naked Italian Men's soccer team. Which I won't even pretend has anything to do with the subject at hand.

So c'mon, everyone, come join me over at the Cranky Fitness Product Page and learn more about The End of Overeating!

UPDATE: Sorry, I didn't make it very clear that you need to go to the Product Page link to enter the contest! I'll include the first 10 comments here in the drawing too, but from now on, please go comment there if you want to win the book. But if you just have an observation, this post is good too! (It has to do with advertising guidelines--we can't do product giveaways on the main page). Sorry for the confusion!

--Crabby

SleepPhones Giveaway Winner

The Random Number Generator has chosen the winner of our SleepPhones giveaway contest (details and SleepPhones review here). And the winner is: The Incredible Shrinking Woman, Delle!

So Delle, please email us at Crabby McSlacker @ gmail dot com to claim your prize by Saturday night, June 13th.

Oh, and besides your name and mailing address, we'll be asking for your headband size (see how to determine over at the SleepPhones site). And if you have a color preference between gray and lavender, let us know, though it's possible offerings may depend on availability.

Congrats!

And to those who didn't win, two things to keep in mind:

We have some more giveaways coming up, stay tuned!

And you can buy your own pair. The SleepPhones people have offered Cranky Fitness readers a code for free shipping good until June 17th:

It's Cranky1716.

Thanks for playing and for all your awesome comments, some were quite hilarious!

Got Sleep? No? Cranky Fitness SleepPhones Giveaway!

One, two, three....Oh crap. There's just too damn many.
Photo: natala007

I am lucky not to suffer from chronic insomnia. From what I hear, it's an extremely frustrating affliction. Sure, some nights I'll be excited or worried about something, and it will take a little longer to settle down, but generally, I'm one of those lucky folks who reliably drifts off to sleep within 10 minutes or so after I go to bed.

Unless...

Some stupid @$#%&*%@ jerk is out there making noise when I'm trying to fall asleep.

Well yeah, it's true that on summer nights we do love to leave our windows open. Oh, and we tend to go to bed early. And there happens to be a big ol' condo complex right behind us.

And so inevitably some selfish, obnoxious oblivious louts will get very drunk and yell and scream and sing and blast their music in the middle of the night. They are clearly jerks. But then so are chirping birds, crying babies, barking dogs, or even otherwise nice neighbors who dare to converse outdoors anytime after, say, 9 p.m.

When I'm trying to sleep my definition of jerkitude gets very expansive. I too am sometimes a noisy jerk, but somehow this never occurs to me at the time.

Anyway, so how does one deal with noisy jerks, or with insomnia problems generally?

Well, please follow me to our Review and Giveaway Page where we can discuss some options! One of these is a product called SleepPhones, which I've gotten to try and will tell you all about. Plus, you'll get the chance to win some SleepPhones of your own!

(Read the rest of the post and enter the contest here.)

Hella Sound Giveaway Winners

The two random winners of the Hella Sound running music giveaway are: My Sensei and Midknyt (who was totally in contention for the funniest comment too, so that worked out well. (She's also got a very funny post about Engrish if you follow her link.)

And there were a number of amusing comments about the need for fresh music, so it was a difficult choice. But I went with Elizabeth!

Winners, please email at CrabbyMcslacker at gmail dot com to claim your prize by Saturday night, and I'll send you a code to get a free download.

Thanks everyone! And don't forget, even if you didn't win, you can still get a dollar off the 30 minute download (making it $4) if you use our special code, CRANKTASTIC. Just click on the sidebar HellaSound ad and check it out!

Movin' to the Music: HellaSound Giveaway

Not everyone finds it essential to have a musical accompaniment to their workouts. Some of y'all are happy to just "be present" as you exercise. Depending on where you exercise, you may enjoy the ambient sounds like whooshing wind, crashing waves, barking dogs, jackhammers, piped-in gym music or the various grunting noises of fellow exercisers. If this is what you like best, go ahead, be present. Enjoy!

For me? I'm all: screw ambient noise.

I can't exercise to it. There's no beat. There's no melody! I need music. The sweetest birdsong in the world won't do anything for my adrenaline, but the pounding rhythm of a favorite song can kick my ass up a tough hill and make me feel like superwoman. (OK, a crabby middle-aged superwoman with aching knees, but you get the idea).

The problem? Not just any music will do. (Especially on the elliptical machine, for some reason). Even a fantastic song won't help me if its going at the wrong speed. Because if it's thumping along at 120 beats per minute, but I want to go more like 160 steps per minute, then I either have to ignore the beat or slow way down, neither of which I like to do.

This phenomenon has resulted in my downloading some of the most inexcusably cheesy exercise music ever recorded, just because it's got the right beat! I've got lame cover bands doing remakes of 70's disco songs; I've got classical tunes sped up to hilarious parodies of themselves. Sure, I've got some great songs too, but it takes hours and hours of scouring iTunes to line up an acceptable playlist--hours that could have been better spent watching Rachel Maddow researching health and fitness news!

What to do? Well, what if you could download 30-minute long songs composed especially for exercise and customized to the exact speed you typically run or pedal or whatever? And what if 3 giveaway winners could get it for free? Follow me over to our Product Page, where you can learn more about an awesome company called HellaSound and enter to win a free 30 minute song to exercise to!

So come on over, read more, and enter to win!

NOTE: Whoops, people seem to be commenting here, which is fine if your musical needs are met and you don't want to win any free music. But to enter the giveaway, please leave a comment at the review page!

Thanks!

Giveaway Winner: This Book Will Make You Fat

Well, thufferin' thuccotash, the Random Number Generator has picked POD as the winner of Charlie Hills book!

Congrats, POD, and please send your mailing address to Crabby McSlacker at gmail dot com and I'll forward to Charlie.

Thanks everyone for playing!

Why Your Last Diet Failed You--And Why This Book Won't Help You On Your Next One

This guest post is written by Charlie Hills, who has a hilarious book out about weight loss that does NOT promise easy, effortless results. Cranky Fitness was lucky enough to be the final stop on his whirlwind virtual tour. Check it out, you could win a copy! (Note: due to the increasingly annoying Blogher ad guidelines, we must do the actual giving away over on our review page. So after you click "read more," make sure to leave a comment over there, not over here, if you'd like to have a chance to win! And even if you already have a copy, check out his post anyway--where you will find the sexiest exercise demonstration pictures we've ever posted! (OK, so maybe we've never posted any before...)

I'd like to thank Crabby for hosting the very last stop on my virtual book tour. It's been a great ride and I don't regret the undertaking one bit. I mean, what a great way to rack up thousands of virtual frequent flier miles.

Over the past two weeks I've tackled many food-, diet-, and book-related topics. Yet only now have I realized that in all my yacking, not once has the F word come up. Therefore, now that I've landed at at Cranky Fitness, I feel the topic is at last unavoidable.

Read More!

Giveaway Winners and Important Reminders!

Not only do we have a iPosture winner, but we have a NEW winner in the Vado HD Pocket video camera giveaway. Yep, we had to consult with Mr. Random Number generator again because the previous winner did not come forward and contact us with mailing info by the deadline. (Or actually, by the deadline plus several additional days.)

We are indeed strict Prize-Mistresses here at Cranky Fitness. We will REDRAW if a winner does not check in!

Claim your prize or else!

Are you now worried that if you win one of our drawings, an email glitch might accidentally send your email out into an obscure corner of the blogosphere rather than in the safe haven of Crabby McSlacker's mailbox? We worry about that too! So it's actually not a bad idea to also leave a comment letting us know you saw that you won and are sending your contact info, especially if you don't hear back from us in a day or so.


So our giveaway winners are...

iPosture winner: Ruth!

Vado Winner: Sagan!

Winners, please email at Crabby McSlacker @ gmail dot com (some assembly required) and let us know your name and mailing address by midnight Saturday Feb 28.

Guest Post Reminder: Anyone interested in writing a guest post for Cranky Fitness?? I'll be off for a couple of weeks starting March 1 (we're making our way via circuitous route back to Provincetown, MA). It's hard not to notice that Cranky Fitness commenters always have more sensible, witty, and interesting things to say about health and fitness than I do, so it would be awesome if any of you wanted to share your thoughts in a guest post. Fortunately, Merry will still be here, but we still have plenty of room for guests.

Note: a guest post doesn't have to be a boring old essay like the Crab writes. It could be a picture, a video, a cartoon you've drawn, a poem... We'd love to hear from you!

Christmas Eve, Blender Winners, and Poetry

Photo credit: Plan 59

On the night before Christmas
Cranky Fitness went quiet.
No posts about fitness,
Or improving your diet.

The Crab must confess
She's a holiday shirker.
But y'all knew already,
She's not much of a worker.

Is she off buying presents,
Instead of manning the blog?
Busy trimming the tree?
Or just sneaking egg-nog?

Thinking further ahead,
She could've penned enough prose
To plan for the holidays.
But whoops! That's how it goes.

For bloggers have families,
After all, 'tis the season.
Crabby hates to be missing,
But she's gone for a reason.

Please have a great Christmas
If it's a holiday for you,
Or if not, let this Thursday,
Be an awesome day too!

********************************

Oh dear. There's a reason I leave the poetry to our creative readers instead of attempting it myself!


And speaking of which, no, I haven't forgotten to announce the two winners of the Vita-Mix Blenders.

The random winner was: Lillian's Mom.

And the Poetry/Haiku winner was Liz Turtle!

Here was her entry:

Lite margarita
Splenda, lime, and self-pity
Martyr's bitter cup!

There were SO many great poems and haikus it was hard to narrow it down to three. Here are just some of the finalists I chose from to get the final three, which I then handed off to the Random Number Generator. But there were many, many, other worthy contenders. It really frustrates me that we can't give a humongous prize to all the great poets out there! Do go back to the poetry contest post to check out the rest.

Here are just a few of the many clever entries that readers submitted:

Rhymey Poems:

Here is my best answer.
I read those cure cancer.
--POD

Blender, blender whirring might,
in the kitchens day and night
what eager cooking with hand and eye
could master thy fearful energy?
--erika

O VitaMix! O VitaMix!
How many are your functions!
You give me lovely smoothies bright,
To tempt and please my appetite.
O VitaMix! O VitaMix!
How many are your functions!

O VitaMix! O VitaMix!
How grand are your concoctions!
With yummy soups and ice cream fun,
You really can please anyone.
O VitaMix! O VitaMix!
How grand are your concoctions!
--Messymimi

This Vita-Mix giveaway's splendid
But the outcome may be unintended
Because if I won
The blades would be spun
'Til each thing that I own had been blended
--Blenderific

We're not a blended nation,
And never shall we be.
At best, we're individuals
Who work towards unity.

Just look at Cranky Fitness:
There's happy Merry Sunshine--
On the other hand, there's Crabby-
And all SHE does is WHINE.

But her whining is SO CHARMING :-)
I'll cherish and defend her.
Why sucking up so much, you ask?

I SURE DO WANT THIS BLENDER!
--Ruth

Monica went on a bender
Put everything into her blender
Went one step too far
With puree of new car
But relished her relish of fender
--BettyG

Heck yeah, I need me that blender!
Two months I'd be nothing but slender.
A frenzy of smoothies -
It would all be so groovy!
And without even being a big spender!
--Adora


Oh Vita-mix, Oh Vita-mix,
How I want to win thee!

Oh Vita-mix, Oh Vita-mix,
Please Crabby pick me!

You'll crush my ice,
You'll kneed my dough.
I'll use you twice,
A day you know!

Oh Vita-mix, Oh Vita-mix,
How I want to win thee!
--Sherri

Mixes fast, mixes well.
Will I win it? None can tell.
If I do, I will not sell.
Those who lost can go to ...
Vitamix
--Nick


Haikus:

Made some fudge; got soup.
Recipe said five ounce can milk,
Not fourteen ounce. Damn.
-- Jackie B

Purring like a kitten,
Or roaring like a lion in heat,
Wish I had a Vita-Mix!
--Leslie

The cookies are burned
I need to be supervised
This habit costs lots.
--Sagan

I last blended soup
And sadly melted my hand
Now, my blender sleeps.
--Brianne

My Vitamix brings
All the boys to the yard, so
Suck on that, milkshake
--Sarah

Yesterday with old blender
Strawberry explosion
Cleaning now is endless
--Nina

Making smooth soup is
Easier if the blender
Still has a bottom.
--Sarah

A summer yard sale
Vitamix calling to me
Woe. I didn't hear.
--Andrea

Slayer of blenders
Three have fallen before me
Stop me, Vita Mix
--Smoni Smo

blue margarita
like absent sun in winter
blender to rescue
--Elizabeth

Thank you, all who entered!

Lillian's mom and Liz Turtle, please email us at Crabby McSlacker at gmail dot com with your name and mailing address by midnight EST of January 2nd to claim your prize.

Thanks everyone for your wonderful poems on a tough topic--I laughed out loud too many times to count.

And have a great holiday or a great rest of the week! Peace and Joy and All kinds of good stuff to you and your loved ones. Cranky Fitness readers are THE BEST.

Vita-Mix Blender Giveaway

First the good news:

We're giving away TWO Vita Mix Super 5200 High Performance blenders this week!


And these aren't the cheapo kind of blenders you get at the drugstore that get all panicky at the first sight of a big chunk of ice.

No, these are fancy-pants, high-end, state of the art, do-everything-but-change-the oil-in-your-car kind of machines. The kind real chefs use. ConsumerSearch, which compiles product reviews from folks like Consumer Reports and Cook's illustrated, rated the Vita-Mix 5200 the Best Multi-Function blender out there.

This thing can cook soup and make ice cream, grind grains into flour, knead dough, make a dress out of a feedbag and make a man out of... oh wait. You may need Peggy Lee for those last two. But the blender can do at least 52 things besides tackling simplest smoothie recipe ever. (For more info check it out here).

The (Possibly) Bad News:

We're afraid that due to shipping issues, the nifty 5200's can only be sent to U.S. and Canadian addresses. But Canadians, you're in this time!

And, due to my tendency to be disorganized about scheduling things, I'm going to stop even pretending that Fridays are giveaway days. It just got a little boring to have so many posts start off with: the reason we don't have a giveaway this week is...

So enough of that! From now on Fridays are not giveaway days, they could be anything! And giveaways can happen any old day. So, it's bad news if you like predictability, but good news if you were tired of whiny excuses.

And so how can you enter to win one of these kick-ass food pulverizing gizmos for your very own kitchen?

Two Ways to Win a Vita-Mix Blender!

Enter with a comment saying you'd like to win this thing, and your comment will be included in a Random Number Drawing for one of the Vita-Mixes. (First comment only, in case you stop by more than once).

However, if you choose to write a poem or haiku about blenders, cooking, cooking disasters, margarita's, or anything remotely related to the giveaway item, you will, in addition to being entered in the Random Drawing for the first Vita-Mix, be among the much smaller pool of folks eligible to win the second Vita-Mix as well.

I will pick my Three Favorite Poems/Haiku's/Limericks and use the Random Number Generator to choose randomly among the three finalists. (This means, if somehow you don't win, that you can console yourself by knowing that I actually thought yours was the very best, but the RNG picked the wrong entry).

Deadlines

Winner will be chosen as of Midnight, EST Tuesday the 23rd, and announced Wednesday, the 24th. (Holy crap, that's Christmas eve! Where's the time going?!?!) If you win, please email us to claim your prize by... oh heck, it's the holidays... please claim you're prize by January 2nd, even if you're still hungover or whatever. But earlier is better!

Update:
I just found out MizFit is doing a charitable comment drive over at her place. Every comment you make will result in a donation of ten cents to a domestic violence shelter! (What does this have to do with blenders? Nothing! But I thought it was cool and hope you can go over and check it out.)

Another Important Update:

So sorry, but the contest is over and the winners have claimed their blenders. Maybe next giveaway you'll be luckier! However, if you want to do some shopping, here's a similar one...

Judith Beck Book Winner

Congratulations to Whobody! The random number generator has declared you the winner of The Complete Beck Diet for Life. Please email us by Monday night to claim your prize!

And thanks, everyone, for reading our interview with Judith Beck and participating in the giveaway.

Note: I recently recalled that Cranky Fitness is actually an Amazon affiliate! So for those who didn't win but would still like a copy, it's coming out December 23rd and you can pre-order it here.

Timex Ironman Race Trainer Winner

Thanks for all who entered and commented on the heart rate monitor giveaway--what a great bunch of reasons for wanting one of these fancy gizmos!

Unfortunately, there can be only one winner. The Random Number Generator hath chosen Midlife Mama! Midlife Mama, please email us at crabbymcslacker @ gmail dot com (some email address assembly required) to claim your prize by Friday night Dec 12th.

For those who are not Midlife Mama, here's some consolation: the folks at Healthbolt are hosting a giveaway of a different prize every single day of December. And one of the goodies is this very same heartrate monitor! Also, Kelly at Grounded Fitness is giving away an Ultra Fat Burning Workout DVD.

Thanks for playing!