Weight Watchers–Donate your Weight Loss

I have mentioned a few times that I am following the Weight Watchers PointsPlus Plan in an effort to get my pre-babies body back.  Weight Watchers right now has a promotion called Lose For Good.  The concept is that Weight Watchers will donate up to 1 million dollars to fight hunger for every pound members lose.  They also encourage meetings members to bring a donation that will be given to local food banks.  The suggested donation is a food item that equals your weight loss for that week so if you lose a pound you can donate a one pound bag of rice or pasta. 

I wanted to push myself to hit my next mini goal of losing 35 pounds.  (I still have ~15 pounds to hit my goal.)  I hit that goal and I decided to gather 35 pounds worth of food out of my pantry to donate so that I could have another visual of the weight I have lost. 

I took a picture of my 35 pound food donation at Weight Watchers with my phone:

(It isn’t my best set-up, Michael was “helping”)

I had a total of 10 boxes of cereal, 9 cans of vegetables, 2 cans of tomato sauce, 6 boxes of whole grain pasta, 6 bottles of barbecue sauce, 3 rice mixes, 2 bags of vegetable pasta, and a pound of rice.

I figure that I paid about $10 thanks to sales and coupons for everything I donated.  What a great way to help others and make me realize how far I have come in my weight loss journey. 

~Ann

Change your Homepage and Help Raise Money for Compassion International

I have shared in the past that one of my favorite blogs to read is Money Saving Mom.  Crystal (the author and owner of MSM) was given an opportunity to give $10,000 to the charity of her choice from Yahoo! in exchange for her asking readers to change their homepage to Yahoo! for two days.  If you follow this link to her post she gives you the details of the organization.  In addition to the donation from Yahoo! Crystal and her husband are donating $1 for every reader who changes their homepage and leaves her a comment.  This is such a great organization and cause, please consider changing your homepage.  (If you already use Yahoo! as your homepage just leave her a comment that you already have Yahoo! as your homepage and she will still donate.)

Thanks!

~Ann