I would be hard pressed to decide for the many deserving candidates, but I emailed you separately about that.

Hope all is well & continue your praiseworthy work in motivating people.

Injoy:) Carolyn

See the bottom of the post for winners names and instructions

Steve

Starting is easy. Keeping with it is hard. I can use all the tools I can get my hand on. I’ve read Rob’s website (and his wonderful free booklet), I’ve read Body-for-LIFE and Body-for-LIFE for Women, and Skinny Bitch. I have convinced myself that this will be a slow progress, and it will also change over time.

I’m entering this contest because I know I can see success, but the more tools I have in my toolbox, the better the chance of reaching my goal of true fitness will be. Please consider me!

Cheers

It’s extremely important that I re-take the steps that I did over 20 years ago to build business contacts, because I am the sole support of my wife 2 kids, and 92 year old mother in law. Appearance can be very important in not only my confidence, but also in potential clients choosing to work with me.

Finally and most importantly, I need to improve my health because I want to avoid any health disasters. I don’t have time for illness and need to improve my health to avoid, diabetes, and heart disease of which some family members are experiencing. I can also be an example to my family on how to turn their health situation around.

Thank you for this opportunity.

I love Tom Venuto! He rocks! He has the best practical advice and between support from you and Tom’s excellent ebook “Feed the Muscle, Burn the Fat” (and lots of hard work from me!) I’ve lost 17 kilos since May last year. Now I’m only about 7 or 8 kg from my goal but have hit a huge plateau (losing weight but ever so slowly these days. only 4kg off in about 5 months). I would love to win this book to add to my knowledge. I’m a firm believer of not following only one method but reading as much as I can and finding what suits my body and my lifestyle. Thanks for your continued support and guidance. You are inspirational.
cheers Fiona
(Australia)

I am one of your South African subscribers, and I have recently turned 46 years old. I presently weigh 115 kg (253 pounds) and my target weight is 95 Kg (209 pounds) which means that I need to lose 44 pounds.
I was always a fit to fairly fit sportsman participating actively in rugby and cricket (not well known sports in the US but huge in the UK,SA,New Zealand and Australia amongst others). As a result of work pressure in terms of time I now no longer participate in sport but I do try to do weight training at least 3 times a week and I try to eat healthy – which is not happening at the moment as I am not too sure of what to do and not to do. After reading the other posts for this book I realize that there are people that seem to have a far worse problem than I do, but I don’t want to get to the point that they are !!!. In the last 3 years I have gained 22 pounds and it is not muscle!.
I need to stop this now and turn things around, I am very dedicated to this objective as from 2009 and sincerely believe that this book will be a tremendous tool to help me to achieve my goal weight and health as I now suffer from HBP and cholesterol.
Reading all the other posts I only wish that all of these people could get the book as it is obvious that we all need help.
I am hoping that my request will receive your favourable consideration.

Kind Regards

Alun

I am fairly new to your site and love it! As with so many of the previous comments, I struggle with motivation to stay on track to loose the 150 pound excess that I carry around. I have recently realized that much of my eating is powered by emotions, be they positive or negative. I eat to celebrate, to relax, when sad, happy or angry. It seems that I totally use food as a form of medication to calm me down, pep me up or to destress from a hard day.

I would love Tom Venuto’s book to learn how to wrap my head around the emotional eating issue and to find a way to overcome it. While I have always had to work hard to control my weight, since I turned 50, it has become a lost battle. I want to win the war and Tom Venuto’s book could be the winning plan!

I cannot do this alone. I need help. I don’t want to be overweight and alone with my food. I want to start living life. I have turned down life because of my weight and justify my food choices because of cost. It is cheaper to eat fat food than to eat healthy. When will my body get out of my way to living and enjoying life.

I hope your book on emotional eating will help, it must be powerful to get through to me!

Over the past 18 months, I have had 2 surgeries, my husband has had one and 3 other hospitalizations, and a home business that had to be shut down. The stress is unbelievable. In addition, the frustration of not being able to lose the last of the fat, no matter how hard or often I work out, is taking its toll.

I would be forever grateful to receive a copy. I have read great things about this book.

I feel I should receive a copy of the book because I don’t want to waste any more of my life being unsatisfied with my body. I’ve lived most of my life about 20 pounds from my goal and feel guilty that I can’t stay commited to a lifestyle change long enough to lose that extra fat and move on already! I love exercise and whole foods, I just become lazy and go with the flow of everyone around me. My 27th birthday is the day this give away ends and I think it would be an awesome birthday gift to receive this book, absorb the information and kick myself in the butt to make the positive changes I need to make. I’m also hoping, that by improving myself I’ll be a positive example to my family, my boyfriend (who is obese), and my 3 year old niece who is destined for diabetes by the time she’s 12.

Even if you don’t choose me to receive the book, I want to thank you for your inspiring blog and website. I really enjoy it.