The National Challenge
The winners of the 2011 National Challenge have been selected!!
1st Grand Prize Winner
Majeedah B (username: CorrieAddict) from Fredericton, NB has been selected for the 1st grand prize. Majeedah achieved her weight loss goal of 35lbs in 26 weeks!
Majeedah Belding (Usermame: Corrieaddict), is this year’s X-Weighted National Challenge grand prize winner, and has just had her FRED makeover experience. We caught up with Majeedah to see how it felt to win the Challenge, get healthy and get to spend time one-on-one with the one and only Fred Connors.
When she first got an email from us to say that she had won the Challenge, Majeedah was shocked and couldn’t believe she had won – she had to call her husband over to read the email and make sure that it was for real. After the news sank in, the first thing that Majeedah did was go work out in order to deal with her excitement. “I was so excited I couldn't sleep for days,” she says. (This was to be her first time on an airplane which added to the excitement.)
The second thing she did was to check if there were any races happening in Halifax around the time of her makeover weekend, and then signed up to do the Navy 10k. How’s that for dedication to a new healthy lifestyle?
Hanging with Fred
Majeedah says that hanging out with Fred was awesome. “You don't have to be around him for very long to realize why he is so successful and that he is very very good at what he does. He's like a tornado of style and authority. He knows how he wants everything to look and he is very take charge to make it happen,” she says.
When Fred took Majeedah shopping with the $500 gift certificate from Mic Mac Mall, he helped her to choose pieces that would give her several different looks and advised her on the types of clothing that she should look at buying in the future to suit the new her.
Majeedah loved how Fred just took charge and got the job done: “After almost an hour of trying on clothes at one store one of the employees asked if he was my personal shopper or a friend or what. Fred looked at him with a total straight face and said, "I'm just helping her buy clothes". And you could tell that Fred considered the matter closed,” she says, “and when at the shoe store the clerk said he looked very familiar his response was that he just had one of those faces.”
Over the course of the Challenge, Majeedah lost 36 pounds to get down to a healthy BMI, but she has actually lost a total of 120 pounds over the past two years. “For me, this weekend was a celebration of years worth of work and not just a few months. Having the makeover was amazing,” she says, “I felt like a goddess! I left the salon on top of the world.”
A Completely Fabulous Experience
Majeedah says that everything about her weekend in Halifax was unbelievable. “I was treated like a princess. As a mother of two, whose life revolves around her husband and kids it was definitely different to have everything revolve around me,” she says.
“The room at the Prince George Hotel was unreal. It was more like an apartment then a hotel room. It was something I've seen in movies, not something I even envision staying in. Being driven everywhere by Atlantis Limousine with some great drivers was luxurious, and the dinner at Gio was delicious,” she says, “the photographer, Shaun Simpson was really good too, I can't wait to see the photos.”
Majeedah says that she could go on and on and on about any part of the weekend but if she had to pick a favourite part it was the makeover at FRED. “Being pampered with a cut, color, style and makeup, and looking so fantastic afterward was unbelievable,” she says.
Happy and Healthy
Majeedah says that X-Weighted has motivated her a great deal over the years and to have this experience to celebrate her weight-loss journey feels right. Her friends are very happy for her (and some are maybe a little jealous) and she has received tons of compliments since the makeover.
Everyone at X-Weighted is so proud of what Majeedah, and all our other wonderful participants, have achieved in this year’s X-Weighted National Challenge. Congratulations everyone.
2nd Grand Prize Winner
Kristin R (username: KristinAngela) from Vancouver, BC has been selected for the 2nd grand prize. Kristin lost 27lbs in 26 weeks, surpassing her weight loss goal of 24lbs.
3rd Grand Prize Winner
Michelle V (username: Teragon) from Vancouver, BC has been selected for the 3rd grand prize. Michelle lost a total of 13lbs in 26 weeks, 1 pound more than her weight loss goal of 12lbs.
Congrats to everyone on their participation and best of luck in achieving your health and fitness goals!
