NEW YORK (January 3, 2011) — Calorie Count (www.caloriecount.com), a free Web site that helps users solve the everyday challenges of losing weight and living a healthy lifestyle, announced today the launch of its “Log In to Lose…and Win” contest. This contest will make sticking to healthy-living resolutions for the new year a little easier by giving away three Whole Foods gift cards, valued at $500 each, to randomly chosen winners who log in to the Web site from January 3-10, 2011.
Through the “Log In to Lose…and Win” contest (which will go live at Caloriecount.comon January 3 at 7:00 a.m.), the weight-loss support Web site will award three Whole Food gift-cards at random to either current members that log-in, or new members who register. Only one entry per household is allowed, and the three winners will be notified via e-mail on January 13, 2010.
“Our goal is to add an extra layer of motivation to Calorie Count members when it comes to sticking to their wellness resolutions and healthy-living goals for 2011,” said Igor Lebovic, co-founder, Caloriecount.com.
The contest, which is open to United States residents 18 years of age or older, adds incentive to the Web site’s already attractive lineup of free dieting and healthy-living tools including a mobile App, an online “calorie-burn meter,” a revamped food logger and a recipe catalog consisting of thousands of healthy recipes
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Official Contest Rules:
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE 50 UNITED STATES (D.C.) 18 YEARS AND OLDER. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. Sweepstakes ends January 13, 2011. For Official Rules, prize descriptions, terms and conditions and odds disclosure, visit www.caloriecount.com. Sponsor: CalorieCount.com, part of the About Group, 249 West 17th St., New York, NY 10011.
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