Freebies, freebies, freebies!  Who wants freebies?  January 26th – I am going into my third year of blogging.  My goodness! Has it really been that long?  Seems like time sure has flown by… but in order to celebrate, we have some G-I-V-E-A-W-A-Y-S!  Here are the prizes to be won:

Building Block Vitamins -  a month’s worth package consisting of:  multivitamins, calcium citrate, iron (15/30 mg non chewable or 30 mg chewable) and B12 spray.

Kay’s Naturals – 3 winners will each receive one case of Kay’s Naturals Cookie Bites which came out recently

Slimpressions shapewear garment of choice

How To Enter:  there are several ways to be entered.  Contest begins midnight of January 20th, 2010 and will end midnight of January 26th.

* Making a comment anywhere on the Recovering Fatty site will get you an entry (one entry)
* Making a comment anywhere on the RF06 site will get you another entry (one entry)
* Send an email with a short blurb about yourself to recoveringfatty[at] gmail [dotcom]

Let’s see if I can name a few of the highlights since I first started blogging (some you may remember):

* Asked my brother to set up a blog for me. He laughed and refused because after all, with a name like Recovering Fatty, how could that not be embarrassing?

* My nephew, Ben, helped me start the blog by setting up my webhost and purchasing my domain name (bless his heart, he is still helping me)

* I didn’t start out small with a free Wordpress template.  No, I jumped head first. Sometimes I wonder if I didn’t hit my head, get a concussion or do some sort of brain damage.  Maybe I’m just crazy.  Blogging your entire life on the internet is certainly “out there”.  I’d quit, but I have too much money invested!

* Went from Wordpress to Joomla, lost all my content, had to manually add all the articles again.

* Started adding vendors or company’s ads.

* Joined Labrada Nutrition’s blog to write about bariatric afterlife.  *My longstanding joke about being a Lean Body Girl finally became reality!  That’s my fave.

* Started giveaways (which are my favorite because I love freebies!)

* Added a message board.  For many months, it was just “my filing cabinet”, a place where I could gather my files.  Bless their hearts, I finally got a few friends who joined and we’ve been a little community ever since!

* Added a chat room but we’ve only used it like 5 times.  But, I am very ALL THE WAY if you haven’t noticed.  I just HAD to have one cause it seemed like THE THING to do.

* Purchased a new domain name, RF06, which stands for Recovering Fatty 2006 (the year of my weight loss surgery)

* Downsized the Recovering Fatty domain to a personal blog only, and went with Wordpress

* Upgraded RF06 to Joomla which did mean losing some articles (but, RF06 is designated specifically for products, reviews, an helps for wls folks)

I have no idea where the next year will take us, but it’s exciting.  Stay tuned to find out!

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