Contest: Did You Cook away the Pounds?

By , SparkPeople Blogger
Tell us how healthy cooking and eating changed your life, and you could be featured in SparkPeople's next book.

We're always on the lookout for Success Stories. Not only do they serve as sources of inspiration for other members, but they are also our best marketing tool. Our next book, which will be published in late 2011, will focus on healthy eating and cooking, and we need your help.

We want to know how healthy eating, and specifically healthy cooking, has changed your life.

  • Did you makeover your family's meals and whip everyone into shape?

  • Has healthy cooking been key to your weight loss?

  • Have you learned to love cooking?

Share your Success Story with us, and you could be featured in the new book!

If you need help getting started, we've compiled a list of questions:

  • How are you passing along your healthy cooking and eating habits to your kids?

  • What is your go-to meal on a busy weeknight?

  • What is/are your kids' favorite meal(s)?

  • Why did you decide to start cooking?

  • How do you find time to cook healthy dinners?

  • How has learning to cook affected your life?

  • What is your diet like now compared with pre-weight loss?

  • What were your favorite foods then? What are they now?

  • What healthy foods have you learned to like?

  • How are your eating habits different?

  • What advice do you have for people who don't know how to cook?

  • What would you say to those who say they don't have time or money to cook healthy foods?

  • Did you lose weight and how much?

Whether it's a bulleted list of healthy tips you've compiled, a poem about your love for cooking, or a first-person narrative, make the story your own! Be creative.

We also want to see before and after photos!

You must submit your story by midnight EST on Monday, May 31, 2010, to be considered.

Join the contest's SparkTeam today! Then read the rules and terms here, then share your story in this thread.