{"id":7128,"date":"2009-09-15T03:00:51","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T07:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/?p=7128"},"modified":"2009-09-15T03:00:51","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T07:00:51","slug":"lose-a-palooza-help-the-fight-against-hunger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/lose-a-palooza-help-the-fight-against-hunger\/","title":{"rendered":"Lose-A-Palooza ~ Help the Fight Against Hunger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Lose_A_Palooza_Logo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7129 aligncenter\" src=\"\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Lose_A_Palooza_Logo.jpg\" alt=\"Lose_A_Palooza_Logo\" width=\"301\" height=\"172\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today you have a chance to make a difference, and all you need to do is tweet, sign on Facebook, or write a blog post!<\/p>\n<p>Weight Watchers is donating $1 Million Dollars to help fight hunger. The donation will be split between Share Our Strength and Action Against Hunger.\u00a0 Last year, the campaign impacted more than 250,000 children and families domestically and actually represented the difference between life and  death for more than 6,000 malnourished children abroad.<\/p>\n<p>You have the opportunity to increase the donation by $25,000!<\/p>\n<p>Lose-A-Palooza is a one-day online social networking event taking place on September 15, 2009 to help raise awareness for the Lose For Good\u2122 campaign! For every accepted mention or acknowledgment of \u201cLose For Good\u201d made on September 15 via blogs, Twitter, Facebook and MySpace, Weight Watchers will make an additional donation &#8211; up to $25,000* &#8211; for just one day of social media activity.\u00a0 This donation is on top of the $1 million Weight Watchers is hoping to donate to Share Our Strength and Action Against Hunger as part of the 2009 Lose For Good campaign!<\/p>\n<p>Here is how you can help:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Twitter<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tweet #LoseForGood: Share how you are supporting the good with all your Twitter followers. Tweet about the way you\u2019re helping the fight against hunger and be sure to include #LoseForGood.<\/li>\n<li> Multiply the good: Follow @sharestrength or @acfusa to fill your Twitter stream with good, and then retweet.<\/li>\n<li>That\u2019s right, each #LoseForGood Tweet and follow to @sharestrength and @acfusa on September 15 provides $1!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Facebook<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Become a fan of the NEW and official <a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/weightwatchers?v=wall&amp;viewas=5254&amp;ref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">Weight Watchers page! <\/a> And don\u2019t forget our<a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/weightwatcherssupermarketfoods\" target=\"_blank\"> Weight Watchers Supermarket Foods page.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>If you\u2019re already a fan, just post a \u201cLose For Good\u201d related comment OR \u201cLike\u201d the updates that we&#8217;ll post throughout the day.<\/li>\n<li>Become a fan of our awesome charitable partners \u2013<a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ShareOurStrength\" target=\"_blank\"> Share Our Strength <\/a>and <a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/actionagainsthunger\" target=\"_blank\">Action Against Hunger!<\/a><\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s that easy. Join fan pages, comment on our statuses and walls, or simply \u2018Like\u2019 updates to our fan pages and you\u2019ll<br \/>\nbe participating in Lose-a-Palooza and helping fight hunger!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Blog It<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Write a blog post about Lose For Good, including the phrase \u201cLose For Good\u201d and encourage your readers to get involved by visiting www.LoseForGood.com.<\/li>\n<li>Comment on a blog post about Lose For Good! Be sure to have your friends show their support by commenting on your post \u2013<br \/>\nevery comment relating to \u201cLose For Good\u201d helps Weight Watchers donate $1!<\/li>\n<li>In our new <a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.weightwatchers.com\/community\/\" target=\"_blank\">Weight Watchers Community<\/a>, write a blog post about Lose for Good and we\u2019ll make a contribution to the<br \/>\nfight against hunger.\u00a0 Remember to use the words \u201cLose for Good!\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One of my favorite things about blogging is that it brings people together and can impact others in a far reaching way. If you have a minute, please join me today and help the fight against hunger.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/hh_signature_green.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-506\" src=\"\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/hh_signature_green.jpg\" alt=\"hh_signature_green\" width=\"163\" height=\"20\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today you have a chance to make a difference, and all you need to do is tweet, sign on Facebook, or write a blog post! Weight Watchers is donating $1 Million Dollars to help fight hunger. The donation will be split between Share Our Strength and Action Against Hunger.\u00a0 Last year, the campaign impacted more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[137,1763,1764,2372,2728],"class_list":{"0":"post-7128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-fun","7":"tag-action-against-hunger","8":"tag-lose-for-good","9":"tag-lose-a-palooza","10":"tag-share-our-strength","11":"tag-weight-watchers","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/real-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}