Now that we've announced the winners of the X-Weighted National Challenge, the blog is set to go quiet for the next few months. Although the blog posts will still change every day, we will be recycling content from the past 10 months. 

Without further ado, let us introduce you to our 3 fabulous winners....

The winner of the 1st Grand Prize, the weekend at a fitness retreat in Canmore with Paul Plakas for 2 people, is Lizz Cogan (lizz.cogan) from Chester Basin, NS. This prize is valued at $6000.

Sandy Graham (slgraham) has been a very active community member on XWeighted.com. She lost an incredible 50 pounds over the course of the National Challenge, and we spoke to her about her experiences…

The staff at the Halifax YMCA, and Lola from XWeighted.com (who attended the event) were absolutely thrilled with the results they saw at Saturday's event. "I just want to cry seeing how well the participants have done," said Alison Bleeker, who coordinated the X-Weighted events at the Halifax YMCA. 

Some people that came to get weighed-in had met their XWeighted.com weight-loss goals, and some hadn't, but all were thrilled at the positive changes that they had made in their lives over the past 26 weeks. We did video interviews with some of the people we met in Halifax:

We'd love to see all the Challenge participants turning up at the final weigh-in events scheduled for tomorrow, Saturday July 10th. The events are a chance to meet with other participants, share your success stories and record your new fitness test times and end weights in your X-Weighted Passports (don't forget to take them with you!). Take along a before picture too, so you can show off how much you've achieved!

Paul Plakas will be stopping by the Vancouver YWCA National Challenge final weigh-in on Saturday at 2:30pm. Please come on by and say hi!

It is hard to believe that we have almost reached the end of our epic journey. For the past 26 weeks, we've loved supporting the XWeighted.com National Challenge participants as they've bonded, improved their health and dropped a serious amount of weight.

In today's blog post, we wanted to explain what happens after Saturday, once the Challenge is officially finished.

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Here is your final reminder of what you've been working for - the Grand Prizes! Of course getting healthier is a wonderful prize in itself, but here are the prizes that the 3 ultimate winners will be rewarded with