It Started With a Muffin Top….

I picked up my daughter at school the other day and as she got out of the car she was complaining that sheneeded new jeans because the ones she had on were giving her a “Muffin Top”.

Now, we had just finished school shopping so my sympathy wasn’t running too deep!

“What the heck is a Muffin Top?”, I asked.

My now 14 year old, first year in High School, too cool for her own good, daughter, turned to me with a look that made me feel like I had grown a third eye or something.

“You don’t know what a ‘Muffin Top’ is?” was her first thing she said to me. The next statement was the one that got me…

“You should know ’cause you have one!”

She pulled up her shirt just slightly to reveal a teeny tiny little roll just about her jeans that were, be the way,old and too tight. So much for all her new school clothes!

I looked down and I think my face turned six shades of red because my daughter’s response was so sympathetic…

“It’s OK, your a MOM. Moms have Muffin Tops.”

Just in case you are still in the dark about the definition of Muffin Top, here it is:

This comes straight from Wikipedia-”Muffin-top” is a generally pejorative slang term used to describe the phenomenon of overhanging flesh when it spills over the waistline of trousers or skirt in a manner that resembles the top of a muffin spilling over its paper casing. This generally occurs when an individual wears low-rise, hip-hugger pants, or midriff-baring tops that are too small.

To clarify the facts…I was NOT wearing low-rise ,hip-hugger pants, or a midriff-baring top that was too small! I was wearing my plain old fashion Levis and T-Shirt!

It was sad, but true…I had a Muffin Top. Trust me, there was plenty of spillage there too!

Thank Goodness for Twitter! I have become a bit of a Twitterholic in the passed month or so and if you haven’t found Twitter yet, come follow me at NewOldMom and/or BestReflections.

I came across the Twitter Turbulence Training 4-Week Transformation Contest hosted by Craig Ballantyne, Author, Turbulence Training for Fat Loss.

This was just what I needed! What was awesome was that some of my Twitter friends were going to be doing it too! Accountability is a huge part of success. I decided right then and there that I was not going to be a Muffin Top Mom any more!

Are you a Muffin Top Mom?

Or do you just need to feel better all around? Join me, my Twitter pals and the rest of the Twitterverse and make a Twansformation!

Here’s all the information you need! The best part is that you can get started for FREE!

Rules of the Twitter Turbulence Training 4-Week Transformation Contest

1) The 4-Week Twitter Turbulence Training Transformation Contest runs from Sept. 1st to Sept. 29th, 2008.

2) To enter the contest:

- You must use Turbulence Training workouts for all 4 weeks to achieve your results.

NOTE: If you don’t have Turbulence Training, you can grab a FREE Turbulence

Training Bodyweight Workout here: www.TurbulenceTraining.com/FreeBodyweightWorkout

– You must update Twitter every time you do a Turbulence Training Workout.
So if you do 3 TT workouts in that week, you need to update Twitter 3 times.

NOTE: You will get more results if you post all of your meals, workouts, and body transformation trials and tribulations on Twitter or on your blog. Research shows that the more often you give updates on your progress, the greater your chances of weight loss success!

- You must provide “Before and After” photos via email, on your blog or website, or by posting them in the Transformation Forum of the Turbulence Training Membership Website (www.TTMembers.com).

- All entries must be received before Midnight, EST, Sept. 30th, 2008.

3) You must take “Before” photos on Day 1 and “After” photos on Day 28. All photos must include your entire body (including head and face) AND a newspaper from the current date in order for your transformation to be entered into the contest. There are NO exceptions.

To view a sample of proper photo documentation, visit this link:

=> http://transformationcontest.com/adam.shtml

4) Photos can be posted in the Turbulence Training Membership Website Transformation Forum or can be entered by email (see details below).

It is highly recommended ˆ for your success ˆ to post your photos, workouts, and nutrition on your blog or in a training journal in the Turbulence Training Membership forum.

NOTE: Don’t forget, you get at least 3 months free access to the Turbulence Training Membership Website and Forums when you order Turbulence Training.

Recording your photos, workouts, and nutrition will dramatically increase your chances of losing fat and reaching your goals because of the power of social support found on the forums.

5) In addition to providing Before & After photos, each contestant must write a 300 word essay on their before and after success story. This can be posted on the forum or sent by email or even on Twitter.

6) The Transformation Contest will be judged by a panel of experts, including but not restricted to: Craig Ballantyne, Brad Pilon, and Holly Rigsby.

By entering this Contest, each winner of a contest prize consents to the use of his/her name, and/or photograph in any publicity carried out by the Contest Sponsor and its advertising and promotional agencies without further notice or compensation.

7) Prizes are as follows:

Grand Prize – $250 plus a 1-Year Platinum TT Membership

Runner-Up – $100 plus a 1-Year Platinum TT Membership

Bonus Prize for “Best Video Diary”- $100 plus a 1-Year Platinum TT Membership

(This bonus prize is for the person who creates the best video of their
transformation process.)

The Contest Sponsor’s rulings are final and without appeal in all matters related to this Contest and the awarding of the Prizes. The Contest is subject to all applicable federal, provincial and municipal laws and regulations.

9) Entering by Email

To enter photos by email, send to:

Support (AT) TurbulenceTraining.helpserve.com

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=> www.TurbulenceTraining.com

All entries become the property of the Contest Sponsor and will not be returned.

Contest Sponsor, its advertising and promotion agencies assume no responsibility for lost, stolen, delayed, damaged, illegible, incomplete, postage-due, garbled or misdirected entries or entries that have been submitted through illicit means, or do not conform to or satisfy the Contest Rules or for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer on-line systems, servers, access providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any entry to be received or traffic congestion on the internet or at any website, or any combination thereof including any injury or damage to an entrant’s or any other person’s computer related to or resulting from playing or downloading any material in the contest.

10) The Contest Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to modify, cancel or suspend this Contest should an external circumstances arise which are beyond the reasonable control of the Contest Sponsor. The Contest Sponsor is not responsible for any errors or omissions in printing or advertising this Contest.

The Contest Sponsor collects your personal information for the purposes of registration, program evaluation and to keep you informed about The Challenge. The Contest Sponsor may, if consent was given during registration, also contact you from time to time with information about other ways you can lose weight.

The Contest Sponsor will not share any personal data about entrants with anyother party. The personal data collected for this Contest will not be used for any other purposes unless entrants provide explicit permission as indicated on the entry form. For more information about our privacy practices or to obtain a copy of our Privacy Policy, visit www.TurbulenceTraining.com.

By entering this Contest, entrants agree to release and hold harmless the Contest Sponsor and their respective employees, officers, directors, agents, representatives, successors, assigns, advertising and promotional agencies from any liability for any loss or damage of any kind to the entrant or any other person in connection with this Contest or participation in any Contest related activities, including but not limited the taking of a urine test or, if declared a winner, the use or misuse of a prize or any portion of a prize including personal injury, death or property damage.

This Contest will run in accordance with these Contest Rules, subject to amendment by the Contest Sponsor. Contest Sponsor reserves the right to cancel, amend, modify or terminate this Contest or the Rules at any time in its sole discretion and without notice.

Entrants must comply with these rules, and will be deemed to have received and understood the rules if they participate in the Contest.

Visit Turbulence Training to get Turbulence Training for Fat Loss and enter the Transformation Contest:

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I Pledge That I Will No Longer Be A ‘MUFFIN TOP’ Mom!

I will also pledge any and all winnings will be donated to Kiva.org

Come Join Me or just support me in my efforts to break out of my Muffin Top image!