With the over-indulgent holiday season and New Year’s festivities in our rear view mirrors, many of us are struggling to maintain – or totally given up on – our resolutions to get healthy and lose weight. To help you revive your health and wellness goals in 2012, Spa Week has joined forces with nationally acclaimed nutrition expert, author and Golden Door Spa Nutrition Advisor, (and Spa Week’s very own Food and Wellness Expert) Dr. Wendy Bazilian, to resuscitate one lucky winner’s wavering weight-loss resolution by entering the Nutrition 911 Giveaway. The prize package includes two parts to help you achieve optimal health and well-being…

Part One: A Rescue Retreat to the Golden Door Spa

From February 1^st to March 11^th, you can enter for a chance to win a four-night getaway for two at the prestigious Golden Door Spa in Escondido, California. The winner and a guest will enjoy a four-night stay in private accommodations with three private in-room massages, one herbal wrap, two skincare appointments, a choice of a manicure or pedicure. Also included is a customized Golden Door fitness program with a personal fitness counselor and gourmet spa cuisine, including three meals and two snacks a day.

Golden Door was the first-ever fitness spa (click for vintage photos!) created for devotion to the balance of body, mind and spirit and is home to one of the most inspiring, innovative and high-energy fitness and weight loss programs in the spa world today. It has a rich history that started in 1959, when Deborah Szekely realized her dream of creating a transformational Zen-influenced spa, serving a small number of guests with a 4:1 guest-employee ratio. Each guest has the option of participating in daily fitness activities, hikes, massages, meditation, spa treatments and stretching created especially for their health, fitness and weight loss needs.

Part Two: At-Home Revival with Dr. Wendy Bazilian and Spa Week

After a refreshing, restoring and luxurious trip to Golden Door, Dr. Wendy and Spa Week are giving one lucky winner a prize package to continue their healthy weight-loss journey at home. The prize package includes a copy of Dr. Wendy’s bestselling book, The SuperFoodsRx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients, a personalized nutritional counseling program designed by Dr. Wendy specifically for the winner and $100 in Spa & Wellness Gift Cards by Spa Week to relax body and mind at his/her choice of over 5,000 spas nationwide.

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Meet Dr. Wendy Bazilian

We are so happy to once again work with our Food and Wellness Expert, Dr. Wendy Bazilian. Dr. Wendy’s philosophy is a harmonious balance between food, fitness and healthy living behaviors. She believes foods can be an ally for helping us achieve our weight-loss and weight-management goals. Read all about Dr. Wendy and her Spa Wek Daily Challenge: The 2-Week Cinnamon Challenge, here.

Seriously Michelle, I can’t tell you how exciting it actually is. We have 4 kids; ages 2, 4, 15 & 17 and there haven’t been many “extras” recently. My husband & I didn’t even exchange gifts this year – it was all for the kids. So this package is now our “Christmas gift” and I can’t thank you enough. Can’t wait ’til it all arrives!

- Sara, @NJMomCooks

Check back on the blog, spaweek.com, our facebook and twitter pages often for new giveaways and promotions, because we really REALLY love making your day.

Starting right now, with our 27 prizes up for grabs in our January/February Monthly Giveaways. Look how much you can win! Or follow @SpaWeekGiftCard and you just may be the $50 eGift Card winner when we reach 1000 followers. Let us make your day too… please?

Peek inside our wonderfully wild world of spa! Ready to explore the joys of Ashiatsu back-walking? Want to learn why Chinese Cupping sucks and I love it? Are you ready to sing and get naked at the spa? All throughout November we’re giving you a chance to win, just for tuning in.

How do you enter? All you have to do is subscribe to our SpaTube channel and comment on your favorite videos. Use the hashtag #spatube. Each comment counts as one entry to win a $50 Spa Week Gift Card.

We will contact the five winners via YouTube and they will be announced throughout the month of November.

And… ACTION!

There’s something so deliciously satsifying about round numbers like 10,000 and 25,000. Especially when they correspond to your very own Twitter and Facebook followings on the horizon!

As we race to these huge milestones with you, we’re looking forward to the celebrations most of all:

ON TWITTER: We’re giving away three $50 Spa Gift Cards when we reach 10,000 followers.

To enter, Tweet:

Follow @SPAWEEK, they’re giving away 3 $50 Spa Week Gift Cards at 10,000 followers! RT to enter. http://ow.ly/3FObK

ON FACEBOOK: We’re giving away three $50 Spa Gift Cards when we reach 25,000 likes.

To enter, Write on our wall:

I like Spa Week. No, wait, I LOVE Spa Week! (This is my entry to win a $50 Spa Week Gift Card when this page reaches 25,000)

Winners will be chosen at random from the entries and announced on respective social media platforms. Please contact candace(at)spaweekmedia(dot)com within one week of announcements with your address and phone number to redeem your prize.

A little birdie told me you want an iPad. What?! How did I know? Well, iPad is on so many millions of lists, that when asked the #1 gadget on my “Go Go Gadget Christmas List” I wasn’t even allowed to say an iPad. (Spa Ninja it was!) Anyway, as a little gift for you, we scoured the internet for 10 easy ways to win an iPad, just in case you don’t find one under your tree.

1. Follow @Freezecrowd on Twitter and be automatically entered to win an iPad. They’ll pick a winner when they reach 1000 followers. (Tell your friends!)

2. Follow @JumpFly on Twitter and Retweet this message: “RT @JumpFly is giving away a free #iPad every month! Just follow JumpFly & RT this msg. 1 left! #giveaway #free#freebie #win #contest”

3. Win an iPad on food blog, My Wooden Spoon.

4. Scribendi Inc is giving away two iPads. RT and Follow @Scribendi_Inc. More details here:  http://bit.ly/aCBcia

5. Win an iPad on Lifescript. Learn the rules on their Facebook Page.

6. Win an iPad from Steamy Kitchen.

7. Enter to win an iPad on The Art of Random Willy- Nillyness (Closed)

8. It’s AOL Stylist Most Stylish Time of Year so enter here to win an iPad. (Closed)

9. Enter to win an iPad when you sign up for the Fierce Cable newsletter here.

10. Enter to win an iPad on Mommy Goggles.

UPDATE — Divas and Dorks, the guys bringing you the Go-Go Gadget Christmas List are also giving you a chance to win an iPad.

Good luck to all! And if all your iWishes don’t come true, you could probably use a massage.

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