Joy Bauer’s Favorite Things

We couldn’t very well do a giveaway with Joy Bauer without including some of her favorite things! As a top nutritionist, Joy knows the best snacks, the healthiest sweets, and all the other kitchen items that make it easy to feel fit and fabulous. Here’s a snapshot of the items included in our EnJOY Feeling Fit & Fab giveaway this month:

-A 10-bar “Variety Antidote” set from Antidote Chocolate

-A “Raw Chocolate Love Kit” from Navitas Naturals containing: cacao nibs, cacao powder, sweetened cacao nibs, a bag of cacao-goji power snacks, cacao lip balm, and cacao butter

–One case of Joy’s favorite Polar Beverages seltzer flavor, Vanilla Pear

-A six-pack of all three NibMor Drinking Chocolate flavors

-A Misto Olive Oil Sprayer

-A Rubbermaid Filter Fresh Water Bottle

Click here to enter to win!

EnJOY Feeling Fit & Fab Giveaway

It just wouldn’t be Spa Week without an incredible giveaway. Since April Spa Week bookings begin today, so does our fantastic new giveaway: EnJOY Feeling Fit & Fab starring nutrition expert Joy Bauer and Golden Door Spa:

We think the info above does all the talking — after all, who wouldn’t want personalized nutrition coaching from Joy or a trip to the famed Golden Door Spa?! So let’s not delay! Head to our Facebook page to enter now. Not on Facebook? Enter on SpaWeek.com.

WIN! Meet Joy Bauer for Lunch in NYC + Much More!

We skimp on the clothes in the summer, but not so much with the calories… contrary to popular belief, summer is actually a time of more weight GAIN than loss! While we’re off relaxing on vacation, sipping frozen drinks at the beach and chatting with friends at barbeques, it is easy to make poor choices and overindulge. To beat the bulge during the dog days of summer, Spa Week has joined forces with the TODAY Show’s famed Nutritionist, Joy Bauer, to help get one luck winner and a guest get their wellness routines back on track with our Take a Healthy Bite Out of the Big Apple Giveaway.

Throughout the month of July, you can enter to win a three-day wellness journey in New York City, complete with a nutritious, face-to-face lunch with Joy Bauer herself at the iconic Siro’s of Manhattan in the heart of  the City.

During their journey, the lucky duo will call the Gansevoort Park Avenue home for two nights, including daily breakfasts at Gansevoort’s Asellina restaurant.

Then you and your guest will reap the wellness benefits of mind body classes and spa treatments at exhale Grammercy, located inside the Gansevoort. How convenient!

To continue your wellness journey at home, the winner will also receive two copies of Joy’s newest book, The Joy Fit Club, as well as $175 in Spa & Wellness Gift Cards by Spa Week® to relax body and mind at your choice of over 5,000 spas and wellness locations nationwide.

What are you waiting for? All you have to do is enter HERE!

The Spa & Wellness Challenge: Dr. Michelle Copeland’s Skincare Team Update

It’s spring, the sun is out, and Spa Week’s Spa & Wellness Challenge is really shining! With the sunny days ahead of us, we are happy to see people taking time to lather on the sunblock and protect their skin. The Skincare Team is taking proactive steps to great skin with Dr. Michelle Copeland. Dr. Copeland is leading the Skincare Team and she’s challenging her team to give their skin the love it deserves by wearing SPF everyday. Dr. Copeland urges that sun protection is the most important step you can take to improved skin. Skin is your largest organ so get to work!

Dr. Copeland’s Skincare Challenge:

Wear SPF every day

If you also want to get your skin ready for summer, it’s not too late to sign up! You can also join the Nutrition, Fitness or Yoga teams if those are more in tune with your wellness goals. (We won’t tell Dr. Copeland.)

So far it’s a close race, but there will only be four lucky winners of a $1,000 Spa & Wellness Gift Card by Spa Week, although everyone will win improved health and wellness as a consolation prize!

So far here are our favorite and top-voted submissions from The Skincare Team:

Joe: “I wear SPF: 365, haha. Corny but so impt for year-round sun protection! “
Linda: “Being a redhead…It is real important to wear sunsreen. I’m a survivor of Melanoma skin cancer. I never go through a day without SPF. “

Maria: “I wear an SPF of at least 15 every day, no longer bake in the sun, and protect my skin by using appropriate skin care products!”

Whitney: “It was so easy to remember to wear SPF when I was on vacation in Mexico. Fingers crossed I can keep up in my daily routine.”

The Spa & Wellness Challenge: Dolvett Quince’s Fitness Team Update

Get up off of that thang! Spa Week’s Spa & Wellness Challenge is on the move and we want to give a pat on the back to those of you who are making an effort to move too. The Fitness Team is getting pulled off  the couch by Dolvett Quince, The Biggest Loser trainer. Dolvett is leading the Fitness Team and he’s challenging his team to take a step (or many steps in place) toward wellness: exercise during commercials. Dolvett won’t take any excuses, so better just do what he says. As a matter of fact, he’s taped what he wants you to do in a short video message, exclusively for you, our Spa Week Daily readers. After a hard outdoor workout, Dolvett taped the below message on his iPhone. Even though the video is a little grainy, you can hear Dolvett’s wellness philosophy clear as a bell… get your booty off the couch and get healthy!

Dolvett’s Fitness Challenge:

Exercise during commercials

If you also want to get rid of your couch potato title, it’s not too late to sign up for a dose of Dolvett’s tough love! If fitness isn’t what you need to work on, you can also join the Nutrition, Yoga or Skincare teams (don’t worry, we won’t tell Dolvett).

So far it’s a close race, but there will only be four lucky winners of a $1,000 Spa & Wellness Gift Card by Spa Week, although everyone will win improved health and wellness as a consolation prize!

So far here are our favorite and top-voted submissions from The Fitness Team:

Jacquelynn: Thank you, for holding such a wonderful giveaway, I truly appreciate it! I am a 3 time cancer survivor (age 10, brain tumor[Menegeoma], age 21 Uterine Cancer [discovered when I was 6 months pregnant], age 36 skin cancer), as well as a Service Connected Disabled Veteran (US Army 6 years). I currently am battling Fibromyalgia, Chronic Neuropathy, arthritis and Compressed Disc’s in my back (I am 3 inches shorter than I used to be). However despite my medical problems, I have succeeded in losing 115 pounds!! I still have about 40 left to go, but I KNOW I will make it!

Caressa: “Doing Bicep Curls and Watching DIY Network!”

Shelly: “Still on my 2 yr journey…over 95lbs gone and 20 to go! Training for my first half marathon in April and another triathlon in July …Fitness is my lifestyle !! Paying it forward with fitness bootcamps 3 times per wk and local biggest loser challenges….. hard work….determination!!!”

Angela: “The before picture… I am doing this for me and my family. We need to get healthy together. Our reward will be good health and another cruise- this time in bikinis!”

Robin: “My photo represents movement in between commercials. I want to drop 20lbs by July 2012.”

Marianne: At the age of 48, having had three children and battling weight issues my whole life, this photo was taken. I lost 40 lbs., began working out 7 days a week (and loving it) and became a regular 5K Runner. I still struggle with toning my cellulite area but continue to strive towards reaching my goal of losing the last 10-15 lbs., running a 10K, half marathon and eventually a full marathon. Watching Dolvett every Tuesday night is a huge inspiration. Wish there was a TV show entitled “The Littlest Loser” – LOL!