Dietgirl's Amazing Scavenger Hunt

Greetings, good people of fatblogland! Do you like free stuff? Here is a chance to win a spankin' new copy of The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl!

I've been busting to hold a contest just for Dietgirl readers and the good folks at Transworld have kindly provided me with ten copies to give away. Nine winners will be randomly drawn, but one special winner shall receive a book plus a bonus GRAND (reasonably) (allegedly) (depending on your level of expectation) PRIZE!

The contest consists of a photo Scavenger Hunt. To enter, all you need to do is find seven items related to the book, from a list provided. Unlike traditional scavenger hunts, you don't need to get your hands dirty – simply take a photo of each item.

ELIGIBILITY

This contest is open to all Dietgirl readers from all lands! I will personally post the prizes anywhere. To enter, you will need some sort of photo-taking device, a blog and some imagination!

HOW TO ENTER

1. Hunt down and take a photograph of each item on the list below
2. Post your photographs into a new entry on your blog. Here's the link for this here contest page. If you don't have a blog, you could always post your photos to a free photo service like Flickr.
3. Pimp your entry! Post a comment below with a link to your contest entry, so I can find it and everyone else can have a good stickybeak.

THE LIST

1. A bicycle
2. A bald man
3. Elvis
4. Greek yogurt
5. A wedding dress
6. The letter D
7. The letter G

Now you don't have to be LITERAL here. Obviously some things are harder to find than others. If you can't find something on the list, go crazy and snap a pic of something that vaguely represents it. Just have fun with it, it's not meant to be serious. Creativity and silliness are encouraged!

PRIZE INFO

There are ten (10) copies of the book to give away. I can sign them if the winners so desire, but if you want to flog it on eBay later, bear in mind you might get more if it's unblemished! Ha ha ha.

Nine (9) winners will be drawn at random from a list of all eligible entries, so don't panic if you think you're rubbish at taking photos.

One (1) special entry – the one that the panel (that's me) deems to be the most creative and entertaining – shall scoop the GRAND PRIZE!

The "Grand" Prize consists of:

• a copy of the book
• a very special "Sympathy for the Dietgirl" Kit.

The Kit, donated by yours truly, contains seven things that I've been obsessed with over the duration of this Lard Busting Adventure. The idea is that consuming these items with wild abandon while reading the book may enhance your understanding of the character. Really get inside her head, in case the words aren't enough! It's like Method Reading. Or Being John Malkovich, without the critical acclaim.

Note: Doubling your body weight is optional for the Dietgirl experience.

1. A Moleskine 2008 diary – for obsessive planning and list-making
2. A bag of Percy Pigs – for scoffing in an anxious trance
3. A resistance band – for resistance training in a pinch
4. A tasty selection of Green and Blacks chocolates – for obsessive stuffing into one's face
5. A box of posh herbal tea – for your latest half-hearted attempt to cut back on caffeine
6. A rockin' mix CD of workout tunes - for your latest half-hearted attempt at AM exercise
7. A British Freddo Frog - somewhat inferior to their Australian cousins, but nevertheless were the Chocolate Ration of Choice during the writing of the book

CLOSING DATE

The contest closes at 6PM GMT on Wednesday 12th December (That's 1PM in New York, and 5AM Thursday 12th in Sydney). Winners will be announced the next day and I will post out the prizes as soon as I receive the winners addresses.

TERMS & CONDITIONS

The success of the Amazing Scavenger Hunt depends, of course, on there actually BEING ten entries so there can be ten winners. If there's only two entries then the winners will receive five copies each – more eBay fodder for you, or something to pap off to that crusty Aunty for her Christmas gift. If nobody enters at all, I will crawl under a rock and wallow in humiliation forever. On a cosy bed of Dietgirl books, of course.

Comments

[1 · Posted by dg · December 04, 2007 at 11:17 PM]

omg i think i will spew from fear no one will enter. HEEEEEEE!

[2 · Posted by weightlossguru · December 04, 2007 at 11:29 PM]

Hold that bile... i'll get me camera!

[3 · Posted by Dee · December 04, 2007 at 11:33 PM]

I think you'll find you have exactly the opposite problem :D Just hunting up my camera now...

[4 · Posted by Jaykay · December 04, 2007 at 11:43 PM]

Ooohh this sounds like fun. Will see what I can find over the weekend :0)

[5 · Posted by LBTEPA · December 05, 2007 at 01:11 AM]

If yoiu can wait until MOnday after I hand in my thesis I. Am. So. In!

[6 · Posted by Dawn · December 05, 2007 at 01:19 AM]

Is Greek yogurt like the sauce you dip gyros in? I could be convinced to go get a gyros in order to take a picture. I mean I would have to, right? haha... but seriously, what is Greek yogurt?

[7 · Posted by Rosemary Grace · December 05, 2007 at 01:37 AM]

my entry

Am I first? YAY!

You inspired me to get creative with photobooth, it's been a fun afternoon!

[8 · Posted by Tigerlilly · December 05, 2007 at 02:33 AM]

Yes!! I did it... its amazing what you can find in your childrens books!

[9 · Posted by Tigerlilly · December 05, 2007 at 02:40 AM]

Oooops!!... come check it out at http://whereistigerlilly.blogspot.com

[10 · Posted by Kek · December 05, 2007 at 07:39 AM]

You're a hoot! I might even enter, in spite of there being no Nutella in the prize pack...

[11 · Posted by dg · December 05, 2007 at 08:18 AM]

RG you are a creative genius!

Well done Tigerlilly!

Dawn - greek yogurt is a nice thick yogurt that comes from greece, available in most supermarkets. but you could always stick a pot of normal yogurt next to a map of Greece and i can do the math... hehehe

[12 · Posted by Lynda · December 05, 2007 at 09:27 AM]

I have made my entry!! Go to http://achangeoflife.blogspot.com/2007_12_01_archive.html to view.

Cool idea !!

Lynda

[13 · Posted by Lucinda · December 05, 2007 at 09:53 AM]

Mission Complete!

http://fatassassin.blogspot.com/2007/12/scavenger-hunt.html

[14 · Posted by anji · December 05, 2007 at 05:04 PM]

http://operation100.com/?p=192

I'm usually very non-competitive but this job-less gal wants to read your book! :P

[15 · Posted by dg · December 05, 2007 at 06:00 PM]

WOOHOO! these entries are sooo rockin. well done, guys! i just edited your links to make 'em bold and clickable...

[16 · Posted by Loretta · December 05, 2007 at 07:13 PM]

omg, this day is just getting better, I am not going to be as quick as some, but I will definitely get in before the deadline! I'm so excited!

[17 · Posted by Lily · December 05, 2007 at 08:04 PM]

I'll play! I already took most of the pictures. Just the greek yogurt and Elvis will take some ingenuity.

[18 · Posted by Farmer · December 05, 2007 at 09:00 PM]

I wanna win too!! This was fun. I don't have a blog - spend all my time online reading others! Here's the link to my photo:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2151/2089872702_b866c27ae2_b.jpg

[19 · Posted by cedar · December 05, 2007 at 09:52 PM]

i don't have a camera. humph.

oh well - good luck everyone else - i'm dying to see your pics!

[20 · Posted by Lynda · December 05, 2007 at 10:44 PM]

Hey cedar - don't worry if you don't have a camera, just copy some pics of the internet that are appropriate! I'm sure DG will understand.

[21 · Posted by dg · December 05, 2007 at 10:51 PM]

Cedar, you didn't leave an email so I could get in touch, but feel free to be creative if you don't have a camera, as Lynda suggested :)

[22 · Posted by K · December 05, 2007 at 11:13 PM]

Goodness me, some people are fast.

I think I may have trouble finding Elvis...

[23 · Posted by dani · December 06, 2007 at 02:14 AM]

If you throw in a tub of fage 2% (which I have been obsessed about btw) I am there!

[24 · Posted by Donna · December 06, 2007 at 02:44 AM]

I was planning to take my time and spread it out over a couple of days and take my own pictures, but once I got started I couldn't stop, so here it is -

DG's Scavenger Hunt

[25 · Posted by Rosemary Grace · December 06, 2007 at 05:06 AM]

This is so fun, looking at new collections, I LOVE Farmer's Elvis! I have to send my sister that photo, did you photoshop it yourself?

[26 · Posted by lee-ann mckenzie · December 06, 2007 at 08:16 AM]

www.flickr.com/photos/21579854@N07

[27 · Posted by Farmer · December 06, 2007 at 01:00 PM]

Rosemary Grace - Nah - it's the only photo I didn't take. I found it online here:
http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/sacred_heart_elvis.html

[28 · Posted by Tonia Wisniewski · December 06, 2007 at 01:09 PM]

here's a link to my pictures. I would love to win a copy of your book since I have no idea when it will finally be available in the USA. I love your site! I just found it a few months ago and I have been reading archives (while working!) ever since. I'm finally to 2007!! You're amazing!

http://www.flickr.com/gp/19772695@N02/5D3s7d

[29 · Posted by Narelle · December 06, 2007 at 08:52 PM]

Although I never enter competition I definitely want to enter this one!! Can't wait to read the book.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/miss_narelle/

[30 · Posted by Anna · December 06, 2007 at 10:10 PM]

Argh, there is hardly any time! I will have to scavenger hunt all weekend to find Elvis in Melbourne :\

[31 · Posted by Sandra · December 06, 2007 at 10:47 PM]

I already have the Moleskin 2008 diary!

I've already pre-ordered the book on Amazon so I'll give the scavenger hunt a miss - but good luck!

[32 · Posted by anji · December 07, 2007 at 12:51 AM]

My hubby elvis said he wants a cut of the prize if I win -- the food portion of it! hahaha.... Canine elvis would have no problems scoffing down any goodies either. She's got a sweet tooth, just like her mama AND the real elvis! Let's hope she passes on his drug addiction though and takes the bright path!

[33 · Posted by Heather · December 07, 2007 at 03:24 AM]

Here's my entry. I could not resist the chance to win.

[34 · Posted by Heather · December 07, 2007 at 03:27 AM]

by the way, I worked hard on that photowork... and I've never had a freddo frog, nor a moleskin journal... Sigh. Ha ha.

[35 · Posted by Sillymonky · December 07, 2007 at 03:56 AM]

I'm not usually one to play games, or enter contests, or comment on blogs, but this scavenger hunt was too tempting to be resisted.

In 1 week + 1 day I'm moving from my funky penthouse apartment of 10 years to a funky little cottage in the country. While I'm really excited to be moving to the country, there are a bunch of city things I'm going to miss. So, I decided to take scavenger hunt photos just in and around my neighbourhood, to remind me of all the wonderful things I used to do (like walking to the corner store - that won't be happening in our little country cottage).

Here's the set:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/75715160@N00/sets/72157603392786706/detail/

[36 · Posted by Erin · December 07, 2007 at 01:23 PM]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ejshea/sets/72157603399603971/

I used Flickr. And I'm pimping at my site.

I love you!

[37 · Posted by The B · December 07, 2007 at 07:19 PM]

How much fun. Ok, you may be on.

[38 · Posted by Marla · December 07, 2007 at 08:38 PM]

OK, mine is here:

http://nowissomeday.blogspot.com/2007/12/scavenge.html

[39 · Posted by Donna · December 07, 2007 at 09:03 PM]

Just for fun, I did another one. I don't expect my name to be entered twice or anything, I just felt like doing another one, with my own photos this time, over at the mall!

Shopping Centre Scavenging

[40 · Posted by Queen B & King Harley · December 07, 2007 at 11:00 PM]

Okay, we're playing, too!

Here's our entry!

We couldn't agree... go figure!

[41 · Posted by Donna · December 07, 2007 at 11:08 PM]

Okay... last one from me, I promise! It's incomplete because I just asked my friends to do what they could. But what they COULD do is well worth viewing!

Just For Fun

[42 · Posted by Brandi · December 08, 2007 at 12:19 AM]

Here's hoping I win, LOL!

http://puppylover2005.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!FDF9672F0B597CAE!715.entryg I win, LOL.

[43 · Posted by Brandi · December 08, 2007 at 12:34 AM]

okay, let me try again, LOL

here's the link (I have no idea how you make it "light up"):

http://puppylover2005.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!FDF9672F0B597CAE!715.entry

(You can click on my name, and that will take you there.)

[44 · Posted by Brandi · December 08, 2007 at 12:45 AM]

I figured out how to attach the link . . . I promise this is my last time sending it through, LOL. Please don't disqualify me for this, Diet Girl!!! I'm soooooooo sorry. Enjoy . . .
My Entry

[45 · Posted by Lauren · December 08, 2007 at 01:50 AM]

heehee this was too much fun!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/21638525@N04/2093831815/

[46 · Posted by Annie · December 08, 2007 at 05:49 AM]

Hi DG!
here is my entry!
Click Me! Click Me!

enjoy!

[47 · Posted by Kek · December 10, 2007 at 06:58 AM]

I finally got my entry up on my blog. It's here:

http://keksbflthing.blogspot.com/2007/12/ready-set-go.html

Work some of your fancy html clicky magic, would you Shauna? Thanks, Darls!

:)

[48 · Posted by Darkfaith · December 10, 2007 at 12:19 PM]

That was heaps of fun, i didn't have time to take my own pictures as i only read this today but hopefully it's okay.

http://size22tosize12.blogspot.com/2007/12/scavenger-hunt.html

can't wait to read the new book, febuary seems so far away :(

[49 · Posted by Marshmallow · December 10, 2007 at 08:13 PM]

All right ALL RIGHT, I've done my entry already. Jeebus! :-D

Only one of the photos is one that I've taken, I've done a bit of an injury to my left thumb O_O

[50 · Posted by mel starrs · December 11, 2007 at 12:04 AM]

Just in under the wire!
my entry

[51 · Posted by mel starrs · December 11, 2007 at 12:04 AM]

http://www.melstarrs.com/adventures/?p=33
my attempt

[52 · Posted by Anna · December 11, 2007 at 01:54 AM]

Here goes...
http://anna01.blogspot.com/

Dietgirl - How on earth could you have thought we wouldn't all be entering and fighting for such a cool prize?!?!?

[53 · Posted by Lynda · December 11, 2007 at 04:03 AM]

Oh, alas... so many talented people and I rushed in with my entry. Story of my life... sob, sob...

Seriously though, how amazing are some of these entries? Talk about thinking outside of the square :)

[54 · Posted by Gloria · December 11, 2007 at 05:00 AM]

Your contest has driven me out of my comfortable lurkerdom. It's not as scary out here as I thought! http://www.flickr.com/photos/21733181@N02/

[55 · Posted by Lily · December 11, 2007 at 07:46 AM]

Here's my entry http://lilylosslbs.blogspot.com/2007/12/this-post-is-entry-to-diet-girls.html

[56 · Posted by Argy · December 11, 2007 at 11:26 AM]

E voila!

I managed to do it on time!!!

http://transitivelly.blogspot.com/

[57 · Posted by Stephanie · December 11, 2007 at 04:27 PM]

So, it turns out I really want a copy of your book, so here are my photos for the Scavenger Hunt. In honor of your Vegas wedding, these are all photos taken during my two trips to Vegas. :)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephiecooks/sets/72157603429238100/

[58 · Posted by The Lard Arms · December 11, 2007 at 05:06 PM]

Hope I'm not too late. It was FUN! But I think the dog liked the Greek yoghurt the most....

Great idea.

http://thelardarms.typepad.com/the_lard_arms/2007/12/dietgirl-sets-1.html

[59 · Posted by The Lard Arms · December 11, 2007 at 06:43 PM]

Sorry, that was such a short comment but I had to rush out AND meet the deadline. Thanks for running a fabulous competition that got us thinking and looking.

xxxxxxx

[60 · Posted by Piabella · December 12, 2007 at 12:11 AM]

Okay, here's my entry - http://noodling.wordpress.com/2007/12/12/dietgirls-amazing-scavenger-hunt/

I guess this means I have to delurk here and at WNP. Well, delurk more than my comments waaaaay back in 2001 at WNP. Long time between drinks.

[61 · Posted by Piabella · December 12, 2007 at 12:12 AM]

I can't do pretty linky links :-(

I hope this doesn't count against me :-(

[62 · Posted by anji · December 12, 2007 at 03:19 AM]

ack! One or two of the links didn't work... are you going to be able to put together a page with everyone's URLs? That'd be groovy.

[63 · Posted by Jaykay · December 12, 2007 at 04:58 AM]

Phew, made it!!

Here's my take on things.....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaykay/sets/72157603433580418/

[64 · Posted by dg · December 12, 2007 at 08:23 AM]

Sorry about any broken links folks, have been bolding everyone's links at night but may have screwed up a few, try copying the text itself and pasting but will try and fix up at home. sorry for sloppiness, am so busy at mo i think my head is going to explode xx

[65 · Posted by Sarah LivingtoFeelGood · December 12, 2007 at 09:40 AM]

Oh this was so much fun. I included it at the bottom of my update for the day. I was worried I wouldn't be able to get it in on time, so I ran around my house at 1am taking pictures. I even grabbed a flash light and went out in the freezing back yard to snap a picture of a bike in the far back corner. Luckily I didn't run into any critters! ;)

http://livingtofeelgood.blogspot.com/2007/12/its-beginning-to-feel-lot-like.html

[66 · Posted by Tanya · December 12, 2007 at 10:20 AM]

Ok here's my entry... has a little twist to it, playing on my net geekette side! :) http://www.flickr.com/photos/21742446@N05/sets/72157603435139858/ If the link doesn't work so well, click on my name to see it I guess! :)

[67 · Posted by Sweet Southern Belle · December 12, 2007 at 01:44 PM]

Oh my gosh! I finally finished my entry. Took more than 20 minutes though. Had to open a blog & figure out to post & add 7 photos. I'm so happy. Please pick me. I can't even get your book in the US. http://swsbelle.blogspot.com/

[68 · Posted by alice · December 12, 2007 at 05:57 PM]

Squeaking by at the last minute!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/54254963@N00/2106154838/

And thanks for the excuse to play around in photoshop - this was fun!

[69 · Posted by The B · December 12, 2007 at 11:32 PM]

I missed it, I know, because I didn't remember the 6pm thing and just thought, just now, going to bed, "oh GOOD, I still have time", and scampered round the house in my nightie taking photos.

I've posted it anyway, and don't worry, I know I'm disqualified, but it was too fun not to!