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Topic: Are you a female writer who wants to slim down?
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| a.j. hanley | Posted – 6/27/2007 4:07:51 PM | show profile | email poster I'm looking for a writer to pen SHAPE magazine's Weight Loss Diary column from January through December of 2008. It's a fabulous gig: We will aid your weight loss goals by setting you up with your own personal trainer, nutritionist, and therapist/life coach (to discuss emotional eating issues)?at no cost to you. For a full year, you'll chronicle your journey in a monthly first-person, 1-page article that will run in the magazine?as well as twice-weekly blogs that will appear on shape.com. Requisites: You should be a woman in her 20s or 30s who needs to lose at least 25 pounds (more is absolutely fine). You should also be prepared to be totally honest with yourself?and with all of Shape's 1.6 million readers. (Yes, that means you'll share your age, weight, and how you felt the time you consumed an entire chocolate cake while crying over a Lifetime movie.) You should also live within driving distance to a metropolitan city. What it entails: Meeting with a personal trainer once a week, and a nutritionist and therapist/life coach on a regular basis. You'll also be required to work out on your own and follow a nutritionist's eating plan. (No half-heartedness here?you've got to be committed to shedding the pounds!) Each month you'll write a 500-word column about your weight loss experience (and two blog entries every week), attend a monthly photo shoot, and have your weight, body fat, and blood pressure/cholesterol checked. You don't have to be a professional writer, but writing experience is preferred. There is compensation as well; you'll be paid a flat monthly rate of $600. How to apply: Please e-mail me a full-length photo of yourself, along with your age, height, weight, marital/family status, and occupation. We'd also like to see a writing sample and a one-page description of your struggle with your weight and how you put on the pounds. You MUST attach a photo to be considered. No phone calls please. (For more information, visit http://www.shape.com/weightlossdiary.) Thanks so much for your help! A.J. Hanley Deputy Editor SHAPE magazine ahanley@shape.com One Park Ave., 10th floor New York, New York 10016 |
| Hit Me | Posted – 6/28/2007 10:55:20 AM | show profile This is interesting to me except for missing one very important detail--what would we be wearing in the photographs? I am perfectly willing to wear the requisite before picture attire; spots bra and bike shorts, although it won't be pretty. However, I am appalled and uncomfortable viewing before pix, with some poor soul, squeezed sausage-style into undersized clothing, staring forlornly into the camera. Fast forward to the after picture where the clothes fit, there is light and laughter in the subject's eyes and a breathless quote about how unhappy they were before the weight loss. I am a happy humor writer who enjoys wearing clothes that fit. I have never worked out regularly and have gained 10lbs for each kid, not exactly the push gift of my dreams. Bet you're wondering how many kids I have. I am not tellling--yet. I am sure there are others like me, who would love to participate in your project, especially without the cliched premise that overweight=miserable, skinny=happy. Life just isn't that black and white. So please, talk to us about that before picture and then sign me up! Thank You! |
| mehean | Posted – 6/28/2007 11:35:03 AM | show profile To address the photo question... I am guessing that they are going to continue to use the same type of photography that they have used the past few years with this column - close fitting workout clothes or capri's and t-shirt. There have never been any embarrassing photographs in the pages, so my guess as a reader, is that they will not start that now. |
| Hit Me | Posted – 6/28/2007 1:21:58 PM | show profile Thanks, you are absolutely right. The subjects are even smiling! |
| Homer | Posted – 6/28/2007 3:19:10 PM | show profile Isn't this an ad? Did MB get stiffed on a job posting? |
