Before we get to the giveaway, first things first: I FRICKIN’ LOVE BODY PUMP!!!!! 
Ali and I met at Healthworks after work to take a Body Pump class together, and I must say, I had a fantastic time! Body Pump is the BEST workout!
Here’s why I love Body Pump so much:
To start, you can burn up to 600 calories in one class! Obviously, awesome. Body Pump has also changed my body! I’ve seen muscles that I never even knew I had! Our instructor (Tara B.) was super motivating and pushed us to work hard through the entire class. The music was totally rockin’– I especially loved the triceps track (“Thunderstruck” by ACDC)! And, as corny as it sounds, I loved seeing women lift HEAVY weights– none of that 3 lb. dumbbell stuff! I left class feeling strong and confident. It was GREAT! 
Besides Body Pump, I also love Scramble, a new app that I found on my iPhone. I’m kind of obsessed. Just saying.
I was STARVING when I got home from Body Pump, so I threw some leftover roasted beets, sweet potatoes, and a piece of Provolone cheese into half of a pita.
Viola! A fast, simple, and delicious dinner.
The Provolone was a yummy compliment to the roasted veggies.
Dessert was a zillion Oatmeal Cherry Raisin Spice cookies. Once I start, I can’t seem to stop! 
Fitness Magazine Giveaway
Have you guys seen the October issue of Fitness magazine? It’s on newstands now, and there’s actually a lot of great stuff in it. I especially liked: “Healthy for Life: What to Eat in Your 20s, 30s, 40s, and Beyond” and “Souped Up – 7 Healthy Filling and Delicious Soups and Stews.” Mmm, soup! 
The wonderful people at Fitness magazine have offered to giveaway a sweet prize pack! Check out what it includes:
- 1-year subscription
- Cosmetic bag
- Umbrella
- Apron
- Floppy hat
- Notebook
- Massager
- Baseball
Sounds like a good one, right?
To Enter: Leave a comment about your favorite soup. Feel free to leave a recipe, too! Tomorrow morning, I will use the Random Integer Generator to pick a winner.
Good luck!!!
The giveaway is only open to US residents. I’m sorry, Canadian and international friends! 
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My favorite soup is white beans and rapini. I make it at home and it’s just delicious! All you need is garlic, shallots, olive oil (saute), add rapini and vegetable stock, then let cook for a while. Finally add in pre-cooked white beans and season with salt, crushed red pepper, black pepper and parmesan cheese.
I love French Onion & Clam Chowder! Both satisfy my needs when it’s soup time
I love russian borscht! Haven’t had it in a while. Hmm, better ask my mom to make some
Great giveaway. I love health and fitness magazines!!
I love, love Fitness Magazine! And I love, love SOUP! In Boston, there is a Vietnamese Restaurant that has the BEST chicken noodle soup! It is PHENOMENAL! I highly suggest it! (It is called Pho Pasteur). Best soup on earth!
I love my mom’s version of the ever popular cabbage soup.
Cabbage Soup
1-2 lbs. ground beef or turkey (as much as you like, I use 1)
1 onion, chopped
1 green pepper, chopped
2 Tbsp. sugar
2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. paprika
1 Tbsp. chili powder
2 c. raw potatoes, chopped
3-4 beef bouillon cubes
1-2 cans diced tomatoes (I use 2, fire roasted , garlic flavored)
1 c. raw carrots, chopped
1 small head of cabbage, chopped
Brown ground beef or turley (drain grease, if any). Add everything EXCEPT CABBAGE. Add 1 quart of water. Once soup comes to a boil, simmer over low heat for one hour. Pour in another quart of water and return to a slow boil. Add cabbage and simmer for one hour until cabbage is tender.
You can spice it up any way you like, I tend to change my spicing depending on my mood.
My favorite soup is butternut squash carrot soup.: Here is the recipe:
http://foodfitnessfashion.com/2009/09/30/very-veggie-dinner/
very neat! my faaaavorite soup is new england clam chowder. creamy, clammy… what could be better? oh – eating it out of a bread bowl.
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I’ve taken a few body pump classes and worn my heart rate monitor – I only burn ~200 calories. There is no cardio so my heart rate doesn’t get up very high. I’m so bummed
I was really hoping for 600!
Italian wedding is my favorite soup – it reminds me of meeting my mom for lunch in highschool and having girl time. I miss those afternoons!
I love taco soup! Ground turkey, onion, black beans, corn and spicy tomatoes! Very filling and low-cal.
I just made an awesome raw soup last night. It’s called Harvest soup with carrots, tomatoes, zucchini, onion and spices. I am a soup lover though- particularly tomato soup!
I love pumpkin soup-it’s especially good now that we’re having fall like weather!
My favorite soup is homemade Chicken Rice soup made by my Mom. It’s delicious, especially with a huge piece of freshly baked bread.
my favorite soup is lentil soup! i usually just throw lentils+veggie broth+veggies in a pot, season with cumin and whatever else sounds good and simmer. it was my husbands introduction to lentils when we first started dating and now we eat them at least once a week! (although not in soup-form because we live in louisiana where we can only eat soup two months of the year)
My favorite soup is tortellini soup! My grandma makes it every Christmas and it has cheese tortellini, tons of vegetables, and a yummy vegetable broth. Wish I had the recipe, but its grandma’s little secret!! Awesome giveaway though!! =)
What an awesome give-a-way! It’s a happy day when I get my magazines in the mail
I’ve made 2 fabulous soups lately: Chicken corn chowder and cauliflower cheese soup!
My Mom’s homemade turkey chili
The recipe’s a secret
The best soup I’ve ever had was a butternut squash soup. Love it.
My favorite soup is my dad’s split pea soup, it totally reminds me of being a kid at home in the winter, total comfort food! Split peas, onions, carrots, ham hock, and chicken broth!
I love the white chicken chili that my mom makes. She got the recipe while working with Navajo Indians a few years ago. It’s incredible.
Sarah
I love lentil soup. Cheap, healthy and easy!
My fave quick soup is broth + 1 can pumpkin + 1 can white beans + cumin + coriander + salt + pepper, all blended with an immersion blender
Thanks for the awesome giveaway!
I really like split pea soup
I like peas a lot and to make it into a soup is great!
I love split pea soup! and anything lots of beans or lentils. and sweet potatoes. Also love a good miso soup or tofu veg.
I am making a new soup this weekend from Runner’s Kitchen blog called Butternut Squash and Sundried Tomato soup I have a feeling it will be my new favorite!! If I win, I’ll give you the recipe:)
i love fresh tomato soup, so good with a drizzle of olive oil, basil and fresh mozzarella, yum!
My favorite soup to buy is V8 Garden Broccoli or Amy’s Organic Butternut Squash Soup!
They are BOTH amaaaaazing.
My favorite soup to make is my Grandma’s Beef Vegetable! I’ve accumulated my own recipe from it using vegetable stock, boca meat, whole kernel sweet corn, peas, stewed tomatoes, and chopped carrots! Holy YUM!
i looove minestrone with lots and lots of veggies!!
I, too, LOVE Body Pump – I got hooked about 2 years ago and can’t stop! (In fact, I plan on going tomorrow.)
My favorite soup is split pea with ham – not the healthiest but it’s a Christmas tradition in my family
Is it to late?
I love all soup…French onion, tomato, beef barley, clam chowder…
I love Italian Wedding soup!
ooh, BODY PUMP!! how i loved the classes I was able to take last month… *tear*
i might be late, but since it’s fall i love a good butternut or sweet potato soup with black beans!
traditional vegetable soups cannot be beat for easy weeknight meals! i make mine on sunday night and just re-heat and eat most nights for dinner (or i enjoy a smaller portion before dinner.) to make, i sauté one vidalia onion with carrots, celery and a little garlic. then layer the flavors, starting with diced red peppers, shredded green cabbage, fresh kale, and mushrooms. next, add one can of diced tomatoes, one small can of tomato paste and an entire container of chicken or vegetable broth. the tomato paste makes the brother almost as thick as traditional tomato soup, which i love. but if you don’t like it so thick, using less tomato paste would still intensify the flavors nicely. enjoy with a few shavings of parmesan cheese!
I hope this isn’t too late…Fitness is a great magazine. They always have great tips! My favorite soup is split pea with lots of vinegar!! I usually buy Amy’s but this year I’m going to attempt to make my own. Earlier this week I made some pumpkin and black bean soup that was delicious! I’m so excited that soup season is soon approaching. Have a great weekend!!
Mmm… nothing beats a spicy vegetable and black bean soup. Ooh, or a tomato lentil. Who am I kidding. I LOVE all types of vegetable soups. yeah for Fall time!!!
French Onion Soup for me. Yes, a little oily and not the healthiest but it is so darn good! Thanks for this great giveaway! And I will probably be trying the Bodypump class at my gym now – they are free with my membership so why not?!
My favorite soup is black bean. I also LOVE vegetable soup.
Thanks for the giveaway!!
Andersen’s split pea in CA!
awesome giveaway! i love too many soups to choose…and i’m excited about trying a new sweet potato soup recipe i found!
My favorite soup is Weight Watchers’ vegetable soup because I can eat as much of it as I want without messing up my diet. It warms me up — but more importantly, it FILLS me up!
Another awesome giveaway! My favorite soup is turkey chili, with big chunks of fresh veggies like zucchini, carrot and tomato. And I love making it this time of year when its starting to get cold.
You are rockin’ the giveaways, keep ‘em coming! Whole Foods makes this spicy sweet potato soup that is fantastic. Gotta learn to make it myself.
Body pump sounds AWESOME.
I love lentil soup – it keeps me full for hours! The pumpkin soup from Au Bon Pain is really good too!
I have a butternut squash soup recipe that I’m going to whip up this weekend to combat the cold and rainy weather. I’d Loooove to win the giveaway.
I love the She Crab soup from Tbonz restaurant!
Split pea soup. Delicious!
For me to make: my mom’s gazpacho, but my favorite quickie is Trader Joe’s Tomato Basil… YUMMY!
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