Donate to your local food bank just for losing weight!

I'm sure that like me many of you made a New Year's Resolution to lose weight. Well, what if that New Year's resolution could benefit your local food bank? If you sign up for the Pound for Pound Challenge, for every pound that you lose between now and April 27, 2009, they will donate 10 cents to your local food bank, which is enough to put a pound of groceries on their shelves. Here in Charlotte the local food bank is Second Harvest Food Bank, a very worthy cause. I also learned at the website that in Charlotte the food insecurity rate is 12.9%, with the poverty rate being 15.5%, so they need our help. So, give yourself an extra bit of motivation to shed those pounds other than looking fabulous in a bathing suit.