The PoundCake Diet: The NON-Fat Version
The PoundCake Diet may be the EASIEST diet on the planet. It works like this:
For every 10 lbs. you shed
(not “lose” because you don’t want the pounds to find you again!), a homeless child gets a birthday cake.
That’s it, in a nutshell. And, while this ISN’T about eating pound cake to shed weight, we WILL offer some great low-calorie cake recipes to take care of your sweet tooth while you drop the pounds!
Everybody wins – our homeless “PoundCake Kidz”; the people and businesses that donate the money for cakes; the bakeries that get to make the cakes; AND the person dropping weight. This is a simple way to do the Right Thing by doing what you were going to do anyway!
Pledge Your Pounds and Create Cake Credits
With the PoundCake Diet, your pledge of 10 lbs. = 1 birthday cake = 8 happier homeless PoundCake Kidz.
The PoundCake Diet: The LOW-Fat Version
Yes, our focus is bringing joy into the lives of our PoundCake Kidz with birthday cakes. At the same time, it’s the people willing to drop weight — and share that they’re doing it — who are the superheroes that make those cakes possible. Do The PoundCake Diet is the place to make a BIG difference, for yourself and a homeless child who needs some joy, if:
- You want (or you know someone who wants) to start a diet and stay on it until the goal weight is reached.
- You want to make a difference to someone in need AND you want an EASY way to do it
- You specifically want to help homeless kids have more hope and joy
- You have a business that wants to give back to your community in meaningful ways that are simple and either FREE or low-cost
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Everyone can participate! Even before any official announcement, we had folks involved from 9 states and 3 countries:
- a grassroots social entrepreneur/ philanthropist/ musician/ visual artist (MA)
- the #1 cookbook authors in Canada (CAN)
- the #1 low-fat cookbook author in Australia (AUS)
- a newlywed couple from mid-town Manhattan (NY)
- a professional inventor (OH)
- an entrepreneur/ researcher(OR)
- a cutting-edge gym (NJ)
- a professional musician and yoga instructor (TX)
- a massage teacher/ therapist (PA)
- a socialite author (NJ)
- a furniture chain store’s employee weight loss pool (RI)
- a martial arts studio (MA)
- a computer repair store (MA)
- an author and stay-at-home-mom (MA)
- And we’re just getting started…
Why Is This A Good Thing To Do?
Most of us have had the joy of having birthday cakes and birthday parties at least a few times in our lives. By the same token, most of us have NOT had to survive, as homeless children, through the incredible hardships of living on the street. For these children, basics like food and shelter are luxuries, so something as amazing as a birthday cake – in the safety of a sheltering environment – is a gift beyond measure.
Originally, I was racking my brains for a way to stick with my diet and exercise program to shed the 60 lbs. I’d set as my goal. I’m an Urban Bliss Shaman, so I figured I could motivate myself by finding a way to have my weight drop make a difference for others in need… Enter Spirit’s vision for The PoundCake Diet! It’s such a blessing to be help get cakes for homeless kids by shedding my own excess baggage…
Then there was a phone call that radically expanded everything. I was sharing what I was doing with a friend, and she said “I’d love for the weight loss group I’m in to do that!”
That’s the moment I realized that ANYONE could participate. This is the kind of thing that ensures that everyone gets to win, including YOU. And not in a generalized “my heart feels huge because I’ve done a Good Thing” kind of way. This time, you get to have a personal, concrete, measurable win all your own!
With a big enough “why”, there’s always a “how.” I mean, seriously, when you don’t want to get out of bed to do your exercise – or you want to cheat and eat that extra piece of Boston Crème pie – just imagine the delight on a homeless child’s face at the sight of their first birthday cake! That’ll get you going! PLUS, you’ll know that YOU’RE the one creating the kind of memory that lasts a lifetime. INSTANT SUPERHERO CREDITS, FOLKS!
If you believe any of the following, then please join me on this campaign:
- Every kid deserves joy and hope
- Birthday parties RULE!
- The PoundCake Diet is the simple, easy, not-rocket science, no-brainer way to make what-you-were-gonna-do-anyway – shedding weight – make a BIG difference for somebody else as well.
It’s like double-dipping into your own joy!
But Wait, There’s More!
No Ginsu knives here – just something even cooler: a way to donate the birthday cakes AND donate food to families in need at the same time!
Your donations will get into the hands of people who can efficiently help homeless children AND feed hungry families.
Any portion of the money, allocated for a cake, that doesn’t get used, benefits Fans With Cans Food Abundance Network. Since 1994, Fans With Cans has brought 60,000+ meals to hungry folks in 5 states. This non-profit organization, I founded, is undergoing a complete makeover so it can better help fill the shelves of food distribution outlets nationwide.
Pounds Pledges and Cake Credits Revisited
So Sign Up and Be A Hero!
Sometimes being a hero takes Herculean efforts. It can mean surmounting the legal hassles of starting a non-profit; or overcoming the fear of pulling someone out of a burning car; or surviving donating an organ to a loved one…
But SOMETIMES it’s just a tiny thing. It may be something as tiny, simple – and meaningful – as bringing a beautiful moment of hope into the life of a kid who may not even remember what hope feels like. THAT’S WHAT THE POUNDCAKE DIET IS DOING NATIONWIDE.
The Big World – with its Grammys and Nobel prizes – may not engrave your name on a statue for your PoundCake Diet Good Deed. But you can take it to the bank that signing up for this will have your loving energy indelibly engraved on the heart of some homeless child who is up to their elbows in the icing from their own miraculous birthday cake!
Oh Bliss!!!! ;-))
And Be Sure to Tell The World…
Telling the world what you’re doing will inspire others and get even MORE cakes for the kids. Since this is fun AND makes a significant difference, letting the world know is simple.
Doncha just LOVE happy endings?
I hereby officially invite you to join me in writing a new happy ending – for yourself and all of our PoundCake Kidz.
Here’s to the blessings of birthday cakes and everyday superheroes like YOU!
ROCK ON!
Julie C. Woods
Founder, The PoundCake Diet
Founder, The Fans With Cans Food Abundance Network
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206.203.2680
