Meet Stephanie and Aaron, the official winners of our $5,000 Makeover for You and a Friend contest.

At long last, we’re proud to announce our official winners of the Refresh You $5,000 Makeover for You and a Friend essay contest.

Readers, meet Aaron and Stephanie.

Just as their winning essay indicated, Aaron will be exploring options in refractive surgery, hoping for less dependence on his glasses. He’s currently working with our resident expert at Davis Duehr Dean — Deb – who will guide him through the entire process. To start, he’s in for a very comprehensive eye exam.

Meanwhile, Stephanie met with JoDeen from our Comprehensive Weight Management program, and they’re laying out plans for the next few weeks.

We’ll get regular updates from Aaron and Stephanie, letting all of us know how they’re doing, what the programs are like, and how they’re making some great long-lasting changes.

Stay tuned!

P.S. — A huge thank you to everyone who submitted an entry and to all who voted! The essays were so great that we scrounged up some extra cash to give Amazon.com gift certificates to our top 20 entries. (You know who you are.)

For our second place and third place entrants (Linda and Allison, Andrea and Paula), we’ve got some cool stuff coming your way — we haven’t finalized the details yet, but let’s just say you’ll be quite pleased.

P.P.S. — Our Fruit and Veggie Contest winners are lovin’ the fresh produce! We’ll have photos soon!

P.P.P.S. — We’re drawing our winner for that swanky Trek tandem bike on July 1. Stay tuned to see who will win this exceedingly cool prize.

P.P.P.P.S. — We’ve got the next prize all picked out — a high-end, top-quality Seca bathroom scale. Simply, this thing works as good as it looks.  To enter, you need to be a Refresh You member and live in the Madison/southern Wisconsin area. So once again, Chicago, DEE-NIED.