I'm a runner, duathlete and future triathlete. I love to cook, drink margaritas, socialize with friends, and I laugh with my entire body. I'm the mother of three kids (ages 8, 6 and 3.5), I turn 40 years old in 2012, and I'm trying to find a peaceful acceptance with my body. I am slowly coming into my own, finding a true passion with empowering and motivating women to conquer their fear of the unknown when taking up running for the first time.
Updated: Kelsey, you have won this gift pack. Please send your mailing address to lisa@shrinkingjeans.net by Monday, Feb 6th or another winner will be chosen. Congrat The first time I had any of the cereals from Attune Foods was at Fitbloggin 2011. It was served at breakfast one day and man, was it delicious! I [...]
Yippee, it’s Wednesday and you know what that means? It means we all get to weigh-in and share it with each other- how exciting!!!! It’s our second week of weighing in and I Hope everyone’s scale is moving in the right direction : ). Go ahead, kick off your shoes clothes and go weigh yourself. [...]
It’s been a while since I had the write-up for True Confessions. For those of you who are new around here, Tuesday is the day where we put IT all out on the table, where we share the previous week’s transgressions, struggles, and good stuff too. You write up a post, leave the link in [...]
I have been naughty. I have been nice. I want to be nicer. To my body, that is. On this very merry of merriest of days, take a moment to say thank-you; show love and gratitude for what you can do; revel in the beauty around you; show love to those you care about. From [...]
Anyone else loading up the family and traveling elsewhere for the holidays? Don’t be jealous, but we’re loading up the minivan with our family of five plus grandma and driving 17+ hours to visit my sister and her family. It should be an awesome time for us to connect with the 8, 5, and 3 [...]
Next week alone, between my 3 kids, their schools and their after-school activities, we have FIVE holiday parties. Also, we have a Christmas Tree Hop Pot Luck that our entire family has been invited to next weekend. Although lots of fun and part of the normal Christmas festivities, the total of these parties could potentially [...]
We all know that exercise is good for you. But WHY is exercise good for you? Here, The Mayo Clinic tells us why and I also share my thoughts on each bullet point. Yeah, I know this is a lengthy post but it’s definitely worth the read. Exercise controls weight. DUH. I don’t need to explain [...]
{Giveaway Closed! Congrats to Megan, Megan, and Amber – our winners!} Hey ya’ll, hey ya’ll, hey ya’ll! We’re starting a new challenge today and it’s been gonna be a quickie one, only 5 weeks long. We all walk, all day long. We walk from the bed to the bathroom. We walk all around our kitchen. [...]
I have to be honest, I’m not very good at menu planning every week. The two times I have done since we started this segment at Shrinking Jeans have been awesome weeks of eating at our house. All the other weeks that I have not done it have still been yummy weeks of eating but [...]
Winner winner! Tabathia, please forward your mailing address to lisa@shrinkingjeans.net. Thanks and congrats! Lisa ************************************************** I realize the spacing on this post leaves a lot to be desired and I have worked and worked and re-written and re-posted trying to get the spacing right, but for whatever reason, WordPress does not want to let me [...]
httpv://youtu.be/4ZSaGoJVxpI The tribes list will be updated later this evening. Be sure to check back later for the updated list! Guess what? We are now merging into ONE TRIBE! Yes! You heard me right! Each of you who remain after this tribal council are merging into one tribe and will battle it out to be in [...]
Updated: Winner winner- Kristin>OneCrazyMamaof4, please forward your address to lisa@shrinkingjeans.net so that gift card can get mailed out to you. Congrats! I run. I bike. I swim. I go the gym. I exercise a lot. Away from home. You hear about things happening to people when they are out and about, something requiring medical attention [...]
It’s Tuesday and time to confess it all. Have you been good? Bad? Eh? Did you fall off the wagon/get back on/pull the wagon? Here are my confessions: I am tired. My days begin at 6:30am and don’t stop until at least 8pm, sometimes later if I still have household stuff that needs to be [...]
UPDATE: We had to choose another winner since we never heard back from the original winner. *Steel Springs*, please forward your home address to lisa@shrinkingjeans.net so that we can get this jersey out to you. Thanks and congrats! Winner winner! *Suzanne* please email your home address to lisa@shrinkingjeans.net. Thanks and congrats! Comments are now closed. [...]
I was looking back through old posts and stumbled upon this one that I wrote over a year ago. The gist of the post was this: When I look in the mirror, I like my _______. I wrote about how most times when I look in the mirror, my eyes naturally gravitate to the [...]
