Hey!

Guess what!!

It’s Wednesday, guys! Time to weigh in. You didn’t think we were going to leave you hanging did you?

Just because we are between challenges doesn’t mean it’s time to rest on your laurels! We’ve got three weigh ins before the next official challenge starts so let’s get to work!

You’s got to have goals, people!

So, what’s it going to be? How are you going to spend the next three weeks?

Are you going to flounder away because there is no official challenge?

Or are you going to set yourself a mini goal and continue toward your bigger goal of HEALTH?

So. First things first. If you’re a weigher, go get on that scale.

Secondly, set some goals. Three weeks is plenty of time to get something D-O-N-E, done!

Thirdly, blog about it. Let us know how it went this week. Let us know what your goals are. Let us know what you had for lunch yesterday. Let us know if you have a pet!

O.K. You get the point. Talk to us! We love hearing from you!!

Is it just me or did the first week of this challenge fly by? Maybe it’s because I was super busy or because I’m just getting older. It just seems like the older I get, the faster time goes. Whatever the reason, I can’t believe it is time for our first weigh in.

We have so much going on at the Sisterhood right now….

1. Did you do your motivation board? It’s not too late, if you didn’t. Get your board done and post your link here. While you are there. check out some of the other boards.

2. Are you all signed up for “Run the Hood”? I had so much fun when we did the last one. I think there were ten of us on my team. Get some of your family and friends togther and make your own course. It really is fun, I promise. Go sign up here.

3. Are you doing “52 Small Changes / One Year to a Happier Healthier You” with Christy? We are on week 14 and learning how to keep it clean and green. Come check it out here, if you haven’t yet.

Okay, here comes the fun part! Jump on that scale. It’s time to weigh in. Because I am writing this on Tuesday night, I can’t even tell you how I did. You can find out though when I put my link in the comment section. You can do the same thing. Good luck all. Can’t wait to read your posts.

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT TODAY!*

Good Wednesday morning lovely people! How are you? Me? I’m sore as……shhhhhh, don’t tell anyone! After taking THREE weeks off from boot camp, for no good reason other than I just didn’t feel like going, I had family in town, and my trainer was out of town, I returned yesterday. I’m sure you can imagine how I’m feeling.

Like I got caught red-handed in a dark alley with a jelly donut by Jillian Michaels.

I am SORE.

Taking three weeks off from exercise is never a good idea, nor is there any excuse for it (unless you just had a baby, or have broken every bone in your body). Taking that much time off only leads to other bad habits like: ice cream sundaes too often, excessive sitting, drinking lots of beer, water avoidance, and weight gain. A downright abomination, not unlike Peyton Manning leaving the Colts (but, yay for Denver). Oy.

Enough about me already. How are YOU doing? *side -_- eyes* It’s not a challenge week, but we want to hear all about your scale successes and non-scale victories! Tell us how you’re doing, AND GEAR UP, because have an awesome new challenge starting up NEXT WEDNESDAY! Just in time to motivate you right into summer!

*Guess what? TODAY we are kicking off Run The Hood Registration – Our Virtual 5K & 10K. We’ve had too many to keep track of, but this is the second time around with real race t-shirts, swag bags, sponsors, and finishers medals. FOR REAL. Head on over here to read all about it! You won’t want to miss out. Trust me! There might be a giveaway, too……

It’s Wednesday weigh-in/check-in day. It’s our first weigh-in without a challenge going on in awhile. It still counts though. You can’t slack off just because it’s not challenge time. Head to the scale and check out what it says. Then come back here and leave us the results in the comments. If you are blogging about it, leave us the link in the comments too.

Are you doing Six Pack March with us? If you aren’t, you really should be. It is awesome. It’s the first thing I do in the morning. I do it first thing so I have no excuses to not do it later in the day. It works for me that way.

The Shrinking Jeans staff is diligently working on the next challenge. We’ll be letting you know about it soon. I can promise that it is going to be great and you are going to love it.

Would you like to hear some really exciting news? We will be announcing the date for the next Run the Hood 5k in the near future. Did you run/walk last time? I did and I had a fantastic time. Start thinking about all the people that you can recruit to do the 5k with you. The more the merrier.

Have you entered the giveaway for the iSafe Bag? You should. Go enter, if you haven’t. Also, if you haven’t checked out Shrinking Kitchen, you must. It is such a cool site and you won’t believe the yummy healthy recipes.

That all for now. Go jump on the scale and see what you did this week. We can’t wait to hear all about it.

Hiddey Ho- it’s the eighth week of our challenge, with only one week to go.  Where did the time fly off too?  Yes, you have one week to kick it into high gear and to finish strong.  How are you doing?  Have you been doing your ‘thang and watching the numbers shrink on the scale?  Has your journey been a little tougher than you thought?  Have you encountered any struggles along the way?  (yeah, MYSELF).

Anyhoo, today we weigh-in/check-in.  Step on your scale, record that number, blog about your past week and share the link in the comments section below.  Really, that’s it.  Since it’s the eighth week already, I’m pretty sure ya’ll are old pro’s at this by now : ).

Our Fitness Challenge

Our fitness challenge is the same each week. We’re asking you to do either 20 minutes of vigorous exercise three times weekly OR 30 minutes of moderate exercise five times weekly. Are you getting your weekly quota of exercise in? Be sure to let us know how it’s going!

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Also, because I’m nosey I want to get to know ya’ll better, could you leave one interesting tidbit about yourself in the comments?  I know weirdo.  Thanks and Happy Shrinking!!!!

P.S.- Who is participating in the 52 Small Changes / One Year to a Happier and Healthier You challenge?  Let me know how it’s going for you.

P.P.S. – Have you checked out Shrinking Kitchen yet?  If not, run and do it NOW.  Shrinking Kitchen is our new site where we are posting recipes, recipes, and more recipes!

Good morning shrinkers! If my calendar is right, today is Wednesday and that means it’s a weigh in day. It might be a check in day, if you are one of those lucky people who are already at your goal weight.

It is hard to believe that there are only two weeks left in this challenge. Time is flying by. How are you doing? Have you hit your stride and moving right along or have you hit a few bumps in the road? I think my journey this week could most easily be called a bumpy stride.

I hope that you are still working with us in the 52 Small Changes / One Year to a Happier and Healthier You. I am really enjoying this challenge. We are already on week 7 and moving right along. I am trying to keep up with the previous weeks as we move in to the new weeks. I can imagine that this could get tricky the further along we get.

Our Fitness Challenge

Our fitness challenge is the same each week. We’re asking you to do either 20 minutes of vigorous exercise three times weekly OR 30 minutes of moderate exercise five times weekly. Are you getting your weekly quota of exercise in? Be sure to let us know how it’s going!

So, that’s all for me. It’s time to get down to business. Go jump on that scale and then come back and report. If have written a blog post about your week, be sure to leave the link in the comments. Bye! I hope you all have a great week of shrinking!

The Weigh In

Happy Wednesday, Shrinkers!!  Wow, here we are in February already!  How is that even possible?!  It seems like just a week or so ago that it was the start of the New Year and our first challenge of 2012!  So far, we’ve completed four full weeks of the challenge which means it’s time for another weekly check-in!

As for me, I’ve been doing pretty well considering I’m nursing a bum knee which makes exercise extremely difficult.  I’ll be having laparoscopic surgery on it fairly soon, so hopefully I’ll be able to get back to my workouts in the near future once I’ve recovered.  Even with the decreased exercise, I still managed to rid myself of 5.6 pounds in January.  Thank you Weight Watchers and GO ME!!

So, how about you? Have you been rockin’ it and shrinking yo’self?  If you have, well done!!  Keep up the great work! If not, never fear.  There’s still plenty of time to jump back on track and see progress before the end of our challenge on Feb. 29.

The Fitness Challenge

Our fitness challenge is the same each week. We’re asking you to do either 20 minutes of vigorous exercise three times weekly OR 30 minutes of moderate exercise five times weekly.  If you aren’t sure what the different is, check out Heather’s great explanation over here. Are you getting your weekly quota of exercise in?  Be sure to let us know how it’s going!

Have you joined us for the 52 Small Changes challenge? Week 5 is all about being positive and seeing the glass half full.  This is a principle I learned as a child from my Gran that I’ve tried to embrace throughout my life.  It’s definitely not always easy, but just like when we work out our muscles through exercise, being positive is also something you can get better at the more you exercise that “muscle” in your daily life, too. Give it a try!

If you haven’t joined us yet for the 52 Small Changes challenge, it’s not too late!  You can join this challenge any time and it will continue the rest of the year! Please join our group at the Hood for support, motivation and discussion.

Ok, enough from me.  It’s time for all of YOU to head on down to the form and check in for the week.  Have a great day and another great Shrink Yo’Self week!

Be sure to check out our newest development here at the Sisterhood: The Shrinking Kitchen. It’s our brand new site that just launched today!!

Sorry this post is up so late today, friends! Looks like somebody forgot to check the calendar this week!

The Weigh-In

Alrighty, get on the scale if you haven’t already! Fill in your numbers down below in the form, blog about your week, go offer your Shrinking Friends some support and encouragement, I’m sure they will do the same for you! Brand spankin’ new around these parts and want to join in the fun? All the details on this challenge can be found here!

The Assignment

Dear Me. We asked the future you of 2013 to write your present self a letter about all the wonderful things you did this year, as if you had already done them. We want you to talk to yourself about your accomplishments and what you learned, what you overcame, and so on. Have you written your letter yet? If not, DO IT! You won’t be sorry. Also, next January, when you pull out that letter and see all that you did do- it will be awesome. You can go here to link up your letter post and to read every one else’s Dear Me letters.

The Fitness Challenge

Our fitness challenge is the same each and every week. We’re asking you to do either 20 minutes of vigorous exercise three times weekly OR 30 minutes of moderate exercise five times weekly. Our rockstar Heather outlined the difference between vigorous exercise and moderate exercise over here. Are you getting your weekly quota of exercise in?

Other Business

• How many of you have joined us for the 52 Small Changes challenge? Week 3 consists of GETTING OFF THE COUCH. Please join our group at the Hood for support, motivation and discussion.
• Monday nights at 8 p.m. Central we gather at the ‘hood and have Sister Chat about all things healthy (and not-so-healthy)! It’s totally fun and funny. I promise you won’t be sorry if you come, but you will be sorry if you miss it!Every Tuesday, we have a Tworkout (Twitter + Workout = Tworkout) at 8 p.m. Central time. You won’t find a more fun workout anywhere, trust me!

The Check-In Form

Wow. Can you believe it? We’re at the last check-in of 2011. Seriously, where did the year go?

So, last week was Christmas, and we all know how the holidays can sometimes go. You go here and eat and there and eat and this place and eat and that place and eat. So, let’s get that out of the way first, how was Christmas for everyone?! How were your holiday meals? I confess that I ate a little more than normal. But I did only stick with one dessert rather than sample all of them.

The 25th marked that last day of O, Fitness Tree-25 Days of Exercise. Did you get your 25 days in? Was it hard to squeeze in that little bit of exercise this time of year? Or did it help you keep from going overboard with everything?

Also, how did you do with the 10K A Day Challenge? Did you get those 10,000 steps in?

Now, it’s time for you to check in! Tell us how you did. You can either check-in in the comments below or blog all about it and leave the link to your post in the comments. Tell us how the holidays were for you! We want to know!

Don’t forget, we have a brand new challenge coming right your way soon, so don’t forget to check back on SUNDAY JANUARY 1ST for details! New Year = New Challenge, and let me tell you, it’s a good one! We’re calling it Shrink Yourself in 2012. There will be something for everyone (shrinkers and non-shrinkers) so tell all of your family and friends about it! Tweet it! Facebook it! Let’s make this the biggest challenge ever and start off the new  year right! (Please note: on Jan 1st, you will need to weight-in and check in that morning!)

Every one have a great day and rest of the week! See you next year! Bwahahahahaha!

Goooooooooood morning, Shrinkers!

How is everyone doing this fine day? I’m trying my hand at being annoyingly happy because I just received some very tragic news.

SNOW IS ON THE WAY!

Ugh. I realize this in no way effects anything having to do with weight loss or healthy living other than the fact that it makes me very unhappy, LOL!

Anyway, on with the post.

How did everyone do this week? Is our current 10KaDay challenge helping you in your weight loss efforts? Last night on The Biggest Loser, I heard them say that people used to get around 14,000 steps a day, but now we are down to around 3,000. That’s just crazy! Strap on those pedometers, folks, and get yourself moving!

You know what’s really been helping me? The O Fitness Tree. My six year old daughter is doing the challenge with me and she is usually the one that says “Mommy, is it time to do some fitness yet so I can get a sticker?” Or, “Mommy, don’t forget that you still have to go for a run!” She’s really been keeping me on my toes.

Gift giving time is just around the corner, so don’t forget to check out our Shrinking Gift List. You still have a few more days to enter to win the BodyMedia FIT Armband, so don’t delay! Check it out!

That’s it for me, everybody! Have a fantastic week!