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Team Leaderboard – Spring Fling, Week #2

Another week has come and gone and it’s time to see which team kicked their shrinking up a notch! Last week, The Weight Loss Warriors took the early lead. Will they remain number one this week or will another team step up and steal the throne?
Here are the cumulative results:

G4      1.70%

Weight Loss Warriors      1.56%
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March 11th, 2010 | Comments | Posted in Melissa, Motivation, Sisterhood Spring Fling | by Lissa

Thursday Three

I am nothing without goals. I am constantly setting new goals for myself and am always dreaming of bigger things. I feel my best when I have something I am striving for, something I am set on achieving. Seriously? What’s life if you just stick to the same old routine? Pretty boring, if you ask [...]

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March 11th, 2010 | Comments | Posted in Featured, Melissa, Thursday Three | by Lissa

Team Leaderboard!

It’s time! Time for our very first Spring Fling Team Challenge Leaderboard!
Which team will come out on top? We’ve been busy analyzing all your hard work, mixed in a bit of subtracting and a dose of dividing, and our calculations show…

Weight Loss Warriors      -1.09%
Hood Mamas      -1.08%
Team Fabulous      -0.92%
Completely Committed Chicks      -0.76%
The A-Team      -0.65%
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Spring Fling Challenge Weigh-In #1

The first week of the Spring Fling Challenge has flown by! It’s time to see if all our hard work is paying off. Are you enjoying getting to know your teams? The ‘hood has been bustling with activity this week! Wow! We are up to FIFTEEN teams so far! I love seeing all the creative [...]

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Fitness Friday::Favorite Workouts

We are getting ready to embark on another odyssey of the 30 Day Shred here at the Sisterhood. I do love me some Shred, but I will be sitting this one out, since it’s not really compatible with my herniated disc problems! I thought it would be fun to write about some of my other [...]

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February 26th, 2010 | Comments | Posted in Featured, Fitness, Fitness Friday, Melissa, Motivation | by Lissa

*updated* Owater (Giveaway!)

Winners announced in the comments below! Congrats!

In the market today, you can find so many different types of flavored sports drinks, but chances are, they’re loaded down with sugar and calories. Who wants that?
Owater provides water infused with electrolytes, but free of the added sugar, calories, and artificial sweeteners. Owater comes in many varieties:  unflavored, [...]

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February 20th, 2010 | Comments | Posted in Featured, Melissa, Product Reviews | by Lissa

2010 Shrinking Jeans Olympics

That’s right! You heard me! In celebration of the Olympic Winter Games, we are hosting our own bad-ass Olympic games right here at The Sisterhood. All shapes, sexes, athletic-abilities, and sizes are welcome to join in! Fun events will be featured on the ‘hood each day for 10 days straight, beginning tomorrow! You may RSVP [...]

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February 11th, 2010 | Comments | Posted in Fitness, Melissa, Motivation | by Lissa

True Confessions Tuesday

This is the time of the week where we confess our missteps and good intentions gone awry. Did you survive Superbowl Sunday (*sniff*) without going overboard or did you give into the salty, creamy goodnesses that often accompany the event? Go now, GO! Confess.
True Confessions of Melissa
1. We spent the weekend on location with my [...]

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February 9th, 2010 | Comments | Posted in Featured, Melissa, True Confessions | by Lissa

Thursday Three

This post is inspired by the oodles of time I have been spending at the gym this week, but it may or may not be based on my actual experiences. No feelings were hurt in this process.
Things I would rather you not do at the gym:
1.  Could you please refrain from heading to the gym [...]

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February 4th, 2010 | Comments | Posted in Featured, Melissa, Thursday Three | by Lissa

**Updated** Motivation Monday::Women’s Heart Health + Timex

**The winner has been chosen! See down below in the comments to see if it’s you!**
Are you aware that heart disease is the number one killer of women in America? Cardiovascular disease includes diseases of the heart and blood vessels. Most heart and blood vessel problems slowly build up over a long period of time [...]

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February 1st, 2010 | Comments | Posted in Featured, Giveaways, Melissa, Motivation Monday | by Lissa

Rethink Your Shrink: Week 4 Weigh-In

Wait. What’s that say? Week FOUR?? Have we been really going at it for a month already? We are over halfway done with our Rethink Your Shrink challenge. You have joined the revolution. You have looked into your past and looked into yourself. You have contemplated what works for you and what doesn’t work for [...]

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**Updated**Pirate Brands Snacks + Giveaway!

**Look down below to see the winner!**

Let me just say this right out of the gate — I love the line of snacks made by Pirate Brands. LOVE. They offer Pirate’s Booty, Original Tings, and Smart Puffs. The snacks are all-natural, gluten-free, and offer certain products that are vegan-friendly as well. Remember puffcorn? Well, Pirate’s [...]

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January 21st, 2010 | Comments | Posted in Diet, Featured, Giveaways, Melissa, Product Reviews | by Lissa

True Confessions

It’s Tuesday! You know what that means! Today is the day where we confess all our slip-ups, moments of weakness, and everything of the like! Did you go to a birthday party and eat the whole cake? Has Jillian Michaels been sitting on your shelf all week and collecting dust? Tell us about it! You [...]

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January 19th, 2010 | Comments | Posted in Featured, Melissa, True Confessions | by Lissa

Spreading the Happy

So much tragedy has been happening in the world lately and if you are anything like me, you have probably sat and watched the Haiti coverage with tears streaming down your face while you call your husband and beg him to let you adopt a Haitian child. It’s so easy to fall so quickly into [...]

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January 18th, 2010 | Comments | Posted in Featured, Melissa, Motivation, Motivation Monday | by Lissa

Shout it From the Rooftops!

Guess what?
Today is the day that our lovely Melissa blessed the world with her presence 31  years ago! Woot!
Make sure to head on over and wish Lissa a very happy birthday – and check out her fund raising site for Team in Training. For her birthday, she’s selflessly asking for donations for the Leukemia and [...]

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January 11th, 2010 | Comments | Posted in Melissa | by heather

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