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Mary Did a Race a Month in 2011 {guest post}
[ 5 ] 01/16/2012

Mary Did a Race a Month in 2011 {guest post}

Hello everyone and a Happy New Year – still! I hope you are all still focused on your goals for the year ahead. What is it YOU want to do? Set your sights and get after it! I am delighted to have been given this chance to write a guest post for The Sisterhood about [...]

Menu Plan Your Butt Off {MendingJen}
[ 3 ] 12/11/2011

Menu Plan Your Butt Off {MendingJen}

This week’s menu plan is brought to us by Jen from Listen.Learn.Love.Mend. If you’re interested in menu planning for the Sisterhood, give us a shout in the comments! We love guest menu planners! Shrinkers, I have been absent from the menu planning lately! When last I was here, I was still Jen in Real Life [...]

Ann Gregory on her Susan G. Komen 3 Day for the Cure Walk {guest writer}
[ 11 ] 11/14/2011

Ann Gregory on her Susan G. Komen 3 Day for the Cure Walk {guest writer}

{Ann Gregory has been around the Sisterhood for AGES! She’s one of our favorites (every Sister has one!), and also one of our most supportive members. Two weekends ago Ann did something amazing – she walked 60 miles in 3 days. Ca you even imagine? She’s stopped in today to share her very inspirational story……so [...]

Charity Racing — Using Your Passion to Fuel Your Training
[ 0 ] 09/19/2011

Charity Racing — Using Your Passion to Fuel Your Training

We have another fabulous post on charity racing this week from Tiffany Zook. You can check out her first two posts in the series here: Find Your Passion and Demystifying Fundraising. Lets face it, training for an endurance event is just plain hard. A very small percentage of people ever undertake training for a race, [...]

Menu Plan Your Butt Off {A Working Mom}
[ 12 ] 09/11/2011

Menu Plan Your Butt Off {A Working Mom}

Hey all you Shrinkers!!  I’m Jen and I blog over at Jen in Real Life. In real life I am a teacher, mother, wife, runner…err currently injured runner, blogger, tweeter, friend…ok I am like most women…I wear many hats and I have many titles to match the hats. I blog my life, my journey and I [...]

Charity Racing – Demystifying Fundraising
[ 4 ] 09/06/2011

Charity Racing – Demystifying Fundraising

This week we have another great post from Tiffany Zook on Charity Racing – Finding Your Passion. If you didn’t see last week’s post, check it out here NOW! There is no doubt that one of the most daunting and scary propositions about charity racing is the fundraising. Especially if you have never participated in [...]

Charity Racing – Find Your Passion
[ 12 ] 08/31/2011

Charity Racing – Find Your Passion

  Tiffany Zook will be doing a series of guest posts on racing for charity. She was a very important and passionate member of Team Shrinking Jeans when we raced with Team In Training and raised money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Tiffany was a rockstar fundraiser and motivational team member!! She is passionate [...]

Up and Down: Riding It Out and Working Through
[ 4 ] 06/27/2011

Up and Down: Riding It Out and Working Through

I met Heidi from The Write Fit at Fitbloggin’ (she was the awesome chic with JumpSport Fitness Trampoline™!) and we just clicked. She told me she’d love to write for us about self-sabotage, and I’m thrilled to share her thoughts with all of you! We have all been there.  We have all been on diets, [...]

Mantras in May:: I Am Worthy
[ 5 ] 05/09/2011

Mantras in May:: I Am Worthy

Today’s mantra is brought to you by our most awesome social sister, Colleen! Read more from Colleen here and make sure you join us on the ‘hood tonight for SisterChat! I cannot believe we are entering into our second week of May already! How did your first week of the May your way challenge go? [...]

I am a runner
[ 11 ] 04/13/2011

I am a runner

Today we’re bringing you a guest post from one of our favorite Sisters, Bari. If you haven’t had a chance to get to know her (which is highly unlikely if you’ve been around here for any length of time), please be sure to check out Bari’s blog – Live. Laugh. Run. Breathe. It’s taken me [...]

He was given a new life
[ 6 ] 03/10/2011

He was given a new life

Do you remember when we shared Lee’s story of loss? Hold on, let me give you a little more information. Lee is Bari’s dad. He suffered an incredible loss, and instead of losing himself in it, he FOUND himself and a new reason to live. Go read his story quick, and then come back here [...]

Laurie, The Shrinking Story::Part 2
[ 8 ] 03/01/2011

Laurie, The Shrinking Story::Part 2

It’s time for our second installment from Laurie and her Shrinking Story. Last month was her very first submission, and I’m so excited to tell you Laurie’s made some big changes in her lifestyle! Keep reading and see for yourself! Just Try | Just Finish Hello Sisterhood!!! I am sooooooooo excited to be writing to [...]

Guest Post::Mary Phelan
[ 6 ] 02/14/2011

Guest Post::Mary Phelan

We are so excited to have an awesome post from Mary Phelan, a.k.a the Fiddler’s Bride, today. She’s funny, kind, and a huge supporter of the Sisterhood and all of our members, and did I mention she’s funny? Oh, I did? Well, she is! First, let me say I am OVERTHEMOONEXCITED and honored to be [...]

Laurie::The Shrinking Story
[ 19 ] 02/01/2011

Laurie::The Shrinking Story

I am so excited to introduce Laurie to all of you! She’s been hanging around her at the Sisterhood for awhile, so you might recognize her! When we put out a call for new writers, she was the first to respond. Like within 37 seconds! After reading her submission, I knew she had a very [...]

Supermarket Shopping: Decisions and Dilemmas
[ 1 ] 01/24/2011

Supermarket Shopping: Decisions and Dilemmas

Question: How many food decisions does the average person make in a day: 25, 80, 100, 200? According to Bonnie Taub-Dix RD, weight loss specialist in New York and author of Read it Before You Eat It: How to Decode Food Labels and Make the Healthiest Choice Every Time, the answer is 200 food decisions a [...]