The Sisterhood of the Shrinking Jeans

I don’t like the treadmill at all. Like, at all. I get really bored and am constantly looking at the clock. When I try to cover up the clock with a towel, it’s not much better. The towel falls off or I have a skewed sense of how much time has passed.
For [...]

So, I’m going to switch things up a little bit this week.  Instead of confessing things I’ve done bad, I’m going to confess things I’ve done good.
Is that bad English?  Things I’ve done well?  Things I’ve done good? Things I’ve done right?  Yeah, that sounds better.  I’m going to confess things I’ve done right.
No bull [...]

My own motivation has been a little lax lately.  There’s no real reason…it just happens every once in a while.  You’re coasting along and every thing is hunky dory.  Suddenly, you realize that you are sitting like a bump on a log, you haven’t exercised in a week and yes you did eat a whole [...]

Our very own Drama Mama, Thea, is celebrating her 3 year blogoversary by giving away $75, and it all benefits Team Shrinking Jeans Team in Training Team! That’s right, $75 for anything you want!
In case you didn’t know, a group of us here at the Sisterhood are training to run in the San Diego 1/2 [...]

I have just recently started eating shrimp.  I’ve never been a fan of shellfish, fish, crustaceans, or any other word for things that inhabit water.  But, I’m learning, because it really is a low-fat healthy way to get some good protein in you.
I found this recipe in the January 2009 issue of Fitness Magazine. The [...]

I’m no cook. I try, but really I’m more of a Preparer. Or a Combiner.
Yeah. Combiner. That’s what I am. I like to find recipes with the fewest number of ingredients so that I have less of a chance to mess it up.
Which is why this is one of my favorite [...]

Updated: Congratulations to Deanna6!  I didn’t see an e-mail for you so I went ahead and tracked you down on Twitter. Tweet, Tweet!
I love breakfast foods. Like, a lot. I think if given the opportunity, I would eat breakfast foods every single meal of the day.
What can I say? I’m a Carbs Girl!
That’s why I [...]

It’s Wednesday, folks!  What are you waiting for??  Go jump on the scale!
How did Week 2 go for you?? Did you get what you expected? Do your results match what you put into this week?  Tell us all about how it went!! Leave your results and/or blog post link in our comments.
If you are just [...]

It’s hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.  ~Sally Kempton, Esquire, 1970
“You think too much.”
That’s what I heard from my husband last night while I was talking to him about my fitness woes.  I was telling him that I have all these lofty fitness goals but I condemn myself to failure [...]

Here we are on the cusp of a new decade.  Can you believe it?  A NEW DECADE!  It seems like only yesterday that we were all heading for our underground bunkers convinced the world was going to end once we hit 2000.
Personally, I’ve seen a lot of changes in the last ten years.  Marriage, kids, [...]

Everyone, get your bullet points ready!  It’s True Confessions Monday…the Monday after the end of a challenge.  The Monday before a new challenge begins. Do you have anything you need to absolve yourself of?  I know I do!

Christmas is FOUR DAYS AWAY!  That can only mean one thing…baking cookies.  Lovely, peanut buttery, copious amounts of [...]

I’ve been toying with the idea of cleaning up my diet.
My family eats a lot of prepackaged, processed foods.  It’s just so darn convenient to reach into the pantry and pull out Cheez-Its (reduced fat, of course) to pack in my mouth the kids’ lunches.
I just got finished reading Master Your Metabolism by none other [...]

Alright, ladies and gent(s), it’s Wednesday so you know what that means!
Glee is on tonight!
No wait, sorry.  That’s not why we’re here.  Silly me!  We’re here to weigh in!!
Go jump on those scales and then come back and tell us how you did.  Do you have something to celebrate?  Did you have a major revelation?  [...]

Seriously, if you would have asked me a year ago what I was going to do on Thanksgiving Day 2009, my plans would not have included getting up at 6:30am to run a 5k even though it was only 49 degrees outside after being diagnosed with a sinus infection less than 24 hours before.
But I’m [...]

Right now, I’m sitting on our patio, overlooking the pool and the ocean. My son has finally passed out for naptime after fighting it for nearly an hour. It’s about 80 and there are about five books staring at me from the deck chair to my right.
So, I’m not going to write a whole lot [...]