The Sisterhood of the Shrinking Jeans

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The Monday Project lives on!! We started The Monday Project for Rethink Your Shrink and it was so much fun that we will be continuing the Monday Project for the foreseeable future! We hope you’ll join us each week as we answer questions about ourselves and go out into the world and do new and [...]

Another week of Rethink Your Shrink and that means another Monday Project! Woohoo!!
Are you still with us? Are you rethinking your shrinking? Are you doing the projects with us and getting inspired and sticking with the challenge? Is it time to rethink your rethinking? Come on! Stay with us! Stay strong!! Hang in there!!
So [...]

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If you’ve been on the Weight Watchers forums, or read Hungry Girl, you’ve more than likely run across a lot of talk about VitaTops.  Personally, I’d heard a lot but had never tried Vita Tops or any of the Vitalicious. And [...]

*****UPDATE!! THE WINNER OF THE I-TUNES GIFT CARD IS ALLYSON LYON! CONGRATS!! And thank you everyone for getting the word out, this is going to be the best challenge ever!***
 

The countdown to Re-Think Your Shrink is ON!
Just one day left!
Are you ready??
Because support is such a big part of our weight-loss successes, we really really [...]

Ya’ll come here for motivation, inspiration, support, and encouragement.
I hope we give you all of that.
What I also want each and everyone of you to know is that we, ALL of us sisters and brother, face temptation. Each and every day.
Apparently, last night (that would be Monday night), temptation won over most of us, [...]

***Winners have been randomly selected! If you’ve previously sent your address, we’re cool. If not, send it to christy at shrinkingjeans dot net****

……Weight Watchers is giving to you:
3 Chocolate Brownies

Everyone loves a good brownie, and they’re even better when they have less calories than traditional brownie offerings! The Weight Watchers brownies have a POINTS value [...]

UPDATED: The winner of the Simply Salads Cookbook is lucky #11-  Mel, themelodramatic!  Congrats Mel, please email your contact info to to lisa@shrinkingjeans.net.

Most of ya’ll know that I love to cook.  I also love to eat.  This appears to be a win-win situation.  Well, except for the fact that now I need Shrinking Jeans in [...]

I am visiting my BFF and fellow Sister Christy.
Normally when we get together, we use it as an excuse NOT to exercise, to indulge in things that maybe shouldn’t, to stay up late, and the like.
This time, we decided that we would take turns watching the 5 kids (my 3 and her 2) while the [...]

**UPDATE!!*** THE WINNER OF THE ROAD I.D. IS: JESS!! E-mail me your snail mail at christieo at shrinkingjeans dot net! Congratulations!!
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This week, my husband learned that a classmate of his from high school was killed after being hit by a car. He was training for a triathlon and was out cycling.
He was our [...]

It doesn’t matter what your family life or your situation is, (staying at home, working, wife, not wife, student, husband, boyfriend, kids, no kids…) life just has this very peculiar talent for getting completely in the way of whatever it is you are doing or shooting for.
Swine flu, the economy, ingrown toe-nail, you know. It’s all [...]

When Daniel was kicked off The Biggest Loser last season, my heart broke into a million pieces. I wanted that child, (he was only a teenager!!) to have the opportunity to change his life. He wasn’t just the youngest person on the Biggest Loser ever, but the biggest person on the Biggest Loser ever! And [...]

Well well well.
It’s that time of week again, the kind where we spill our guts all over the page for the entire internet to see. I confess to you all the following:
1. I bought a “perfect brownie” pan. (Do you mean, the one that makes ALL EDGES?! Why yes I do!) I  couldn’t help myself, [...]

At some point (or maybe at a lot of points) in your life,  you will be eating out at a restaurant.  I, myself, work it into my menu planning that the family eats out at least once a week for dinner.  And then there’s lunches.  I try to kidnap my husband, Dave, once a week [...]

Psssst.  Confession time…all this healthy living stuff can be kind of a drag at times.  I try to pump myself up by chanting mantras such as ‘Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels’ or ‘You’re not going to die from running’ (though sometimes I question this).
Sometimes, I need to resort to full on bribery.
My problem [...]