02/09/2012
Have you looked at the calendar lately? If you haven’t, then you might be as shocked as I was last night to realize that Valentine’s Day is just FIVE days away! While the big day may be right around the corner, there’s still plenty of time to find that perfect gift for that special someone [...]
02/08/2012
Good morning everyone! Isn’t today just beautiful? Today is Wednesday (in case you didn’t already know that) and you know that that means! It’s time to check-in (or weigh-in if you’re a shrinker)! Did you have a good week? Sunday was Super Bowl, so I know that may have been a challenge for some of [...]
02/07/2012
You do want a Tworkout, don’t you? Sure you do! I know how much you look forward to the Tworkout! Are you new here? Want to join in? It’s simple! Just hop onto Twitter at 8 p.m. Central and we all workout together while watching our favorite TV progTrams! It’s a [...]
02/07/2012
Confession is good for the soul, folks, so I’m confessing. My failures this week have been with food. They haven’t been awful. They have been a big lack of self control. Three nights this week, I have had a bowl of ice cream. Twice it was in the middle of the night. How stupid is [...]
02/05/2012
OK Sisters, this one will be quick. I am not feeling very wordy today : ). Sundays here at Shrinking Jeans were the days we posted recipes and a weekly menu plan. However, that is all changing with the new addition of Shrinking Kitchen. If you read regularly, then you already saw the post announcing [...]
02/04/2012
Tomorrow is the big day!! Can you believe it! This one team is playing this other team and we are going to celebrate by stuffing as much food into our face as humanly possible!! HURRAH!! No, wait. Stop and think about it. Why would we celebrate watching other people being fit by stuffing crap into [...]
02/03/2012
Today is Go Red For Women day. Are you wearing red? More importantly, do you know what today means? Let me fill you in – the American Heart Association has designated today as a day to wear red to create awareness surrounding heart disease in women. Though heart disease is often thought of as an [...]
02/02/2012
Happy Groundhog Day! Today’s the day we learn our (possible) collective fate, the prediction from a tiny little furry creature in a hole: will we get 6 more weeks of the treadmill or bike trainer? (Yes). You may be wondering what on earth fitness and Groundhog Day might have in common but I assure you [...]
02/01/2012
We have some very exciting news for you! Today marks the launch of our incredible new website, Shrinking Kitchen! What is Shrinking Kitchen, you ask? It’s a brand-spankin’ new website brought to you by the co-founders of The Sisterhood, and we’ve added Heather to the menu as our Editor-in-Chief! The site is devoted entirely to [...]
02/01/2012
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 [...]
01/31/2012
It’s me again! You’re so lucky to get me twice in one day! Did you confess today? If not, hop on over to True Confessions today and confess all of your unhealthy sins from last week! Go on, I’ll wait… Good, you’re back! OK, so onto tonight’s business! It’s Tworkout night! [...]
01/31/2012
Good morning, friends! Welcome to this week’s installment of True Confessions, the post where you can confess all of your unhealthy sins from the previous week. Once you confess it, you forget about it, and start fresh. I’ll get us started…. We’ll do this list style: 1. I had two desserts in one meal [...]
01/29/2012
It hasn’t really been very wintry here in west/central Texas this year, but nonetheless, I still LOVE soup in the winter time! This week I’m going to give you 5 tasty soups to try. Make one or make them all. Double the recipe and freeze some for later. Soups are great! Corn, Bacon, And Potato [...]
01/29/2012
I was spending an hour or two on my latest addiction, Pinterest the other night. Raise your hand if you are hooked too. The last thing I needed was something else to keep me on the computer, but boy am I hooked. I love that site. I can’t believe how many new recipe sites I [...]
01/28/2012
…. it’s for me! The first time I ever did yoga was years ago and I had a cold. Not ideal when the class I walked into was super-quiet with n’er a creature stirring. My sneezing, coughing and general phlemgy loudness made me so nervous because I know that I was disruptive to the peacefulness [...]