01/01/2012
Happy New Year, friends! Are you so excited to start this year with a bang? Are you overflowing with ideas, plans, and resolutions? Yes? SO ARE WE! The Challenge We have a brand-spankin’ new challenge for 2012! I will get into the details down below! This challenge is open to both Shrinkers and Non-Shrinkers! Anyone [...]
12/29/2011
Can you believe it? Here we are just a couple of days away from the arrival of Baby New Year and the ushering in of 2012. I can’t believe we’re at a new year again already! I swear, the older I get, the faster time seems to go by. Can someone please just put the [...]
12/19/2011
New beginnings, fresh starts, a whole new chance at doing things differently. I love New Year’s. Even when I was a kid, I loved the “Year in Review” sections of the newspapers, and reading the predictions for the coming year. Like many people, my resolutions every year tend to revolve around exercise, diet and organization. [...]
09/02/2011
Sometimes, when you are trying something new, it’s easy to get bogged down in the details. The new plan becomes overwhelming and you feel like a failure if you are not able to hit each of the goals that the new plan sets out for you. Somewhere along the line, you lose sight of your [...]
08/26/2011
Is it just me or is there an awful lot of whining going on over at Twitter? Day after day after day. It got so bad one day, I actually thought about deleting my Twitter account. Of course, I thought about the Tworkout and decided against that idea. I laid low for a couple of [...]
08/04/2011
Welcome to another addition of Throwback Thursday at the Sisterhood! This week we’re taking a look back at fad diets. The days of yore when we wanted to weigh less and quickly and because we knew less, we went about it in a less healthy manner. And in droves. I’ve done this plenty. I realized [...]
07/06/2011
Good morning bursting into summer-ers! How are we feeling today? Have we hopped onto that scale this morning? (Was he/she your friend?) I have to say my scale was pretty good to me but only because of ills that hath befallen our house, and though it’s definitely not my favorite way to lose 3 pounds, it’s definitely a [...]
05/31/2011
Hello everyone, my name is Sean Willson and I’m a new writer here at the Sisterhood. While I have no formal journalistic training I have been blogging since 2000, before it was called blogging. It’s also important to mention that I’m not a sister … well, I’m an honorary sister but I’m actually a man. [...]
05/04/2011
Good morning!! How are you? How is it going? While we haven’t had a full week of tackling May OUR Way yet, we are now 3 days in! Are you sticking with your goals? Having fun getting to know one another? We had our inaugural SisterChat on Monday night at the ‘hood and I have [...]
04/28/2011
April showers bring May flowers… and a new challenge here at The Sisterhood of the Shrinking Jeans! That’s right! May 1st marks the beginning of a brand new challenge, so grab some motivation, start thinking about your goals, and begin planning for that new swimsuit you will be showing off come summertime! Why May Your [...]
02/27/2011
Good morning, everyone! I am happy to announce the next recipient of the Sister Spotlight –Jen! She is an amazing woman and I am honored to call her a friend! From Jen: Thanks Britt!! You are an awesome sister and it has been a pleasure getting to know you! I love the Sisterhood and the [...]
02/07/2011
This month we’re back to our normal regularly scheduled programming where the projects are monthly and all is right with the world! This one is fun because you can do it this week and use the rest of the month to build on it. It’s also great for those of you who are doing Couch [...]
01/03/2011
In a post last week, I wrote about some easy New Year’s resolutions for runners can take — baby steps, if you will — that will help make them better runners. This week, I wanted to take another look another problem that runners often have with their New Year’s Resolutions: making resolutions that aren’t specific [...]
12/02/2010
Have you guys found that losing weight or being healthy or being faster or stronger or flexibler or WHATEVER your goal is very much resembles a puzzle? You have all the pieces laying out there in front of you, it’s just a matter of putting it all together so that you can see the big [...]
10/09/2010
UPDATED:: The winner of the gift pack is MEEYEEHERE!! Congratulations! Be sure to email me at thea@shrinkingjeans.net! Hi there! We’ve talked several times about the importance of goal setting. It’s hard to stay motivated to get where you’re going if you don’t even KNOW where you’re going, right? Well, to help himself stay motivated, SUBWAY® [...]