The Sisterhood of the Shrinking Jeans

Calling all Teams of Shrinkers!!!! It’s time!! Weigh-in Day is upon us! How did you all do this week? Did you keep up the momentum?
Are you loving this group thing or what??!!
Well wait no longer, go on, hop on those scales, weigh-in, post about it, link up here in the comments below. Now make sure that you [...]

The first week of the Spring Fling Challenge has flown by! It’s time to see if all our hard work is paying off. Are you enjoying getting to know your teams? The ‘hood has been bustling with activity this week! Wow! We are up to FIFTEEN teams so far! I love seeing all the creative [...]

Welcome to the Sisterhood Spring Fling Challenge! For the next 8 weeks, this challenge is going to be all about unearthing our inner winners. Not only do we want to see you Shrink, but we want to see you Fling yourself into fitness! Through Teams, Monday Projects, and Fitness Challenges, there will be plenty of [...]

It’s Tuesday! You know what that means! Today is the day where we confess all our slip-ups, moments of weakness, and everything of the like! Did you go to a birthday party and eat the whole cake? Has Jillian Michaels been sitting on your shelf all week and collecting dust? Tell us about it! You [...]

Rethink Your Shrink is about changing from the inside. It’s about looking back so that you can move forward by changing the present. We will re-evaluate our eating habits, our patterns, our obstacles and our activity levels. We will take with us what worked in 2009 and dispose of what didn’t.
Good morning SISTERHOOD! It’s weigh-in day, and [...]

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?  [...]

Good morning, Sisters and Brother!
It is the Wednesday after a major (U.S.) food-centered holiday and, as I’ve read, there were also birthdays (Brian!) and children’s birthdays and husband’s birthdays going on this past weekend, and well, it’s been an eating nightmare to many people this past week, to be perfectly honest.
How has it been for you? [...]

One year ago I weighed 157 pounds. My daughter had just turned 1, and I realized I needed to restart my weight loss journey before I had a reply of what happened after my son was born. You see, when I got pregnant with my son (who is 6 now) I was already overweight. After [...]

You guys thought we forgot about weigh-in today, huh?
Of course we didn’t forget.  We just wanted to prolong it as long as possible.
So yeah, go ahead and do that favorite Wednesday morning (or afternoon or evening) thing that you like to do called WEIGH-IN.  The only time this is my favorite Wednesday thing to do [...]

Now isn’t that a mouthful!!?
November marks the one-year anniversary of The Sisterhood of the Shrinking Jeans. ONE YEAR! In the past year, we’ve had 6 weight loss challenges, several fitness challenges, and mini-challenges galore. We have members who’ve been with us from day 1, and we’ve been joined by so many wonderful people along the [...]

Hello sisters and brothers!! Today is weigh-in day here at the Sisterhood, and we want to know how you did this past (non-challenge) week! Did you keep up your momentum and shrink some more? We hope so. Hop on those scales and let us know how you did, okay!
And now for the important stuff! SHOW [...]

Wednesday night I went to my very first meeting for a triathlon group I just joined. It has taken me literally months to get the cajones to go join this club, I’ve been stalking their messageboard the entire summer. They’re real athletes with real purpose, it’s all very intimidating because here I am, the biggest [...]

So much of what we all focus on when trying to lose weight are numbers:

Pounds lost and gained
Calories/Points eaten
Inches lost
Minutes (Hours?) of exercise
Clothes sizes

But what about another set of numbers?  When’s the last time you had your cholesterol and triglycerides checked?
My dad was overweight for most of his adult life.  It took a doctor to [...]

I realize that I’m about to burst everyone’s bubbles here, and I swear I’m not looking to get anyone down.  But there is a myth amongst us, and I cannot let it go any longer.  You need to know that what you have been told is incorrect, so that you can be better educated in [...]

When we put out the call for new contributors here at the Sisterhood, Rebecca from I Wanna to be a Domestic Goddess, emailed me immediately! We asked her to share her ‘ah-HA! moment with us, and she certainly delivered. It never ceases to amaze me that so many of us have these moments in childhood [...]