Well the Your Shape Challenge is winding down, one more week to go and this week we were challenged to create a healthy home cooked meal for our families.  I searched through recipes books, googled looking for something new and even thought about creating something from scratch.  Everything I saw or thought of also came with the thought “my kids won’t eat that” and I didn’t want to waste energy and money on something that was going to goto waste[...]

As part of my Your Shape Challenge, we had the opportunity to have a conference call with Laurel House last week. Laurel is a well-being lifestyle expert, co-author of “Star Quality; The Red Carpet Workout for the Celebrity Body of your Dreams” (Wiley August, 2008). She was a freelance writer for many magazines (Elegant Weddings, Men’s Health, Alive, Spa) and is currently the West Coast Editor for FIT Magazine!  Laurel also runs the Twitter and Facebook pages for Your Shape[...]

As you may have noticed I haven’t really been updating you on my Your Shape progress lately.  I am still trudging along with Jenny trying to better my life but it has been really hard lately.  I haven’t been feeling well, the kids have been sick so I am not getting much sleep and I was away for the better part of 3 weeks totally off my program.  Surprisingly while I was away I didn’t do too bad , I[...]

Well I just finished up my second week with Jenny and Your Shape and what a trip it has been!  It’s getting easier but I’m still amazed at how out of shape I actually am. After a frustrating week 1 where I didn’t loose any weight I’m happy to announce that I have lost 11 pounds this week! It feels really great to say that.  I’m not exactly sure what made the difference but I changed several things this week.[...]

The challenge has begun! I finally opened my Your Shape last night and set it up.  It has been sitting on my table for about a week and a half now and I haven’t touched it.  It was almost like there was a scary monster in the box that I was afraid to unleash.  The time finally came that I could not put it off any longer, so I put on my workout clothes, laced up my Earth Footwear and[...]

Skinny Minne, thats what people used to call me a VERY long time ago. Check out this waistline (me in 1989, hubby was pretty skinny then too…) Over the years I attended college (can you say Freshmen 30), had 4 kids (used the fact that I was gonna have more as an excuse not to loose weight in between), and quit working (thus sitting around more on the couch).  Put this all together and I have gone from “Skinny Minnie”[...]