Archive for October, 2008

Eating For A Pear Shaped Body

Pear shaped bodies have thin arms and flat bellies. They carry their weight in the hips, thighs, and butt. Does this sound familiar? If so, check out this sample diet plan to see how you should be balancing your meals.
Chile Pepper Sample Meal Plan from Fitness Magazine (November/December issue)
1500 calories consisting of 750 from carbohydrates, 375 from fat, and 375 [...]

Eating For a Chile Pepper Shaped Body

Do you have a narrow frame? Are your hips, waist, and shoulders about the same size? Then you may be suffering from curve deprivation, or a chile pepper body. The fortunate thing for you is being able to consume more calories, and work on your curves.
Chile Pepper Sample Meal Plan from Fitness Magazine (November/December issue)
2000 calories consisting [...]

Eating For An Apple Shaped Body

Those of us with an apple shaped body gain weight in our upper body. The first 5 pounds go directly to my middle, and the next 5 pounds make their way up to my back, arms, and face. When I lose weight, it first comes off my (often) concave butt and thighs. I’m excited to [...]

New Series: Eating For Your Body Type

On Monday I’m going to begin a series about the best way to eat for your body type. On Monday, I’ll post about the apple shape, where your round in the middle and slimmer in your lower body. The key will be to break down abdominal fat. On Tuesday, I’ll post about the chile pepper [...]

Homemade Cleaning Products

My grandmother recently emailed me some homemade recipes for cleaning products that she clipped from the paper. I was surprised to find that I already have all of the ingredients to make them, and since I have 2 young boys I clean up ALOT of messes. I thought I’d pass them a long to you [...]

Add Some Zing To Your Vegetables

I’ve recently found a new way to cook vegetables that has my entire family eating them without complaint. Even my father –who claims to “hate veggies”– is eating them when my mom makes them this way. The best thing is it’s easy and low-fat. Enjoy!
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Take your favorite cut vegetable (we typically [...]

MAC Gives Back

I was happy to stumble upon the Back To MAC cosmetic program, and wanted to pass it along to you.
Bring 6 MAC packaging containers to a MAC store, department store counter, or return online and receive a new MAC lipstick of your choice. My 2 year old boy has stuck his fingers into 3 of [...]

Guest Post: Greener Than You Think

By Lea Ann at Mommy’s Wish List
http://mommyswishlist.blogspot.com 
Being green isn’t something that I just all-of-a-sudden started doing. (That would be like going cold turkey off chocolate. Not possible.) So we started small at our house, and now we even rinse out gooey jars and cans and add them to our blue recycling bin. Same goes for [...]

More Super Freebies

Happy Friday! I promised everyone more freebies this week, so here they are. I can’t wait to start finding my mailbox full of new items, and to start trying new products.

Post-it Recycled Notes: They will send you a free 10 sheet “4x”6 sample of their super sticky notes.
Scents of Nature: Free sample of perfume.
Mr. Clean [...]

Free Healthy Products

I decided to do a big post of free products today. My kids love getting new products in the mail, so I thought I would find a lot of free samples to get the postman working. Enjoy!

Free Fruitabu Organic Smooshed Fruit: Join the Smooshed Squad and receive a coupon for a free product.
CLIF Bar Training [...]

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