Archive for May, 2010
Fresh Air Fund Seeks Host Families
Live on the East Coast? Maybe you can help… In 2009, The Fresh Air Fund‘s Volunteer Host Family program, called Friendly Town, gave close to 5,000 New York City boys and girls, ages six to 18, free summer experiences in the country and the suburbs. Volunteer host families shared their friendship and homes for up [...]
Steve Nash Sports Club – ‘Maxed Out’ 60 minute group class
This week I joined our local (and newly-constructed) Steve Nash Sports Club. Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous. They’re still working out the kinks (air conditioning…what air conditioning?) but it’s only been open since the beginning of the month so I’m sure they’ll get things worked out. It was actually a pretty big step for me to join [...]
Eat Fatty Nuts For A Healthy, Lasting Weight Loss
Yup. You read that right. I know it sounds like an oxymoronic weight loss advice so allow me to explain. You probably know the popular myth that nuts will make you fat. But what’s the real deal about this well promulgated but largely unsubstantiated belief? The surprising and rather comforting answer: it’s not true based [...]
Oprah will NEVER Diet again?
Did you catch Oprah’s show today, May 12, 2010? Well, if you didn’t catch the show, it was about a best selling book, Woman Food and God by Geneen Roth that Oprah has fallen in love with. She thinks this book has all the answers to change her life and everyone else that has struggles with weight loss [...]
Mixed Martial Arts are not Just for Men
Have you ever wanted to try Mixed Martial Arts for Woman? Maybe a just a little curious about it? I am more the non-contact kick boxing type of gal, but hey, maybe this is for you! Mixed martial arts appears to be a male dominated sport, yet the number of women who are becoming part [...]
10 Spring Fruit and Vegetables you should be Eating
Emily Fonnesbeck is the Registered Dietitian for the Biggest Loser Resort, and joins us today to share some of the healthiest seasonal produce of spring! Spring is here! I love the warmer weather, flip flops, tulips, blossoming trees and especially… spring produce! If I had to list my favorite fruits and vegetables, most of them [...]
Review: My Favorite Running Gear + Giveaway
Winner~Run 4 May-congrats! I’m not a real runner. Not like, Melanie who trains like crazy. But, I do try. I like just knowing I can bang off 5-7 miles any time, any where and feel great. Yes, the weather has to right. The place has to be right. The time needs to be right. BUT when [...]
Recipe: Lite Eggs Benedict 4 ww points
Happy Mother’s Day! We have Eggs Benedict every year on Mother’s Day! We have it with real hollidaise sauce and really greasy hashbrowns….yummy! But, this year it about good health without all the butter, we wanted to try Hungry Girls Eggs Benedict…healthified! This is so good and easy you could really make it any [...]
More Celeb-ulite Sightings from the GGS Crew
Some more Love Fitness Links about the Celeb-ulites! Gwyneth Paltrow Owes Slimline Iron Man Shape To Strict Five-Day Diet~Fit Celeb Carrie Underwood doesn’t Eat out Ever!~That’s Fit Adriana Lima says Losing Baby Weight was Easy~I’m not obsessed Jennifer Aniston Puts the ‘Ewww’ In Celebrity Fitness (with baby food??)~Yum Yucky Pamela Anderson off DWTS and now [...]
Review: Family Fun and Fitness- Whiplash, the Scooter with a Twist
With the weather warming up and summer approaching it is a great time to get active out-of-doors. As moms, we are role models for our children – whether we are sitting on the couch or running around outside or hitting the gym or squeezing in a power walk during one of their sports practices. We’re [...]
3 Reasons why it is Important to be a Healthy Mom
Guest blogger Mandi Reading is a certified personal trainer, certified nutrition consultant and mother of three young children. You can find her blogging every day about fitness, nutrition, mothers and their families at Trainermomma. When I workout, I get the question quite frequently, “What are you training for?”. The only answer I can honestly give [...]
A Healthy New Life: One Mom’s Wellness Make-Over
A healthy new life. Why me? Why now? Hello Everyone! My name is Shelley and I am an emotional eater and therefore a chronic dieter. Hmm, now that’s a term that until recently I never knew, but in the last few weeks so much has “turned around” in my life… I was raised in a [...]
Easy Tone Reebok Commericals-Have they gone too far?
Since the GGS Crew are doing a whole series on ‘toning shoes’, I started to do some more research on the topic and found these on youtube. Tell me what you think of these commercials for Reebok Easy Tone…they are super short and worth the watch… And this one: And there are way more on youtube but [...]
Cheryl Forberg Discusses:The Biggest Loser~6 weeks to a Healthier You
I had the great pleasure to sit down with superstar dietitian Cheryl Forberg, RD, who just so happens to be a professional chef and the nutrition expert behind the wildly successful weight loss on NBC’s The Biggest Loser! She talked with me about her latest book, The Biggest Loser: 6 Weeks to a Healthier You, which [...]
Gift Guide: Fit Fashion for Mother’s Day + Giveaway
Winner of the Bobble water bottle-Deb Anderson In honor of Mother’s Day, the GGS Crew have put together a fitness gift guide to help you find that perfect gift for the mom on your list. And maybe even provide YOU with some ideas for things that you would like to receive as a gift for Mother’s Day this [...]
Recipe: Clean French Toast (3 points WW)
Don’t you just LOVE French toast? I do but it is such a calorie laden breakfast that it’s been off my list for awhile. Until now! Welcome back French toast! Ingredients: 6 egg whites 1 cup skim milk 1/4 tsp. cinnamon 1/4 tsp. nutmeg 1 Tbsp. olive oil 6 slices whole wheat French bread, cut [...]
