Free 1 Week Curves Guest Pass

For a limited time, get a FREE 1 Week Guest Pass to Curves! Click the image above to sign up for this great offer while it's available.

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B1G1 Free Iron Girl Energy Bar -Made by Power Bar

Get a Buy One Get One Free Coupon from Iron Girl Energy Bar, made by Power Bar.  I don't know how long these will last so get yours now!

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Everyday Wisdom Kit with Lunch Bag, Game and DVD - Free for Children with Diabetes

If your child or a child you know has diabetes, the Everyday Wisdom Kit is a great resource available to them. It has invaluable information that can be helpful for the entire family, including siblings. This kit contains reusable lunch bag, educational booklets, a dvd, game, juggling balls, emergency contact magnet, carb counter and much more including:

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Free Highly Effective Habits of People With Diabetes Workbook, CD and Planner

Today I received 7 Habits of Highly Effective People With Diabetes Workbook, CD and planner in the mail. It is a great free kit from Bayer - I was surprised by how nice it is. I highly recommend it if you or anyone in your family is diabetic. You will find it at the bottom of the list of products under educational materials.

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Free MuscleGel Shot Protein On the Go Sample

Request a free sample of Muscle Pharm's MuscleGel Shot Protein on the Go.

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Organic Freebies, Coupons and Deals

Here's a round up of the best Organic and Natural product deals, coupons and freebies:
Freebies: Enviromagix Free Sample of Enviromagix All Purpose Eco Friendly CleanerEden Organic Free Sample of Eden Organic's Organic Tea. Request your sample by calling 1-888-424-3336 or email them at info@edenfoods.comMegaFoods: Free 10 Day Supply from Mega Foods for new facebook fans- limited time offer!!

Savvy Sampler - sign up with Savvy Sampler to receive a package of free samples and coupons from eco friendly companies

Uber Samples - Sign up at Uber Samples to get a box full of Food, Health and Beauty products that are all organic and healthy, plus get a few coupons

Deals:

$50 Gift Certificate for $25 to the Natural Store: Tada's deal of day is a great one! Get $50 Gift Certificate to the Natural Store for just $25.$80 Gift Card for just $18 to Super Foods! Get this one day only deal from Roozt:  Get an $80 Gift Card to SuperFoods for just $18, a Savings of 78%!

Whole Foods: Organic whole chickens on sale for only $1.69/lb THIS FRIDAY ONLY (limit 10 per person).Cosmetics: $15 for $30 worth of natural cosmetics from Cliche at EversaveBody/SkinCare: $29 for Dermawraps All Natural Chocolate Body Wrap kit worth $60Organic, Cruelty Free, Fair Trade, Eco Conscious Deals Everyday at Pure Citizen: Find different deals each day at Pure Citizen. Only eco conscious companies and items brought to you on this site.

 

Nutiva Organic Extra Virgin Coconut Oil, 15-Ounce Tubs (Pack of 2): I love Nutiva Organic Coconut Oil - you can use it for body lotion, conditioner - also as a healthy addition to your foods! Get this 2 pack now at Amazon with Subscribe and Save for just $11.51!!

Coupons:$1 Off any Rudi's Organic Bread, $1 Off any Rudi's Gluten Free BreadAlexia $1 off Premium Frozen Side Dish$1/2 Larabar or Jocolat products.75 Lundberg Brown Rice Pasta$3/2 Wild Harvest Organic Cereal$1/2 Oikos Super FruitBuy one Pure Bar Get One Free$1/1 Green & Black Organic ChocolateAvailable at Mambo Sprouts:Savings on Stonyfield Oikos, Celestial Seasonings, Organic Valley, Santa Cruz Organics, R.W. Knudsen, So Delicious, Yogi, Garden of Life, Jane's Krazy and many many more coupons.Available at coupons.com$1/1 Udi's Gluten Free, $1/1 So Delicious Milk, $2 Zarbee's Cough Syrup
Thanks to Organic Deals and Your Green Helper!!

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Free 10 Day Supply MegaFood

Get a FREE 10 day supply from MegaFood when you "like" their Facebook page. Go to the New Fans Tab then click "Claim Your Special Gift" to request  your free 10 day supply in your choice of supplements.

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Win a $30 Visa Gift Card from Yum Yum Dishes!

I was really interested in this contest because as I mentioned a week ago, I have made a commitment to getting in shape by eating right and exercising. Yum Yum Dishes are great for dieting because you can enjoy you're favorite snack in small portions. They "help to remind you when you're all done." You can find some great ideas for snacks and submit your own recipe idea and enter to win a $30 Visa Gift Card from Yum Yum Dishes!!

February is National Snack Food Month so to celebrate healthy eating and portion control, Yum Yum Dishes is holding a contest! Submit your favorite recipe to be used in a 4oz Yum Yum Dish and each week we'll give away a $30.00 Visa Gift Card. The winner will be selected at random on each Friday in February at 12:00pm EST!

Contest rules:

• All entries must be healthy and original.
• All entries must be submitted to our Facebook Fanpage as a comment under the contest rules photo.
• By sumitting your entry, you're giving Yum Yum Dishes/BlueKangaroo, Inc. permission to reprint your recipe, name, and all photos you've submitted for the contest on their websites and/or in any promotional material.
• The winners will be choosen using random.org and notified via email. All winners must respond within 48 hours to claim their prize.

Entries may be posted on the Yum Yum Dishes website and Facebook Fan Page to share with our followers.

Join in on the fun and send us as many entries as you like. The more you enter, the more chances you have to win!

Good luck!!

You can also check out the article on how Lisa Mosley used portion control to lose 100 pounds.

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Divalicious Fitness: How Tiny Portions Helped Lisa Mosley Lose 100 Pounds

I made a commitment this year to improve my health by eating healthier, exercising and living an overall healthier lifestyle. I know that I always have a hard time with the dieting part of losing weight - I love chocolate, cookies, croissants - pretty much anything that is a no no when you're trying to watch what  you eat. BUT I came across this great article from Lisa Mosley, a former contestant from the reality TV show The Biggest Loser and her suggestions were incredibly helpful for me! Instead of depriving herself of her favorite foods, she now moderates her choices with portion control by using Yum Yum Dishes. I haven't tried them yet but they sound like something I definitely need to incorporate into my healthy eating routine - they would also be great to help me with my goal of getting my daughter to eat more veggies and healthy foods. Read below to find out how smaller portions helped Lisa lose and keep off 100 pounds!! Be sure to check out the Yum Yum Dishes Recipe Contest to win a $30 Visa Gift Card, being given away every Friday in February!-Bridget
How Tiny Servings and The Biggest Loser Helped Lisa Mosley Lose 100 pounds
The rigors of appearing on the reality TV show The Biggest Loser led Lisa Mosley to the emotional breakthrough that empowered her to lose almost 100 pounds. But it was controlling her portions that kept her losing weight when she returned home from the set.
“I live on the motto, moderation not deprivation,” Lisa says. “As soon as I got home from the ranch I started using a small plate instead of big dinner plates. It has been extremely successful for me.”
Lisa had always been thin and didn't start gaining weight until she was about 20. At the age of 17 she started experiencing “these unexplainable, terrifying feelings.” At age 18 she became pregnant. The child’s father disappeared. She became depressed and continued to experience panic attacks. The only time she could overcome her fear was by going to her prenatal checkups, as long as someone else drove.
For a long time, she didn’t tell anyone about her fears. Then, a few weeks after her daughter was born, Lisa says, “I realized that I could not be a parent to her if I didn’t do something about these episodes. I finally decided to talk to my doctor about what I had been experiencing for almost two years.”
Her doctor told her she was experiencing panic attacks as a result of severe anxiety disorder. Just having a diagnosis was a tremendous relief for Lisa. She began taking anti-depressant/anti-anxiety medication and going to therapy.
“I had grown up in a very good family and had never really had anything bad happen to me, so we were baffled as to why I was experiencing these in the first place. Then we found a genetic link. My dad and my dad’s mother both had anxiety attacks.”
The medication made her feel like a new person. But within six months she began to gain weight. Over the next 10 years she gained about 120 pounds. 
“I knew the medication had something to do with it, but by this point I had also developed a serious dependence on food as a source of comfort,” Lisa says. “I had gone through the birth of my precious children, infidelity and single motherhood. Food was one of my closest friends and my best coping mechanism.”
By 2010, Lisa had suffered several personal setbacks. She had been laid off from her job, lost her home and had no prospects to find work. The defining moment in her struggle to lose weight came when she discovered that her daughter had stopped eating and drinking because she didn't want to be heavy like her mom.
That spurred Lisa to take action, including her willingness to bare her soul on The Biggest Loser.
“My wonderful aunt and I stood in line for seven hours until it was finally my group’s turn to speak to a casting director,” she recalls. “I knew it was now or never. I had one minute, literally one minute, to impress this person.”
She ended up being cast on the show’s 10th season. The rest of her story was played out on national television. ”The ranch was the hardest thing I have ever been through, and I have been through a debilitating disease (anxiety attacks and agoraphobia), abandonment when I was pregnant, infidelity, loss of my job and home, and the hardest of all, single parenthood,” she says.
Although the physical exercise was grueling, it was more of a mental and spiritual ordeal for Lisa. For three months she could not be with her children. She quit smoking and stopped her anxiety medication. And she faced her demons on national TV. This meant admitting that she had been denying her negative emotions her whole life.
“Emotionally and mentally you act a certain way to compensate for the fact you are morbidly obese and you know people see that,” she says. “If you are having a bad day you shove that down and pretend everything is wonderful. You feel like you have to do something for people to accept you; you always have to be positive, happy and cheerful. You literally think you can’t take on any more, so you pretend life is wonderful while you are still dying inside.”
Before going on the show, Lisa met with a therapist and took personality tests. “He said I have to stop pretending,” she recalls.
And she did. On national TV she experienced a breakdown, much of which was edited out, in which she stood on a scale, screaming, crying and cussing for 10 minutes. In that moment she was finally able to experience the negative emotions she had been hiding for years.
Although she wanted to leave the ranch and the show, she is glad she stuck it out. “To me it wasn’t a positive environment — it was extremely negative and God really blessed me with that. If I had not been going through the weight loss, extreme exercise, and negative environment, I would not have been able to literally break down and have what I call ‘my nervous breakdown episode on the scale.’ When I was on the scale, I verbally vomited out years and years of negative feelings.”
When Lisa left the show she had dropped 60 pounds. But she continued to lose weight, dropping another 37 pounds at home after she learned to control the size of her portions.
She recently became the national spokeswoman for Yum Yum Dishes, sets of hand-painted 4-ounce ceramic bowls. Tracy Adler, mother of two and former restaurant owner, created the bowls to help parents and kids control the size of their snacks.
“The idea for these dishes is what got me through this,” Lisa says. “A lot of times when I have entered into diets in the past, I went into it thinking I am never going to get a cookie, ice cream, or a piece of cake again. I was never successful with that,” Lisa says. “These dishes remind you that your life isn’t over and you are not going to be missing out.”
They also help people who are chronically overweight to control the amount they eat.
“I was so excited to find these. Because you can say moderation, moderation, moderation, but moderation for an obese person means one Big Mac instead of two, half of a large pizza instead of whole one. That’s not the way moderation works.”
Today Lisa works as a “fitness boot camp instructor” and personal trainer. She weighs about 190 pounds, wears a size 12 and is happy with herself.
“I am literally a different person, not just in how I feel physically but also how I feel mentally and emotionally,” she says. “I embrace every emotion I have whether it is happy, sad, or angry; I embrace every single one of them. God gave us those emotions for a reason.”______________________________________________________________________________
The Yum Yum Dish is perfect for children, teens, and adults who want to enjoy all their favorite foods in moderation. Not concerned with portion control? Use these hand-painted dishes for sauces, dips, entertaining, and more. 
A Yum Yum Dish is a creative gift for the foodie in your life and a smart addition to any weight loss plan.
To purchase a set of Yum Yum Dishes or for more information, visit http://www.YumYumDish.com

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Book Review: Get Energy! Empower Your Body, Love Your Life by Denise Austin

You may think that a book by fitness guru Denise Austin would be mostly about exercising and dieting but this book is NOT a dieting book. No calorie counting, no lengthy workout routines - it's really about making small, manageable changes in the way you live. These changes gradually lead to a more energetic and positive lifestyle and other great benefits that are too numerous to list.  Honestly, I never really liked the perennially perky Ms. Austin until I read Get Energy! Empower Your Body, Love Your Life. She always got on my nerves when I'd see her on tv with that perfect figure and limitless energy. I did love this book though. About Get Energy: With a jam-packed schedule and little time to get it all done, do you find yourself exhausted before the day’s even ended? America’s favorite fitness expert Denise Austin shows readers how to super-charge their lives in her newest book, Get Energy! Empower Your Body, Love Your Life. Her innovative lifestyle plan is based on simple changes — from the foods you consume to the way you sit in your chair — that add up to major energy!My goals for 2011 include getting in shape by exercising several hours each week, improving my overall lifestyle and playing outside with my daughter more. So Get Energy seemed like a book that was written just for me! I know that we could all use more energy but I have been feeling drained from morning to night these days so I was excited to learn about Denise's Lifestyle Changes that are designed to give you energy and make you feel great. .Why I Really Liked This Book: This is an incredibly inspiring book. It is encourages the reader to make positive changes and stick to their goals. I also love that she included worksheets in the book to help the reader put their "Personal Energy Plan" into action, determine any habits that are sapping energy and to remind you of the steps that will increase your energy. Anyone can do this program. Whether you are an overweight couch potato, an underweight junk food junkie or a fabulous and fit person who just wants more energy, you can put the simple changes outlined in this book into practice and within a week  you will notice a difference. I admit that I slacked off on my plan but I fully intend to pick up where I left off. I noticed that when I followed the easy changes that add up to big energy boosts, I felt better and I looked better. I felt less stressed and just healthier in general!I highly recommend "Get Energy" to anyone who wants a healthier lifestyle. The changes you make seem small but each little step leads to a happier, healthier lifestyle where you have more energy and feel better about yourself. You can get Sneak Peek of Get Energy!Buy it: Purchase Get Energy! Empower Your Body, Love Your Life at AmazonDisclosure:  I received a free copy of this book from the Hatchette Book Group to facilitate my review. This did not affect my opinion in any way. All thoughts are my own and are from my own unique experience. 

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New Fitness, Weight Loss & Health Feature

My health has not been a priority the past few years but I decided this year to do my best to keep my doctor's appointments, exercise daily (or 6x's a week)and eat healthier. I realized that I am being a horrible role model for my gorgeous little girl so I am determined to get in shape and take care of myself. I want to find great ways to get in shape without spending a lot of money. I will of course bring my finds to you all and I hope that you will post comments here if you find any great ideas that will save us money while burning calories!! Also, if you have any ideas for affordable, healthy and effective Weight Loss Plans, be sure to let us know!!I am getting started on my EA Sports Wii Fitness Game this week and I'm recording everything I eat on my fatsecret.com account. I LOVE that site!! It's free and it has every food you can think of listed in the database. Simply enter how much you ate and they figure up your calories and fat grams. Well I can't wait to get started and hopefully bring you all tons of great advice and I hope that you will do the same for me!! I have a wonderful guest post coming up from a former contestant on the Biggest Loser and I'm really excited about it. More later - have a happy and healthy day!!

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