First session in 2012  is coming to an end with one more week to go!  FREE Sunday had beautiful weather and a great turn out with a whopping 7 participants!  What a great way to start the day!  I wanted to add some more recipes to keep you all on track and excited.  This one is a Rice Pudding recipe.  I have it for breakfast since it has a great balance of protein and carbs that will keep you full of energy!

RICE PUDDING

2 cups cooked rice

2 cups milk 1% or skim

2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla

So ladies we are half way through the session and it is almost February already!  I wanted to make a comment about New Years resolutions and I promise I will not speak of it again.. Until Next year!  So I believe the gods of New Years  have been setting us up for failure.. Lets think about it.. January, right after Christmas, typically the coldest month of the year and statistically the month with the highest depression rates.  We have more debt (due to christmas) and cannot get outside for some vitamin D because it is -45, and your kids are puking because they  have some weird flu that will not go away.  So I say boo to January resolutions and hello to February!  We are on the mend and ready to get active and healthy with friends and family!  I am giving you all permition to leave  January guilt behind and start fresh in February. After all it is a phenomenal month, HELL I was born in this great month!  So pat yourselves on the back and lets make February a great month!

Ok ladies I hope you are all enjoying the new session so far, and I hope that some of you are sore (in a good way!).  So my question is: When you feel those sore/tight muscles do you head to a bath to relax those tight muscles?  IF you answered yes you are NOT doing yourself any favours!  A hot bath is the worse thing you can do.  If you have inflamed muscles they will only become more inflamed and cause you even more pain afterwards.  Not to mention the fact that you are just laying there not using those muscles.  What you should do is apply a cold compress to the area and move around a lot!  The more you use that muscle the better.  Try it you will see!

So I was visiting with Shannon on Thursday night (my amazing instructor in the NW) and she had a brilliant way to look at New Years resolutions. So we all stress about what we eat the month of DECEMBER (Christmas, New Years and all the parties).  So instead of focusing on what we eat for one month of the year, why are we not stressing about what we are eating the other 11 months of the year!  I ran into Tara at the Zoo and she told me she ate what she wanted all through Christmas, and enjoyed it!

Well ladies it is day three of the New Year, how is everyone doing?  It has been so warm outside these last few weeks it hardly feels like January so we should all be getting out with our crazy house bound children and enjoying this freakish weather.  Tobogganing, skating, or even going for a walk, I like to take the kids to fish creek and go for little hikes.  Of course it usually ends in me pulling or carrying them near the end...  Which is good exercise for mom anyways!  

So just to make it clear I am NOT a nutritionist so take these recipes as they are!  I did however grow up in the ultimate Weight Watchers house with one if not all of my relatives going to meetings trying to beat the bulge.  Due to this constant bombardment of calories/point counting I have learned a lot of great ideas and recipes that are tasty and light.  Hopefully some may help in your weight loss/management challenge.  

SO everyone loves ceaser salad but the restaurant dressing is a total killer!

New Years resolutions are on the way ladies and now is the time to get on the same band wagon as every other women in Calgary. Keep you're eyes peeled for all the weight loss infomercials along with the shakes that promise those quick results we still long to believe actually work.. I myself am certainly going to need "work" done in the New year, new personal and fitness goals are a must!  I've already had countless women contact me begging for a butt kicking in the New Year, and I plan on doing just that!  Ladies lets set some goals for 2012 but unlike the majority of other women this year lets actually succeed in keeping them for more then 3 months.  Be ready for a new year with a positive healthy out look on exercise and food!  I look forward to seeing you all in the NEW YEAR!