Slender With a Blender

Hello!  And good morning!  Today is Sept 1st, and it is the first day of the 23 week Slender With a Blender challenge!  My challenge is to lose 40 POUNDS by Valentine’s Day 2010, using a healthy diet of meal replacement shakes and low-glycemic foods.  The recipes and tips in the Slender With a Blender book will help me become a healthier, slender version of myself, weighing in at 40 pounds less than I weighed at my official weigh-in on a hospital scale.  Below you can see the pictures of me resisting the scale… Will you join me?

I am writing this as I sip on my “Snickerdoodle” shake (page 13 of our book, Slender With a Blender: “Anne’s Homemade Snickerdoodle), and think about the 23 weeks rolling out ahead.  I hope you will join me, following along on the blog (or “vlog”, since I will be submitting a video blog each week).  I will introduce and demonstrate the recipes in the Slender With a Blender book, and I will share about my experience as we go.  I have been offered health management coaching, and will share more about that in the weeks ahead.  I will also be growing a couple of beans (one marked “health” and the other “gratitude”) from ibeaninspired.com.  We can watch the beans grow, as we watch my waistline shrink!  My hope is that this will inspire you in your own quest for improved health.

If you want to join along with me, shedding pounds along the way, that’s great!  I need all the support I can get!  As you know, it is always recommended to consult with a health care professional before embarking on a diet, or changing your eating and exercise habits.  This week I will be starting off with a “reset” – where all of my meals will be the low-glycemic shakes in the book, and snacks will be low-glycemic bars.  I will also enjoy a salad or steamed veggies with my evening shake, all the while taking supplements each day, to further ensure that I am maintaining good nutrition.  I look forward to your feedback. I raise my shake filled glass to you – Here’s to your health!

And oh, by the way, did I mention I’ll be using the recipes in our little book? If you’d like to have your own copy, you can click on the icon for the book in the middle of the top of this web page – THANK YOU! And let me know how you’re doing with YOUR weight loss challenge, at slenderwithablender@gmail.com, keep in touch, thanks.