Heart Healthy Recipes

Since it is gross out today I am working on a small project, putting together a StrollerFit Recipe Book for February, with Heart Healthy Recipes. February is Heart Healthy Month and I thought that the SF moms love to share recipes I would put some in a small booklet that we can all have.

If anyone has a Heart HEalthy recipe they would like to share, please email it to me at cari.fisher@strolelrFit.com

StrollerFit is building Strong Healthy Kids while Building Strong Healthy Moms

I already wrote in my Blog today but I had to add this note. After Joey's nap today he was standing in the living room doing jumping jacks. a move we have done in SF but not recently. I guess we will have to add it and have the kids join us.

StrollerFit with 6 weeks to go

OK, let me start with, can the baby come already, I am done, let me finish with Thank God For Danielle she taught the beginning of class because I was running late after the Dr called in the wrong medicine for my Nausea and I was feeling sick, but once I got into the grove and participated in her Great Class I felt amazing and the illness was gone. Another reason to go to StrollerFit class even if you feel horrible.

Now a few things I need to remember, the radio, now that it is fixed I need to take it to class, we need the music to motivate us and to entertain the grouchy children. Let me also say I love our new indoor space at RBI's it was such a great workout, like being outdoors, we had so much room, I am looking forward to tomorrow's class.

We had a new mom - Melissa join us and her son Wes is so cute. I got to hold him and oh, was Joey jealous, too bad for him, he will need to get use to this with the new Baby about to arrive, sooner rather than later I hope!!!!

Wanted to also remind myself and the SF moms about the SF Open House - Monday, January 12 at 11:30 AM at RBI's. Come join us for an hour of Fitness and Fun!! Bring a friend and you will be entered into the Grand Prize Drawing!! (Only current SF members) If your friend signs up for EFT or purchases a class package, you will receive a free gift.

We had a great turnout today and I loved seeing all the moms, can't wait to see them all tomorrow. Don't forget the challenge is on, and if you bring a friend you get a point, if they join, you get another point, all the points help for the grand prize.

So I think the SF moms here in Northbridge are off to a great start and I truly believe we are building those strong kids by building Strong Confident Moms!!!!

I want to leave you all with one tip - get your shoes on and get out the door, that's the hard part once you get to class and have the support of the Great SF MOMS all life's worries go away. I love the support we share and the understanding, it helps me get thru the day especially when it starts off with me feeling sick!!

New Year - New You with StrollerFit - Blackstone Valley, MA

Health, Fitness and our weight loss goals are the things we think about after the Holidays!!! All the food and the craziness of the holidays is our and now is the time to begin the weight loss journey. If you have a child (infant, toddler or preschooler) StrollerFit® is the class for you that will help you to achieve your fitness goals with other moms who are trying to attain the same goals while interacting with their children.

StrollerFit® is a group of supportive moms and dads just like you trying to either get healthy, lose weight or just maintaining a healthy lifestyle while still spending quality time with our children.

StrollerFit® allows you to get in a good workout without leaving the bay with a sitter and you get the added benefit of teaching your children a healthy lifestyle.

If you're looking for a fun way to exercise with your baby and jump start the new you than check out a StrollerFit® class in your area. Most StrollerFit® classes are offering specials during their January Open House Events, here in Northbridge we are holding a fitness challenge and an open house on we are having ours January 12th at 11:30 at RBI's. We're going to have raffles, giveaways and discounts all week long.

We also offer Mommymuscle Sculpt and Restore the Core to help you meet your goals.

If you live in Blackstone Valley (northbridge, Uxbridge, Mendon, Upton, Douglas Mass or any of the other sourrounding towns) check us at at RBI's in Northbridge. For more details about our open house or classes go to http://www.strollerfit.com/blackstonevalley

For more information on the leading stroller fitness class in the nation go to http://www.strollerfit.com/ and look for classes in your area.

The New Year

Where to begin, the last few days have been a blur...New Year's eve day I canceled my final Mommymuscle Sculpt workout for the year due to snow and bad road conditions, but Joey and I "Builtahot" his way of saying we made a fire and then while he napped peacefully I got in a workout to my MMS video.

New Year's Day we had our annual holiday open house and it was loads of fun. We did pot luck and had lots of great foods. I made Potato Latkas in honor of Hanukkah and because I promise my friends they get them once a year and I can not break that promise. We had lots of great desserts, I think we had more dessert than lunch type foods, isn't that always the way, but I stayed away from the table for the most part. I tried a bit of this and a bit of that but I did not overeat and when I tested by blood sugar I was in the correct range.

We had a few funny moments, Joey the potty especially his friends training potties so I bought him one. One of our friends, Jack found him sitting on it fully dressed, thought he wanted to use it and helped him take his diaper off, after some confusion Joey came out diaper less and mooned the party, the things an 18 m old can get away with. If any of the adults had tried that, I do not know what would have happened. What a day, and a great way to start of the new year.

January 2nd, the First StrolleFit class of the year and the last at what was once Kidzkoop. We had a great workout with the Mommymuscle bar and I was feeling it the next day. An interesting converstation occurred after class while the kids played, the moms seem to all agree no more NY resolutions about food or weight or working out or for that matter anything else. I agreed sort of, I said I made the same pact with myself I made last year, to complete at least one 5 k and train and again complete the Tufts 10k in October, an event I have run in the past and love to participate in. Last year Charlotte one of my SF moms and I completed two different 5k's but never made the Tufts 10K due to both of us being pregnant and I flew home from Ohio for the SF conference the morning of the race. One mom said she always wanted to try at least one 5k, and Charlotte said to talk to her after the baby is born, so no resolutions for us, instead a pact to train and compete in a 5 k as a group of strong moms working to "Build Strong Confident Kids by building Strong Confident Moms!!!"

Speaking of the next day, we did a Restore the Core Open House, sat January 3rd, the last one was snowed out, before we start a new Session next week. I had 4 new participants and all registered, way to start the year off right. I am waiting for the emails Sunday and Monday where they tell me there muscles hurt, I love receiving them, then I know I am doing my job right and helping them begin the fitness Journey. Two have young children and two have older children but all are moms and I look forward to the conversations and the kinship the classes bring us.

Now to announce the winner of last weeks StrollerFit weekly drawing and December's Restore the Core Challenge.

Congrats to Danielle for winning the Weekly SF challenge and Heather for the RTC challenge.

Don't forget the challenge rolls on til the end of January and with mew moms joining us everyday, who knows the grand prize is still in the air and the goody bag is full of great prizes. See you in class at our new loaction RBI's in Northbridge