The Cowgirl Fit Challenge Contest is here!

It's time to announce the first Cowgirl Fit Challenge Contest! This will be a 40 day contest beginning February 17th. The contest will run from February 17-March 28, 2014. We are teaming you up with a partner to help you with a great start to your fitness goal! If you would like to be paired up with a friend, please indicate on the application form, or we will randomly select a partner for you that is close to your state.

It will be up to you how you eat and train for this contest. We will however include tips and ideas on our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/cowgirlfit to help you along the way. Some of the rules are...

Rules: 

Contestants will be paired up with random people, unless you clarify in your application who you want to be teamed up with. we will try and accomodate these requests, but there are no guarantees.

You are in charge of how you lose the weight and get in shape. We give you ideas, but you are ultimately the one who makes it happen. 

You are responsible for getting in contact with your partner. We will provide the email address and if you want to get further information that is up to you and not Cowgirl Fit. Partners are used to help each other reach their goals. This is a team competition, so if you lose a lot of weight and your partner doesn't, that will hurt you. It is a team weight loss in the end. 

The contest will last 40 days, from February 17- March 28th, 2014. You will spend this time eating right and exercising and motivating your partner.

You must submit a "Before" photo to us and your beginning weight. When the 40 days is over, you will submit a new photo of yourself (that is not photoshopped or any other touch ups) and your new weight. You must also submit a photo of the weight of the scales with you standing on it at the end of the contest. These photos must be emailed to info@cowgirlfit.com

You will not hold Cowgirl Fit, Cowgirls In Style Magazine or Country Productions liable for any disagreement, injury or any other result that may come from this contest.



You have until February 10th to sign up! 

Prizes

1st Place Prize: One pair of Stetson boots for both teammates that loses the most weight in the 40 days. You will also receive a subscription to Cowgirls In Style magazine.

2nd Place Prize: One pair of Rose Royce jeans for both teammates that lose the most inches and show the most noticable improvements in their photos. You will also receive a subscription to Cowgirls In Style magazine.

3rd Place Prize: A subscription to Cowgirls In Style magazine to the team that we think worked very hard but didn't achieve as much. this means your emails to us will mean a lot as the competition goes along! 

A great way to help you along your weightloss path is the Slim and Sassy Products. Contact us if you would like to get started with those. You will receive a 10% discount through Cowgirl Fit! They are an all natural product.

Now it's time to go to Cowgirl fit and sign up!

Big Announcement Coming?

Ok, so we've been telling you on our facebook page that there is a big announcement coming!  I'm not going to let the cat out of the bag just yet, but we are getting a little ansy here at Cowgirl Fit and want to get going on this announcement.  We aren't sure if we can wait until we get to 5,000 facebook fans.  But, we're less than 320 fans away from 5,000.  We can do this!

Just a couple of hints about this announcement that we have coming up... it would be great for you to have a friend in on it too (hint, hint that's why we are wanting you to share us with your friends!)  If you don't have a friend in on the announcement, no problem, it will still work.  

Another hint... 
There could be something in it for you!  Like we have been saying... this is an exciting announcement!  Now, get the word out to share our f.b. page at www.facebook.com/cowgirlfit  and get us closer to 5,000!  I don't think you will want to miss out on this as it will be a lot of fun and we know you love to have fun, right?  Well, maybe fun isn't the right word... it's going to be work, but in the end, it will be fun and worth it.

We're still debating on where we will make the big announcement!  We have been toying with the idea of announcing it on f.b., but I think we might announce it here on our blog.  So stay tuned to all of our f.b. posts.  

If you haven't yet scrolled your mouse over the "Like" button on our facebook page and select "Get Notifications," please do!  This way you won't miss out on any of our announcements and information. It's not enough to just "like" our page, you also have to select the "Get Notifications" or you won't see a lot of our posts.

Well, we're almost there!  Let's see how many friends you can get to like our Cowgirl Fit facebook page, meanwhile we're working on the big announcement!

Until next time, I'll see you on the trail!

The 7 Minute Workout

This morning I found myself in a bit of a time crunch and didn't have my normal time to spend on a good workout, so I opted for something that I have been wanting to try. It's called the "7 Minute Workout." It is also supposed to be scientifically tested. Well, I was up for a scientific workout. :) 

It's a website where the domain title is about as short as the workout! www.7-min.com. That's it!  I used my IPad to view it.  It's a handy way of doing a quick workout, and was actually a heart pounding, muscle building workout for a short amount of time.  You do a certain exercise for 30 seconds and then take a 10 second break. You start out with jumping jacks, rest, then a 30 second wall sit, rest, and so on for 7 minutes.  I love the fact that the video posts pictures of the exercise and also has a countdown.  

Use it on the road when you don't have time to hit the gym, just bring your iPad and do it in your hotel room or anywhere for that matter. You don't use weights, it's just your body weight. It's a great way to keep in shape for barrel racers and competitors that are on the road a lot. 

It will be a short workout that I will use often and it can also be a pre warm up to weights. I love the fact that it's only 7 minutes long! Everyone has time for a 7 minute workout, right?

The link is below. Try it out and let us know what you think.


The 7 Minute Workout

Can Peppermint help you lose weight?

So, we have been posting about Peppermint and how it can actually help you lose weight.  But is this really true? 

There was a study done by the Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago with 3,000 people who tried inhaling 3 different scents, peppermint, banana and apple.  The more often they sniffed those aromas, the more weight they lost, with an average drop of nearly 30 pounds during the 6-month study among those who inhaled the scents the most frequently. Some participants shed up to 18 pounds in a month. Apparently, by frequent smelling we trick the brain into thinking we actually ate the food.

I carry a small bottle of peppermint in my handbag.  When I get the urge to splurge or snack, I open the bottle and take a few deep breaths.  It actually has helped me to curb my appetite.  Of course I the peppermint from a company called, doTerra.  They have so many wonderful products, one is also the Slim and Sassy products that help curb your appetite and speed up your metabolism and I will go into those in another post. 

If you are looking for something to curb your appetite, you might want to give peppermint a try.  What have you got to lose?  More information on how you can get the peppermint is here  Peppermint Oil.

 

 

 

Until next time, see you on the trail!

~Susi

Happy New Year! Who Loves Chocolate?

The tree is down, the decorations are put away and the New Year's Eve celebration is now an event from last year.  It's 2014! What are your fitness goals?

For me, my goal is to get into the best shape of my life, which may be an uphill battle, but I'm ready for the challenge.  I have lived in this world 40+ years and I have just found out that I am never going to be able to give up chocolate.  No matter how many years I've tried, it's just something I haven't been able to do and I think I have finally figured out the reason...  I don't want to!  It's a highlight of my life, it makes me happy and I know I will not enjoy life unless I can have chocolate. 

Yes, we have all heard how important it is to eat clean.  I've decided to try a new approach this year.  I am going to eat clean for 5 days of the week, but I am going to also have a small portion of chocolate each day.  I have decided on the weekends, I am going to have anything I want as long as I do not go over 1,200 calories.   I actually started the 1,200 calorie intake last June and lost 30 pounds in 3 months.  I have kept it off and now I want to get down to my ideal weight and the ideal of what I think is my best shape.

I didn't do too well during the holidays with my eating, but I managed to stay at the same weight, so I will call that an accomplishment. Now that the New Year is here, I have been to the gym and have also walked/jogged 3 miles a day.  That's one thing I make sure I do is walk everyday, even if I don't get another workout in, I walk.  It wakes me up, gets my blood flowing, metabolism burning and my mind in a positive place. 

But, back to chocolate!  How can I have my chocolate without gaining weight you might ask?  I am a huge fan of 'See's Candies' and they just so happen to have a 'See's Candies' in my town.  That could be a disadvantage to a diet, but I have found that the 'See's Candies Little Pops' are one of the best treats I have found!  With a daily serving size of 4 and total fat grams of 3 and 60 calories for 4 pieces, that's only 15 calories each with less than 1 gram of fat for each piece.  These little chocolate candies take a long time to dissolve and when you are done, you've had your chocolate fix for a while.  But you can have 4 of these a day and only digest 60 calories!  That's awesome! 

If you don't have a 'See's Candies' in your town, you can go to www.seescandies.com and order them there.  They have other flavors as well.  I don't mean to be promoting sugar to get fit, but let's get real... do you really want to go without chocolate the rest of your life?  I know I don't.

In the next blog, I will be posting the importance of Peppermint.  You don't want to miss it!  Until then, I'll see you on the trail!

Susi