The exercise guru for pregnant women dishes

Sara Haley, frequently turned to as an authority of appropriate exercise regimens for women who are expecting, designed Expecting More for active women based on her own experience with pregnancy.  Here are some tips from the fit mama!

1. Pre-pregnancy/1st trimester: Lie on your right side with your legs stacked and your right hand underneath your right shoulder. Lift your hips up off the floor. Work to hold up to 30 seconds. Repeat on the left.

2. 2nd trimester: As your center of gravity shifts and balancing becomes more difficult, you may want to lower your knees to the floor or move from your hand to your forearm.

3. 3rd trimester: Use the same modifications as in the 2nd trimester. Due to your increasing belly, you may find it becomes more challenging to breathe deeply, so you may want to limit your duration to 10-15 seconds at a time.

4. Pregnant women can work out at up to 75% intensity, depending on their pre-pregnancy fitness level.

5. If a woman has conditioned her body and worked out hard before getting pregnant, she can have a much easier time both during and after pregnancy [...]

Spice things up

No, no we’re not encouraging you to go all Twilight on your hubbies, but why not spice things up this weekend with some lip products from Bite?

The line offers lipsticks, glosses, and lip treatment products (scrubs and vitamin gels), all of which contain the anti-aging ingredient found in red wine – Resveratrol. In fact, each color product contains the antioxidant equivalent of five glasses of red wine minus the calories or hangover!

Derived from natural and food grade ingredients, the anti-aging color products (yes, lips get wrinkles too…), are also formulated with essential oils and jojoba beads. To boot [...]

The leading ethnic housewares brand

We may not fall into the Hispanic-American market that IMUSA targets, but we’re nonetheless huge fans of the brand after cooking up a storm with their Caldero Non-Stick Pot. Now that they’ve got us hooked with a basic we’re familiar with we’re excited to try out some of their more out-of-the-box finds among them is a tortilla press and new tortilla accessories that enable making the fresh tortillas without preservatives, the first in-home Empanada Maker, the first Churrasco Set (a complete box set of Latin BBQ tools), and the coolest of all – a Guacamole Set Olay!

Check-out all their fun finds and some recipes here [...]

A top selling Champagne

Lanson, the 250-year-old Champagne maker that’s long been one of Britain’s top sellers – not to mention the preferred French sparkling at Wimbledon – is perhaps one of the biggest names in the biz you may not have heard of (and it’s a shame!).

We had a chance to sample their Brut Rosé on a recent evening and the pale salmon color bubbling delight, with its rose and berry aroma, was the perfect amuse-bouche to kick off our evening. While it works beautifully on its own pair it with some strawberries and it’s pure heaven…exactly what you need to forget the fact that you woke with your kids’ gum in your hair.

Dish with us: What’s [...]

Ever feel like you’re yelling, but no one can hear you? Ever feel like you’re preaching, but no one’s paying attention? It’s time to change all that because Shame on Jane knows you have a powerful voice and wants you to use it! In fact they’re running a Mother’s Day Contest looking for the “next great message” to add to their RemindeRing collection and they want YOU to join. The person who comes up with the winning message will snag a $200 shopping spree on ShameonJane.com and the ring with their winning message. Second and third place winners will receive a $50 gift certificate for a little retail therapy.

The contest runs through May 11th and the winner will be announced on Mother’s Day.

Come on…what’s better than being appreciated AND snagging something gratis? Click here to enter [...]