Body By Glamour update!!

Yay!!! A couple of you have signed up for Body by Glamour!! I'm very excited about it!! I have emailed Glamour to see how we can become buddies if we didn't sign up together. When they email me back, I will let you know!!

Woo hoo!!!

Body By Glamour

Go to Glamour.com and sign up for Body By Glamour and/or the 30 day Makeover!!

I did!! Then be my "buddy" and we can encourage each other!!

It will be awesome! Get ready for summer!!!!

Links from the February Magazines

Chloe Sevigny recommends ResurrectionVintage for cool vintage clothes. (Glamour Feb. 08)

Check out Edun or Behnaz Sarafpour for environmentally conscious clothing! (Glamour Feb. 08)

Celebritystyleguide is the place to find out what celebs are wearing and where they got it! (Glamour Feb. 08)

Go to mymms.com to customize your m&ms for parties or special occasions!! (Cosmo Feb. 08)

Jen MacNeil has been doing one new thing every day for a year. Go see what new things she has come up with on her blog! (Cosmo Feb. 08)

Magazine Subscriptions - Love it!!!

I love Glamour, Cosmopolitan, InStyle and Allure. I usually buy them every month at the grocery which racks up LOTS of money! If I buy those every month, that's like $200 per year in magazines!!

Well, I just got on Glamour.com and bought a 2-year subscription (24 issues) for $20, but then I started thinking about how my mom found my Us Weekly and OK! magazines on ebay for cheaper. So I got on Ebay.

I got 2 years of Cosmo and 2 years of Allure for $19 total!
And then I got 1 year of InStyle for $9 total!

That's $50 I just spent and assuming I pay $9 again for another year of InStyle, that's $59 for 2 years of subscriptions (96 issues) to 4 magazines where I otherwise would have spent $400 over 2 years buying them every month!!

That's awesome!! Go to ebay and type in "Magazine Subscriptions" if you are like me and buy the magazines every month!!

Yay!!!

Giving Back

Glamour Magazine this month had an article about giving back. They gave 31 things, I'm going to pick a few to share with you!! For the full list, pick up the December 2007 issue of Glamour!!

• Buy a holiday turkey for a family in Baton Rouge (home to thousands of Hurricane Katrina evacuees) for $25 at brfoodbank.org
• Support the troops with warm socks, deodorant, Chees-Its. Find their wish lists at anysoldier.com
• Donate new blankets to kids in homeless shelters at projectnightnight.org
• Buy funky gifts at thrift shops that give back, such as Out of the Closet; sales help support the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. For locations, see outofthecloset.org
• Before you shop online, go to goodshop.com. Then buy from participating retailers and the site donates a portion of your purchase to the charity of your choice.
• Help protects half an acre of rain forest in South and Central America with a $25 donation at rainforestalliance.org
• Donate old cell phones to victims of domestic violence for emergencies (go to ncadv.org and click "donate")
• Vaccinate 50 people around the world against deadly diseases such as meningitis, measles or polio with a $50 donation at doctorswithoutborders.org
• Provide a month of care for a woman or child rescued from sexual slavery for just $30 at sharedhope.org
• Get friends involved. To find group volunteer projects, go to thevolunteerfamily.com
• Clean out your closet! Then donate old glasses (neweyesfortheneedy.org), shoes (shareyoursoles.org) and even wedding gowns (makingmemories.org)
• Find projects that help people in your very own zip codes at dosomething.org
• Make a $10 donation to freethechildren.org and a special matching-funds program will turn it into $100 worth of medical supplies for kids around the world.
• Mentor an at-risk teen online at icouldbe.org
• Help an aspiring student pay for college at scholarshipamerica.org
• Send a DVD or video game to hospital-bound kids via childsplaycharity.org
• Staying home for the holidays? Donate frequent-flier miles to injured soldiers' families at heromiles.org
• Tutor a future J.K. Rowling at 826national.org
• Train your pooch to be a therapy dog for nursing homes and hospitals at tdi-dog.org
• Sell gifts you don't need through eBay's Giving Works program (givingworks.ebay.com), which earmarks a percentage of sales for the charities of your choice.
• Give to donorschoose.org; a small donation can help create cozy reading nooks for underfunded classrooms
• Upgrade your laptop; worldcomputerexchange.org will send your old one to a child in one of 61 countries
  

Glamour - Annoying Coworkers

Taken directly from the Glamour Magazine August 2007 issue.

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The cartoon from this month's issue is about annoying coworkers. And evidently I am one...

Sorry, guys!! At least I get the job done quickly!!!

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Glamour - Quit Smoking!!

All information taken directly from Glamour's August 2007 issue.
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Lung cancer kills more women than any other cancer, and no, you don't have to smoke to get it.

Deaths from breast cancer are at their lowest point in a decade. New tests are making ovarian cancer easier to spot. But one cancer - lung cancer - seems immune to our best attempts to defeat it. The top cancer killer of women, it will take the lives of approximately 70,000 women this year. Other facts that might astound you:

1. Lung cancer is the only major cancer that's not on the decline in women.
2. More nonsmoking women are getting the disease than ever before.
3. Women are more susceptible to lung cancer than men.

Lung cancer kills more women than breast, ovarian and uterine cancers combined.

Female smokers are about 50 percent more likely to get lung cancer than male puffers - and female nonsmokers have more than double the risk of male nonsmokers. "Dose for dose, women may be more susceptible to the carcinogens in cigarettes than men," says Kathy Albain, M.D., director of the thoracic oncology program at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.



SMOKERS:
Check out the quit strategies that have worked for women like you.

• Cut back slowly. Mariesa Woodring, 35, of Birmingham, Alabama, kicked her 18-year habit by gradually eliminating places where she allowed herself to puff. "One week, I'd stop smoking in front of the TV," she says. "The next, I'd stop smoking in the car. That way, you never tell yourself you have to smoke less, you just make it inconvenient."
• Try medication. Studies find that smokers who take antidepressants like bupropion (Zyban) are almost twice as successful at quitting as smokers who don't. A new antismoking drug called varenicline (Chantix) may be even more effective, doctors say. (Although both medications have possible side effects like nausea and trouble sleeping.)
• Don't let weight worries stop you. Women often fear that they'll pack on 10 or 20 pounds if they put down the cigarettes, but the fact is, 20 percent of women who quit don't gain any weight - and those who do put on an average of just five pounds, according to the National Women's Health Information Center. "Being a few pounds heavier is worth saving your life," says Elise Cook, M.D., assistant professor at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
• Use nicotine replacements like the patch, inhaler or gum. A study at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, found that pairing nicotine replacements with a support program (like telephone quit lines) increased even heavy smokers' odds of quitting successfully.
• Stop at the right time. Your menstrual cycle might help. Because of hormonal fluctuations, cravings for food, nicotine or alcohol tend to increase during the one to two weeks before your period. That's likely why research has shown that women are best able to extinguish a cigarette habit during the two weeks after their periods, when feel-good estrogen is on the rise.

6 Ways to Protect Yourself From Lung Cancer

• Mind the Symptoms. A cough that won't go away, fatigue you can't shake, unexplained weight loss, achiness in your chest or shoulders: "These symptoms of lung cancer are easy to dismiss," says Jennifer Garst, M.D., an associate professor of medicine at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. "Young women usually think, Oh, I'm just stressed, or I've just got a passing bug." See a doctor if you're dealing with any of this. If a cough hangs on for more than four weeks, request a chest X-ray. And if your M.D. is resistant to doing further tests or can't pinpoint the cause of your symptoms, get a second opinion.
• Pile your plate with plant foods. Research has found that people who eat lots of fruit and veggies have a significantly lower risk of lung cancer - and just about all other cancers, too. Beans, tofu and tea have also been hailed as anti-lung-cancer superheroes.
• Exercise more. "Exercise controls the body's immune response and reduces inflammation that may contribute to cancer growth," says Dr. Cook. It's so powerful that even smokers who work out regularly have slightly lower risk of lung cancer than those who aren't as active, she says.
• Avoid secondhand smoke. Just sitting in a hazy bar for two hours is equivalent of smoking four cigarettes. Happily, 31 states have already banned smoking in restaurants, workplaces and government buildings, and 22 of those also prohibit lighting up in bars. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta has set a goal to kick cigarettes out of all restaurants, bars and work sites in the United States by the year 2010.
• Check the safety of your home. More than 20,000 lung cancer deaths a year are due to exposure to radon, an odorless gas that creeps into homes from underground uranium deposits. Rocky regions like mountain states and the Midwest have the highest amounts of radon, but the only sure way to know if you're being exposed is to check the air in your home - you can get a home test for about $10 from the National Safety Council at (800) 767-7236 or nsc.org.
• Be smart about air pollution. To avoid inhaling too many toxins, work out indoors on smoggy days. If you must exercise outdoors, the American Lung Association recommends that you do it in the morning or evening to avoid heavy breathing at midday, when heat and sun make smog more toxic. And stay away from the busiest streets, which have higher levels of pollutants.
  

Glamour - Ice Cream

I love ice cream!! We had Ben & Jerry's today at work!! Glamour magazine had some comparisons between different kinds of ice cream to help you see how much more you can eat for the same amount of calories!! Check it out!!

These are all based on 300-calorie servings.
Information from here down taken directly from Glamour's August 2007 issue.
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EDY's Slow Churned Light Mint Chocolate Chip
300 calories; 2 1/2 scoops; 11 grams of fat
A unanimous favorite; it tastes as rich as the real thing. But it still packs 40 percent of your daily saturated-fat quota, so don't have that much every day, says Christine Gerbstadt, R.D., an American Dietetic Association spokesperson.

HAAGEN-DAZS Raspberry Fat Free Sorbet
300 calories; 2 1/2 scoops; 0 grams fat
Delicious and good for you. This serving has 5 grams of fiber, which is 20 percent of the amount you need daily.

TCBY Hand-Scooped Cookies & Cream Frozen Yogurt
300 calories; 2 scoops; 9 grams fat
A crowd-pleaser; it has a "creamy" texture just like ice cream, and it's not at all "icy," as fro-yos can be.

STARBUCKS Low Fat Latte
300 calories; 1 3/4 scoops; 5 grams fat
Need an afternoon pick-me-up? Staffers agreed this is "refreshingly not-too-sweet," and, yes, you'll get a caffeine buzz.

BEN & JERRY'S Chocolate Fudge Brownie Low Fat Yogurt
300 calories; 1 1/2 scoops; 4 grams fat
In a word, "yum." Choose it over the regular version and you'll save 11 grams of artery-clogging fat.

COLD STONE CREAMERY Birthday Cake Remix Creation
300 calories; 4 spoonfuls; 12 grams fat
If you can't stop at a few bites, try the light cake batter kind; it has about half the fat (testers couldn't even tell).



Also, go here for some ice cream coupons from Glamour!

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I think Glamour magazine is one of the best magazines you can buy! On top of the fact that it is all about girl-power which I LOVE (ahem, Buffy!), it also has excellent advice and stories. You should check them out!!