We know the best way to fight diabetes is through food and fitness. Eating a healthy diet and exercising are essential for living a healthy lifestyle and preventing the development of type 2 diabetes.

That’s why we are so excited to kick off National Diabetes Month with a giveaway from one of our Skinny Gene Healthy Mommas and Beachbody Fitness Coach, Katie Whorrall.

Have you ever heard of  P90X, Insanity,  The Asylum, or TurboTiuFire?  Beachbody has produced these best-selling  home fitness programs, and  many more.  Thanks to Katie,  you  have the chance to WIN your own Beachbody Fitness Program.  

BENEFITS OF A HOME FITNESS PROGRAM

Regular physical activity helps improve our overall health and fitness, and reduces your risk for many chronic diseases.   But in our time crunched world, few of us have time to get to the gym.  What if all you had to do was walk to your living room and push play?

Fitness DVDs provide a much needed solution for those of us who just don’t have time.  Remember when fitness videos had an instructor dancing around in leg warmers and a leotard?  Fitness DVDs have come a long way and now provide great music, fun moves and lots of energy.  They come in every shape and size to fit everyone’s tastes and preferences and to help you find the best fit for your fitness style.

KATIE’S  BEACHBODY GIVEAWAY

I am honored to be giving away 1 of 4 Beachbody Fitness Programs and 7 days of Shakeology.  Each program comes complete with a program calendar, meal ideas and recipes and support from me, your coach.  These programs are designed for all fitness levels and include a “modifier” who will demonstrate the low impact version of the workout.

This FREE giveaway is valued at over $ 160!!

Here are the programs to choose from...

1.  Power 90 – Instructor Tony Horton (creator of P90X), includes 4 workouts plus a bonus “express” workout, a 90 day workout calendar to follow and a resistance band.  [Please click on image below to see a sample of the workout video]

2.  10 minute trainer – Again Instructor Tony Horton starts with short 10 minute workouts and builds up to longer workouts.  Designed for people who use the excuse “I don’t have time to workout”…now they do!  Instead of starting with cardio, then working different body parts one at a time, he stacks them to work everything at the same time—in just 10 minutes. “Not a second is wasted! It’s multitasking for your muscles!”  [Please click on image below to see a sample of the workout video]

3.  Les Mills Body Combat – BRAND NEW!!  Great mixed martial arts inspired workout….comes with 6 workouts (30 min, 45 min, 2-60min and 2 HIIT training workouts).  It also comes with a “technique” DVD that demonstrates the correct form and stance.  This is pretty cardio intensive and would burn a lot of calories…but may not be for everyone. [Please click on image below to see a sample of the workout video]

4.  TurboJam – A rockin’ workout for a rock-hard body. Chalene Johnson has supercharged her fun combination of dance, kickboxing, and body-sculpting. Blast away pounds and inches, build great abs, and create the body you’ve always wanted.  You get 5 workouts plus weighted gloves to increase difficulty.[Please click on image below to see a sample of the workout video]

HERE’S HOW YOU WIN IT

Entering our drawing for Katie’s Beachbody Fitness Program is super easy!  You just have to tell us your “small step”.

Small Steps To Big Success

This November, for National Diabetes Month, we want to encourage you to focus on the small things you can do every day to improve your health.  The goal is to pick something that is achievable, but it still requires at least a little more effort or thought than usual.

For example, you could pledge (or vow) to drink  more water, cut your soda intake in half, exercise for 30 minutes a day, park at the end of the parking lot, take the stairs, take water breaks not coffee breaks,  drink 2 glasses of water before each meal, walk for 10 minutes after dinner, or exercise for 30 minutes a day.  

Just pick 1 small step and write a comment below telling us the 1 healthy lifestyle change you are willing to make for 30 days.   That’s right, just 1 simple pledge to eat better or be more physically active for 30 straight days.  We will take “small steps” from November 1st through November 19th.

Ready! Set! Write your small step!

This giveaway will end on 11/19 at 11:59 p.m PDT.

Each entry counts as one chance to win.  US Only!  Winner will be announced November 20. Winner will be chosen AT RANDOM by random.org.

Enter to win!

I love reusable bags and the cuter they are, the better. That is why I am so in love with Callie’s Craft Cottage on Etsy and we have partnered up with them to giveaway a free set of reusable bags to one lucky Skinny Gene Healthy Momma!

Bringing your own grocery bags can not only save the environment but it can also save you money too!  If you want to win these fantastic bags, follow the instructions below and you could be carting these super cute bags to the store to fill them with healthy food options!

Instructions on how you can enter to win are listed below. Please note the first two items are both required, but it will get you two entries. Each additional item is another entry, and those are all optional. For your entries to count, you must leave a comment in the section at the bottom of this post letting us know which item you completed for an entry.  

Good luck!

Required for entry:

1. *Like* Skinny Gene Healthy Mommas on facebook and share the page with your Facebook friends (leave a comment on this post letting us know you did both).

*Like* Callie’s Craft Cottage on Facebook and leave her a note (leave an additional comment below letting us know you did it!)

Optional for extra entries (leave a comment on this post letting us know you did it!):

2. Check out Callies Craft Cottage on Etsy and show some love by pinning your favorite item and giving her an etsy heart (leave an additional comment below letting us know you did it!)

4. Follow Skinny Gene (@skinnygene) (leave an additional comment below letting us know you did it!)

5. Post this giveaway on your blog, facebook and/or twitter- you get one additional entry for each! (leave a comment below for each posting that you share)

This giveaway will end on 9/16 at 11:59 p.m.

Each entry counts as one chance to win.  US Only!  Winner will be announced September 17. Winner will be chosen AT RANDOM by random.org.