Thursday, January 5, 2012

How to Make Homemade Laundry Detergent

homemade laundry detergent
The reason for this is that you can be scared to hurt your clothes with recipes you don't know about for sure, and also you need to invest in some ingredients you may not normally use in your home. However, many of the ingredients below can also be used in several other homemade cleaning recipes around your home.
In addition, these recipes have been used successfully for years by people before commercial laundry detergents became popular, and you can choose what ingredients you place in them, and what scents, if any, you put into your family's clothes.
Finally, the recipe below are much cheaper than buying laundry detergent, which is an added bonus!

Homemade Laundry Detergent Powder

Ingredients:
  • 1/2 cup laundry soap flakes*
  • 1/2 cup baking soda
  • 1/4 cup washing soda
  • 1/4 cup borax
Directions:
Mix all the ingredients together and place into a 16 ounce (or larger) plastic container, with a lid.
Each time that you do a load of laundry use 1/2 cup of this mixture as your laundry detergent.
* Nowadays it can be difficult to actually find soap flakes. You can make your own, however, by grating a bar of laundry soap with a kitchen grater.
Examples of laundry soap include Fels-Naptha , Ivory, Sunlight, Kirks Castile Bar Soap, or Zote, for example.

Try it out and share your opinion-let us know what you think

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

15 Secrets to Better Health





Many of you have already signed up for the Sunny 104.5 Winter Meltdown-Weight Loss Challenge. If you have not- it's not too late-so Register Today! Registration is FREE, and you can win some great prizes along the way! Signing up is easy, contact Amy to get a weigh in time at The Centre in Rolla anytime this week and you are on your way! You can reach her at 308-1045!

Now there are all kinds of claims out there about miracle pills/foods/workouts etc that will "HELP YOU LOSE 25 LBS in 1 MONTH!!" Our Approach with the Sunny Winter Meltdown is not a quick fix-weight loss gimmick. It is instead a sensible approach to eating better and getting you moving to slowly and safely build your stamina and fitness level- and overall your total health. If any person or product claims that you can safely lose 25 pounds in 1month then you should run in the opposite direction. Healthy weight loss is 1 to 2 pounds per week (3 at the absolute most) By taking a healthy approach to exercise that does not feel like a part-time job (remember it is all about quality -- not quantity) and making smart nutritional choices you maximize your chances of success. Nothing fancy, just a highly effective, healthy and sustainable approach to lose weight and get in the best shape of your life.Your negative voice will try to convince you that it can't be that simple but it is! Please ditch the temptation of falling for the quick fix. It only sets your wallet, head and heart up for failure.You are better than that and we can show you the safe and sustainable way by following our lead.

Remember: "There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
-- Beverly Sills

Don't worry about what workouts to do or the healthy habits to build. Just get moving. We will help guide you through everything with the daily Trainer Tips & Healthy Recipes found at http://www.sunnywintermeltdown.com/.

You deserve to have tons of energy and to feel great so follow our lead and get ready to shock yourself with your fitness and weight loss results!
YOU CAN DO THIS-THIS IS THE YEAR OF A HEALTHIER HAPPIER YOU!!

 Here are 15 Secrets to Better Health to Get You started.
We suggest you post this on your refrigerator as these tips are your roadmap to feeling amazing!


Attitude & Focus
1) Concentrate on your health as opposed to losing weight. If you have kids, concentrate on your kids and how you losing weight will help improve the energy you bring to your relationship with them.
2) Hold yourself accountable and don't make excuses. We are all extremely busy, but you can fit movement into your schedule. You deserve to take some personal time each day to invest in yourself and your health.
3) When you exercise, be proud of yourself. Know how much it positively affects your energy and health.
4) Stay positive. Life is too short to beat yourself up over weight you have gained or workouts you have missed. Staying positive helps all areas of your life!
5) Have fun. If your workouts are not fun you are not going to keep doing them. So, if you dread going to a gym, don't go. Instead, go for a walk, play with your kids in the yard, etc. If you can turn the dreaded exercise word into a fun activity, then your chances of being successful go up dramatically.
6) Throw the rear view mirror out the window. Concentrate on today and tomorrow. You can't change the past and beating yourself up is only going to drag you in the wrong direction. Today is a New Day!
Exercise & Movement
7) Do Interval Workouts 3 days per week. Intervals help you Burn 30% More Calories per Workout and can help Leave Your Metabolism Elevated for up to 12 hours after each workout. You can access a free sample workout by going to: http://www.NoExcusesWorkouts.com/Sample-Workouts/
8) Do the 6-minute No Excuses Workout 3 days per week. You can do this quick and highly effective strength training workout right in your living room; no equipment is required. You can access the Free sample workout by going to: http://www.NoExcusesWorkouts.com/Sample-Workouts/
9) Turn random acts into fitness. Take the stairs at work, park in the furthest spot at the store or work, play with your kids instead of sitting on the sideline, walk in place while brushing your teeth, etc. Be creative and you can turn activities you already do into opportunities to improve your health.
Nutrition
10) Always eat breakfast & never skip meals. Have breakfast within 1 hour of waking up to kick-start your metabolism. Skipping meals causes your metabolism to slow down and sends the signal to your body to store your next meal as fat in order to avoid starving.
11) Drink 64 ounces of water per day plus one additional ounce per minute of workout time. You should be going to the bathroom at least once every hour to hour and a half.
12) Eat something every 2 to 3 hours. Eat healthy snacks midmorning and mid-afternoon to help keep your metabolism buzzing and to help you avoid over-eating at lunch or dinner.
13) Control your Portions. Avoid seconds and eat until you are no longer hungry versus until you are full.
14) Only have dessert once per week. This could save you 300 calories per day on the six non-dessert days (1,800 calories per week). Since you have to have burned 3,500 more calories than you consume to lose 1 pound, this new habit could lead to losing an additional pound every two weeks or 26 pounds in one year!
15) Limit yourself to one soda per day (ideally zero per day). The excess sugar is not good for your health and can cause major ups and downs as far as your energy level.

Information provided by Jonathan Roche, Founder & CEO, Breakthrough Health & Wellness Solutions, Inc.
To maximize every minute of your limited exercise time check out the No Excuses Workout System http://www.NoExcusesWorkouts.com/Products/

Thursday, December 29, 2011

A New Year A New You!-






We are very excited to announce the Sunny Winter Melt Down Sponsored by Sunny 104.5 and The Centre. If you are looking for some healthy changes in the New Year-we highly recommend signing up for this weight loss challenge. Here are some of the benefits of this challenge:  Fitness Goal Setting, Accountability, Making New Friends, Support,  MEal Planning & Health & Fitness tips, PRIZES, PRIZES, PRIZES!!
This challenge is based on total percentage of body fat loss (not just weight). The winner will be revealed at the 2012 Mid MO Women's Expo!
More info will be released soon- so be sure to join this site and LIKE the MMWE on facebook for email updates and check out the links below! Challenge & Official weigh ins START January 3rd! For more info call Amy or Keith at 573-308-1045 


Sunny Winter Meltdown LINKS:
 http://www.facebook.com/MidMOWomensExpo


http://www.facebook.com/mySunny104.5


http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sunny-1045-Winter-Meltdown/326396637384776   


http://www.sunnywintermeltdown.com/


http://www.mysunny1045.com

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Centre-Rollas-Health-Recreation-Complex/114886271865328

Welcome To Our New Site!!

Plans are well under way for the 2nd annual Mid MO Women's Expo. The date of this year's MMWE is April 20 & 21st. There are a lot of exciting new developments we will be sharing with you very soon. I am positive that this year's Expo will be even bigger and better than before! We are very pleased to announce our partnership with Rolla's Health & Recreation Complex- The Centre as the location for this year's event. Also this year we have expanded to facilitate 78 vendor booths, that is double last year's capacity! We have already begun to accept vendors and booths are filling up fast. We are currently working on filling the speakers schedule and will be announcing the full event schedule in the weeks to come. You definitely don't want to miss out on this year's event-a weekend full of shopping, education, inspiration, entertainment, food sampling, makeovers, & much, much more all under one roof!!  So be sure to make your plans NOW to attend-Call your girlfriends, your mothers and your daughters. Stay tuned for more announcements and don't forget to join this site for email updates and "Like" us on facebook as well for facebook only contests and special announcements! We'll see you soon.