FBG 5-Year Birthday Friday Giveaway: 5 Neutrogena Healthy Skin Prize Packs!
May 17, 2013 by Jenn
Filed under Best Of, Current Giveaways, FBG Anniversary / Fitties, Giveaways
Did you know: UV exposure increases by about 33 percent for every 20 percent ozone layer loss? And that the end result is about 33 percent more skin cancers?! Um, not cool. But what is cool is today’s Five-Year Birthday Week giveaway! As we are a blog ambassador for Neutrogena, they have graciously offered to help celebrate [...]
FBG 5-Year Birthday Thursday Giveaway: A Pair of Brooks Running Shoes!
May 16, 2013 by Jenn
Filed under Best Of, Current Giveaways, FBG Anniversary / Fitties, Giveaways
Remember those cool Choose Your Own Adventure books? We do, and we were obsessed with them. Which is why we’re so excited about today’s Five-Year Birthday Week giveaway courtesy of the amazing Brooks Running—it’s kind of like those books! We give you a few parameters, you make a decision and then the fitness adventure begins! Here’s how [...]
Our 5 Best—and Most Popular—Posts Ever!
May 16, 2013 by Jenn
Filed under Best Of, FBG Anniversary / Fitties
Following our Five-Year Birthday celebration theme, this year we’re not just sharing the five most popular and our favorite posts of the year, we’re also sharing the five posts that you’ve read the most of ALL TIME! Read all the posts! The Most Popular Posts of the Last Year 1. The Best Healthy Food Blogs We’ve Found [...]
FBG 5-Year Birthday Wednesday Giveaway: 5 Cases of Beanitos!
May 15, 2013 by Jenn
Filed under Best Of, Current Giveaways, FBG Anniversary / Fitties, Giveaways
First it was Muscle Ropes, and then it was a New Beginnings Combo pack from Linda LaRue. And today? Well, get ready to crunch because we’ve got a Beanitos giveaway for our Five-Year Birthday Week! That’s right; we’re giving five (five!) lucky U.S. readers the chance to win a whole case of Beanitos’ new Nacho Cheese [...]
Behold the 2013 Fitties!
May 14, 2013 by Administrator
Filed under Best Of, FBG Anniversary / Fitties, Reviews
We’re another year older and you know what that means—another round of Fitties! Honoring the absolute best of THE best that we’ve tried, tested and put through the ringer, this is the stuff we love, adore and covet. It’s the stuff we want to write love poems about, swim across oceans for and generally tell [...]
FBG 5-Year Birthday Tuesday Giveaway: 2 New Beginnings Combo Packages!
May 14, 2013 by Jenn
Filed under Current Giveaways, Giveaways
Welcome to Day No. 2 of our Five-Year Birthday Week! And with another day comes another amazing giveaway! Today’s is courtesy of Linda LaRue, creator of The Core Transformer and author of the SOUPer Slim Diet. Not only is Linda a guru when it comes to all things core, but Linda is also one of our guest columnists on Fit [...]
All We Really Need to Know About Health, We Learned in Kindergarten: 10 Healthy Lessons
May 14, 2013 by Jenn
Filed under Advanced, Beginner, Fit Journey, Intermediate, Motivation, Tips
Remember that whole kindergarten theme we’re going for with our Five-Year Birthday celebration? Well, today’s post is certainly inspired by it! We FBGs sat down and reflected on our own kindergarten school experiences and then applied them to our healthy lives today. Turns out, that just like this book says, everything we learned in kindergarten is [...]
FBG 5-Year Birthday Monday Giveaway: 5 Muscle Ropes!
May 13, 2013 by Jenn
Filed under Best Of, FBG Anniversary / Fitties, Giveaways, Past Giveaways
We told you the big giveaways were coming for our Five-Year Birthday Week, and we are starting off with a bang! Or a whip, more accurately! Because our first giveaway is for a product we just recently raved about: Muscle Ropes. Ladies, we love, love, love these ropes. Just a few minutes whipping them up, down, [...]
The ABCs of Being an FBG
May 13, 2013 by Jenn
Filed under Advanced, Beginner, Best Of, FBG Anniversary / Fitties, Fit Journey, Intermediate, Motivation, Tips
Following our kindergarten theme for our Five-Year Birthday Week (five!), today we are bringing you the ABCs of being an FBG. Do these things—no, live these—and, well, we pretty much guarantee that you’ll be healthy and happy—and having a darn good time. So sing it with us now…A, B, C. It’s easy as 1, 2, 3… [...]
A Life Lesson From My Mother
May 10, 2013 by Karen
Filed under Body Image, Family, Mamas, Motivation, Tips
If Fit Bottomed Girls had a poster child, it would have been my mother. She had all the rules tied up in one neat little package: eat well but don’t overindulge, take little breaks when needed, drink lots of water, exercise daily and, most importantly, treat yourself with respect. She would wake me up in [...]







