**NEW SESSIONS & DECEMBER SPECIALS**

Here are two great NEW types of sessions!!


Buddy Sessions:

Workout with a partner. Personal Training or Yoga sessions for 2 people with 1 trainer.
Save some cash, exercise, AND have a great time ;)

DECEMBER SPECIAL: 1 session for $100 OR 3 sessions for $285

• Great present for your significant other, best friend, or relative
• Get inspired by your exercise buddy and have a blast
• Save mucho money




½ & ½ Yoga and Thai Massage:

An hour and a half ALL about YOU. Drop into a meditative state while strengthening your entire body with 45minutes of vinyasa yoga. Then become completely passive as you receive 45minutes of Thai massage.

DECEMBER SPECIAL: 1 (90 min) session for $120 OR 3 (90min) sessions for $285

• Guaranteed to reduce stress and tension
• Will increase circulation and flexibility
• Strengthens and stretches muscles
• Perfect gift to put on YOUR wish list

Call 201-240-4288 or email esparkes@gmail.com to book your sessions!

City Harvest

Feeling full from your Thanksgiving meals?
Now is the perfect time to do some giving.

One of my favorite organizations to donate to is City Harvest.


"Now serving New York City for more than 25 years, City Harvest is the world's first food rescue organization, dedicated to feeding the city's hungry men, women, and children.

This year, City Harvest will collect over 25 million pounds of excess food from all segments of the food industry, including restaurants, grocers, corporate cafeterias, manufacturers, and farms. This food is then delivered free of charge to nearly 600 community food programs throughout New York City using a fleet of trucks and bikes as well as volunteers on foot. Each week,
City Harvest helps over 260,000 hungry New Yorkers find their next meal.

City Harvest also addresses hunger’s underlying causes by supporting affordable access to nutritious food in low-income communities, educating individuals, families, and communities in the prevention of diet-related diseases, channeling a greater amount of local farm food into high-need areas, and enhancing the ability of our agency partners to feed hungry men, women, and children."

You can donate your time in volunteering, individual or corporate gifts, or food drives.

Gluten-Free Girl and Thanksgiving

Many of you already know that I am a gluten-free girl. Not the Gluten-Free Girl (a well known blogger, chef, and author), but a gluten-free girl.

What is gluten, and why would I be free of it? Read about Gluten Intolerance and Celiac Disease at www.celiac.com


My favorite hip and cool gluten free resource is Celiac Chicks. You can watch one of the celiac chicks in this (long but informative) video.

Now, how does all this relate to THANKSGIVING?
Holiday eating can be torturous with food allergies and restrictions (missing out on bread stuffing, pies, sauces, etc.), especially on a holiday that's all about one enormous meal.

BUT...
there's hope.

One of my personal training clients, a chef, suggested that instead of trying to replace those holiday staples with gluten free alternatives, try new recipes that will appeal to gluten eaters and gluten free alike.
This makes me happy.
Very very happy.
:)

You can experiment with recipes that will give a new flair to your traditional Thanksgiving meal too!
I'll try to make Quinoa Stuffing and maybe Rum Apple Cake.

(recipes & photos from www.food52.com)

There are also some good recipes at Gluten-Free Girl Thanksgiving 2009


Want some other tips for the holidays? Read my post from last year: Thanksgiving 2008

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!