NOW REGISTERING- Spicy Photo Shoot!

Just in time for Valentines Day, give him a SPICY pic or calendar!


Bring your sexiest dress, lingerie, fishnets & heels...Spicy Wifey will take care of the rest!

For $50.00 you will receive sitting & session with our female photographer, make up touch by celebrity make up artist, your choice of backdrops, wardrobe consult and an 8x10
(printed on site)!
Additional prints and calendar option available at additional cost.
Spicy Wifey VIP members receive $10.00 off!

We are currently registering and appointments slots are booking fast. Go to http://www.spicywifey.com/ now!

Contest Winner - Glam Girl!

Congratulations to our Glam Girl contest winner, Mrs. Hyatt of Indianapolis!

Mrs. Hyatt received all of the products feature in the "Sultry Spice" video demonstration, plus, a few extras! Thanks to all who participated and we hope that you found the application techniques and tips helpful and easy to follow!

We asked our winner how she became a Spicy Wifey and how she felt about her prize. She and her husband met in 3rd grade, grew up as best friends in the same neighborhood and began dating in 1996 and were married July 1997! " I LOVE my prize, it is awesome... lots of fun stuff including some I have never used before ... (the black out -indelible eye gel) I wish Spicy Wifey was in Indy, so many events I have to turn down being so far away that sound SOOOOOO fun" (Mr. & Mrs.Hyatt pictured below)

Although you are not in Atlanta, you can still represent for the married lifestyle, visit the boutique and blog today at http://www.spicywifey.com/!

Thanks to our contest sponsor, Glam Girl Studio! And for more glam make up tips, visit the industry professionals at Glam Girl Studios http://www.glamgirlstudio.com/

Weight a Minute Monday! Breakfast of Champions

We are delighted that so many of you Spicy Ladies are taking your health and wellness seriously! In last weeks Weight a Minute Monday post, we discussed some do's and don'ts, specifically the importance of not skipping breakfast. As a result we received many emails wanting breakfast specifics and recommendations from Dalana, our expert for this series.

So we asked Dalana, what should we eat for breakfast? And this is what she said...

"Here are some suggestions for breakfast. You can mix and match them if you'd like some variety. According to WomensHealthMag.com, you should aim to get 20-25 percent of your daily calories from breakfast, which means 350 if you are on a 1500 calorie a day diet.

Oatmeal w/ cinnamon to taste (instant regular flavor is okay)
Cold cereals with low fat milk such as Cheerios (Plain or multi grain) and a banana
2 egg whites with a slice of 100% whole wheat toast
1 cup of cranberries with 2 tbsp of plain yogurt and 1 tsp of honey
Yoplait light yogurt (fruit flavors)
Fresh fruit salad
Low fat cottage cheese and any kind of fruit
Smoothie:blend yogurt and your favorite fruit

Healthy breakfast bars that are high in fiber and low in sugar (i.e. Kashi bars) are okay when there is not enough time to prepare breakfast. But, try to prepare a homemade healthy breakfast as often as possible."

So there you have it ladies! Hopefully that will help you start your day with a healthy breakfast so that you can kick start you body's metabolism and be one step closer to that hot and spicy body!

*Flavor Tip- Get up a few minutes early or on the weekend when you have extra time, prepare a healthy breakfast in bed! Take turns feeding eachother and for extra spice & flavor get in a "quickie" calorie burn...if you know what I mean!

Till death to us part...married people live longer!

There are numerous studies that show that married individuals tend to live longer than singles! Despite the many stigmas often associated with married life...its dull, its boring, wives are nags and so on & so on! FINALLY, a point for the married team!

The data affiliated with many of these studies has produced multiple theories as to why married people tend to live longer. Emotional stability and regular sex are among the contributing factors. Emotionally, married people tend to be less stressed because they have a partner to share obligations with. That stability also translates into other aspects of life, regulating sleep, eating and unhealthy recreational activities. Your spouse will often hold you accountable, because they question and discourage unhealthy behaviours and encourage you to seek professional attention from doctors or other health professionals as needed.

There are also many known health benefits from sex! A married person, has regular access.

Did you know that sex...

- relives stress (Many hormones are released into your body causing feelings of euphoria and contentment. Simply taking your mind off your troubles and engaging in love making will take away stress and stress can aggravate and contribute to serious illness.)

- boosts immunity (It is cold and flu season and while you may getting in your vitamin C, don't forget you IgA! Having sex weekly can increase the antibody immunoglobulin, also referred to as IgA, protects against cold & flu.)

- burns calories (Good sex can be a workout. So if you can't make it to the gym, don't worry. You can get a good calorie burn in the bedroom!)

- improves cardiovascular health (Sex gets that heart pumping and blood flowing! Which is a great thing for your cardiovascular health!)

- boosts self esteem & self image (When you have a regular sex partner you often become more body conscious and begin taking better care of yourself. The pride you feel can produce a stronger sense of confidence. Physical touch and love improves your intimacy and bond with your mate, resulting in a more positive outlook on life in general. )

- produces orgasm (A hormone called DHEA released in the body has been linked to longer life expectancy. Studies suggest that at least 2 orgasm a week, increase DHEA in the body. )

- reduces pain & headaches (No more excuses that "you have a headache" because sex will knock that right out! Again, hormones releases produced during sex will dull and relieve pain. YES, that includes a headache.)

- helps you sleep better (Ladies, this comes as know surprise! Its not that you just have the special touch, its a scientific fact. After love making, right when you are ready to talk or cuddle up, hes out like a light! Don't get mad, sleep is good for him and you too.)

Continue to work on keeping your marriage Spicy...it could add years to your life!

Healthy Eats - Fruit Smoothies!

"Dietitian's tip"
Orange juice is an excellent source of potassium, a mineral that helps to regulate blood pressure and cell function. If you want to substitute a banana instead of the orange juice, the potassium content is similar.
By Mayo Clinic staff

Serves 2
Ingredients
1 cup fat-free vanilla frozen yogurt
3/4 cup fat-free milk
1/4 cup frozen orange juice concentrate

* Spicy tip -Add fresh fruit of your choice (Such as banana, strawberries or pineapple. Be creative!)

Directions
In a blender, combine the frozen yogurt, milk and orange juice concentrate. Blend until smooth.
Pour into tall frost-chilled glasses and serve immediately.

Nutritional Analysis(per serving)

Calories 160

Cholesterol 4mg
Protein 10g
Sodium120mg
Carbohydrate 30g

Fiber 0.5g

Patassium 700mg
Calcium 323mg

Total fat trace
Saturated fat trace
Monounsaturated fat trace

*Nutrional Analysis does not include addition of fresh fruit.

Weight a Minute Monday!

We can't discuss being fit & healthy without first, acknowledging the ladies who participated in our Femme Fatale Fitness class! Thank you ladies for another great and Spicy fitness experience! Divas Inc. offers the session every Sunday...so if you missed it, or if you want to attend again, check them out! Ladies, whatever your workout of choice, lets keep getting physical!

Last week we posted of lists of tips to live by, from our expert, Dalana Myers. That list, although a pretty short list, included some critical dos and don'ts to achieve a lifestyle change that will help you loose weight and keep it off! Over the next few weeks we will analyze and breakdown each item on the list. Starting with #1...Never Skip Breakfast!

We know you have heard, "breakfast is the most important meal of the day", but its true! It can be a challenge to eat breakfast EVERYDAY, but you can do it. It will require you change your way of thinking and make you weight loss and fitness goals a priority! If we gave ourselves and our bodies the same level of importance we do getting to work on time, or getting the kids off to school (any and everything else under the sun) - maybe we could find the time. Frankly, we have to start making ourselves a priority so that we can do all of those other things. Eating breakfast everyday jumps starts your metabolism and fuels your body to get you going. Skipping breakfast also causes your body to send messages to your brain that cause other problems in your body, low energy and irritability!

Do you eat breakfast everyday? What are your favorite things to eat for breakfast?

Dalana is going to going to share with us some healthy options for breakfast...so stay tuned!

Spicy Wifey - Jennifer Hudson!

Contrary to the popular misconception- you do NOT have to be MARRIED to be a Spicy Wifey! Our mission is to create more popular perceptions of marriage and encourage women to invigorate themselves and their relationships. If you believe in our mission, or you are an aspiring Spicy Wifey - YOU ARE A PART OF THE SPICY WIFEY MOVEMENT!

With that being said...The beautiful Jennifer Hudson (recently engaged to David Otunga) certainly qualifies! We love Jennifer because she is in love with her family and works to achieve balance, as we all do. New Mommy,Jennifer, has overcome tremendous adversity, tragedy and faced intense media scrutiny because of weight and still she shines!

We first fell in love with her on American Idol. Then she wowed us with her Academy Award winning performance in "Dream Girls and Jennifer has a CD in stores, featuring the hit song "Spotlight"! Just a few highlights...and her career is just beginning. AMAZING!

Jennifer Hudson is so well liked because she seems more like your girlfriend than an Academy Award winning, celebrity A Lister! Spicy Wifey Co-Founder Quintessence A. Patterson, recently spent some time with Jennifer at a recent photo shoot! "Jennifer is a doll, she is warm and yes, so real!" , said our Co-Founder.

We put together a Spicy Wifey Prize Pack especially for Jennifer! We know she will wear it well!

You too can win a Spicy Wifey Prize Pack in our Flavor of the Month Contest - send us your love stories, favorite recipes and share your tips on how you keep your relationship spicy! We will select a Wifey each month as our winner. Submission can be sent to email@spicywifey.com.

We cant wait to see wedding pictures, congratulations Jennifer & David!

Bring Sexy Back...Femme Fatale Fitness is back!

ATTENTION LADIES OF THE METRO ATLANTA AREA!

Join Spicy Wifey in conjunction with Divas Inc. for Femme Fatale Fitness - Sunday, January 17th at 4:30pm at the ADC Complex in Midtown Atlanta.

Ladies this is an amazing full body workout! Feel sexy and feel the burn.

The class has 3 segments:

- Diva Drill (intense cardio warm up)

- Stiletto Aerobics (choreographer will teach a heart pumping routine)

- Pole Fitness (flex, tone and shape muscles while learning sexy pole techniques)

Femme Fatale Fitness is a fun and sexy workout! Bring a friend and get your sexy on together!

Register online at get a free gift at the class @http://www.spicywifey.com/!

Healthy Eats - Vegetable Salsa

Vegetable Salsa!

http://www.mayoclinic.com/

Dietitian's tip:
"Store-bought salsa can have as much as 400 milligrams of sodium in 1/4 cup. This thick vegetable salsa has much less sodium — 150 milligrams in 1/2 cup. If you prefer hotter salsa, add 1/2 to 1 tablespoon finely chopped jalapeno peppers."
By Mayo Clinic staff

Serves 16
Ingredients
1 cup diced zucchini
1 cup chopped red onion
2 red bell peppers, seeded and diced
2 green bell peppers, seeded and diced
4 tomatoes, diced
2 garlic cloves, minced
1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
2 teaspoons sugar
1/4 cup lime juice
1 teaspoon salt

Directions
Wash vegetables and prepare as directed. In a large bowl, combine all the ingredients. Toss gently to mix. Cover and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes to allow the flavors to blend.


Nutritional Analysis (per serving)
Serving size: 1/2 cup
Calories 20

Cholesterol 0mg
Protein 1g

Sodium 150mg
Carbohydrate 5g

Fiber 1g
Total fat 0g

Potassium 174 mg
Saturated Fat 0g

Calcium 12 mg
Mono unsaturated fat 0g

Weight a Minute Monday!

We are 10 days into the New Year! Have you fallen off the diet train yet? Or does that crash diet have you to weak to exercise? As promised, we are going to bring you practical tips and recipes to help you achieve your goals to get fit, improve your health, loose the weight and keep it off!

Last week we introduced our expert, Dalana Myers, who is a Certified Health Education Specialists. As we move forward, we have established that fad and crash diets are not the way to go. Especially if you are desire long lasting results!

TO LOOSE WEIGHT, you must burn more calories than you take in. Simple science!

But you cannot simply cut calories by eating less. Its important to eat quality calories so your body can function the way its suppose to. That's why low calorie crash diets and yo-yo dieting is unhealthy and potentially dangerous. Eating a variety of foods to maintain a balanced diet is key, accompanied with regular exercise and results will follow. Exercising will help you burn unwanted calories and fat. Not to mention the many health benefits of exercise such as improving your heart health, blood circulation and stamina.

Our expert has a few simple tips to live by...

* Never skip breakfast

* Eat 3 meals per day and 2 small snacks in between. Or 4 to 6 small meals a day.

* Exercise a minimum of 3 times a week.

* Know what foods to avoid.

(high fructose corn syrup, enriched flour, excessive sugar and trans and/or saturated fats- to name a few)

These tips will be our foundation. And yes, these are things we know and have heard before...

SO LETS APPLY IT and WATCH WHAT HAPPENS THIS TIME!

Through our Weight a minute Monday Series, we will elaborate on these basic tip and break each one down. So be sure to check in weekly. And of course, comment - leave questions for Dalana, stories of progress or challenges because we are on this journey together!

Spicy Wifey - Victoria Rowell!

As we strive to inspire and empower you in the New Year, Spicy Wifey will bring you stories of "Real" Spicy Wifeys! Each week, we will highlight Spicy Wifeys and couples we all know and love. Be sure to let us know what your thoughts are too!

Victoria Rowell

Actress, dancer, activist, philanthropist, New York Times Best Selling Author, Mother and Spicy Wifey is best known for her role as Drucilla Winters on CBS daytime soap, The Young & the Restless.

You may have heard, the blogs are buzzing with talk of Victoria joining the cast of the Bravo hit series, The Real Housewives of Atlanta. Well, her addition to cast would add a healthy dash of flavor to the show! MARRIED housewife Victoria, successfully balances career and family, cooks and drives a pick up truck- can you believe it?

Victoria has been busy with a successful writing career since her departure from The Young & the Restless. Her novel, All the Women Who Raised Me is a New York Times Best Seller, details her experience growing up in foster care. Her newest piece, Diary of a Soap Opera Diva is

pre-selling on Amazon.com and is selling like crazy! Book tour coming soon to a city near you!

Victoria recently married mixed media artist, Radcliffe Bailey! They are often seen together on the red carpet and in their communities. So the story goes...the couple was introduced at an arts festival by LaTonya Richardson (wife of Samuel Jackson) and the two have been inseparable ever since.

Together, this Spicy couple is bringing flavor to the married lifestyle!

Weight a minute!

Before you start that crash or fad diet take a minute to rethink how you will approach your weight loss resolutions this year! True, some fad diets do work...temporarily. But you will gain the weight back and usually a few extra pounds with them. This year, lets take a different approach! Lets loose the weight and keep if off, FOR GOOD!

Start your week off with Spicy Wifey and together we will reach our weight loss goals! We will learn how to eat to live, be fit and loose the weight. Each week our blog will provide information that will guide us along the way.

We are excited to bring you tips on eating healthy and loosing weight from our expert, Dalana Myers! She is a certified Health Education Specialist who has a passion for women's health issues. She will keep us focused on being healthy and creating habits that will make loosing weight simple and practical.

We will also explore some alternative fitness and eating lifestyles such as those of Vegans and Vegetarians. Speaking of alternative fitness...if you are in the Atlanta area sweat and feel the burn at our Femme Fatale Fitness Session! Its a sexy, full body workout that will give you the Spicy body you have always wanted!
Space is limited so register TODAY at www.spicywifey.com! (Click "shopspicywifey") Session takes place on January 17th, 4:30pm - Midtown, Atlanta!

CONTEST TIME! Are you a real Spicy Wifey?

Spicy Wifey is kicking off the New Year with a contest! We are looking for REAL Spicy Wifeys that want to share their story, spicy tips and recipes!

Our mission is EMPOWERMENT and we know that through real life stories we can learn, grow and inspire one another to invigorate ourselves and our relationships!

So ladies, share your love & relationship stories, ways you add spice to your relationship, your favorite cooking tips and recipes - together with a picture and you could be selected to be our featured Flavor of the Month! Your story will be featured on our blog, site and newsletter. You will also win a Spicy Wifey Prize Pack!

Email your submissions to email@spicywifey.com!

By submitting this information, you are consenting to participate in our contest. Therefore allowing us to use the information and photos you submit. Submission, no way implies you are a guaranteed winner. Winners will be contacted directly by a Spicy Wifey staff member.