Win it! To celebrate these great coupons, we have a Healthy Essentials giveaway bundle for one lucky reader.

Be sure to redeem these Healthy Essentials coupons from Johnson & Johnson by January 15th, 2012 – if you didn’t save one from your local newspaper,  you can also find them online online at www.healthyessentials.com - it will provide up to $185 in savings on all your family’s favorite, tried-and-true products from Johnson & Johnson Family of Consumer Companies.

With fave products like –  AVEENO®, NEUTROGENA®, SPLENDA®, Johnson’s®, BAND-AID®, LISTERINE® .

Plus, for every coupon redeemed between January 8^th and January 15^th, Johnson & Johnson Family of Consumer Companies will donate one meal to FEEDING AMERICA®, up to 1,000,000 meals. Supporting families in need is now as easy as stocking up and saving on the products your family uses every day!

Enter to win by leaving a comment below by January 31st, 2012. Daily entries allowed.  Your prize will include the below items from Johnson & Johnson. 

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My husband and I are literally obsessed with Trop50 – it tastes amazing and we can not buy it fast enough for how much we drink.  I’m amazed that it is 50% less sugar and calories too!

I think others feel the same as I’m often going to the grocery store or Target to find myself  buying the absolute last bottle of Trop50 on the shelf – and if there is 3 or4 jugs left – I’ll buy them all- as I’m finding my local stores don’t stock enough of this yummy juice beverage to keep up with our thirst for it.

So what’s your New Year’s Resolution? Share it here for your free $1 off Trop50 coupon. Submit by Jan 31st, 2012.

My resolutions are posted below…. and my tips to myself for keeping them!

Trop50 True Resolutions celebrates the real reasons behind New Year’s resolutions. Share your secret motivation and you’ll earn a coupon for $1 off Trop50f or yourself and 50¢ off coupons for up to 50 of your friends. You can even submit incognito with a fierce disguise. Bonus: Whether you submit a resolution or not, you can also enter a sweepstakes to win a $1000 gift card.

Just hop on to the Trop50 True Resolutions Facebook page to submit your New Year’s Resolution and earn your $1 off Trop50 coupon. 

So what’s my resolution? I’m resolving to continue to take better care of myself and continue to try to improve my fitness level. I’m a former athlete and as a Mom keeping up with the level of intensity for working out has been difficult. As a Mom, it’s so easy to worry about everyone else and often neglect our own personal health.  - from the foods I eat, amount of liquid I drink, to the number of days a week I exercise to scheduling those necessary doctor or dental appointments.

I resolve to stay on top of my own health while also making my own exercise a major priority. I know millions of Americans resolve to exercise more on the New Year but many fail to stick with it – I see this myself based on the number of people out for a run or at the gym the 1st week of the New Year versus any other time of the year.

So – my advice to myself – and to all of you – is that baby steps and setting a goal make a huge difference in the amount you work out. This worked great for me last year and I hope it will prove successful this year too.

Take Baby Steps: On those days I don’t want to go for a run – I tell myself just run 10 minutes around the block or 2 miles on the treadmill. 9 out of 10 times I’ll end up running more like 3 miles- and if not, I still exercised and went out for a run to get my blood flowing and fresh air into my lungs. I tell myself to do at least 25 sit ups – and when I do I usually end up doing at least 100. And if not, at least I did 25!

Sign up for a competitive race: This is awesome incentive to get you moving on those days you’d rather just read a book or it feels to cold to go outside. I’m signed up for the Feb 26th, 2012 Disney Princess Half Marathon – as I know this will keep me motivated during the hardest time of year – winter when it’s freezing and dark outside. So I can supplement runs outdoors with swimming, time on the treadmill or even a work out DVD but I’ll be motivated to stay in shape and keep my fitness up.

What are you exercise goals for the New Year? What other resolutions did you make?

Disclosure: This post was sponsored by Trop50. As always, all thoughts and opinions are my own.