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I am not good at working out. Yoga never seemed to be my thing, and now I have a new baby to take care of.

And that’s exactly why I wanted to give Gaiam’s new video subscription service, GaiamTV.com, a try.

After one month of using the service (OK, to be honest, my workout routine was pretty sporadic), I trimmed my waistline by 1.5 inches and my hips by 3 inches, and I lost 1 lb. of stubborn baby weight. I can only imagine what the results would have been if I had been more consistent.

I was skeptical that this sort of thing wouldn’t appeal to me for the reasons mentioned above. But after giving it a go, I think new moms like me are ideal subscribers. Here’s why:

For a  quick-and-easy side dish with a kick, sauté up this healthy Mediterranean broccoli recipe from the Gaiam Café kitchen. For a slightly different take, try adding the broccoli as a topping to pizza before cooking, then drizzle with the yogurt sauce before serving.

Serves 4 to 6

Broccoli ingredients:

• 1 head of broccoli, cut into bite-sized pieces

When I got married, I somehow assumed that some dormant gene would kick in, enabling me to stock my kitchen with everything needed to get wholesome dinners on the table, with one weekly trip to the supermarket. I thought that coupon-clipping and food budgeting would suddenly become second nature. And just like in my childhood, we’d eat around the dinner table as a family—not huddled over take-out containers on the couch, reruns of Scrubs playing on the TV.