Days of our Lives star and host of The Biggest Loser, Alison Sweeney (Sami, DOOL) visits the set of the Emmy Award-winning syndicated daytime talk show THE DOCTORS on Wednesday, May 30. The mother of two shares her insider secrets on juggling motherhood, a busy television career, training for a marathon and getting bikini-body ready for her April 2012 Shape Magazine cover shoot.

Sweeney explains that shaking up a workout is key and demonstrates simple, yet effective exercises that can be done at any level outside (i.e. without a gym membership).

But that's not all...

By Mark Edward Wilows

"It's like coming back home" is how Charles Shaughnessy (Shane Donovan) describes his recent visit back to Days of our Lives. "It really is! It was like a big family reunion, and just great to see everyone and old friends as well. In some ways it is like I never left. A part of me has always been there."

Shaughnessy returned back for a 10- day stint resuming his role as an ISA Agent. "They (the Days of our Lives powers that be) called and asked -- do I want to come diffuse a bomb? I was like...why of course!" he jokes.

In the 1980's Shaughnessy was known as one-half of a soaps "Super Couple" (along with his then TV wife, Patsy Peace (Kim Brady). It was a magical storyline and they even had their own theme song "Friends and Lovers," sung by Carl Anderson and Gloria Loring (ex-Liz) of Days of our Lives. He was a member of the Days canvas for eight years.

Now down to the nitty gritty...