Craggy Pits: The #1 Downside to Lifting Weights [All I want for Christmas is laser hair removal]

This will be my next option. As I get older I’ll just call it Bride of Frankenstein. Weight lifting builds bone density. Weight lifting increases strength and power. Weight lifting burns fat all day long. Weight lifting makes you look tougher than Chuck Norris at Comic Con. Oh sure, everyone always talks about the benefits …

Where Do You Draw The Line Between Having Drive and Being Driven? [Jillian Michaels’ Fiasco Answers All the Wrong Questions]

 Nature’s Metabolic Booster Supplement: Dark chocolate covered jalapenos! Your insides will be positively volcanic! (And also possibly parts of your outside, like your anus.) So, did you hear there was A Thing on The Biggest Loser last week? No, not “the Thing” (although there’s a show I would watch!) but A Thing That Happened. In fact, …

The Back To Sleep Campaign: Coming to a Grown-Up Bed Near You! [Research tries to answer the age old question of sleep positions]

Sleeping is my jam. I don’t want to brag or anything but I’m a champion sleeper and always have been*. (Are there extreme sleeping contests like there are extreme eating contests? I’m not sure what that would look like – hanging in a climbing tent off the face of Half Dome? – but I’d be …

My 9 Favorite Weirdo Frugal Health Tips [Plus One I Definitely Do NOT Recommend]

 Don’t laugh. I have actually made all my kids share a fork before. If only to give them something good to complain about me when they get older. Today I had to feign shock and embarrassment. Thanks to my slightly nutty ways, this happens more than you’d think – usually when I do something I …

Do You Care What “Plus Sized” Is Called? [Would a dress by any other name still look as cute?]

This is Robyn Lawley: She’s stunningly gorgeous (obviously). She’s a model (no surprise there). She’s an advocate for body positivity (yay!). Oh, and she’s “plus sized.” (Wait, what??) It’s been said so many times that it’s nearly become rote in conversations about fashion but I think it bears repeating that plus-sized models are not plus-sized …

Adventures in PMS: My Glowing Green Smoothie Debacle [The sheen of nausea counts as glowing, right??]

A honeycrisp apple approximately the size of Jelly Bean’s head. Surely if any piece of produce could imbue me with super bloat-repelling powers it would be this magnificent beast! Truth: I have one of those period tracker apps on my phone. I’d like to say it’s just more evidence of my hysterical white lady hypochondriac …

Lululemon founder explains the problem with falling apart yoga pants: Your body. And seatbelts. [Dear Chipper, Thanks For Helping Me Quit Lululemon!]

 Which is why you should just strive to be unhappy. There’s a reason “shooting the moon” is a winning hand. Duh. More wise (ahem) words from Lululemon below. Dear Chip Wilson, Can I call you Chipper? ‘Cause I really want to. It sounds so cute – reminds me of Chipmunks. And wood chippers. But not …

I Had My Own “Touching Strangers” Moment! What would you do if a strange woman cupped your face in her hands?

 (c) Richard Renaldi “Oh, it hurts.” At first read you might imagine the woman – a stranger in all senses – grasping her chest (or arm or foot), wincing at the embarrassment of Pain in Public. On second read you might imagine the woman saying it in dismay, as if she were the cause of …

What If Obesity Is the Symptom Not the Disease? [The Research Answer to the Question of Whether You Can Be “Healthy Obese”]

Dr. Peter Attia, like many new doctors, thought he had this whole healthy living thing figured out. So much so that when a woman came into his ER one night in 2006 with uncontrolled type II diabetes and needed a foot amputation, he had nothing but “bitter contempt” for her, for allowing herself to get …