I can’t believe my good luck! Nothing says “good karma” like free stuff coming your way, right? I must’ve been awfully nice lately to make up for all my naughty because check this out: Free Pilates Reformer Class Have you ever seen those crazy-strappy-slidey contraptions in your gym? I have and I’ve been dying to …
As if carrying a squirmy watermelon with sharp heels for nine months (ten really, if you’re counting by weeks) wasn’t hard enough, now pregnant women are held to the impossibly skinny standards of the media as well. Any woman who has been pregnant in the last few years or so already knows exactly what I’m …
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There I was, bopping along and listening to my current guilty pleasure, My Chemical Romance (which is somewhat less guilty of a pleasure now that I’ve discovered that despite having hits like “Teenagers” the band members are all actually older than I am), when I came across an article which I can only call The …
So you love eating meat, right? But maybe you don’t love killing animals. Or maybe you’re a fan of the environment (what’s not to love?) and would like to cut down on your use of one of the biggest methane producers on the planet? Well, William Saletan has a modest proposal for you. Not that …
I teach high school students when I’m not acting as a human tissue for my children. And honestly, I’m not sure which of the two groups is more gullible. On one hand my 5-and-under kiddos still believe in Santa but on the other hand even they can spot a fake woman when placed at their …
So not only is our friend, Personal Trainer Andrew, smart, he’s also speedy! I just sent him the questions last night (thanks to those of you that e-mailed them to me!) and he replied promptly this morning. Here you all go! (And you can all thank me later for the picture. No, no, you don’t …
You’re not paranoid if they really are out to get you. Leslie of The Weighting Game (who makes me laugh so hard that I actually count it as a mini-workout) got me thinking today about restaurant food. This has typically be an area fraught with anxiety for me. Seriously, you’ve never seen overthinking unless you’ve …
Wow, who knew I even had enough readers to give something away?? It’s like I’m a real blog, ma! Anyhow, Andrew of Andrew’s Fitness (and a reader/commenter on here) has so kindly offered to take our Great Fitness Questions. Andrew is a personal trainer in the Charlotte (coincidence??) North Carolina area. PS> I’m sure he …
Hey all my most wonderful-est of readers! Do you have a fitness or health blog? I have just added a blogroll here and would love to check out your sites as well. Please leave me a comment with your addy! And hey – if you want to add me to yours as well, that would …
Um, duh. Why is this news, you ask? Because many of us seem to forget this simple fact. In our society, there is a real disconnect between the physical cues for hunger (growling stomach, salivation, heightened sense of smell etc.) and our eating habits (eating past fullness, eating just because it’s there, eating to relieve …
