Liesel’s wearing socks with sandals! Hee! Thanks to my aunt who is disabled and watched The Sound of Music on permanent repeat, I grew up addicted to the Von Trapps and their be-curtained antics. My favorite song to belt at the top of my lungs was always “My Favorite Things.” (Lie: My secret favorite was …
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Eating with me can be a surreal experience, for so many reasons. My friends, in a testament to their generous ability to overlook my flaws, put up with a great deal from me with nary a comment. But a few days ago I was reminded of my, er, quirks when I had a friend over …
courtesy of the awesome Natalie Dee I had a panic attack on Friday. A full-fledged hyperventilating, heart pounding, must do deep yogic breathing to remedy it, panic attack. What brought this on? A death in the family? Another discipline note sent home from the school? Heidi Montag having another surgery (heaven help us all)?? Nope. …
You eat right and exercise. You get your flu shot. You even drink cod liver oil because it is the world’s best source of omega-3 fatty acids AND vitamin D, all together in one foul cocktail that you burp until lunch. Preventative care is your middle name. But there is one healthy living tip that …
This is probably not the best way to change up your workout. And also, don’t you wish it was a video?? When you are first starting out an exercise program, the weight machines look like medivel torture devices, you don’t know a hamstring curl from a cheese curl and the cardio machine buttons might as …
Whether it was some quirk of the Google gods or my Internet karma coming back to smack me for writing about Will Ferrell, a post I wrote about trying (and failing) the Every Other Day Diet has come back to haunt me. Some people get ghosts in chains that inspire them to buy large turkeys …
Armageddon has arrived. I know it is the end times because I currently have this sitting on my counter: That’s right, at this very moment, a brick of honest-to-goodness liposuctioned-from-swine lard that I purchased and brought into my own home of my own accord is sitting in my kitchen. I know, I can’t believe it …
Thanks to Laura for the pic! It was awkward. And I have no one to blame but myself. There I was, surrounded by several of my good friends who took me out to remind me that I am actually a person and not just a non-exercising baby incubator, when this happened: Friend: Oh you look …
Picture from bathing suit spread in Glamour Magazine Crystal Renn, whose story of going from normal teen to anorexic supermodel and then to number one plus-sized model in the world is an inspiration on so many levels. By all accounts (I haven’t read it yet but really want to!), her book Hungry is a well-written …
DiPlease read the preceding disclaimer first. Read the following at your own risk: “Outside of gastric bypass surgery, no system has ever produced any significant long-term weight loss. None. “ So says Megan McArdle, channeling Paul Campos and Gina Kolata, in her article “Thining Thin” in The Atlantic Monthly. She adds, “Every single study which …
