This would also be good reason for a freak-out. And now for an interruption in our regularly scheduled programming (I owe you a dissertation on poo, I know.) The following is an announcement from the Emergency Charlotte Broadcast System. This is not a test. I repeat, this is not a test. (And it’s not a …
Confession Number 1: Today I had a candy bar, sugary cereal, skittles, a Little Debbie cake, dried mangoes, jelly beans (thanks Gym Buddy Mike!), and teddy grahams. Oh yeah, and a giant chewy SweeTart. I may as well have main-lined the sugar and saved my teeth the dentistry. In my defense the teddy grahams were …
Nothing says fun like taking your 5-year-old in for his kindergarten checkup, i.e. The Checkup That Requires Shots. (Bonus points for bringing along a tantruming 2-year-old who is missing his nap!) So it was in this frame of mind that I was looking for a little diversion, magazine style. My choices were the regional magazine, …
You can thank Reader Forest for this little gem. Hope you weren’t eating! Welcome to Dueling Diets! I’m your host, Crazy Charlotte. Today I’ll be pitting the Primal Blueprint a la Mark Sisson against the Engine 2 Diet a la Rip Esselstyn, all as part of my “Striving for Perfection” Experiment this month. I’m going …
What do you suppose that a burly, buffed-out Superman in a helmet and oxygen tank eats? If your answer has anything to do with a 16-oz porterhouse in the firehouse then you don’t know the firefighters from Engine 2. Rip Esselstyn, a former elite triathlete turned firefighter, is on a mission to educate you on …
There are many good reasons to hire a personal trainer but are their looks one of them? Paul “PJ” James, a personal trainer in Australia, wants to find out by going from “hunk to chunk” and back again in an effort to empathize with his clients and answer this question for fitness professionals everywhere. The …
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For the record, I consider Alice in Wonderland a memoir. Oh, ohm already. This concludes February’s Great Mediation Experiment and despite the placid front, it’s been a doozie. It ended in a good place with me discovering that meditation is a far more powerful tool than I previously ever gave it credit for. It helped …
103. 20. Those two numbers have haunted my every waking moment for the past three days. Even though I have a known weakness for numbers – body fat percentage! max reps! weight! calories! IP addresses! (xkcd, I love you!) – the tenacity of these two little numbers in my mind has surprised even me. Every …
If you think my food quirks are weird, you should try buying me a drink. Truly, it’s a wonder I still have friends that will be seen with me in public places any more. Gym Buddy Paul found this out the hard way the other day at a TurboKick social gathering (that’s right – we’re …
Anyone curious as to what happens to the male anatomy when running in sub-zero temps? Sorry, can’t help you. How about what to do if an adorably squishy-wishy koala bear wanders into your back yard? Again, I have no idea. Even things that you’d think I’d know something about, like CPR – I am actually …
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