Photo Credit Our society is warped. Twisted. A veritable fun-house of fat and thin mirrors when it comes to body image. We’re all well aware how the media accustoms us to starlets sylphlike on screen and sacks of bones in real life. Because the camera adds 15 pounds these days, you see. Even Kim Kardashian, …
If we’re going to be friends, there is something you should know: you must never, under any circumstances, give me a diet/nutrition book. Even if I ask you for it. First of all, I’ve probably read it. I’ve read them all. Or if I haven’t read it, I’ve read something very similar to it because …
Doing what I do here at The Great Fitness Experiment, one of the questions I get asked the most is “So which diet/exercise program is the best?” closely followed by the inevitable “And which one is the worst?” My answer is generally not what people are looking for: “Um, all of them.” See, the thing …
9 am on a Random Monday Morning. Gym Buddy Allison Calls. A: I have an idea. Let’s skip class today and go to the mall! me: Oooh, will you make me a mix tape too? And then maybe we can hold hands? A: Funny. I’m serious. Let’s play hooky from the gym. me: Um, mall …
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“Sancho!” I yelled, smiling so tightly that my cheeks hurt as I threw open my front door. “Charlotte! You’re even more beautiful in person!” He didn’t miss a beat, despite the fact that I’d just called him by his last name as if we were old college buddies. His name is actually Miguel Sancho, producer …
Here are the links to the video segments on ABC’s site: Healthy Food, Unhealthy Obsession: Pt. 1http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=5739648 Healthy Food, Unhealthy Obsession: Pt. 2http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=5739687 Shorter “In Touch” segment: http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=5757006 Here’s the link to the article on ABC’s site:http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Stossel/story?id=5735592&page=1 Thanks to everyone who watched me on 20/20 Friday night and for all the supportive comments you left! …
Remember this?? If you have nothing better to do with your Friday evening then check me out on 20/20 tonight on ABC. Just promise you’ll still love me in the morning;) And yeah, that’s how much warning they gave me.
I hate eating in public. And I say this fully realizing that many of you who read this have had occasion to eat with me. If I invite you over, to my home, things are not so hard for me. I have control over the menu, the ingredients, and the portions. I can even control …
Nicole Kidman. Halle Berry. Nicole Richie. Angelina Jolie. I can’t remember the last time any of these women were in the news for a movie they made but all have recently graced many magazine covers. For what? For being able to walk out of the maternity ward in their pre-pregnancy jeans which, natch, were tiny …
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The first thing you notice about The Anna Westin House in rural Minnesota, named for one of the saddest stories in eating disorder lore, is that you don’t notice it at all. Two light brick townhouses joined at the kitchen, it blends seamlessly in with the surrounding upper middle class neighborhood. From the green and …
