Things would have gone better for me had I had one of these caps, I know it! Either you’re a swimmer or you’re not. False dichotomy though it may be, there is an easy test to see which camp you fall in. When someone tells you, “Let’s swim half a mile.” do you answer, “Sure! …
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I said I’d never do it. (Of course, I also said I wasn’t blogging anymore and apparently that means a one-month hiatus to my chatty self. I’m baaack. I don’t know how frequently but I have to have somewhere to post the pictures you KNOW I’m going to take during my CIRCUS AERIAL CLASS next …
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I don’t know what is more disturbing – that Satan is on this woman’s “to do” list or that the company advises you to mix deviled ham with peanut butter. Eat when you’re hungry. Stop when you’re satiated. It sounds so simple. So why can’t I do it?!? Then again Lindsay Lohan can’t stay away …
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And this is why your mom told you not to swallow your gum. Friday found me curled in the fetal position, succumbed to the dreaded body image double whammy. Chances are you’ve been there too. It’s the one-two punch of ill-fitting clothes and an unexplained jump on the scale. The upper cross to my jaw …
Admit it: Larry King is living out your dream right here. Larry King is my fitness muse. (There’s 6 words I bet you never thought you’d read.) This month found me breaking up with my cute new workout and before the ink was even dry on the gym schedule I already had my eye on …
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Embarrassment: My armpits are hairy. Part of it is because I am porcelain pale (that’s the nice person way of saying my friends call me Casper) with raven hair and while that sounds like a winning combo in romance novels, it’s more about 5 o’clock shadows – on my legs – in real life. But …
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Not all Japanese trends are worth following… um, ew. Kickin’ it old (as in grade) school style, today is opposite day here at GFE. And what is the exact opposite of me, a high-strung neurotic cynical young (I can still say that right?) American mom? How about a mellow, cheerful Okinawan centenarian! This month, my …
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I bet MacGyver did P90X. Just sayin’ It’s a good thing that our YMCA recently replaced the carpeting on the gym floor (I will leave you to ponder why there is carpet on the gym floor at all) because if it’s one thing P90X did well, it was make me eat carpet. I did dive …
It’s big, it’s bad, it PUTS THE X IN EXTREME!!! (It also puts the yelling into infomercials!) That’s right, after over a year of pleading from you guys, I’ve finally got a hold of a copy of P90X for a Great Fitness Experiment! At $140, this workout is a little out of my budget and …
In an effort to keep their large geriatric clientele happy, my YMCA has recently added a floor show for their morning entertainment. A show so gripping that it even tops Ellen. (Note: not really. Nobody can top Ellen. I just wanted to work that in here somehow to tell you to check out MizFit’s hilarious …
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