The great thing about having an ever-expanding waistline is that it makes it so much easier to navel gaze. There’s just something about pregnancy that makes me turn inward. Many of my friends have noticed it, wondering aloud if I’m okay (yep!) and when Old Charlotte is going to come back (better give me at …
photo credit: Dina Goldstein I’m 31 today. Not 29 for the third time. Not “a woman of a certain age.” And I’m certainly not “the new 20.” I’m 31 and I’m totally okay with that. I was not in a very good place when I was 20. You couldn’t pay me to be 17 or …
I didn’t know there was a problem with my nose until I was 24. Really and truly. I walked around this planet for 24 years wearing that thing in front of my face and I never once noticed anything awry in the mirror. But I learned better that fateful spring morning. A new mom, I …
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 …
I am the only person I know who regularly gets money in the mail and hates it. The envelope gives it away. If it was post-marked Publisher’s Clearing House and was the size of an ice cream truck I might feel differently but the letter today is from the State Department of Corrections, Offender Obligation …
Comic Credits: Natalie Dee Swine flu. Waterboarding. My insane desire to try aerial yoga. There are many Important Topics I could blog about and yet what I want to know today is: Does this blog make my butt look big?I originally started fit blogging because when you are as obsessed with something as I am …
My friend E is a medical miracle. Several weeks ago she was struck down by a bacteria that on Friday made her feel flu-ish and by Monday had her in a coma that the doctors said she would not come out of. Emergency surgery that required a team of 12 doctors, several near misses in …
As some of you surmised from the comments on yesterday’s post, changes are afoot here at The Great Fitness Experiment and not just of the Jillian Michaels-inspired variety. I wasn’t quite ready to blog about this yet but due to a comment I left on my friend KatieO’s site (she of the fabulous Sister Skinny) …
I read the whole thing in one day. I fell asleep reading it. And then I even dreamed about it. (In my dream I was interrogating Jillian about all the questions she left unanswered.) I posted yesterday that I think Master Your Metabolism by Jillian Michaels is the best health/nutrition book I’ve read in the …
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Rihanna – she of the battered by Chris Brown fame (What? She’s a singer too??) – recently got some new ink done: Lots of people are questioning the aesthetics of the tiny tattoos but even more are asking what it all means. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say it’s pretty …
