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“Jumpstart YOUR metabolism with a wheaties breakfast!” Eating cereal boosts your metabolism! It must be true – it’s right there on the box! PS> Where is their mother?! I’m doing everything right and it’s not working! If you have ever thought the aforementioned – usually cried in paroxysms of grief after an unfortunate run-in with …

Read more “The Great Metabolism Race: How Fast is Yours? And Does it Even Matter? [Research]”

All pictures used with permission from Reasons to be Fit Finish this sentence: “I choose to be fit because…” For me, my “reason to be fit” started as a way to deal with my past as a sexual assault victim. After a protracted court case and my ex-boyfriend was convicted and finally sent to prison, …

Read more “My Top 5 Reasons To Be Fit: What’s Yours? [Plus 7 foods that do weird things to your body]”

“The hardest thing I’ve ever been through.” “The most important decision of my life.” “My life’s work.” Memoir surfing the other day I came across these three declarations in a book written by a female scientist who is a rising star in her field. If you’ve read a memoir then the fact that it contained …

Read more “Would You Say Losing Weight is the “Hardest, Most Important” Thing You’ve Ever Done? [The weight we give to weight loss]”

This is exactly how I encourage my kids to run. Make momma proud! Tripping people is a child’s number one God-given gift. Their abilities to shoot a slingshot, creatively mock their siblings and even hold their own adorably bobbly head up may be latent but every baby is born knowing how to take an adult …

Read more “Do Children Belong in Adult Races?”

You can’t swing a cat in a barn these days without hitting some new report out on the beleaguered dairy industry. Not that I’m endorsing cat swinging. Or swinging objects in barns. In fact, I can’t even endorse dairy because – have you heard? – 60% of adults can’t digest milk. And the bad news …

Read more “The Dairy Dilemma: The Latest Research on Milk, Mood and Inflammation [Is dairy causing my panic attacks?]”

Me getting my beauty rest… Stuff I Did Yesterday: – Shopped for a metallic shirt without sequins. (Didn’t find one but got a be-sequined version anyhow because it’s always better to err on the side of too sparkly.) – Googled “foods that do weird things to your body” after another after-beet bowel movement that makes …

Read more “The Importance of the Rest Day (And 5 Tips to Do it Right)”

“I eat cupcakes and I don’t work out! But if you ask me in 10 years, I’m going to regret answering that way now. I don’t even drink water, I’m terrible! I’m 24 now, so I guess I’ve been very, very lucky that it doesn’t show that I like to eat. I should probably start working …

Read more “What’s Your Biggest Health Regret? [Plus my top 5 weirdest]”

There are so many ways to be creepy and awkward in a gym – heck that’s half the reason I love them so much – but there’s one particular situation that has me stymied of late. (Seriously, I’m embarrassed to admit how much existential angst this caused me yesterday). The problem is this: The double …

Read more “Gym Etiquette Question: Double Drinking Fountains [Yes I’m serious]”