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Half-price massages! Discounted movie tickets! Eighty-percent off sky diving! Groupon, LivingSocial and other “deal of the day” sites have taken the Internet (and our inboxes) by storm over the past year, with millions of people getting great deals on everything from services to entertainment to locally grown alpaca fur. While sky diving on the cheap …

Read more “Groupon: The Hottest New Fitness Trend? [Plus, Your Fetus on Facebook!]”

Well that’s a bummer. The leaves changing color, the nip in the air, the never ending back-to-school nights with their ten-page supply lists are all signs of the impending season change, sure, but nothing announces the advent of fall in suburbia like the pitter-patter of little soccer cleats across a field. (That would be football …

Read more “Sports: Do You Play to Win or Just Have Fun?”

image credit: Natalie Dee “How do you do it all?” is a quesetion I get asked a lot. This usually makes me fall on my (dirty) floor laughing as I blurt, “Not well!” I’ve become a master of making easy things look difficult thereby making me look cooler, more talented, and possibly possessing 7 arms. …

Read more “How to Find Your Motivation [Or at least your dirty socks]”

Some articles I research, like the one on when it’s appropriate to let kids use public restrooms alone, scar me for life. (My boys are going to have to deal with me standing with one foot in the men’s room door and hollering at them to sing the ABC song while they pee until they’re …

Read more “Favorite New Fit Trend: Runaway Brides [Plus bloopers from beach workout photoshoot!]”

Broadway! Times Square! Greenwich Village! The World Trade Center (ish)! Best cheesecake ever! A dead rat the size of a cat!! This weekend was a whirlwind and thanks to a flight delayed by bad weather (seriously, after everything this country has been through this past year with crazy snow, wind and heat you decide to …

Read more “5 Ways New Yorkers Stay Healthy (My first-ever girl’s trip!)”

This pic was taken during our photoshoot for an upcoming Shape Magazine slide show (Hint: Hip Hop is involved! Sooo fun!! Shh!). My first thought when I saw it was – and I’m just going to say this because I know you’re thinking it – “Huh, Al and I look like Turbo Jennie’s sex slaves!” …

Read more “Bad Things That Are Actually Good For You: Tanning?! [New research says Vitamin D deficiency may be deadlier than skin cancer]”

Dirty gym floors. Public pools (that my child may or may not have pooped in causing the whole place to be evacuated like Jaws was let loose). Restroom floors (the time that my child locked himself in a stall and I had to shimmy under the door). My point: My kids are disgusting. Kidding! My …

Read more “Are You a Lotion Junkie Too? [bodycology Review & Giveaway!]”

If the zucchini turds, nasty banana bread and other delicacies I’ve cooked haven’t yet made you glad that you’ve never come over for dinner, last night’s dinner should do the trick! (I like to discourage people from visiting – that way I can keep pretending that I can’t see the ketchup hand prints my kids …

Read more “Adventures in Healthy Cooking: Liver, Heart and Kidneys [mini-experiment!]”

Remember how Janetha of Meals and Moves organized this totally amazing on-line auction of all your fave fitness/foodie stuff to benefit Susan and her fight against her cancer? Well the auction is live now! Check out all the great offerings on Janetha’s blog! There are some seriously amazing things on there like plane tickets and …

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“Just eat less and move more.” It’s the standard advice given for weight loss and one of the first “rules” of healthy living that I ran afoul of. It didn’t work that way for me. To which adherents usually explain, rather testily, that it’s math and you can’t argue with math. “It’s calories in versus …

Read more “Harvard Says Calories In/Calories Out Model Is Flawed [So what do we use instead?]”