Holidays can be scary times for people with food issues. For many years I spent the run-up to certain holidays panicking about what I was going to eat (or not eat) at home, at friends’ houses, at parties, at restaurants, at the next Royal Wedding (Seriously, was Kate’s dress not gorgeous? Also, now I want …
There was some confusion yesterday in the comments of my post in regards to the story about my baby being in the hospital and me still in the most serious depths of my exercise addiction – let me be clear: That “baby” is now nearly 5 years old. No need to worry about me, that …
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“Cherry Cherry Boom Boom” “One Hot Mess” “My Buns Hurt” and the strangely poignant “Somewhere I Belong” – One of my favorite things about Bodyrock.tv besides their seriously hardcore workouts is all the fun names that Freddy and Zuzana give them. The names generally having nothing to do with the actual workout (imagine my disappointment …
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“I bet you’re the kind of girl who doesn’t really get a long with other girls.” He said it so coolly that my high-school self immediately knew the correct answer. “Oh yeah, all my best friends are boys,” I said obligingly. That wasn’t even remotely true but even my then-self knew that we women are supposed …
First, the big news: Leslie Goldman, author of The Locker Room Diaries and erstwhile blogger is back! Years ago when I first started blogging, Leslie’s blog The Weighting Game was one of my daily faves. Her wit, her honesty, her lack of fear in writing about bodily fluids – I loved her! She shuttered her blog …
The “Wicked Wiper” is supposedly the ab move to end all ab moves. According to Women’s Health magazine, they couldn’t find a single fitness model who could do it (for the photoshoot they had a guy hold up the model’s butt and then they photoshopped him out!). It has since become my personal quest to …
One onerous cross-county trip, somewhere around mile Nebraska, my husband invented a fun little car game. Turning to me with a straight face he said, “Plastic: pro or con?” “Excuse me?” I said and threw some rice cakes behind me, hoping they’d land somewhere in the vicinity of the kids. “Plastic. Are you for it …
The Cleavage Corner: it’s where we banish inappropriately dressed Gym Buddies who are having a hard time keeping their lady bits to themselves. Yes, it’s a real corner on our weight floor and yes, we actually use it. The Cleav Corner was established one day when I was testing out a new running skirt …
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“Tell me I’m not angry for no reason!!!” was the subject line on an e-mail from Gym Buddy Lindsey. I tried to imagine what would be so upsetting as to require the use of a double negative and extraneous punctuation. That it continued with “I’m so pissed!!!!!!!!!!” only made me more intrigued. (And more entertained …
Read more “Selling Weight Loss to Children [Are kids the next casualties in the diet wars?]”
First, a HUGE thank you to all of you who commented on my new site design and checked out Ryan’s hilarious and awesome blog. (Also, thanks to those of you who e-mailed me about bugs with the new site – we’ve fixed most of them but we’re still working on getting the old comments imported …
