But she can’t make me dinner. That pretty much sums up my reaction to June’s Jillian Michaels’ Making the Cut experiment. The FoodI have weird taste. I admit that. But tastes issues aside, her food plan sucked. Problemo numero uno: the insanely low daily calorie allotment. She expected me to not only wake up every …
We gonna party like it’s my birthday… I’m 30 today!! Or, as my dad likes to remind me, I’m officially part of The Establishment. Yipee! Coming Monday: End of Jillian Michaels (the experiment, not the woman. At least I hope she’s okay. If she turns up dead I had nothing to do with it. Nothing, …
The scene: Ten women seated around a conference table. Cameras and microphones recorded our every word and gesture. Diet paraphernalia was scattered around like so much detritus. Six obese women faced four thin ones. We eyed each other warily across water bottles, coke cans and a plate of mostly untouched cookies. Two older, very overweight …
Confession Number 1: Today I had a candy bar, sugary cereal, skittles, a Little Debbie cake, dried mangoes, jelly beans (thanks Gym Buddy Mike!), and teddy grahams. Oh yeah, and a giant chewy SweeTart. I may as well have main-lined the sugar and saved my teeth the dentistry. In my defense the teddy grahams were …
To any of you who are or ever have been offended by my “funny” pics that I post on this blog. Sometimes I let my sense of humor impede my good sense. Crabby wrote an excellent post today on being easily embarrassed and whether or not she meant to call me out, I really saw …
Is Flashdance! Puzzled? Women’s Health this month has a weight-training tip I’d never heard before (and frankly, I thought I’d heard them all): Do 35-40 seconds of intense cardio in between each weight set and according to the (2-line blurb) study, this will reduce soreness significantly. After four weeks of doing this, supposedly participants had …
Beauty is pain. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something. I realize that die-hard Princess Bride fans are firing up their e-mails at this very second to correct my misquote but I still think it applies here. Beauty is a highly prized commodity in our society and therefore we will go to great lengths …
This Experiment Was Too ColdMy friend B is a real life Wonder Woman. Girl has five kids (stranger: “Are those ALL yours?” B: “No, I picked up a couple extra because going to the grocery store with five toddlers is FUN.”) and she runs a tight ship. Her house runs like the Von Trapps’ minus …
All I can say is that I hope the participants of this study got paid a lot of money. The latest piece of darned-if-you-do-darned-if-you-don’t research comes from the University of Michigan. Researchers there decided to look at the workings of the hormone leptin, the substance that supposedly tells you when you are full and to …
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“I like big butts and I cannot lie. No otha brotha can deny. That when a girl walks in with an itty-bitty waist and round thing in your face you get…” to the radio and change the channel as fast as you can. That is if you’re me. I hate that song. But Reader M …
