Except my (pilfered) vest was way tougher than this wussy one! Yeah I eat nails for breakfast. When I say “sweating like Matthew Mcconaughey” I do not mean in the way that he does not wear deodorant. I’m a big fan of deodorant. In fact, with the way I sweat I should just roll Secret …
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Yesterday at the park (where I met fellow fit mama blogger Mama Sweat who, I must say, is both super-toned and super-smart, a rare combination. If you haven’t read her stuff, you totally should. Just promise to keep reading me too!) I had one of those brief envy moments that strike all women from time …
I hate eating in public. And I say this fully realizing that many of you who read this have had occasion to eat with me. If I invite you over, to my home, things are not so hard for me. I have control over the menu, the ingredients, and the portions. I can even control …
Or you could just cut to the chase and do this. Whether you like group fitness or running solo through your neighborhood, the cool thing about exercising is all the opportunities you get to completely humiliate yourself. So it is with some trepidation I share my top ten ways to embarrass yourself whilst exercising. Because …
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I can’t try everything. I am only one person after all. And so it is with great delight that I present to you three experiments lovingly conducted for your pleasure/shock/horror by other people. Puffer Fish and Real Life ZombiesYou may remember me asking if you would try eating a puffer fish – called “fugu” in …
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Dear Scarlett Johansson,You are one talented and beautiful girl. There are not many women who could simultaneously capture the hearts of both Woody Allen and Justin Timberlake. And by all accounts you seem smart and savvy to boot. Plus you manage to keep your panties on and out of rehab. But I am not writing …
I’ll be honest, my number one reason for exercising is to manage my emotions. I’m both highly anxious and acutely sensitive, a combination that has spelled disaster for many a romantic relationship not to mention irritated customer service personnel around the world. Although it does make me wicked-good at playing the “What If???” Game. But …
Because we’re fat. Let me back up. Much has been said over the past couple of weeks about what Olympians eat. Michael Phelps and his 12,000 calories a day has put so many people into shock that iHop is sending out emergency chocolate-chip pancake teams into all major cities. On the other end of the …
My Friend P: I just finished my first triathlon! It was great!! Me: Way to, P!! I’m so proud of you! So – important question – did you pee in the lake? I like to ask people, both relative strangers and intimate acquaintances, overly personal questions. Some call it bad manners. I call it my …
Nicole Kidman. Halle Berry. Nicole Richie. Angelina Jolie. I can’t remember the last time any of these women were in the news for a movie they made but all have recently graced many magazine covers. For what? For being able to walk out of the maternity ward in their pre-pregnancy jeans which, natch, were tiny …
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