April 2009

Guest Posting at MizFit Today! Plus Yogurt Recipe!

April 30, 2009

I want this outfit. While I’m wishing for things, I’d also like my waist back to wear it with. To know me in real life is to know one thing about me. No, not my spunky gym craziness (which has sadly diminished since becoming preggo) or my bad dance moves that I will willingly showcase in any public setting or even the fact that I always travel in a pack of wild boys. No, what most people remember about me is my singular ability to ruin any food I come into close contact with. I’m a bad cook. The best [...]

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Boring Online Personal Training and Awesome Retro Workout Wear

April 29, 2009

April’s Great Fitness Experiment was testing out the online personal training service from Women’s Health Magazine. I did it for a month. It was lame. But not so bad that it would make an interesting post. Confession time: it’s 10 o’clock at night and I’ve been dreading writing this post all day. And everyone knows that there is no point in dreading something all day that a) you’re not getting paid to do and b) you have no contractual obligation to do. So I’m invoking blogger privilege and giving you the short version of April’s Experiment results. Does online personal [...]

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Can Kate Moss Make Fat Cool?

April 28, 2009

In case you missed it, “fat” is experiencing a resurgence in the beauty world as evidenced by recent photos of Kate Moss where she sports some extra weight in the form of actual breasts and hips – the latter only if caught in the right light. Of course everyone cried pregnancy first but Moss has denied all fertility rumors, instead saying she’s just getting “fat.” Has the famous model finally succumbed to critics’ demands that she “eat a sammich already”? Or has she decided to lay off the smack and take a healthier approach? Or is this some kind of [...]

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Myth Busting: Fitness in Pregnancy

April 27, 2009

“Pssst!” I looked over at the woman laying next to me on the hard gym floor, both of us in a cesspool of our sweat courtesy of the bootcamp class we were doing. At first I wasn’t sure if her noise was just a loud exhale during a sit-up but then she continued. “Aren’t you not supposed to do these?”“Huh?” I grunted and kept on sitting up and laying back down. (sidenote: If aliens watch us they must be so confused.)“I thought you couldn’t do sit-ups when you’re pregnant?”Ah. And there it was. You think people have lots of opinions [...]

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Drinking Your Calories

April 24, 2009

Don’t eat sugar. Spread peanut butter on an apple for a protein-carb snack. Always start dinner with a broth soup or undressed salad. Pack a protein bar in your purse. (Just don’t mistakenly pull out a wrapped tampon on accident instead. Not that I’ve done that. You know, in public, or anything.) Chew gum after a meal. Brush your teeth after eating. There are some “diet tips” that are so ubiquitous that these days I just skim over them when I happen across them in articles or on websites. Which is pretty much daily. But my favorite of these oft-repeated [...]

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The "You’d Be So Pretty If…" Contest Winner

April 24, 2009

Is Shellie! You know the drill, girl!

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Putting The Art in Body Art

April 23, 2009

Cute, right? The owner thought it meant “courage.” Apparently it literally says “big mistake.” Somebody’s got a sense of humor! My first boyfriend had a pet name for me: Sweet Pea. As in the baby from the Popeye cartoons. Yeah, it’s a little weird to nickname your girlfriend after an infant with no legs but honestly that was the least weird thing about our relationship. Two things you should know about my first boyfriend: a) He was functionally illiterate (I know, Mom!) and b) he was obsessed with body modifications (I KNOW, Mom! Seriously, you can unground me now.) In [...]

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Things That Make Me Go Barf

April 22, 2009

Fish, meatballs, strong cologne, my two-year-old’s poopy diapers and even my beloved SweeTart jellybeans have all made me vomit this pregnancy. But would you like to know the number one thing guaranteed to bring on the waves of nausea? The smell of my own sweat. I know. For a girl who gets sweaty at least six times a week, that’s a problem. At first I couldn’t figure out why the nausea is worse at the gym than other places – usually if anything it’s the meat and seafood counter at the grocery store which sends me running… to the coffee [...]

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Birth Control Makes You Weak, Running Makes You Wrinkly

April 21, 2009

From the same people who decided to kill off Bert on Sesame Street, comes our depressing research news for the day. Birth Control Pills Make You WeakEvery girl now knows that strength training is integral to good health. It shores up our bones, helps us live longer, and – of course – helps us look better in a bikini. Gone are the days where thin was good enough to strut your stuff. Now, as every ladymag will helpfully point out (in 6 weeks or less!), you need to be toned. And for once I do actually agree with them. I [...]

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Do You Have "A Spot"?

April 20, 2009

Having been a while since anything really strange has happened to me at the gym (side note: the man who used to walk the track swinging his arms wildly as if in a cloud of gnats has seemingly disappeared. But don’t worry, the girl who lines up her stuffed animals facing her yoga mat is still with us.) so it was about time for a gym adventure. I just never thought that it would end up with an elderly man laying in my lap. But that’s the fun thing about gym adventures – you never know what’s coming next! One [...]

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