November 2009

A Scale of a Different Sort (Giveaway!)

November 30, 2009

This is the recommended serving size of cuteness Anyone read those hoity toity (tween Charlotte may have watched Newsies a lot. Like 12 times in the theater a lot.) cooking magazines like Fine Cooking and Gourmet? My simple Betty Crocker heart secretly adores flipping through all those delicious pages with their 200 ingredient recipes, food-porn pics and advertisements for exotic utensils like “mandolin” and “zester” and “chef’s quality squishy mat that feels just like a stress ball for your toes!”. But I have one problem with those mags (that’s a lie – we all know I have lots of problems [...]

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Decoding Hand Signals in the Gym

November 30, 2009

This is the universal symbol for “your yoga teacher is a perv.” Grabbing your throat with both hands is the universally recognized symbol for choking. Likewise, a palm facing out means “stop” (“in the name of the love” optional). And now, thanks to the Salahi’s, shaking President Obama’s hand means “galling reality show stunt cum international incident.” (There is more use for this one than you’d think.) I got to thinking about ways we wordlessly communicate with others when I accidentally leaned on my horn at a stoplight several days ago, scaring the bejeebies out of me, my kids and [...]

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My Unthankful Thanksgiving

November 26, 2009

I’ll admit I wasn’t feeling the gratitude today. (Which is okay, right? I mean I still have a few hours left to procrastinate my character improvement.) This morning found me walking the track at the gym, my baby in a front carrier and nothing to entertain me except my mp3 player… which was dead. So basically I spent an hour walking in small circles and muttering to myself like a crazy person, nary a Gym Buddy in sight. That last bit was the real problem. See, all the Gym Buddies were absent this morning because they were saving up their [...]

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Trusting Your Hunger Vs. Exercising Willpower

November 25, 2009

These days, thanks to my transformation from walking womb to 24/7 milk bar, I am a girl with a hefty appetite. They say that nursing requires even more calories than pregnancy and I believe it. I’m not counting calories (yay!) but just guessing from the huge amounts of food I consume every few hours I’d say it’s a lot. Like NFL linebacker a lot. This frightens me. But before we delve deeper into my neuroses, I have a confession to make: I have a serious case of envy for anyone who has figured out to eat when they’re hungry. Yes, [...]

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The Cure for Exercise Headaches [Help a Reader Out]

November 24, 2009

If this is how you hydrate, then I think we found the problem… Seeing as you all did such a great job with Laura’s question last week regarding buying cardio equipment for a home gym, I thought I’d throw a bit tougher question your way this week. (Yeah, yeah, you can take the teacher out of the classroom…) In this week’s installment of Help a Reader Out, the feature where you guys help answer questions that I don’t know the answer to, Sunny writes: “Lately, after my runs, I have been getting these massive headaches, even though I drink a [...]

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The Happiest Sadness: On having a baby after losing one

November 23, 2009

Have you ever been afraid that by loving someone so much you will lose them, simply because the universe hates a happy ending? It’s a disturbing, paranoid and not really rational thought but there’s a reason that the axiom, “It is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all” exists. Loving someone can be scary. Because losing that someone is even scarier. Of all the Big Things I have been through in my life, there is one I almost never talk about. At least not in a public setting. While I have no problem writing [...]

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Demi Moore: Did W Mag Photoshop Her or Not?

November 20, 2009

The laughter over the Ralph Lauren model debacle hadn’t even died down when it appeared earlier this week that the fashion industry had repeated its affront to anatomical correctness again but this time on the new cover of W magazine featuring Demi Moore. The blogosphere immediately cried foul as people pointed out the mysterious chunk missing out of her left thigh (our right, looking at the picture). The lines just don’t seem to match up in any way that allow for the proper placement of bones and the fabric seems unnaturally suspended in midair. It seemed like another case of [...]

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The Fitness Fanatic’s Guide to (Not) Embarrassing Yourself

November 19, 2009

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 you know I’ve done all of these. Sigh. And because I love you all so much, I’ve included my tips for covering up your faux pas. 10. Snap yourself with a resistance band. (Jump ropes also work well for this and you get bonus points [...]

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Tips for Losing the Baby Weight – That Really Work!

November 17, 2009

I am ten days past the scream-n-push Bodily Fluids Festival of ’09 (Marilyn Manson should take notes) which means, of course, that it’s time to talk about losing the baby weight. No, not because I’m feeling overly anxious about it – I’m too busy being anxious about being anxious! – but because I’ve gotten a ton of e-mails about it. Being officially The Nicest People on the Internet, none of you readers have been pressuring me but rather just wondering if I’ve found anything that works. Weight loss being the crapshoot that it is once you mix in genetics, socioeconomic [...]

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Home Fitness Equipmement – Where to Spend, Where to Save [Help a Reader Out!]

November 17, 2009

It’s no secret that there is no love lost between cardio equipment and I which is why when Reader Laura asked me what she should look for when purchasing an elliptical machine, I was stumped. Social creature that I am, I much prefer to work out at the gym (bonus: they have childcare!) and when I do have to workout at home I usually concoct some kind of crazy circuit involving my Val-Slides, TRX, Kettlebell and whatever other equipment I keep tripping over. And yet, as I am so often reminded when I see people lining up Thanksgiving night for [...]

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