October 2011

A flashlight, for the next time you have to fight a bear. [Answering life's biggest question]

October 31, 2011

A scream: It’s not fair! A surrender, a sigh: It’s not fair. A realization: It’s not fair… A cry: It. is. not. fair! A complaint: It’s not faaaaiiiir. An apology: It’s not fair. A prayer; a whisper or a wail: It isn’t fair, Lord. A question: It’s not fair? This last one, the question, breaks my heart. It is too much to ask of me. How can I know the answer? My human heart cracks under the weight of betrayal. Of weakness. Of illness and pain and suffering and mockery. But this question deserves an answer. And my son, who looks [...]

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Neurokineseology and Fitness: 2 week mini-Experiment withT-Tapp (Giveaway!)

October 30, 2011

See? Turtleneck leotards make her very happy. I want to be this happy. Except maybe with shoes on. That grass looks pokey. Do you like calisthenics? Jazz hands? Turtleneck leotards?? Then you will definitely want to get in on this mini-Experiment! For the next two weeks the Gym Buddies and I are going to be trying out T-Tapp, a workout program designed by Teresa Tapp that focuses on specific sequences of (slightly strange) compound movements in order to achieve “better alignment, increased strength, a flexible spine, better lymphatic function, neuro-kinetic flow as well as a high metabolic rate.” Not gonna [...]

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Running Naked and My First-Ever Censored Post! (Giveaway!)

October 27, 2011

Fall is perfect outdoor weather and my favorite season to run in. There’s nothing like the crisp air, the colorful leaves and the sunshine to really make you move! But just like every other season it can take some wardrobe adjustments as you move from as-little-as-decency-allows to layer city. Do you like really unique and funky patterns? Do you like quality? But most importantly, do you like to have well-ventilated nethers? Then you have to try these YMX by Yellowman pants: I’ll admit I’ve always loved Yellowman for their designs. I used to drool over them in the Athleta catalog [...]

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The Business Behind My Blog

October 26, 2011

Tonight was our annual Turboween and I’m afraid I got too clever for myself because not a single person got my costume. So if you’d like to play the “What’s Charlotte supposed to be?!” guessing game, I’ll tell you at the bottom. Hint: The theme was weddings. “What is the fastest way to lose weight?” is the fitness question I get asked the most (my answer here) but the truth is I get asked even more often about the business of running my blog. Today I did a rough estimate of how many e-mails I got related to my blog and [...]

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Does Your Body Have a Set Point For Exercise? [Duelling Research]

October 25, 2011

Just when you thought it was safe to retrieve the forks and knives you hid during the “Are white potatoes a nutritious natural food or glycemic index hell tuber?” debate, scientists have given us another research study that brings up more questions than it answers. And this time it’s about your “activitystat”, questioning whether or not humans have an internal set point for activity like it’s commonly thought we do for weight. Dr. Terence J. Wilkin, a professor of endocrinology at the Peninsula Medical School in Plymouth, England, designed a study to test this out by going to the source [...]

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What’s Your Definition of Beauty? [Finding the balance in caring too much and too little]

October 25, 2011

I find beauty in strength: This is an outtake from pics for another post (coming soon!) and while nothing is right about my pose – my son snapped the pic too soon – everything is right about my shoulder and arm! Good golly I worked hard for those delts and biceps! They are beautiful to me because they remind me of how hard I can work, how well I can tolerate pain and how high I can lift my kids and swing them around. The scene: Costco, 10 a.m. on a Thursday. The girl: Tall, tanned, uber-thin with long, straight, shiny [...]

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The Part of Intuitive Eating I Most Struggle With [Advice, please?]

October 23, 2011

Betrayed by My Body: The overly dramatic saga continues! First I sneeze upside down and blow chunks (thank you to all of you who suggested using my neti pot to help get the stomach bile out of my sinuses – it is a fab idea and I’ll save it for next time although I sincerely hope there will be no next time), then I get another corneal abrasion from wearing my contacts too much forcing me to wear my nerd glasses and now I get attacked by own stiletto! (You should have seen Jelly Bean’s face) I mentioned before in [...]

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What Was Your Best Halloween Costume Ever? [Plus: 20 Fitness Inspired Halloween Costumes]

October 20, 2011

I wish this were me but unfortunately I couldn’t find any pics of my gold statue costume, despite looking through every single picture I took in college. (It didn’t take long. I lived in the days before digital cameras and when you’re using film that takes a week to get developed, well, I have about 50 pictures total. Which is what most people take in one night and post on Facebook now. Wow I feel old.) Being a gold statue for Halloween was awesome for several reasons: 1) I got to borrow my roommate’s real-feeling fake boobies and nothing bonds [...]

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Why This Grain-Eating Girl Loves The Primal Blueprint [The nutrition question I still can't answer]

October 19, 2011

I was a modern vegetarian runner, he was a paleolithic meat-loving functional exerciser – when we first met, we could not have been more different. Paleo/Primal style eating now has quite a few different flavors now but five years ago, it was new and with its exclusion of all grains, was also quite controversial. Whether it was from a genuine interest in the science behind this new philosophy or because I’ve always had a thing for men who want me to change everything I am to be with them, I decided to give it a try. As those of you [...]

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The Grossest Thing That Has Ever Happened to Me at the Gym [Badly Illustrated]

October 18, 2011

No Gym Buddies, no classes, no Experiments (we do NROLFW on M, W, F) – this morning at the gym I was left to my own devices. This happens to me so rarely that when it does I get a little giddy. What would I do if I could workout any way I wanted to? First I did Tabatas, which I hate but do because they’re so darn good for me (lie: it was because I thought Gym Buddy Allison might yet show up and I didn’t want to look like I was slacking). Then I ran a few miles [...]

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