compulsive exercise

Getting Your Body Back After Pregnancy: What not to do

December 20, 2011

See – she’s fine now! Check out that core strength!! Compare Jelly Bean’s fab plank to this woman’s – this has got to be the worst “fitness” photo I’ve ever seen! (And no comment about the two binkies. We’re working on it!) I love her one boot/one plaid sandal combo. She cracks me up every single day. “Huh, we never really figured out what happened with that blip,” the doctor said lightly as she traced her finger over Jelly Bean’s growth chart at her recent 2-year checkup. She didn’t even notice my uncomfortable fidgeting as she continued, “Ah well, no [...]

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How I’m Doing With My Eating Disorder These Days [Readers' questions]

October 5, 2011

While I don’t use numbers and do not remotely condone, excuse or justify my disordered behaviors past or present, please be aware that some of the following may be triggering to certain readers. Take gentle care of yourselves; you know what you need today.  photo credit Recently I’ve been getting a lot of questions from people about how I’m doing in my eating disorder recovery now. Usually people ask because they’re curious or are struggling with similar demons themselves – truly I never had any idea how prevalent disordered eating and thought patterns are until I started blogging/writing about it [...]

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Exercise as a Cure For Depression? [Research Says Yes. No. Maybe. Sometimes.]

September 7, 2011

Flying or Falling? Can you have one without the other? The thing about depression is that you don’t know how bad you feel until you don’t feel bad anymore. It’s like wearing a veil that subtly shades everything in your life until you can’t remember a time when rainbows weren’t made in varying grays and when the sky didn’t feel like a weight on your shoulders. But then perchance you get better and glimpse for a moment what everyone else sees: that the sky has been inspiring men to fly since long before Icarus and Daedalus took their ill-fated flight. And [...]

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Research Says My Workout May Be To Blame For Forgetting My Son At The Gym.

July 26, 2011

See? All that exercise made her forget which way gravity works. Happens to me all the time. It turns out that Sammy Sosa and Floyd Landis may not be lying – new research says they may reallynot remember how all those drugs got in their system. Apparently all the exercise got to ‘em. For myself, not being a professional athlete, I thought my steadily declining memory was all my children’s fault. Seriously, when you have to remember the exact location of 4 sippy cups, 3 lovies, and 6 flip-flops at all times things like the periodic table and who was president [...]

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Taking Your Workout Out of the Gym [Weird Places I Exercise]

May 12, 2011

image source Embarrassing people seems to be a specialty of mine. It’s bad enough that I have publicly humiliated myself in 200 different ways doing my Experiments (and that might be low-balling it) but to take down my friends and loved ones with my antics? I can only offer them this: Dear Children who may read this 10 years down the road in a therapy session, I am sorry you have an unusual mother. It’s not your fault. Someday I hope you will be able to laugh about my quirks with each other. That’s why I had four of you. [...]

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Should You Count Calories… In Your Workouts? [Measuring workout efficacy.]

May 10, 2011

Trust me, this is one exercise video you do not want to miss! (Eurotrain!!!) *A huge thank you to everyone for your patience yesterday- as you may have noticed, my site was down for most of yesterday due to problems on my web host’s end. Thanks for all the e-mails & sympathy! We seem to be back in business now…* You’ve seen the workout program ads: in between shots of glistening, contracting abdominals and hyper smiling people who only sweat in socially acceptable places – your amped up cleavage if you are a woman, your shaved pecs if you are [...]

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Prebiotics, Probiotics and a Hospital Epiphany [Giveaway!]

April 28, 2011

Hospitals with their life, death, and strange smell zeitgeist have been the setting for several major revelations in my life (not the least of which is that nutritionists consider Malt-o-Meal a “solid food” but Jell-O is a “liquid”) and this time it was no different. My 3rd son, just nine months old at the time, hung limply in my arms as nurses and doctors buzzed around us. There was no waiting for us in the the waiting room when I brought my baby in, nearly unconscious with a fever of 107. The triage nurse took one look at my son [...]

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Where to Find an Exercise Addict [And how I'm doing with my exercise]

March 11, 2011

Cryptic PR emails are kind of my thing. Like crossword puzzles and Sudokus, they present a mental challenge that is both stimulating and 90% of the time, really entertaining once I get it all figured out. The other 10% of the time they’re either creepy or bizarre so really it’s an all-around win. (Dear people who send professional, researched PR emails, thank you. Truly. I love you more than pinhole glasses!) So the other day when I got an e-mail from a “producer from a populer show on a major network” my Spidey senses got all tingley! Misspellings are always [...]

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March’s Great Yoga Experiment & Giveaway! [Sandbag results are in!]

March 1, 2011

Balance, flexibility, strength, puddles of sweat, strange men in teeeeny tiny spandex shorts Down-Dogging it right in front of you – the benefits of yoga are well-documented and numerous. (Okay maybe not that last one.) In addition to giving you a new vocabulary littered with phrases like “third eye” “chakra” and “chaturanga” (ten points if you can say “breaking wind pose” without giggling like a 3rd-grader!), yoga also has amazing mental benefits. Seeing as I’m certifiably nuts, anything that promises to shake the crazy out of me gets me all excited. I am not new to yoga. In fact, if [...]

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The Exercise Widow(er) Phenomenon [Coming to a marriage near you?]

February 2, 2011

Do you or someone you love suffer from the following symptoms? – Attending only parties that serve salted nut rolls and Powerade. – Picking up 8 pairs of different (but still look pretty much the same) running shoes every evening. – Waking up alone to an empty bed and a note that says “8 miler, lake route, love you.” Every morning. – Is flying solo every Saturday morning and much of the weekends. – Has to wash a separate load of laundry made up of just sweaty workout clothes every few days. – Has a separate budget category for exercise [...]

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