You Know You’re a Fitness Nerd If… [My top 20 funniest answers – what are yours?]

You know you’re a fitness nerd…if “dressing up” means wearing your silver Nikes. Anyone who’s ever done weighted hip thrusts while having a serious conversation or watched two guys arm wrestle over the last jar of Pure Protein knows: Fitness is funny. The things we say, the things we do, and heaven help us, the things we …

Do You Get “Hangry”? Science Says Hungry-Angry is Legit [Plus: 11 More Funny Food-Emotions]

Growing up, “food fight” didn’t necessarily mean gleeful spaghetti slinging or flour flinging, like in the movies. (Although there was the time my sister rolled in a plate of Jell-O. She was one. Of course we still tease her about it.) Sometimes a food fight just meant that we were arguing because we were hungry …

Eight Weird Fitness Talents I Wish I Had [What’s your secret fitness weapon?]

 Handstand toe archery! Best fitness talent ever. And hey, my gym only says no GUNS allowed on the premises. I’m sure they’d be totally cool with this. Everybody’s got a talent, right? I’m pretty sure that’s what we were all told the day they handed out our special snowflake awards, so we could put them on our …

The Five Stages of Grief… for My Huge Pus-Spewing Zit [Anyone have a good blemish remedy?]

Bounding into my room this morning at still-too-early-o’thirty (official Kid Standard Time), Jelly Bean threw herself across my slumbering back and did a perfect imitation of wee Princess Anna in Frozen, proclaiming, “The sky’s awake! So I am awake! So we have to play!” My crabbiness was overcome by her cuteness and I cracked a …

Hilarious Gym Stereotypes – Now in Handy Video Format!

I know it’s the weekend. Still. Stop whatever you’re doing and watch this now: Post by Robert Piotrowicz Fitness. (sorry, you may have to click through to see the vid. It’s not showing up in readers for some reason. But I promise it’s worth it!) These guys put together one of the funniest and yet …

That Time I Tried To Help Someone And Ended Up Totally Insulting Them [Operation Give a Little Days 3 and 4: Give a helping hand, give up your parking spot or place in line!]

This little guy in the middle would be me: Trying hard but getting it all mixed up – but still throwing some stellar JAZZ HANDS! Jazz hands make everything better.  “Aiieeee!” There was a shout and loud clatter as a woman nearby us in the parking lot of the hardware store watched all of her …

After Someone Stole My Photo And Used It For Thinspiration I Decided To Take It Back And Make My Own (Not)Fitspo

About a month ago I got a sweet note from my little bro, who is on the Internet so much he’d have a fiber optic cable attached to his brain Matrix-style… if that weren’t so low-tech. (I think his brain might actually be The Cloud. Shh.) Anyhow. “Uh, Shosh?” he wrote me. (Yes, Shosh is …

13 Real Things You Are Really Doing Really Wrong at the Gym. For reals. [Forget heart rate zones and protein powder, these tips will make your workout more magical than She-Ra riding a unicorn over the Bermuda Triangle.]

Not bad advice, frankly. At my old gym this machine directly faced the window separating the weight room from the basketball gym. Accident? Today as I scrolled down through my newsfeed, I saw it: “Top 10 Mistakes You’re Making in the Gym” (the histrionic RIGHT NOW!!! was implied). I felt my eyes glaze over – …

The 20 Best (Worst) Vintage Diet Ads [Part 2 – Because I just love these things SO much]

  GROSS. So many questions: Why is this pig so happy to be slicing and dicing himself? Why is he made of sausage? How can he hold a knife with no opposable thumbs? And WHAT are the purple bits?! I’m so disturbed. My hobbies: Fitness, baking failures and flushing toilets (at least you’d assume so …

How to Make Coconut Milk and Flour [And how NOT to make coconut flour cupcakes. A culinary disaster, in pictures]

 [UPDATE: I got Cassie’s gluten-free sugar-free chocolate cupcake recipe and I’ve added it at the end of this post. Just don’t ask me to cook them for you! You’re welcome!] There was a big shindig Sunday night. The Superbowl? You might have heard of it. Don’t ask me who was playing because I still can’t …