For all you local readers or those of you who just enjoy my stories about Turbo Jennie, you will all be ecstatic to hear the great news: Jennie Berglund won the YMCA instructor of the year for all of Minnesota! This is a huge honor and one she truly deserves. You go, girl!! Paul’s Letter …
I am not much of a cook. You all know this. But that doesn’t stop me from trying! There’s just something about all the dicing and stirring and seasoning that I find therapeutic. The end results are dicey though. My husband, married to me for better or worse for nine years now, doesn’t even blink …
The first thing you notice about The Anna Westin House in rural Minnesota, named for one of the saddest stories in eating disorder lore, is that you don’t notice it at all. Two light brick townhouses joined at the kitchen, it blends seamlessly in with the surrounding upper middle class neighborhood. From the green and …
Here you go Fitarella! Gym sexiness at its best. You’ve seen the lists. Every few months or so it seems to be a blogger ritual to come out with a list of the most annoying people in the gym. And they’re pretty funny because, hey, who hasn’t been confronted with Grunting He-Man or Cell Phone …
Blog Nosh Magazine is running my story, “What to do with an anorexic” today over on their site. So if Rachel Zoe gives you nightmares, head on over there for something a little more educational! Or just to see how the lovely Fitarella described me – girl, you crack me up!! Now I HAVE to …
Skinny is in, just in case you missed the memo and somehow also missed being whacked over the head with the skinny mallet by every single media outlet. But it is no longer enough to just be thin. You must be skeletal. Lumpy thin, a la Kirsten Dunst, is so nineties. Anyone can starve, darlings. …
We’ve all had them. They read like the Best Of ESPN sports reel in our memories. They fill us with pride and awe and emotion and strength. And confidence. I’m talking about the good days. Not just the good days but the days when you are really on. Somehow you woke up with boundless energy, …
Inhibitions are funny things. I have one friend who says she could never do a hip-hop dance class with me because she’s “not sexy like that” and yet has no problem asking the male cashier at Walgreens if the temporary tattoo she is buying would look better on her left ta-ta or her right. It’s …
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We need another pill like we need one of these. (Seriously, awesome – right??) “It’s a little bit like a free lunch without the calories,” says Dr. Ronald Evans, lead researcher of the Salk group. It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s… exercise in a pill! Wait — we’ve been promised this before. A pharmaceutical …
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THIS is my kind of inspiration. Plus, the woman’s expression? Priceless. Celebrity diet-and-exercise pieces are the bread and butter of the gossip rags. There are whole websites devoted to how celebs take care of (or abuse) their bodies. The Skinny Website, not well loved by this blogger, as well as the more innocuous Healthy Hollywood …
