One of my favorite memories growing up is of our monthly household-wide Period Party. That’s right, a party devoted to the menstrual happenings of all the women in the house. My mother was a community health nurse who took care of the pregnant teens at whatever school it was to which they sent the girls …
Oh do you remember when Shape magazine claimed none of their cover models are airbrushed? Editor-in-chief Valerie Latona responded to accusations of photo fakery in her monthly letter from the editor in the March edition saying she “emphatically and truthfully” promises that “we do not alter stars’ bodies.” Latona says her magazine “features ladies who …
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My friend E is a medical miracle. Several weeks ago she was struck down by a bacteria that on Friday made her feel flu-ish and by Monday had her in a coma that the doctors said she would not come out of. Emergency surgery that required a team of 12 doctors, several near misses in …
Public vomiting. Excessive drool. Sore boobs. Itchy nipples. Racehorse urinating. Muscle soreness. Bloating. Fatigue so incapacitating you fall asleep sitting up. Nausea. Weight gain. Cramps. Weight loss. And, naturally, mood swings. Don’t worry, you’re not going through heroin withdrawal, you’re just in the first trimester of pregnancy. Fun! I do not enjoy being pregnant. I’m …
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One of the main principles – the main principle, it could be argued – of Jillian Michael’s book Master Your Metabolism that has so engrossed me as of late revolves around the admonition to go organic. She advises you upon pain of a permanently screwed metabolism to not only eat organic foods but to drink …
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The Random Number Generator (which technically isn’t random since I specify the range of numbers but we call it that to make life feel a little less like a crap shoot) hath spoken. I have to say though that so many of you responded so positively to this book that I wish I had 100 …
As some of you surmised from the comments on yesterday’s post, changes are afoot here at The Great Fitness Experiment and not just of the Jillian Michaels-inspired variety. I wasn’t quite ready to blog about this yet but due to a comment I left on my friend KatieO’s site (she of the fabulous Sister Skinny) …
I read the whole thing in one day. I fell asleep reading it. And then I even dreamed about it. (In my dream I was interrogating Jillian about all the questions she left unanswered.) I posted yesterday that I think Master Your Metabolism by Jillian Michaels is the best health/nutrition book I’ve read in the …
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I’m sorry all, for the first time in 18 months, I can’t blog tonight. See, I picked up a book this afternoon and have not been able to put it down since, save to dye Easter eggs with the kiddos (why oh why do they make those dye tablets to look so much like candy?). …
There is a long-running discussion amongst the Gym Buddies: which is better, walking or running? All the bipeds in the room will reasonably answer, “Aw, why you gotta set me up like this? Both have their place.” Of course you’d be correct. Walking is preferrable when I’m perusing the 70% clearance rack at Target (one …
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