Gorgeous sunny morning. Nice cool – but not cold – temps. Crisp clean air. Beautiful scenery. And to top it all off, an awesome new playlist on my MP3 player. Indeed, all the makings of a magnificent long run. Which it was (my pace time surprised me so much that I rechecked it on 3 …
Intuitive Eating is a roller coaster. I’m not going to lie to you. In concept – eat what your body wants, it knows you best – it’s elegantly simple. In practice it’s, well, as messy as the stretching mats of ill repute right after our high-intensity bootcamp class finishes our 100 push-ups. (Seriously, we did …
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Intuitive Eating is a roller coaster. I’m not going to lie to you. In concept – eat what your body wants, it knows you best – it’s elegantly simple. In practice it’s, well, as messy as the stretching mats of ill repute right after our high-intensity bootcamp class finishes our 100 push-ups. (Seriously, we did …
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This will not surprise you: I spend a considerable amount of my life trying to convince people to try new things. It ranges from small things like trying to get a stranger at the grocery store to try the free yogurt sample with me (it’s less gross if you do the fiber shots with a …
As demonstrated by Jelly Bean. Little Sister looooves her blueberries! Now if only I could learn to eat with such glee – although I daresay I couldn’t get away with taking my shirt off and rolling in it like she does. Ah, the privileges of youth! (Not that you asked but as I feel like …
Diana Vishneva, ballerina Plank. Push-ups. Wall sits. This week, one of the trainers at my Y has been doing fitness challenges every day. It’s nothing more sophisticated than a marker board, an “official” timer and a mat on the floor down by the front doors. Winners get no finisher’s medal, no t-shirt, not even an …
At first blush the proposed ban in New York City on using food stamps to buy soda seemed like an excellent idea to me. I haven’t drank a soda in years. I haven’t missed it either – while ice cream is the monkey on my back, for whatever reason soda was a piece of cake …
Yeah these chips will keep you awake (so says the tag line) but I don’t think I want a snack can feed me itself. “Son,” I took a deep breath as I sat him down at the kitchen table, “It’s time you know: There are two kinds of people in this world.” Son 1 raised …
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Reusing my floss because I’m too lazy to get up and get a new piece. Downing my daily cocktail of Splenda, artificial colors and fake flavors. Sleeping in my makeup (sometimes I like waking up looking like Boy George). Let’s be honest, I have quite a few bad health habits that need breaking but only …
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We’ve all seen Photoshop used to slim down “fat” people (read: everyone not emaciated), hid pimples, smooth aged skin and even to plump up sickly thin people but the Saudi Arabian censors have taken computer image enhancement to a whole new level: They used it to de-sluttify Mariah Carey. Somebody nominate them for the Nobel, …
