32 weeks today! Which means I have 8 weeks left. Unless good karma kicks in – I totally let two people go ahead of me in line at the grocery store as they had way less items than I did; I know, someone saint me – and then I could possibly pop this kid out …
When I was a stupid insensitive teenager (please make me feel better and tell me we all went through that phase?), my friends and I used to play a game called ChickDude. The rules were simple: spot someone of an androgynous nature, elbow your friend while hissing chickdudechickdude until they decreed the person to be …
It’s pretty much useless to try and be thin if you don’t have the (much coveted, soon to be cloned at a store near you) “thin gene.” Based on a study of over 3,000 pairs of female twins — the gold standard for both researchers and teenage boys — scientists have concluded that over 50% …
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Picture from bathing suit spread in Glamour Magazine Crystal Renn, whose story of going from normal teen to anorexic supermodel and then to number one plus-sized model in the world is an inspiration on so many levels. By all accounts (I haven’t read it yet but really want to!), her book Hungry is a well-written …
Today I celebrated the American Labor Day holiday by getting myself and my family our annual flu shots. I’m so festive, I know. The kids, being able to get the nasal mist version, are totally fine – ironic considering that it is their little disease-carrying bodies that account for 90% of my illnesses – but …
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You can’t swing a cat in a barn these days without hitting some new report out on the beleaguered dairy industry. Not that I’m endorsing cat swinging. Or swinging objects in barns. In fact, I can’t even endorse dairy because – have you heard? – 60% of adults can’t digest milk. And the bad news …
I mean, you just expect to see this kind of thing at Wal-Mart, right?? An elderly man with huge breast implants spilling out of his open shirt. A black woman in knee high I-skinned-Elmo red fringed boots and a matching red crop top and Elmo hair extensions. A white woman dressed in stripper heels in …
A while ago the now-defunct Elastic Waist was currently looking for “anti-diet” tips, a concept which I love both for the opportunity of turning the diet industry’s sound bites back on them and for the opportunity to practice being witty and pithy. However, despite my being both witty AND pithy (in my own esteemed opinion) …
In one of the most entertaining reader questions I have ever gotten, Dennis writes: Good Morning Charlotte, I was just noticing some of the ladies on my office and thought you would be the one to answer my question – Do real women, the kind that work out and sweat like ditch diggers, have time …
Normal weight loss research focuses on small-scale stuff like how taking smaller bites and drinking a glass of water before you eat will help you lose weight. Wusses. German researchers announced today that they found a significant link between people who are heavily in debt and people who are heavily overweight. After conducting the not-terribly-rigorous-but-still-very-interesting …
