I’m not ambivalent about having abdominal muscles – I’m much obliged to mine to for holding me upright lo these 30 years – but rather I’m ambivalent about doing ab work. I rediscovered my ab issues today during Sharing Time – not just for Kindergartners anymore! – at the gym. Gym Buddy Lisseth brought in …
You can thank Reader Forest for this little gem. Hope you weren’t eating! Welcome to Dueling Diets! I’m your host, Crazy Charlotte. Today I’ll be pitting the Primal Blueprint a la Mark Sisson against the Engine 2 Diet a la Rip Esselstyn, all as part of my “Striving for Perfection” Experiment this month. I’m going …
If you look very closely, you can see that the Obamas prefer their water with a slice of lemon AND a straw. Also, they may like condiments. Source Ever feel like everyone is watching what you eat? Well perhaps, it’s because they are. What started out with the exhibitionist offerings like daily food blogs, food …
It was a black halter dress bedecked with very ’50s red cherries and matching piping. Flattering in that fit-and-flare way that has me wishing I was born in an earlier era, the dress was a vintage dream. “Where did you get that?” I gasped, admiring the red patent leather belt. “H & M,” the girl …
Anyone else ever notice that health & fitness sites and mags often recycle the same old question-and-answers? On one hand, there is something to be said for learning by repetition but on the other hand if I have to read more expert’s take on how to do an interval workout on the treadmill I’m going …
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What do you suppose that a burly, buffed-out Superman in a helmet and oxygen tank eats? If your answer has anything to do with a 16-oz porterhouse in the firehouse then you don’t know the firefighters from Engine 2. Rip Esselstyn, a former elite triathlete turned firefighter, is on a mission to educate you on …
There have been occasions, writing this blog, where I’ve put up a post that I later regretted. And no, it probably isn’t the ones you are thinking of. I do not regret any of the things I’ve written about my sexual assault or my eating disorders as I’m quite used to talking about those things …
Note: For those of you who get this via e-mail or thru a reader, you will want to click through to my site – there are a lot of videos in this post. Trust me, you don’t want to miss these. A long time ago Reader Lys asked me about doing gymnastics in the gym. …
There are many good reasons to hire a personal trainer but are their looks one of them? Paul “PJ” James, a personal trainer in Australia, wants to find out by going from “hunk to chunk” and back again in an effort to empathize with his clients and answer this question for fitness professionals everywhere. The …
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Bag Number One (mille grazie to Turbo Jennie for the tip!): The question must be asked: Who is this bag for? Men enjoy looking at scantily clad supermodels and yet do not generally use tote bags. Women use tote bags but generally do not enjoy looking at photoshopped scantily clad supermodels. So who on earth …
