Socks and jellybeans. My two favorite things. If my feet are wrapped in the pelts of Muppets and my belly is full of sour simple sugars then I am a happy girl. Unsurprisingly I have a wide assortment of both but today I’m just going to talk about the socks. I have furry socks, loud …
First, I am proud to announce that The Great Fitness Experiment has search functionality back (see top of page)! Due to my stellar computer skills (er, google search skills) I have fixed my own glitch and now you can happily search for all the weird keywords you like. I’m talking to you Mr. or Ms. …
Yep, that’s a person in there. During all my years of teaching, I’ve seen a lot. In a single quarter I had a student vomit, another have a stroke, and a third show up for the final with no teeth claiming police brutality. I was teaching as the Twin Towers fell and watched the chaos …
Every family has their seasonal traditions and today we are commemorating a big one at our house. It’s annual Pink Eye Day. We celebrate this special day every year come winter – sometimes more than once! While this day doesn’t usually involve festive decorations or special foods, it does involve missing school (and, for me, …
Parroting the oft-told axiom that men find strong women frightening, a personal trainer at the Y today said of Gym Buddy Allison and I: “Those girls scare me.” My first reaction was, “Us? Scary??” We’re about as scary as the Hamburgler. (Seriously, Ronald McDonald is scary. But if I met the Hamburgler in a dark …
Too bad Johnathan Swift died before the Internet came about. This will thrill PETA right out of their naugahyde pumps: doing what no bag of thrown flour could ever hope to accomplish, the recession has caused the average American to cut their meat consumption. According to a survey conducted by Parade magazine (Yes, the cheesy …
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Sarah Tieck! She writes, “I think my big scale issue happens when I go for the weekly WW weigh in … it is so hard to face that scale each week and have the number recorded.” So hopefully this scale will help take some of the fear out of your weekly weigh-in. Drop me a …
Now you and your significant other have one more thing to bond over whilst roasting chestnuts over your faux fire and wearing matching Burberry slippers this season: new research has found that seeing pictures of beautiful models actually make the men folk feel badly about themselves, just like it does to us women! Porn purveyors …
Did you know that some women lead perfectly happy and healthy lives without ever stepping on a scale? There are women out there who don’t even know what they weigh! If you are one of those women, as I’m sure some of you are, then you will spend the rest of this post shaking your …
Read more “Olympic Gymnast Tackles the Age-Old Battle of Woman Vs. Scale (Plus Giveaway!)”
My YMCA has been doing some much-needed renovations. The upside is that we now have a shiny new aerobics studio, expanded childcare and a new gym floor that has made more than a few basketball players fall to their knees and weep with joy. The downside, besides that the whole place is drenched in nursing-home …
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