FitnessGlo Helps You Take Your Workouts To-Go!

Disclosure: This post was sponsored by FitnessGlo. They provided me with free workouts, I provided them with free sweat! And opinions:)  We may look like we’re sitting on a nice, comfy bench but we’re actually doing a wall sit! And smiling! That’s what honing my quads with FitnessGlo has done for me! FitnessGlo is an online …

Is Eating Red Meat Really Bad For You? Is it Ethical? [The Brouhaha Over Red Meat Intensifies]

I’ve heard cow tongue can be a delicacy but I’m pretty sure they didn’t mean on the first date. “Mom?” My freshly bathed son snuggled into my lap as we read through Moo Moo Brown Cow with Jelly Bean before bedtime. “Yes, honey?” I answered, prepared for one of his silly existential questions he likes to pose …

A Receipt That Shows All Your Macros, Calories and Gives Health Advice – Brilliant or Frightening? [What I’m Eating These Days]

Jelly Bean’s signature “disapproving” face – made even better by the fact that she is wearing her underpants on her head. This is what happens when you keep little kids in the car too long… There was a time when this would have been my ultimate health-nut-on-a-mission dream. Ladies and Gents, meet Nutricate: Why yes …

The Trick To Living Without Fear [And Also For Not Getting Eaten By Mountain Lions. Maybe.]

Moving halfway across the country has been a bit traumatic for our kids and, in typical kid fashion, they manifest their discombobulation by suddenly refusing to eat, potty and/or sleep. (For the record, you can’t pee on a tree if you’re a girl. Jelly Bean proved this by first refusing to use a “stiiinky” biffy, …

Have You Ever Been Health-Bullied? [Where’s the line between being encouraging and being a bully?]

If I could peer-pressure you into doing anything, it would be writing hilarious limericks. Do it! Do it now!!! Shhh… so don’t tell anyone but I’m embarrassingly susceptible to peer pressure. My friends have talked me into doing some pretty crazy stuff over the years, stuff that I would never have done if it hadn’t …

The Top 10 Causes of Eyelid Twitches and How To Cure Them [Because Everybody Twitches. REM missed the boat.]

When I thought this was makeup I thought it was crazy cool but when I found out it was a tattoo all I could think about is how painful and dangerous getting your eyeLIDS tattooed would me. I mean, one wrong slip with the needle and you’re blinded! Or you just got free Lasik! This …

Dog Attack! A Runner’s Worst Nightmare and 5 Tips For Preventing It [Have you ever had a wildlife encounter on a run?]

Signing the paperwork to buy a house is entertaining for so many reasons. First, because it’s like 2,000 pages long of legalese eventually you just stop bothering to read anything. Let me tell you, when it comes to living on the edge, skydiving has nothing on the rush you get from signing your life away …

I Am Now a Coloradan and Other Updates [Rachel Cosgrove Rebuttal, Mirena IUD One Year Later, Dairy Free Diet]

After lots of tearful goodbyes and an 18-hour drive with my four kids, the cat and a goldfish that basically killed my will to live, we have made it to Colorado! We are officially Colorado… ites? Colorado-ans?? Whatever. We got in late last night and while I still feel like a zombie on a desert …

Gym Smackdown: The Fight Over the Floor Fan [A Day in the Life of an HSP]

See?? I told you it was a superpower! Setting down my gym bag in preparation to “shake and shimmy, baby”, “get my strut on” and “shake what my mama [obviously forgot to] gave me” in Zumba the other day, I noticed one of the floor fans in the studio was turned in my direction. So …

Learning Life Lessons The Hard Way: A “To-Do” List is Nothing Without a “To-Be” List [Plus: we bought a house!]

So we bought a house! And I LOVE IT!! (Pics to come!) After an excruciating day of looking at dozens of progressively crappier houses (true story: one house said it “needed a little TLC” but when we got there the ceiling was caved in and there was a massive crack in the foundation… it didn’t …