They make hydration look so easy! And so not fun! Fitness Myth: You need 8-10 glasses of water a day. Truth: There is no set amount each person needs. Rather it’s conditional on your age, gender, the status of your womb and especially your activity. If you are running outside on a hot day you …
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Rule #1: Never take candy from strangers! We drill this, along with it’s corollary “Never get into an unmarked van”, into our kids from pregnancy on (what? I watched a lot of Law & Order: SVU when I was gestating.) and yet I find strangers offering my kids candy at every turn. And they take …
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 keeps …
Read more “The Dairy Dilemma [Because ‘almond beverage and cookies’ just doesn’t sound as good.]”
Lesson learned: I don’t have a flooded basement – I have a water park for rodents! Do you know what a hole filled with rotten water and debris smells like? Rotten eggs. Which also happens to be what my basement smells like right now. For some inexplicable reason, our basement has flooded 3 times in …
Read more “How to Deal With Stress: Counting Blessings, Nixing Fat Talk”
The pizza plate reads “Do you really need that second helping?” Inscribed with sayings like “For the love of god stop eating,” “It’s hard to be around you when you eat like this,” and simply “Big Mistake.”, a new line of plates and bowls cutely named Intervention Ware chide you even if no one …
Read more “Dinner Served With a Heaping Scoop of Guilt. [Does tough love motivate you?]”
Sue Gury! I just sent you an e-mail letting you know. And a big thanks to everyone who entered – I ‘ve been cracking up all month reading about your first workout outfits!!
I bet Marilyn was a rest-er. Did she like vodka? Maybe she was a Russian spy!! Right after “Who does she think she is? Where does she get off giving fitness advice?” (Answer: I’m a total nobody! And I try never to give advice. If anything, I live as an example of what not to …
Read more “The Importance of Resting Between Weightlifting Sets [Do I have to? Really??]”
Getting caught doing this during the Spanish Inquisition was a one-way ticket to the iron maiden. In medieval times doing it was believed to infect you with the Black Death. Early Christians considered it on par with idol worship. But of course the Romans were all about doing it. In public. For every occasion. What …
Read more “Hygiene is Overrated [Are you a sitter or squatter?]”
See update at bottom! 12 boxes. 12 sheets of bubble wrap. 12 packing slips. 12 separate deliveries to my front door. All for the want of a pair of red and black shoes. Someone at Finish Line has a wicked sense of humor. Either that or they need to fire whoever wrote the code for …
I love this ad! I bet Death is a smoker. Everything I learned about fitness models I learned from a stripper. Well, an ex-stripper. She was at the book-signing table next to me at local event a while back and because neither of us were selling any books (book signing = sitting and trying not …
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