My favorite part of this pic is Gym Buddy Megan’s daughter’s face. She looks tougher than all 3 of us weird grown-ups. Fitness has so many rules that it is practically its own religion. Don’t believe me? Try and talk a triathlete out of their long ride/run/swim on Sundays. You might as well be stealing …
Read more “The Rules of Buying Fitness Shoes [And all the ways I break them…]”
Hitting a woman is not cool and hasn’t been socially acceptable in quite a few decades (see: Chris Brown/Rihanna scandal) but ever since Scarlett slapped Rhett Butler, girls slapping men has been made out to be not only okay but even ladylike, appropriate and, yes, cool. (Okay, let’s be honest: Scarlett slapped just about everybody in …
Read more “Have You Ever Slapped Anybody? [Hitting Men: Art or Abuse?]”
This tire weighs 160 pounds. And this is the “small tire”. I’m trying to smile but see all the cords in my neck popping out? Hot! No, literally. It was 113 degrees today. Not everyone loves working out in a gym like I do – there’s the expense, the noise, the hassle, the crazy people …
Read more “The Ultimate DIY Garage Gym [Plus: The Hot Sweaty Mess Workout]”
“Just eat less and move more.” It’s the standard advice given for weight loss and one of the first “rules” of healthy living that I ran afoul of. It didn’t work that way for me. To which adherents usually explain, rather testily, that it’s math and you can’t argue with math. “It’s calories in versus …
Read more “Harvard Says Calories In/Calories Out Model Is Flawed [So what do we use instead?]”
Please, please ignore my model face. I have no idea what I’m doing. This was just the best shot of the skirt. “Get a hobby!” Every time I get caught up in my issues, like the other day when I complained about my waist getting bigger (Mary Kate astutely commented, “Why are you measuring …
Read more “2 Ways To Wear A Pillowcase [What’s Your Non-Fitness Hobby?]”
Need a break from fitness? Check out my parenting column this week from Redbook: 10 Things I Hope My Kids DON’T Learn From Harry Potter (So far the only 3 comments on there call me an idiot – had to know that was coming. You do not insult the Boy Who Lived on the eve …
Read more “Naked Pregnancy Pics (Would you?) and Shape.com Photo Shoot Bloopers!”
I’ll post the rest of our bloopers from the Shape.com photoshoot tomorrow! Let’s just say Gym Buddy Megan was in a crazy mood that day… Gyms can be scary places and not just because of the man with the tank top specifically cut to show his nipples or the lady belting show tunes along with …
Food labels are like ancient runes to me – I think that if I just study them hard enough eventually I’ll find the secret to perfect health. This is hilarious on two levels: first because labels lie in so many ways they make ex-boyfriends look lazy and second because while I’m so intent on reading …
Read more “The Sugar Substitutes Debate [How to diminish cravings for sweets]”
picture credit I can’t remember her face. It’s strange because I remember so many things from that time in sharp detail and yet the most important thing – her – eludes me. As she died so quickly, I was basically the only person on earth who really knew her. I am her mother, for pity’s …
Read more “In Being the Answer to Someone Else’s Prayer, You Often Find the Answer to Your Own”
It’s inevitable – go to any starting line, fitness class or gym and you’ll find people in various stages of stretching. Almost always, people are stretching before their exercise. It’s what we were all taught by our elementary P.E. teachers, right? You gotta warm up those muscles so you don’t pull something! While my elementary …
Read more “Everything You Know About Stretching Is Wrong [Plus my tutu is on upside down]”
