Note: This is hands-down the most enigmatic post I’ve ever written, not because of what it says but because of the effect it continues to have on other people. I wrote this in February of 2009, when I was not in a very good place mentally and I thought it would be a nice little …
Unsolicited uterus update! My problem is I have a wicked case of PMS. (No, I’m not pregnant but I scared you didn’t I?) Aren’t you glad you didn’t ask? Despite having my monthly, well, monthly since I was 16 – late bloomers holla! – I’m still surprised by its appearance every 30ish days. First my …
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A huge thank-you to all of you who took the time to Facebook, e-mail, tweet or leave me a comment today about Jelly Bean’s surgery. They made me feel so loved and less anxious as I read through them while sitting in the waiting room. Her surgery went great and the doctor said he got …
I’ll be honest: fashion is what really got me into exercise. I can’t wait for unitards to make a comeback! It wasn’t the runs in the dark in the middle of winter at 4 a.m and again at 10 p.m. It wasn’t leaving my son’s hospital bed to go do a high-intensity interval class instead …
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Great news: My book The Great Fitness Experiment: One Year of Trying Everything is available now for the Kindle and other e-readers! Woohoo! For a chance to win a free copy, check out Diet Girl’s review of my book and giveaway! Today I’m blogging at BlogHer about The Sit Down Diet and how to Get …
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Having long professed my love for Experience Life magazine, I was beyond thrilled when they asked me to be in a promo video they were making. A camera crew camped out with me and my rowdy band of children for three hours one afternoon as I rhapsodized about how much I adore this mag. A …
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Probably good advice, actually. (To see the rest of Eminem’s Top Ten Pieces of Advice For Kids, see the vid at the bottom of the post.) “Well what you need to do, see, is get some creatine. Yeah it’s gotten a bad rap over the past few years but it’s pretty much the only supplement …
“No baby animals were harmed in the making of this salt.” – Natalie Dee I really wanted to be a vegetarian. I wanted it like the Beatles want to hold your hand, like The Flying Lizards want money, like Cheap Trick wants you to want me (or maybe they want you to want them or …
I salute the master of the no-slip hair clip! Do you think that wire leads to a battery pack? What is the one thing you absolutely cannot workout without? Working out as long as I have and in as many different situations as I have (and losing as many brain cells as I have), I …
Leave it to an incorporeal computer to give me a reality check about my body. Somewhere Isaac Asimov is smiling. But just as the Internet giveth, so does the Internet taketh away… and now I’m just confused. Every woman has a body part that she just doesn’t like much. (Strike that – while most women …
