Oh how I love Natalie Dee! Expensive little non-eco-friendly cups of skim dairy, artificial sweeteners and fruit of dubious origin – I have little love for conventional yogurt. With all the great health benefits of full-fat plain yogurt that is not only super cheap but super easy to make at home in your crockpot, I …
I couldn’t find the actual ad we were looking at but this one is pretty similar – it emphasizes the “look” over the function. Plus I think this ad is freaking hilarious. (For those of you non-yoga types, the model is doing Camel Pose.) “I don’t think I like the word ‘pretty’ in that ad,” …
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Courtesy of the State of Georgia’s new childhood obesity campaign Three hours of hysterical sobbing, a whole box of kleenex thrown and self-inflicted eye poking (yes, really) is what my third grader did when I assigned him a second sheet of math problems after he lied to me about having homework so he could go …
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Trust me, this is one exercise video you do not want to miss! (Eurotrain!!!) *A huge thank you to everyone for your patience yesterday- as you may have noticed, my site was down for most of yesterday due to problems on my web host’s end. Thanks for all the e-mails & sympathy! We seem to …
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Skinny Girl Eating Ice Cream: A study in social morés. Eclipsed only by the Fat Child Eating Ice Cream tableau vivant, nothing brings out more opinions than a thin girl with a cone. Some people are jealous: “Lucky genetic freak gets to eat ice cream and still look like that?!” Others are sad: “I’ll never be …
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“Tell me I’m not angry for no reason!!!” was the subject line on an e-mail from Gym Buddy Lindsey. I tried to imagine what would be so upsetting as to require the use of a double negative and extraneous punctuation. That it continued with “I’m so pissed!!!!!!!!!!” only made me more intrigued. (And more entertained …
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Tagline: “It’s all about men.” This is exactly the type of idiotic advertising that companies do just to get a rise out of people so we’ll all post it on our blogs and natter about it and give them lots of viral publicity and attention. Sadly, I am unable to resist the bait and so …
I’ve always had a soft spot for Ginnifer Goodwin – we’re both pale with dark hair, we’re both 32, and she plays a polygamous Mormon wife on a show that purports to not be about Mormons but really is, (or at least is really about the weirdly naive-yet-oversexed stereotype of Mormons that Hollywood so loves) …
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Reading National Geographic last night (see? I do read things apart from health and fitness!), I came across an ad for “gravity defyer” shoes. Clearly, this is a joke. I mean first of all there’s the word “defyer.” I’m guessing it’s supposed to mean that the shoes defy gravity and the spelling is a word …
I just finished reading October’s Fitness magazine (The one with the lady in the bikini on the cover. No, not the bikini-clad girl on the bike. Or the one on the beach. Or the 20 standing in the water. The one with the bikini-clad girl standing in the water by the beach BUT wearing an …
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