My Favorite Health and Fitness Magazine [My debut as a video girl]

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 …

Reverse Airbrushing: Photoshop Jumps the Shark

Now this is an appropriate use of photoshop, children. This will be the most head-spinning quote you will read all week (unless you read that story about the “new teen trend” of drinking vodka through their eyeballs – that one’s got a couple of doozies that’ll make you grab the nearest adolescent and shake them): …

The Number One Most Effective Weight Loss Tip [Giveaway!]

“50 Ways To Burn More Calories” is the biggest, boldest headline on this month’s Allure magazine (the one with a spacey Megan Fox on the cover where she says that she can’t stand looking at herself and the thing she loves most is to be alone so she often spaces out to block out crowds …

Confessions of a Cardioholic [My Life as a Cautionary Tale, Part 625]

This image was titled “What Not to do in an Earthquake.” Good advice. What do I live for if not to be the poster girl for What Not To Do? In March, I was Fitness Magazine’s freakshow of the month in an article by Jessica Girdwain titled “Confessions of a Cardioholic.” You’d think after being …

Ab Crunches: Fitness Staple or Overblown Hype?

You could always go the Mariah Carey route (hint: it involves an airbrush, several colors of spray tan, and a drastic underestimation of the observational abilities of the general public.) Sit-ups: they’re the one exercise everyone has tried. Mostly because you can’t help it. Even as a baby it was one of the first things …