Suicide is in the air. Kazakh model Ruslana Korshunova dove to her death from her New York balcony. Canadian model Hayley Kohle leapt to a similar fate from a balcony in Milan. On the same day as Kohle, model Randy Johnston died of a drug overdose. Columbian model Lina Marulinda also chose a free fall …
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This man is pretty much an oxygen savant. He breathes it and then recycles it into energy! And to think Al Gore got the Nobel… What, you think you’re doing well just by breathing the O2? Pansy. Why settle for basic respiration when there is so much more you can do with oxygen? Top 3 …
File this under It’s Not Fair (or, Another Reason It’s OK to Steal His Comfy T-Shirts): Men can eat simple carbs like white bread, pasta and rice galore and it doesn’t up their heart disease risk. Women, on the other hand, just smell the stuff and their ticker goes off like a firecracker. To pour …
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Riiiiggghhht. I’m embarrassed to even admit that I do this but my neuroses want to know if they have company in your neuroses. I read a lot of magazines. It’s a sickness really. But my real weakness is that every time I see one of those weight-loss success stories (I lost 90 lbs in 3 …
Maybe the birds are doing a cleanse too… If God had intended me to shart Depends would come in a bikini style with fun pattern options. (My buns like to be festive, what can I say?) This was my initial reaction the first time someone talked to me about doing a “cleanse” not of the …
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An ode to yesterday’s fun with mis-heard lyrics! It was inevitable. Sleep deprivation from finishing my book manuscript and the Jelly Bean combined with a very weight intensive P90X workout and the fact that jelly bean season is now in full throttle found me slumped over my table this afternoon in a sugar coma. I …
As if it isn’t enough that a woman’s weight is intensely scrutinized for reasons ranging from medical to vanity to rank curiousity while she’s pregnant, now she has to worry about her weight if she so much as merely wants to have a baby. Last week super skinny E! correspondent Guilana Rancic (you may remember …
Fridays are normally Greatest Hits (i.e. rerun posts) here at GFE but today I wanted to do a quick Olympic news roundup today instead. Between many of you awesome readers and my trusty Google reader, I have a whole (metaphorical) pile of Olympic stories that I keep meaning to blog about and haven’t had time …
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Eating with me can be a surreal experience, for so many reasons. My friends, in a testament to their generous ability to overlook my flaws, put up with a great deal from me with nary a comment. But a few days ago I was reminded of my, er, quirks when I had a friend over …
Hee! They drew hair on his legs!! When Personal Trainers AttackIt was bound to happen. The gym can be like a family – both in good ways and bad – so when a personal trainer went on Attack today, I can’t say I was overly surprised. Well, that and he told me he was going …
