What’s Your Excuse… For Not Being Awesome? [Happy (Anti)Fitspo Friday!]

I know you’ve seen it. There’s been a thing going around the past few days. No, not the flu (although it might make you feel sickish) but rather a picture, of a mom and her kids. It was supercute until the mom, a fitness blogger, tried to turn it into “fitspiration” by adding text to …

After Someone Stole My Photo And Used It For Thinspiration I Decided To Take It Back And Make My Own (Not)Fitspo

About a month ago I got a sweet note from my little bro, who is on the Internet so much he’d have a fiber optic cable attached to his brain Matrix-style… if that weren’t so low-tech. (I think his brain might actually be The Cloud. Shh.) Anyhow. “Uh, Shosh?” he wrote me. (Yes, Shosh is …

When Pinspiration Goes Bad: The weirdest, funniest and just-might-work-iest healthy pins

Admit it, you’ve ridden the Pinterest roller coaster: It starts with the high of finding the perfect little black dress, quickly followed by the decision to find the perfect workout to make you look hot in said dress, then comes the mania of looking through 11,230 fitness pinboards, followed by the low of desperation when you realize …

New Research: Getting Ultra Ripped May Make You Ultra Weak [The surprising downsides of our obsession with leanness – like, oh, death]

“She’s so pretty! So what is it about her that makes her so ugly? And what is up with her makeup??’ My husband isn’t usually one to comment on such things. In fact, unless you’re an after-hours clown on on your way to host a Mary Kay party, he probably won’t even notice if you’re …