As a part time exercise instructor, I’m always on the lookout for hawt new fitness moves. I think I finally found them — PRANCERCISE! (Thanks, Becca.)
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Health & Fitness
I rarely eat fast food. But over the Memorial Day weekend on our way to North Carolina Jake persuaded me to stop in for a bite at Bojangles, his all time favorite chicken and biscuit emporium, and for some odd reason, I thought that sounded like a fabulous idea. Plus I like the idea of [...]
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Wow. I just found out that world renowned yoga instructor Cyndi Lee of OM studio in New York City is moving to Lynchburg, VA July 1! This is huge! Cyndi Lee is a yoga luminary. I used to go to her studio when it was a bare bones space on 14th Street between 7th and [...]
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I just finished writing an article for a magazine about body image and I found the research so fascinating. A big takeaway is that the more people obsess over their appearance the less satisfied they are, which is counterintuitive because you’d think physical “perfection” would translate to contentment, but that is not the case. I [...]
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Hard to believe, but I’m already in the fourth month of my Consumption Diet. All in all, the Consumption Diet hasn’t been that difficult to follow. I’m actually surprised by how easy it’s been. This suggests to me that I’m really not much of a shopper and/or I’m used to going without a lot of [...]
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Did you know Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,who recently turned 80, can pump out 20 knees-off-the-ground pushups? Holy cow! Way to go, Justice Ginsburg! This, according to a piece in today’s Washington Post, about personal trainer Bryant Johnson, 48, an Army Reservist attached to the Special Forces whose discrete, sensitive but strict and professional [...]
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I’m finally getting around to watching Season 1 of the HBO series Girls on Netflix and I love it! The show takes me back to my early 20s, living in New York City, dating weird dudes, having no money, and spending all my time with my girlfriends. Now I also get to live vicariously through my [...]
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I’m going to write about inspiration because at this moment I have none of it. I’m more than 100 pages into my latest book yet sometimes — many times — I can’t see the way forward. I lose track of the story. I can’t focus. I lack concentration and confidence, I stare at a screen [...]
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Did you know nail biting is associated with obsessive-compulsive disorders like skin picking and hoarding? This, according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the bible of psychology journals. I’ve been a nail biter my entire life! I came by it honestly; my mom is a biter. I used to be really bad with it [...]
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