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From the Research Files: Skinny People Die Young

Skinny people die young. Compared to overweight people, that is. Contradicting what I, and many of you, have come to feel is common sense, this study says that people in the “overweight” category of the BMI scale live longer, healthier lives than thei…

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Olympic Gymnast Tackles the Age-Old Battle of Woman Vs. Scale (Plus Giveaway!)

Did you know that some women lead perfectly happy and healthy lives without ever stepping on a scale? There are women out there who don’t even know what they weigh! If you are one of those women, as I’m sure some of you are, then you will spend the r…

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Does Caffeine Help or Hinder Weight Loss?

Photo Credit: Fail BlogYou don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know that diet pills don’t work. If they did, we’d all look like Carmen Electra and spend our nights partying away with the Zantrex dancers. And yet they sell. So who’s buying? Women…

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November’s Great Fitness Experiment: Suspension Training

Conclusions About Low Volume WorkoutsLast month’s Experiment saw me take my overall workout time down from the certifiably insane range back into ordinary fitness buff land. In addition to lowering my overall training volume, I took the advice of Rach…

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Stop the Stomach Wars: Making Peace With Your Tummy

My friend L and I have been best friends since elementary school. We thought we were two halves of the same person and campaigned relentlessly to our parents to never, ever separate us. After all, a multitude of friendship bracelets, twin My Child do…

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Seasonal Affective Disorder: Is Vitamin D the Cure?

Life is full of difficult choices. Take tonight for instance. The cold weather necessitated me pulling out all the workout pants I’d packed away in the spring that, courtesy of my I’m-totally-trying-not-to-obsess-about weight gain, don’t fit like the…

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I Think I May Have To Stop Reading Blogs Like This

It has been popular of late to talk about the ill-effects from being a blogger who writes about weight/diet issues. However, I have been wondering about the opposite effect. That is, what reading all this does to you. And to me. Reader Judy (whose …

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Classic Eating Disorder “Tips” Make a Comeback - Via The Biggest Loser

Here’s a diet tip for you: Eat with a bear. I bet you eat less. Just try it and see.”She is a great example of fulfilling your destiny. She’ll order dessert and take one bite and then pour the salt shaker over it. She’s about living consciously.”~ Al…

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Crazy Comment Day at the Gym

Aww! I miss the ’80s! Who doesn’t love a furry loin cloth that requires a bikini wax to wear??It finally happened: I got the “you look too muscular” comment from another woman in the gym.Gym Buddy Allison and I were minding our own business, finishing…

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Bigger Breakfasts for Smaller Waistlines

Photo Credit: Natalie DeeApparently September was Better Breakfast Month. Who knew? Just so you don’t get caught off guard, November is listed as the month for Pancreatic Cancer Awareness, National Novel Writing, Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness and Nat…

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Sense and Sensa-bilites

Occasionally I am asked to test out a product so crazy weird that I simply can’t resist saying yes. Some bloggers get to try out cool stuff like hawt Danskin clothes (aside to Danskin: pick me, pick me!!) or powdered peanut butter. Me? I get pinhole …

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How Skinny Is Too Skinny?

Photo CreditOur society is warped. Twisted. A veritable fun-house of fat and thin mirrors when it comes to body image. We’re all well aware how the media accustoms us to starlets sylphlike on screen and sacks of bones in real life. Because the came…

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Kettlebell Experiment Conclusions

I actually went to a NKOTB concert. I was 11. I went with my dad. Poor man.Some things just don’t make sense. Like The New Kids On The Block much-hyped comeback song “Summertime.” I mean the girl in the song is walking the beach in “flip flops, ha…

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Fitness Mystery of the Day: The Case of the Marathon Ten

People often take up running as a weight loss tool. And for many it helps. Until it doesn’t. Aside from the previously discussed myth that exercise alone produces weight loss, there is another interesting facet to this idea: after a certain point th…

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Overheard Gym Conversation: Childhood Obesity

Woman, to friend: I can’t believe you are going to have to buy her all new clothing!Friend: Well, I’m not going to obviously. I mean, she will just have to live with it. She tried on those clothes at the mall when we bought them over a month ago and …

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Would You Pay $48 A Week To Be Thin?

My Fave Target Commercial. What? Like you don’t have one.I was recently accosted in Target. Really it was my own fault. Gym Buddy Allison and I were in the Sports Nutrition aisle looking for gels to take on our long runs. (And, let’s be honest, to …

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The MILF Phenomenon: Spanx Your Mama!

Yesterday at the park (where I met fellow fit mama blogger Mama Sweat who, I must say, is both super-toned and super-smart, a rare combination. If you haven’t read her stuff, you totally should. Just promise to keep reading me too!) I had one of those…

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