Are You a Hungry Man? Woman?

The Hungry Man commericals make me laugh. If you want to see it, go to the website. I don’t know about you, but as an active woman, I need more than a smoothie for lunch  (maybe good for a snack, but not a meal). They show the size of the meal at the end and I’m [...]

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To Spring

This photo is dedicated to all those enjoying spring weather. This picture of my backward was taken 30 minutes ago:

This is freshly fallen snow! It sure is pretty–the picture doesn’t really show how pretty it is; it didn’t capture the light.

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These Magazine Issues Make Me Laugh

I didn’t see this  issue of Vogue , but I have read other magazine issues that deal with body image and/or different sizes. They are all laughable. As Back in Skinny Jeans points out, the body types they branch out to in these typical issues are limited: “tall-skinny, pregnant-skinny, waif-skinny, short-skinny, and curvy is a size 6″, [...]

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Moms: Let Yourself Go? For Shame!

I found this funny article about a Suave campaign over at Strollerderby. It’s a quick must read. Some highlights:
“Can you imagine if this campaign was aimed at dads? Dads, did you let yourselves go? Would a styling product help you get “yourself” back? Because this is a theme we’ve seen like, a billion times: Moms are martyrs [...]

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HAES: Fitness Mag Wants to Know Your BMI

Now is your chance to help prove that Health at Every Size does exist. I recieved this in my weekly Fit List newletter from FitnessMagazine.com:
“P.S. FITNESS wants to hear from you! We know that your Body Mass Index (BMI) is not the end-all-be-all in terms of determining if you’re healthy and fit. Now, we’d like [...]

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MicroMOVEments

If you are familiar with Sark (and you know I love her), then you’ve probably heard of MicroMOVEments. Basically this means taking small steps until you reach your goal. Many personal development and motivational authors and speakers have similar concepts–because it works! I’ve been taking MicroMOVEments with my personal finances, and this weekend I finally [...]

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Stop Comparing Yourself to Celebrities

I found this interesting article that shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone, but just in case you do believe the size 0 starlet when she says her stay slim secret is a balanced diet and hiking in the Hollywood hills a few times a week, you should read this article: The bizarre diet secrets of [...]

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Belly Dance Fitness for Weight Loss: Too Hip

Belly Dance Fitness for Weight Loss: Too Hip is an intermediate cardio belly dance workout lead by the muscular, AFAA certified Fitness Instructor and award winning professional belly dancer, Rania. This is not for beginners; you need to be familiar with basic belly dance moves. I didn’t know it was intermediate when I bought it [...]

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Beauty Images

Go check out these links from Back in Skinny Jeans: Skinny mannequins in the mall and Andy Rooney ponders,” Do women really think they’ll look like the girls in the ads.” The Andy Rooney video is pretty funny. It reminds me my own sarcastic comments made while flipping through fashion mags (which isn’t often!)

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Butter or Flax

It’s so funny to me when I hear people praise themselves for such things as, “Oh, I never use butter. I put flax oil on my toast.”Which makes me think (sarcastically), Oh yeah, I really hope your taste buds don’t hate you. You must be so proud. You are so committed. I wish I could [...]

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