Writing about life... unrefined.
Every year we vow to shed that holiday weight and pray the diet sticks. We make ourselves crazy trying, losing mental and physical energy the whole time… and by February, we give up and stuff ourselves full of Valentine’s Day cupcakes. Well, maybe not ALL of us. Just us crazier ones. The Quick and Clean [...]
The words wouldn’t come out. Looking up at the ceiling, I tried to blink back the tears. Standing right in front of me was my trainer, trying her hardest to erase all the defeating thoughts from my head. I understood what she was saying. It’s all the stuff I know. But there I was, twenty [...]
YAAWWWNNNN… I had been dragging soooo much the last few weeks. I was actually starting to think something was seriously wrong with me. I couldn’t keep my eyes open, but I didn’t have any time to rest. I’m BUSY!! Busier than usual. So to figure out what was wrong with me, I naturally went on [...]
What would you have to lose to gain the confidence to Get Naked? That’s the question we were asking at SxSW in Austin last week. We weren’t actually getting naked, silly! That question was the basis of a cheeky little campaign to inspire people to feel comfortable in their nakedness. On March 13, CoolSculpting took [...]
Did you hear the news? Dieting causes the brain to eat itself!! *Side Note: This explains so much about so many people. Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University in New York found that like other parts of the body, hunger-inducing neurons in the brain begin to consume themselves in periods [...]
So… I gained more than five pounds after my trip to Austin. It was more like 5 in Austin… then 5 more for good measure. On top of that, I still had a little under 10 pounds to go to hit my weight goal before gaining those ten. I’ll blame it on all the reuniting celebration [...]
