A Day in the Life of Calories In < Calories Out
A typical day of “calories in < calories out:” Wake up at 4:30 am after about 5-6 hours of sleep. Raises my ghrelin (the hunger stimulating hormone) and lowers my leptin (the satiety… Read More
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“But You Still Have To Go To The Gym”
This commercial makes me so angry–it embodies pretty much everything that’s wrong with the state of fitness and nutrition in our country today. There are so many things wrong with commercial that it’s… Read More
Forgetting Fitspiration
A quick thought before I go back into the science and history of the calories in/calories out myth: My physical therapist wants me to start going to the gym again. And I… Read More
The “C” Word
I have added a new “bad” word to my vocabulary. Forget the f-word, forget the four-letter c-word: this is a 7-letter c-word, and it’s the most heinous, stupid, useless wastes of breath I… Read More
Arguing Semantics With Myself: What Shape Did You Mean?
There’s something I’ve been struggling with lately–struggling to live with and struggling to put into words. It wasn’t until I started reading Caroline Knapp’s Appetite: Why Women Want that I started to… Read More
No Pain, No Gain
Physical pain is a funny thing. In essence, it’s a biological reaction to anything that is thrown physiologically off-balance–a signal from the body that something shouldn’t be. The unrelenting spasms from a herniated… Read More
One Rep Max
Before I get started with the (red) meat of today’s post, I just wanted to thank those of you who have reached out to me about your own struggles with ED, food, and… Read More
Where ED Wasn’t
The new year brought even bigger changes. It started like this: Even after months of working side-by-side with literally more than one hundred other employees in a fast-paced high-volume retail box, I would… Read More
Retail Therapy
I’ve been thinking a lot about Stefani Ruper’s post on Paleo for Women about doing away with our mirrors in order to promote a better self-image. I think it’s such an empowering idea… Read More
Fitness Models Don’t Drink Kool-Aid
It’s difficult to adequately describe the absolute physiological and mental agony of anxiety if you’ve never experienced an attack; however, suffice it to say that I suffered from the throat-closing, chest-crushing, dizzy/nauseous symptoms*… Read More
