My grandmother died with all her own teeth. My mother will not be so lucky. I figure my odds are about 50/50. Last year, after having my teeth moved back into the places they have occupied since I got my braces off at 15 (who knew they’d move after all those years?), I began to [...]

I get tension headaches. A lot. One could surmise that I have a lot of tension in my life, or possibly that I have horrible posture and my spine is all out of whack causing my neck and back to always be tight and messed up and hurting my head. Whatever the reason, I get [...]

The first time I took a Flinstones vitamin, I was 19 years old. And pregnant. I had spent several weeks throwing up and had stopped taking the horse pill sized pre-natal vitamins because I got tired of flushing them down the toilet 30 seconds after I ingested them.  (You come here for the visuals, I [...]

I get a lot of emails from PR people who are both very serious and very excited about their very serious and important products. I usually roll my eyes because, really?  We’re jumping up and down about razor blades?  No.  Not really. Not that we don’t need razor blades, mind you – but let’s not [...]

For the last four years, my favorite workout pants have been a pair of maternity yoga capris. Yes, maternity. No, I’m not – nor have been in the last four years – pregnant. But these were the only pants I’d found that were comfortable and flattering, probably in part because of the extra support in [...]

I want to get dumbbells for my home so that I can have Michelle Obama arms. What?  That is a completely acceptable reason to start thinking about fitness and exercising and stuff.  The first lady has fantastic arms. My husband has some of those adjustable dumbbells with the plates you have to put on and [...]

I’ve been on a primarily low carb diet for about 4 years now.  I mean, if you don’t count the months here and there where I decide to completely sabotage myself and eat anything and everything I can get my hands on. The thing about eating low carb for that long is that it gets [...]

I am an inherently lazy person. I’m convinced that God made me that way.  That’s why I am not one of those people who glistens when they workout.  I sweat.  And get red faced.  And swell.  And my legs itch when I run. I’m practically allergic to strenuous exercise. Which makes yoga perfect for me. [...]

I just recently started working out again.  At a gym. If you’ve ever been to a gym before you know that it is where the female spawn of satan go to make you feel fat. Some people will try to tell you that those women only hang out at the fancy gyms, but they’re lying.  [...]