First Lady Tackling Childhood Obesity
It’s no secret among those who know me in real life that I’m a liberal Democrat, or that I absolutely adore First Lady Michelle Obama as a career woman, mother, wife, and fitness role model.
She just strikes me as authentic, and authenticity has come to mean a lot to me over the past few years.
And I absolutely love her big cause right now, fighting childhood obesity, because it is an epidemic that has impacted — and will continue to impact – our country, if we don’t take collective action to mitigate it now. (more…)
Add comment February 9, 2010
Love Your Flawz
This 5-minute video is absolutely worth a peek at for its creativity and powerful message about loving yourself exactly as you are, flaws and all.
To be honest, I’d never heard about her until I came across this video online today, but musician Caitlin Crosby created “Embrace Your Flawz” to highlight men and women (including Crosby) showing off their natural beauty.
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2 comments February 8, 2010
Body Image Role Models of Olympic Proportions
With 31 World Cup victories under her belt, Vonn is already the greatest female skier in U.S. history. She's being marketed as the "Michael Phelps" of the Winter Games.
This is a cross-post over at WeAretheRealDeal.com. You can view it here or after the jump. (more…)
4 comments February 6, 2010
Would You Like Fries With That?
One of the first things I banned when I joined Weight Watchers in 2004 was, naturally, fried food.
After all, fried food has zero nutritional value and is a helluva lot of Points for pretty much nada.
And since I’ve always been more of a sweets-craver than a savory-craver, it has never been a big deal for me to ban this type of food. (more…)
9 comments February 6, 2010
OMFG
If you didn’t read this post about Diesel’s “Be Stupid” campaign over at WeAretheRealDeal today, you absolutely need to. (OK, well, I recommend it 
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I commented plenty in the comments so no editorializing here … but you just have to read it– and visit the campaign’s website – to see why this is such an outrage. (more…)
3 comments February 4, 2010
National Wear Red Day!
“The sweet spot = when your personal and professional worlds not only intersect, but exist symbiotically.”
This has become my mantra lately, and it’s even scrawled on my Facebook page.
At work recently, I’ve been able to combine my off-the-clock passions for healthy living/fitness/nutrition and social media as I’ve become involved in our work for the American Heart Association. (more…)
4 comments February 4, 2010
Day One, Success
Help me out here …
What defines “success” when, in a nutshell, you’re someone who started out dieting, developed humiliating disordered eating behaviors as a result of OCD/Type-A/perfectionist tendencies, conquered most of said behaviors but got lax, gained a little weight and still struggles with emotional eating?
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, especially since my über-cathartic posts this week. (more…)
8 comments February 3, 2010
Step One
When you fail to plan, plan to fail.
It’s time for me to go back to WW 101. I’ve been on WW Online since April 13, 2004, but lord knows I could use a refresher.
What I did then that worked so well was to simply plan my meals. This doesn’t mean I was obsessive and wed to the plans (things happen, surprise lunches, etc), but they did help me form my day. (more…)
9 comments February 2, 2010
Thank You
I just wanted to thank you all for your insightful comments. I concluded tonight that part of my compulsion stems from the fact that I’m alone a lot and am turning to food for comfort. Not good. (more…)
9 comments February 1, 2010
When Logic Fails
Anxiety is rearing its ugly head once again.
Or maybe it’s not anxiety; I don’t know for sure. Maybe it’s just fatigue? Whatever it is, I don’t like it.
I know I’ve said it quite a bit recently, but for the past few months, I’ve been having trouble with not giving in to temptations.
Logic says: If I didn’t buy it, I wouldn’t eat it.
You’d never see me order a cheeseburger or fries at a restaurant (I prefer to make meals like that at home, modified to my liking where I’m controlling the ingredients and can “healthify” the meal) .
Yet I seem to have no problem buying trashy processed Chex Mix and lack-luster chocolate bars that I’ll take a bite of before tossing–wasting both hard-earned money and precious calories that could be/should be spent on nutritious options. (more…)
21 comments February 1, 2010
