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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 body image. I know how difficult it...
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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...
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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...
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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 think I have...
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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 am utterly terrified. I...
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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...
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A Day in the Life of Calories In < Calories Out
A typical day of “calories in < calories out:” Is this any way to live? Wake up at 4:30 am after about 5-6 hours of sleep. Raises my ghrelin (the hunger stimulating hormone) and lowers my leptin...
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Fitness Friday: Heavy Lifting Shouldn’t Be Taken Lightly
Today’s post comes from a place of…uncertainty. Doubt. Acceptance. I’m writing it because I am not above the very mindset about which I’m railing against. Because I’m not immune to marketing messages,...
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UN-Podcast 019: UNtimed
[source] I’ve said it before, but I think it bears repeating (again and again, since it seems to surprise me every time): our paths are inexplicably intertwined with the paths of those who need to be...
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UN-Podcast 022: UNsettled
[source] Have you ever had a conversation with someone that was so powerful and earth-shatteringly beautiful that you wish you could have recorded it? Well, Ito and I had that conversation with...
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