Health + Fitness

Strong is the New Skinny…and Your Personal Fountain of Youth

February 19, 2013

Fitness. Strength. Movement. Stamina. There are so many words I could write on the subject of personal fitness, so many studies I could quote. But I’m not going to. All I’m going to say is this, and should you doubt me, you just get to Googling: The greatest gift you can ever give yourself is [...]

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WVE: What V Eats (Feel Fit February)

February 12, 2013

What do you eat? Ah, the question of all diet/health/fitness questions, and one I’m often asked. That’s this week’s Feel Fit February topic. When I’m in a lean-and-muscular phase, friends and sometimes even strangers want to know how I train and what I eat. What I find funny is they always seem to expect some [...]

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Vent Sesh: Stepping Away from the Scale

February 5, 2013

As part of Feel Fit February, Erika and I agreed to follow Alyson’s lead with a “vent sesh,” a regular feature on her blog in which she gets real about a particular topic. Judging from the length of this post (thanks for sticking it out) I had no problems getting real about today’s vent sesh question: Why [...]

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Feel Fit February

January 31, 2013

January is all about resolutions, right? How many thousands make their weight (as in losing it) a goal for the year? I know I do. Every. Single. Year. And how many of us fall off the wagon by the end of February, at least a little? Again, likely thousands. That elusive “perfect” number on the [...]

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Kicking Off 2013 with Whole30

December 30, 2012

Two big things happened to me in 2012: I turned 40. O.M.Geeeeeeezy. I found 30. Erm, Whole30, that is. These two things were the catalyst for a big lifestyle overhaul—seeing the BIG 4-0 coming my way, I decided to rededicate myself to achieving optimal fitness. Along the way, I discovered Whole30, and it changed my approach to [...]

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Beautiful Bodies Feature

September 22, 2012

Big thanks to Ashe of {Putting the} Ash in Fashion for including me in her Beautiful Bodies series! Beautiful Bodies is a regular feature on Ashe’s blog in which she interviews bloggers (real people!) about the very sticky subject of body image—namely our own. It’s a funny thing that fashion and body image are more [...]

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Reflections on Whole30

September 9, 2012

I made it, you guys! I completed my first Whole30 (actually a Whole31 since August has 31 days)…and… WHOLE30 IS REVOLUTIONARY! No joke. That “Change your life in 30 days” line from Whole9? Absolutely true. Whole30 did change my life in so many positive ways, I can’t thank Dallas and Melissa Hartwig enough for sharing this [...]

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Get Started on Getting Healthy

August 18, 2012

I’ve been getting lots of great questions about Whole30 these past few days, and I’m thrilled—it means you are paying attention to the point of all these posts: that you should take good care of YOU, proactively! I’m not telling anyone what they should do with their lives. But I will say that the food we [...]

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