To Cleanse Or Not To Cleanse…
I decided the time had come: I was prepared to do a 3-day juice cleanse. Six juices a day. Fruit snacks (as in, real fruit. Not pseudo-gummy bears). Lean meat and veggies for dinner. Tea, bone...
View ArticleKumbaya, etc., etc.
Consider yourself warned: I am about to get all kinds of hippy-dippy-all-you-need-is-love-row-your-boat-ashore-kumbaya on your ass. Just so you know. Continue at risk of thurping (throwing up in...
View ArticleBeautif-oil!
After more than a year of playing hide-n-seek with the candida rashes on my face and acne worthy of the blackest of teen angst, I received the most wonderful compliment today. A friend asked if I...
View ArticleBaby Steps
There is a cruel irony to possessing a passion for health and fitness while dealing with CEBV. I spent a fair amount of my morning meandering through the Pilates Anytime website, searching for mat...
View ArticleQuiet Warrior
It’s been more than a month since I’ve done more than simply contemplate a post. In the past four weeks, I’ve been a pincushion for various medical professionals as I’ve completed a litany of tests –...
View ArticleInvisibility
I was at my kids’ baseball practice when I got the call: my blood test had returned and the doctor wanted to see me the next day. The urgency made me nervous, or as nervous as the mind-crippling...
View ArticleBook of the Month: Wheat Belly
I’ve got a shiny new idea for the SweatItOut Nation: books of the month! Now, of course I love me some good fiction, but that’s not our focus here. I would like to gain more knowledge about the...
View ArticleMaking The Cut
Note: This post isn’t about fitness or nutrition whatsoever. It’s totally about my hair. I knew there was a chance this would happen. That’s why I take my folic acid, my biotin, my gelatin in my tea....
View ArticleThe Kind-Of-Walking Dead
Today was one of my favorite days: leg day. I love working my lower body. It is always strong. I like having strength. I mean, come on…who doesn’t? I even like to zombie walk the day after leg...
View ArticleI’m Not Saying I’m Wonder Woman…
Well, faithful readers, here we are again. “Why doesn’t she write?” you ask. I like to imagine that my absence from the blogging world is noted and pondered. Some days, I don’t write because the brain...
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