Health

Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move”: A Great Plan or an Unnecessary Intrusion?

January 19, 2011

In early 2010 Michelle Obama began a new initiative to reduce obesity rates of children in the US. According to the statistics on her site, obesity rates in children have tripled in the last 30 years and one-third of all those born after the year 2000 will face a diabetes diagnosis at some point in [...]

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Watering My Body: The Glass is Half Full

January 18, 2011

Part of the purpose of writing about my attempt to drink more water is that I want to be accountable for the way I treat my body. I know my body craves water. “Enough with the coffee!” it would say, if it could talk. Lately I’ve been thinking about the food and liquids I put [...]

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The Gym. The Scariest Place on Earth. Or is it?

January 18, 2011

“I need to go to the gym. But I need to lose x-amount of weight first.” Have you ever said those words out loud or to yourself?  Do you feel that way now? Do you want to go to the gym or for a run, but think you’re too heavy/thin/weak/clumsy? If you answered yes to [...]

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Five Years: My Life in Food

January 11, 2011

2005 was the year that I fell in love with food again. It was also the year that the man who would become my husband traded his six-pack for “The Lovehandles of Love,” since our courtship rituals centered around the delicious food he cooked for me. The memories of our romance are punctuated by food. [...]

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Missing: Kidnapped by Depression

January 10, 2011

It must be postpartum depression.  You just need to get a good night’s sleep.  The holidays are always a stressful time. Everyone has money problems and they can get stressful. The excuses are endless.  People all around me have diagnosed it.  And they could all be right. But it’s more than just that, more than [...]

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Five A Day

December 14, 2010

Maybe it is my stubborn nature, but if you tell me I can’t do something, I’m going to try as hard as I can to prove you wrong. I can’t move to Chicago by myself, where I don’t know anyone? I can’t get a job in this economy? I can’t pass the bar exam because [...]

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The War on Diabetes: My Tales from the Front Lines

December 8, 2010

My body has been through a lot. Rather, I have put my body through a lot. Before children I ate horrifically and exercised sporadically. There was no rhyme or reason to what I ate or how I expended energy. Crumpled fast food bags littered the floorboard of my truck. There were days when each and [...]

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The Zone Diet: Awesome or Insane in the Membrane?

November 30, 2010

I don’t believe in diets. It kind of says a lot considering I’m overweight, but still, I’m not a fan of dieting for the sake of losing weight. In a past life (see: before kids), I tried the Zone Diet because my mom was successful* in losing about 40(?) pounds and swore by the program. [...]

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Leave the “stuffing” for the bird!

November 25, 2010

I love to eat. I really love to eat good food, too. The kind of good food that is almost too pretty to eat; that makes you feel like you’re a judge on Top Chef.  Food that you eat slowly and carefully to enjoy and savor every flavor and bite.  Food that you don’t have to [...]

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109 Miles of Friction

November 23, 2010

Different points in my life have found me at varying levels of fitness, but the past few years I have been in a decline.  A slump. An extra ten pounds that weigh on my mind and my frame, and tennis shoes that go neglected for embarrassing periods of time. The last time I went to [...]

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