Self & Body

9 Months On, 12+ Months Off?

January 9, 2013

I knew before I had my son that the journey back to my pre-pregnancy body would be one rife with anxiety and struggles with my self-confidence. I also knew that having a history of anorexia would further complicate the situation, knowing that I may have postpartum weight loss struggles. Because of that, I deliberately took [...]

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Resolve To Start Loving Exercise

January 8, 2013

At first when I thought about writing a fitness column, I felt inadequate. I’m not a fitness guru, I’m not a personal trainer, hell, I don’t even have a six-pack (of abs, not beer). I gain weight, I lose weight, I go through periods where nothing fits, I go through periods where I feel strong and [...]

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2013: A Resolution of Kindess

January 2, 2013

Three years ago, New Years would have been not a time of celebration, but a time of dread.  A time when I would have had to do things like face another year of failed goals; weight loss, confidence, smaller jeans. But the times, they are a changing. At Curvy Girl Guide, we’ve worked hard to [...]

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Fashion Or Media: Who’s To Blame? Or Is There Blame?

December 5, 2012

These days I spend a lot of time in the car since I am the designated transport official for our resident kindergartener. Stereotypes alive and well, as any male he is awfully hard to engage in conversation. In fact, it is just amazing how at barely 6-years-old, all on his own, he has figured out a [...]

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I Was Stressed To The Max, And So Were My Jeans

December 4, 2012

My life has an absurd amount of stress. Between raising three kids under seven, being a full time nursing student, attempting to run our home, working part time as a baking assistant and trying to be a good wife it is safe to say I am overwhelmed most of the time. When I’m overwhelmed? I [...]

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On Giving

December 3, 2012

I spent a lot of money in my adult years trying to compensate for the fact that the majority of my clothes as a kid were hand-me-downs. My farmer dad did not believe in spending a lot of money on clothes, so once I became an adult with my own money, I gave myself a monthly budget [...]

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Luscious Sensuality: Taking The Risk

November 14, 2012

As if America isn’t prudish and ridiculously over-conservative enough, when it comes to the sensual and sexual side of life, when there finally is expression of sensuality we are bombarded with images of what sexy is “supposed to look like.” There are so many beautiful photos of women posing in artistic nude and sensually themed [...]

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Dancing With Myself

November 12, 2012

I’m a dancer. Well, I used to be a dancer. I was a dance team girl in high school and college, loved clubbing and taught dance for a number of years. For more than a decade, though, dancing has been relegated to an annual Wild Night Out With The Girls and dance parties in the [...]

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Taking Back Your Own Power

November 1, 2012

Wearing Lycra and jumping rope in front of a mirror are two sure-fire ways to notice every little jiggle on your body.  I discovered this the other morning at the gym, noticing the little pooch on my belly that is proof that I drank a few too many margaritas last year.  I joined a new [...]

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3 Was My Magic Number

October 26, 2012

At the beginning of the year many of the writers here at Curvy Girl Guide pledged to Reinvent the Resolution and Take Back Our Numbers. As Brittany said, we were making a commitment: Forget the number on the scale, it’s time to live your life by your own terms, by your own numbers! Define your [...]

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