Starting & Pain. Health & Happy.

No one ever knew how hard it was to START. I don’t know if I wrote about THAT as much as I talked about moving forward. I talked about a lot of things, but I look back on the beginning of the health and fitness journey – and I just remember PAIN. I remember physical […]

How to Turn Your Lies into True Truth

“Did you make slime,” I asked Stella this morning. Apparently, she learned how to make this do-it-yourself at-home slime from a friend, and now, I am finding empty bottles of conditioner (?), glue and salt all over the house. “No,” she said. I looked at her.  What do you say to that kind of bold-faced […]

Why a Starfish?

Someone in our new tri club asked about significance of the “starfish” symbol – in our logo, and of course, as some may have noticed, on our triathlon kits. A friend reminded me of a post I wrote a long while back about “why” a starfish became “my” symbol–long before it leaked over into the […]

One of Those Days

I’m having one of those days. Those days where you are doing side planks with leg lifts (um, WTF, owwwww), and you crumple to the floor in tears, for no apparent reason. Well maybe not you, but me.  Me did.  I would call it hormonal, but that’s really not the case. I’ve had a lot of […]

How to Get Back on the Wagon

Here’s a simple way to get “back on the wagon,” after a month (or a lifetime) of eating “bad food” and drinking “bad things.” Just don’t get on a wagon in the first place. (I’ll explain.) THERE IS NO WAGON.   I hear, every so often, someone chime in and say: I have fallen off the wagon, and […]

Teetotaler

And it’s here. Today marks one year without a drink, and I celebrated with my “teetotaler” tattoo. On this day last year, when I decided to quit, I had not crashed at rock bottom. But… I HAD crashed into the bottom so many times, my life was like a trampoline—up up up, boom? ! Up […]

Why “Moderation” is a Poo Emoji

This morning on the trainer, I was listening to Rich Roll’s episode with Andrew Taylor…and this Andrew guy is interesting because he’s known as the “Potato Man.” Basically, Taylor was 300 pounds and decided that he’d had enough… So he committed to eating NOTHING BUT POTATOES for a year. “Okay, so that’s a little weird.” […]

“Not Giving a Sh*t is a Way to Have a Terrible Life…”

“It does not take any courage to say, ‘Nothing is going to work.’ What you are really saying is, ‘I am afraid to try. Because what if I try and I fail.’ The hipster approach is to say, ‘I don’t give a sh*t.’ But not giving a sh*t is a way to have a terrible […]

To Meredith on Her 37th Birthday (and a Tony Robbins Thing)

So today, I am 37 years young. I celebrated my birthday a little early–last weekend at the Tony Robbins seminar, Unleash the Power Within, in San Jose, California.  Now, that is a birthday people. And yeah, I’m dead serious. (And yes, in case you were wondering, I have been waiting for several decades to write that blog post […]