Give Yourself A Gift This Valentine's Day!
Written By: Jennifer Bussell
I used to love me. I was athletic all of my life. I looked good. I felt good. I can reflect with pride on a childhood full of field day ribbons, teen years filled with multiple team sports trophies, and cheerleading squad photographs, in which my body was nothing less than rock solid.
My pride extends into early adulthood achievements such as police academy graduation (top of my class in physical fitness!), successful hiking excursions, waterskiing weekends, and dance floor “marathons”. Childhood friends still remind me of my athletic physique, and my “sexy” legs. Despite the “thoroughbred” nickname, I loved those legs.
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Busy Moms Wanted!
Any of you who have read my iPod post, know that I am slightly technology-phobic, and when it comes to incorporating gadgets, devices, and all electronic contrivances and contraptions that come with both a charger and an instruction manual, I am like Margaret Simon in Are You There God, It’s Me, Margaret - that is, a late bloomer. (We must, we must, we must increase our busts…….) If you didn’t read the book, you are really missing out.
Not only am I a late bloomer, but if you read my I’m Too Sexy For My Sunglasses article, you know I’m a bit old school - a traditionalist of sorts. Okay, I’m stuck in my ways. (But don’t tell anyone, because in my mind, that is a trait that only women in their seventies or higher are allowed to possess.) Which is ironic, because my sunglasses DO qualify as old lady shades.
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Food Blog That Will Cure You Of Junk Food Cravings
You know how every girl has that one food in her past that she over-consumed one time, to the point of making herself sick, so the thought of ever eating it again, is so disgusting, that she will never be able to bring herself to eat the food again? (Which is actually a blessing if the food is a very fattening and unhealthy item). For me, that food item is the fried green bean appetizer at TGIFs. (Yes, even girls who run health and fitness blogs can convince ourselves it’s sort of healthy since there is a vegetable involved. Never mind that the fact that it’s breaded, fried and dripping in grease).
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You Could Help Launch A Video Game
Some of you moms have already emailed me to let me know you entered the fitness getaway/product launch contest, sponsored by Ammo Marketing, that I introduced yesterday. But in case you missed my article, I’m going to re-cap for you.
The opportunity will allow two lucky moms to try out a fitness video game similar to Wii Fit and report their experiences with it. I’m extremely excited about more fitness video games entering the space, but I’m especially excited that it has the involvement of Bob Greene, Oprah’s trainer!
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Get Fit With The Best!
I am so excited to be able to deliver this information to all the Fit After Thirty Moms out there! I have found a truly great opportunity for two lucky moms to jump start their fitness goals with the help and inspiration of Bob Greene, Oprah’s trainer, while helping a video game company launch a fitness product!!!! This requires no purchase of anything, and is not a gimmick to get you to buy the product. I assure you of that!!!!
Moms must live in the Los Angeles area and be willing to communicate with the media about their experience, and if you are chosen, Fit After Thirty will provide you with the forum to do just that!
Ammo Marketing, a San Francisco-based company, is currently working on a fitness-based product launch, and are conducting a search for two moms between the ages of 25-45 by Wednesday, February 11th, 2009. As of yet, they have still not found the right moms!
If you are a woman who does it all for everyone else, but might need a little help taking care of herself, this opportunity is for you!
Click here for all the details and to enter. If you prefer reading the details on our site, keep reading:
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It Begs The Question..........
How and when did she poop on this long trek? Did she go in her wet suit? Did she get in the boat every time when she had to do number 2? Is there a panel on the wet suit that opens in mid-swim? Curious minds want to know, people!
This excerpt from an NBCSports.com article explains some of the details of her near-30 day swim:
Figge woke most days around 7 a.m., eating pasta and baked potatoes while she and the crew assessed the weather. Her longest stint in the water was about eight hours, and her shortest was 21 minutes. Crew members would throw bottles of energy drinks as she swam; if the seas were too rough, divers would deliver them in person. At night she ate meat, fish and peanut butter, replenishing the estimated 8,000 calories she burned a day.
But I’m still curious about the pooping part, so if anyone knows how bowel functions are handled by these distance swimmers, pray tell! Comment at will!
Also, after you read the article, you are no longer able to use your age as an excuse for not achieving any of your fitness goals and dreams! Jennifer Figge is truly a Fit After Thirty woman!
If Not, Eliminate Media From Your Diet.
One of the reasons Fit After Thirty exists, is to help encourage positive and healthy attitudes in women, about their bodies. A healthy approach to body image starts in the mind.
Whether someone needs to lose weight, gain weight, or just improve health on the inside, she must do it with self-love and a positive attitude. Although a lot of women in America need to lose weight, a great many of women think they need to lose weight, even if they don’t. Some of this body dysmorphia stems from the unrealistic images that bombard women everyday in print media and on television.
Our culture’s fame-obsessed media machine spins women in a vicious cycle like lab rats on a wheel, one day feeding us photos of unattainable airbrushed perfection, and the next, blasting the airwaves with stories of a pop star’s weight gain which amount to nothing more than public ridicule, while purporting to be news. The message is clear: regardless of how beautiful or talented you are, if you look like this, you are accepted; but if you look like that, you are not.
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Or Is Your Valentine Commitment-phobic?
I used to play softball with a couple who had been in a long term relationship for years, without ever having tied the knot. Every year as Valentine’s Day would approach, the hopeless romantic in her was certain that her patience would be rewarded with a marriage proposal. The freedom lover-permanence hater in him came through with flowers every year. The kind that live for awhile and then die and get thrown away. Oh, right; that’s all flowers. And that also described all his relationships, most of which looked like this:
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It's All About "I"
With Valentine’s Day around the corner, I’m sure a lot of you have relationships on your mind. So, if you are in one, a new study seems to indicate that you can determine your happiness level and predict whether you’ll be in it 6 months from now, based on your IM messages between you and your significant other.
If you had any doubts that we are in the technical age, I think the fact that a journal called Personal Relationships did a study on IM patterns between lovers, proves it.
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New Study Gives Clues To Cause
If you are pregnant or planning on getting pregnant, you may want to take a look at this article detailing an interesting new study that shows the potential cause of postpartum depression. It might be something to discuss with your doctor in order to be as prepared as possible after delivering your baby.
