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It’s stocking stuffer season so I thought it very appropriate, and indeed quite clever, to time this particular post about stockings for the very time of year that you are buying small gifts for stockings! And have I got the best idea for you! GOGO hose, tights, and trouser socks are my new favorite undergarment and fitness/health aid!! In colors like Winter White, Black, Cocoa, Coal, Navy - you can’t go wrong!!
It used to be that the only people who knew what compression hose are, were 1) your grandma who used them after surgery or due to an ailing circulatory system to prevent blood pooling in her lower legs, to avoid swelling and varicose veins. 2. The owner of the home medical supply store who delivered them to her, along with her toilet stabilizing rails, and 3. your mom - the one you turned to everytime her mom came over, and asked, “why does grandma always wear those ugly looking pantyhose?”
Compression hose later evolved and became one of the weapons in many a pregnant woman’s arsenal against varicose veins and swelling. As PDRHealth.com explains, “Swelling in the ankles and legs commonly occurs during the later stages of pregnancy. As the uterus enlarges, it puts pressure on the vena cava, a large vessel that returns blood to the heart from the rest of the body. This pressure then backs up through the circulatory system, causing increased blood pressure in the legs, ankles, and feet. Ultimately, this pressure causes fluid to leak into the surrounding tissue.”
Nowadays though, compression technology has gone mainstream - as it should have! And aren’t we better off for it? I’ll answer that for you. Yes we are!
First of all, who among us doesn’t want to either prevent varicose veins or keep them from getting worse, without throwing away fashion and sex appeal right along with our belief in Santa? Aren’t we all on a quest to hide the fact that all the holiday eating from Halloween on, is making our bellys rival that of Santa’s?
You remember these two, right? Well, let me refresh your memory. These are the Townsends, the couple in Texas who won our Paradise Pointe Lovers Getaway contest. During the process of talking to Kristen to send her the prize she won, I learned all about this almost Fit After Thirty (29) gal who found our site by Googling ‘how to stay fit in thirties’. In learning about her and her husband, I felt inspired by her unique, young-couple perspective on fitness.
If you’ve been reading this site for awhile, you already know that it is my firm belief that couples who play together stay together, and that sports and exercise is one of the best ways to share time with a significant other. Being that Kristen and her man are newlyweds who are doing just that, I found them to be inspirational, and thought that she’d offer a unique perspective to all of you *f.a.t. readers! So, I asked her to be a contributor to Fit After Thirty! Here is her take on couple time through fitness.
I’m using a darker font today out of respect for the topic at hand. Today’s subject matter deserves the honor of a matching font. I’m talking about chocolate - specifically dark chocolate - the consumption of which, is akin to a religious experience for me.
In history, B.C. means before Christ, but there’s a lesser known variation of that, yet equally important in the history of me, called B.D.C. - Before Dark Chocolate – otherwise known as all chocolate experiences in my life, which preceded the moment when I discovered my love for dark chocolate.
You see, I was always a milk chocolate girl until one day, in February 2000, I was struck with a fit of PMS while at my boyfriend’s near chocolate -barren house. The only chocolate I could find was the bag of semi-sweet chocolate chips I had bought a week earlier with plans of making cookies for Valentine’s Day.
PMS had different plans for those chocolate chips, and in the amount of time it took to rip the bag open and pop the first handful in my mouth, a new era had begun - A.D.C. – After Dark Chocolate – the period of time encompassing all the years in my life following “The Great Chocolate Chip PMS Experiment”. This period, otherwise known as the last eight years of my life, is when my chocolate tastes did the equivalent of maturing from childhood into adulthood.
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:
I decided to honor Paul Newman in my own little way tonight – I made a spinach salad and used my favorite Paul Newman salad dressing. As I was filling my bowl with spinach, I contemplated all the kids with cancer that his charitable food line (Newman’s Own) has helped. Then I thought of his amazing love affair and marriage with his wife of 50 years and how her soul must ache with his passing.
As I stared at my spinach I was wishing he would have lived longer. Then the thought occurred to me that even though he made salad dressing, maybe Paul Newman didn’t eat a lot of salad himself. I spent a few seconds wishing for him to have eaten more spinach so maybe it could have prevented his cancer.
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