I have to admit, I’ve been in a funk lately. A week after running my half-marathon on Labor Day weekend, I found out that I was pregnant. A happy surprise, no doubt, since we had JUST started trying – literally – but it was not meant to be. About two weeks later, I had a miscarriage. The ultrasound showed that…
Everyone has a certain component of their life in which they feel they are the toughest. For some it’s physical, others emotional and/or psychological. Now imagine a world where toughness is everything you are and everything you do. Meet Jake Zweig. Former US Navy Seal, current college football coach, current star of Discovery Channel’s “Dude, You’re Screwed” and all around bad-ass and great…
So you’ve survived 9 months of pregnancy, emerged relatively unscathed from the delivery, and now have this sweet yet demanding little person to show for all your efforts. Now what? We all know that our priorities have now changed thanks to the little life that we’ve created, but we need to take our bodies back too since that’s so important to our self-esteem…
In college, I prided myself on being able to drink a lot. I could keep up with anyone, which was pretty impressive for my size. This seemed normal at the time since a big part of the culture of my school (or at least my friends) was to drink. We day drank, we pre-gamed like it was 1999, we…
Being a girl, I know the pressure that both society and the female species put on us to maintain an ideal weight and size. I have always been skinny, even during the years that I didn’t do much exercise besides the summers I thought I could stretch my way into being able to do the splits (Mission: Failed), but I…
