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Fit Tip of the Day

Make sure you are getting enough Vitamin C - it is important for growth and repair of all body tissues, helps heal cuts and wounds, and keeps teeth and gums healthy.

Beauty Tip of the Day

If someone passes a negative comment towards you, ignore it. They're most likely just jealous of something you've got!

Why I Love L.A.

I've been having a hard time re-adjusting to life in L.A. Living w/my parents, traffic, the price of gas... Yesterday I drove about 45 miles North of L.A. to Camarillo to do some shopping at the outlets. Instead of taking the freeway back I decided to drive through the canyon and hit PCH. It was such a clear day. I pulled my car over and just stared at the ocean.

There are a lot of things wrong with Los Angeles. But when you're able to drive a mere 10 minutes and see this it makes up for all the bad stuff!

Have a great day!

French Women Don't Get Fat

Stylish, convincing, wise, funny and just in time: the ultimate non-diet book, which could radically change the way you think and live.
French women don't get fat, but they do eat bread and pastry, drink wine, and regularly enjoy three-course meals. In her delightful tale, Mireille Guiliano unlocks the simple secrets of this "French paradox" -– how to enjoy food and stay slim and healthy. Hers is a charming, sensible, and powerfully life-affirming view of health and eating for our times.

As a typically slender French girl, Mireille went to America as an exchange student and came back fat. That shock sent her into an adolescent tailspin, until her kindly family physician, "Dr. Miracle," came to the rescue. Reintroducing her to classic principles of French gastronomy plus time-honored secrets of the local women, he helped her restore her shape and gave her a whole new understanding of food, drink, and life. The key? Not guilt or deprivation but learning to get the most from the things you most enjoy. Following her own version of this traditional wisdom, she has ever since relished a life of indulgence without bulge, satisfying yen without yo-yo on three meals a day.

Now in simple but potent strategies and dozens of recipes you'd swear were fattening, Mireille reveals the ingredients for a lifetime of weight control–from the emergency weekend remedy of Magical Leek Soup to everyday tricks like fooling yourself into contentment and painless new physical exertions to save you from the StairMaster. Emphasizing the virtues of freshness, variety, balance, and always pleasure, Mireille shows how virtually anyone can learn to eat, drink, and move like a French woman.

What's Yelp?

Yelp is the new and fun way to find, review and talk about what's great - and not so great - in your neighborhood and beyond, everything from cool restaurants and bars to doctors and yoga instructors.

This site has been a life saver! When my brother and I drove from Atlanta to Los Angeles I Yelped all the way! When you're in Ft. Smith, Arkansas you don't know where to eat! The Yelp reviews were so helpful and so right on point.

I just think its a great site and I wanted to tell you all about it!

Check it out some of my reviews @ http://nec1908.yelp.com

Dinner for Breakfast

Wanna know what I had for breakfast this morning? A broiled salmon filet and roasted broccoli. Wanna know why? Its called the Reverse Diet. The premise is that you could lose weight by eating dinner for breakfast. The author, Tricia Cunningham, lost over 170 pounds using this simple technique and had maintained her weight loss for over 7 years.

What the heck. I'll try anything once!

http://www.reversedietsolution.com/

Finally!

This has nothing to do with weight loss but I'm glad somebody is finally agreeing with me!!!!

According to TMZ, Barry Manilow has pulled out of his scheduled appearance on "The View" tomorrow -- because he strongly disagrees with host Elisabeth Hasselbeck's conservative view! In an exclusive statement to TMZ, Barry says, "I strongly disagree with her views. I think she's dangerous and offensive. I will not be on the same stage as her." Barry, taking a stand!

I am praying that she goes off to have that baby and never comes back!

WTF

I have no idea who Maggie Grace is but she looks like a hoochie in this outfit.

Emmy Awards 2005

There were lots of really skinny women on the red carpet at the 59th annual Primetime Emmy Awards which was held at the Shrine Auditorium last night.

*Yawn*

Hip(s) Hop

Ice-T's "wife" Coco is really interesting....

Who walks down the street dressed like that?

Fit Tip of the Day

Replace a coffee break with a brisk 10-minute walk. Ask a friend to go with you.

Beauty Tip of the Day

Go through life feeling beautiful every second, no matter what you are wearing or how your hair or make-up looks. You are always beautiful!

Help!

I really need to detox from sugar! Sugar is my enemy!!! But I love it soooo much!

Back on track

So you guys know I've been temping for the last 6 weeks and I've been miserable! So yesterday was my last day and I don't start my new job until October 1. My plan is to work my ass off excercising until then. Have I started? Um, not yet.

I went to the doctor on Tuesday and found out what I'd already suspected, I've gained a few pounds back, I'm totally devestaed! I really am. But I'm not going to let it bring me down. I know that I'm an emotional eater. And with my life in a bit of flux right now, I know I've been living on sugar - alot of sugar. But I'm hoping that with my new career will come a more positive outlook on things and I'll finally be able to get my shyt together.

Wish me luck!

So Confused

Seriously though, what the hell happened to Jenna Jameson?

Little Thing of the Week

What's the best (or worst) thing about new beginnings?

Have a story to share? Post it!

The Little Things Online

It's Britney Biyatch!

Ok, here's my take on the whole Britheny Spears MTV VMA BS. Is Britney fat? Absolutely not - in the real world. However, in the world of the celebrity, having a itty bitty touch of fat is a sin. Britney Spears had two kids in two years. Even though we've seen numerous pictures of her in fishnet stockings going to and from "dance" class, every woman knows that it takes time for your body to recover from childbirth and its never going to be the same as it was before you popped out those kids.

There is no reason that she should have worn a bra and panties on that stage. And I have no doubt that if she had rocked that performance less people would be talking about her being "fat". However, she didn't rock it. She moved in slow motion which gave us every chance to see each and every imperfection on her body.

I think that Britney is a good performer, not the strongest singer, but she's had some catchy tunes. I feel sorry for her. I feel bad that she's had a rough couple of years - even though she is 100% responsible for what has happened to her. As Heather knows, I've always thought that Kevin Federline got a raw deal in the press and I think that more people are starting to see that Britney isn't that 14 year old girl any more and she's got some issues.

She needs help and I truly hope that someone comes into her life - Dr. Phil - and really talks some sense into her. She needs to go get herself a house on some island and lay low for a few months and get her shyt together. Why does she go to Ralph's and Rite Aid Every Day! Doesn't she have people to do that kinda stuff?


Ok. I'm Done.

Beauty Tip of the Day

Instead of that Coke, try a glass of water. It may not be as tasty, but it's a lot better for you than drinking almost ten teaspoons (50 ml) of white sugar. Adequate water intake prevents dehydration, cleans out the body, and promotes healing processes.

Drinking water helps you look good. By flushing out toxins and impurities, water can make your skin clearer, smoother and younger looking.

I'm NEVER giving up Coke!

Want to be a skinny bitch?

Don’t worry about calling Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin a pair of skinny bitches. Just don’t try to get them back on the double-bacon-and-cheeseburger diets of their youth.

“We’ve been called a lot worse,” giggles Freedman, who with her best friend Barnouin is co-author of “Skinny Bitch,” the snappiest-titled diet book on the market.

Subtitled, “A no-nonsense, tough-love guide for savvy girls who want to stop eating crap and start looking fabulous,” it features a drawing of a skinny young woman on the cover and a picture of the two skinny authors on the back.

Written in a flip, “hey girlfriend” style in which expletives are not spared and eating meat is denounced as the “dead, rotting, decomposing flesh diet,” “Skinny Bitch” quickly became a word-of-mouth hit upon publication in December 2005. More than 200,000 copies are currently in print, according to its publisher, Running Press of Philadelphia.

It got a significant international boost in May when L.A.’s hottest skinny celebrity, Victoria “Posh Spice” Beckham, playfully held up a copy at the trendy Kitson’s boutique in Hollywood while paparazzi clicked away.

“She never bought the book — she just picked it up,” Fraser Ross, the store’s owner, told The Associated Press.

But no matter, “Skinny Bitch,” shot up top sellers lists in Beckham’s native England and broke through to the No. 3 spot on The New York Times paperback advice list of best sellers.
“It’s always been a steady seller, but I would say the Posh Spice thing just gave it this extra boost,” said Jennifer Kasius, the book’s editor at Running Press.

Beckham was not immediately available for comment, but for Freedman, the public’s post-Posh embrace is just the latest example of “one of those kind of Kismet things where the stars align.”
It all began, she said, four years ago when Barnouin, who had been converted by Freedman to a vegan diet, began insisting the two had to “change the world” and get people to eat better.
Freedman’s initial reaction: “What can we do?”

“And then one day I called her and I said we’re going to write a book, that’s what were going to do,” she recalled.

“And the rest was history,” laughs Barnouin as the two sit at a window table in one of West Hollywood’s hippest organic-vegetarian restaurants and share a plate of vegan pasta and a vegan club sandwich.

“I can put some of this on a plate for you to try,” says Freedman, offering up a forkful of pasta as she continues with the pair’s efforts to turn the world into a healthier place one eater at a time.
Freedman, dressed in a midriff-baring top, and Barnouin, wearing a short brown skirt, certainly strike effortless poses for the benefits of the “Skinny Bitch” diet. Although both are trim and proud of it, neither is so skinny as to be mistaken for one of the many young TV actresses, models or movie stars who haunt the neighborhood.

But while the two say weight was never a problem for them, eating right was. And it made their personalities, well, less than personable.

“We both used to be really negative, angry, unhappy and miserable people,” the upbeat, outgoing Freedman says of their pre-vegan days when she and her friend were known to consume burger after burger, as well as a hot dog or two and plenty of french fries.

Now Freedman, who has converted her parents to a vegan diet, and Barnouin, who feeds her husband and their infant son vegan meals, are out to show the world a person can eat healthy, look good and still enjoy his or her food.

Perhaps more than the pejorative title, though, the book has raised objections from some readers who complained they thought they were getting a diet guide and wound up with something closer to an anti-meat treatise. The group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, for example, is praised in the book and cited as one of its sources.

Barnouin and Freedman make no apologies. Not just vegetarians, they are vegans, a subset that not only eschews eating meat but won’t touch any fish or dairy products either, meaning no eggs or cheese. They complain that the animals used in the food industry are not treated humanely and such food is not safely prepared.

One critic, registered dietitian Dawn Jackson Blatner, doesn’t object that the book promotes a vegan lifestyle but that it doesn’t include information on things such as serving sizes, calories, protein, fat and vitamins that are needed to ensure that people are eating right.

“A vegan lifestyle can be healthy, but it takes more planning than most other types of diets to ensure no deficiencies, especially of protein, iron, zinc, calcium, Vitamin-D, B12 and omega-three fatty acids,” said Blatner, who is also a spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association.
But she added that there is a place in the world of diet books for “Skinny Bitch.”

“If you’re looking for an introduction to a couple of women who are following a vegan lifestyle, some humor throughout and maybe a couple meal ideas, this is a good read,” she said. “But if you’re really trying to do vegan lifestyles in a healthy way, there are other sources from the American Dietetic Association that you could feel more confident about.”

Barnouin, a former model who did most of the book’s research, said she did correspondence courses with Clayton College of Natural Health, a non-accredited natural health school, which gave her a degree in holistic nutrition.

Freedman, a former modeling agent who once represented Barnouin, did most of the writing, coming up with such jazzy lines as “Soda is liquid Satan” and “Beer is for frat boys, not skinny bitches.”

That latter line, as well as the book’s title, could give the impression “Skinny Bitch” was written for women. But that’s not the case, say the authors, who have received their share of fan letters from men. One endorsement in particular that filled Freedman with pride came from a radio station interviewer who told her that “Skinny Bitch” reads “like it was written by a dude.”

It’s proved so popular that Barnouin and Freedman have signed a contract for two more books.

Their cookbook, “Skinny Bitch in the Kitch,” is due out in December and they are currently working on “Skinny Bitch Mamma,” a how-to-eat guide for pregnant women.