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You can lift more than 15-30 lbs without looking like the Incredible Hulk. I promise. I’ve been sicker than a dog for the last few weeks, so yesterday was my first day back at the gym since the holidays. I have, however, been doing my daily free weights routine and taking the stairs everywhere, as […]

Because resolutions involve stuff like, “I’ll join a gym and go until the end of January when I get burned out,” and “I won’t eat anymore chocolate until I go crazy and binge on it.” Plans are much more practical. 1) Move to NYC at the end of July 2) Pay off my credit card

And I have a lot to do. So it goes.

It is no secret that some women who take birth control pills lose interest in sex. They have been reporting this side effect to their doctors since oral contraceptives came into wide use 40 years ago. I’m so happy I have an IUD..

Weight limits designed to screen out unfit Army applicants are excluding some of the strongest candidates and will be relaxed, the MoD says. Under previous regulations, men with a body mass index (BMI) of over 28 were barred from joining the military. The threshold has been extended to 32 – two points above the World

I finally went to the doctor to see what the hell’s wrong with me. Basically, she said, she had no idea. She gave me some antibiotics, some super cough syrup, and some kind of inhaler to help the inflammation in my chest. So, $150 later, all I know is I was pretty sick, I’m getting

There’s nothing so disheartening as receiving an email from a new project manager that reads like it’s been written by somebody who’s barely literate. Doesn’t exactly inspire much faith.

In classrooms around the world, girls swap tips on how to eat less, how to ratchet up their exercise and how to mimic those perfect bodies they see staring out at them from music videos, TV, the catwalk, magazines and billboards. Somewhere, they know that these bodies aren’t quite real – that they have been

In the course of my writing “career” (such as it is), I’ve run across quite a few male writers who’ve told me that they have a lot of trouble writing female protagonists, and it was something they had to actively work on. I always found this fascinating because though my short stories are often female

What is even more interesting re the gaze than how the film plays it out is how it turns it around. Instead of having a narrator constantly gazing at his femme fatale or sex object (a la Hitchcock’s Vertigo, for one), Fight Club has him gaze at his hypermasculine alter ego, Tyler Durden. Both the