July 2010
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Getting Skinny Is The Second Act Of A Fat Girl's... →
I remember being 5’5” and 199 pounds when I entered high school. I wasn’t big enough to be antagonized by classmates, but I was big enough to be completely invisible.
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I remember trying on my first pair of Size 1 jeans in front of the mirror. I still thought my arms were too big and my hips were too wide.
I remember new friends expressing their jealousy of my ...
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Never Say You're Sorry...
…for food.
Last night, I met up with the awesome Meredith at Spitzer’s, a fun bar on the Lower East Side for some Allagash Whites, and media and Tumblr gossip. We reaffirmed how small NYC actually is and how much we both love everything Lilly Pulitzer and Vineyard Vines.
We split fries:
and salad:
Were the fries healthy? Nope. Were they good? Yup. I made a green monster when I...
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Is it an experience...or just food?
This morning, as the caffeine began to course through my veins (whew), I thought about how excited I was to eat my veggie flatbread:
I don’t mind sometimes when I don’t have time to make breakfast in the mornings, because sometimes I look forward to the deliciousness that is this flatbread or the infamous spinach feta wrap.
I still love food. A lot.
I still think about it a...
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emilyposts asked: Greek yogurt. What's your take?
Seven Great Miles
…finally! After a few rough runs in the past few weeks, I was excited to head off to Brooklyn to run with Ashley and Rebecca. Unfortunately, the subway had other plans for me, and I didn’t make it out there to meet them. I decided I’d mix it up anyway and head up the east side of Manhattan, rather than the west, like I usually do. After about a mile, I realized why: the west side...
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Anonymous asked: I've been following your blog for a couple of months. You seem to be pushing the weight loss thing as your way of life. However I see you eating a lot of fried and fatty foods. To be honest with you....I haven't seen much in the way of results. You look about the same as you did months ago.
Maybe you should change the name of your blog. To full of myself and faking it in...
Maybe you should change the name of your blog. To full of myself and faking it in...
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Theodora: I felt like I was going to die on the Stairmaster.
Joel: Then you were doing it right.
Embarking on Theodora 2.5
Joel and I had a bit of confusion, and I thought we were working out last night. It turns out we were just meeting up for him to give me my plan and my vitamins. He walked in with a small shopping bag of vitamins; each one has a purpose and a specific time I’m supposed to take it.
He also gave me a workout journal that has my planned workouts for EVERY DAY BETWEEN NOW AND THE MARATHON. This...
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Running in 90-degree weather is hell.
And don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
I set out for my run at 9:30 this morning (not as early as I had planned, not as late as I’ve been going the past few weeks). My Garmin picked up a signal immediately (this does NOT usually happen), I had some good tunes on my playlist—I thought it was going to be a good run. I’d planned on running 7—4 out, 3 back. (Turning...
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Theodora 2.5?
Theodora 1.0 was the overweight, unhappy girl that lived in DC. Theodora 1.5 was the overweight-but-otherwise-happy girl who was chasing her dreams in NYC. Theodora 2.0 is the in-awesome-shape-exuberantly-happy girl with a little fat left on her stomach. Theodora 2.5 is going be KICK ASS. I’m trying to tone up a little bit more all over.
I started working out with Joel again this morning!...
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What if you only ate food in TV ads? →
If you were to only eat food that was advertised on television, you would be in a sorry state indeed. Your diet would be laden with huge amounts of sugar and fat and virtually no fresh fruit and vegetables, according to researchers from Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Georgia, who analyzed what would happen if someone ate 2,000 calories a day only from foods that were...
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Dashboard* (Health) Confessional
This one’s been in my head for awhile, but I’ve hesitated to write it, for reasons you’ll see as you read on.
As my senior year of college came to a close, I should have been partying my head off and looking for a job. Instead, I spent quite a good deal of time being sick to my stomach. As in, everything I ate made me sick. (Keep in mind, I was also eating a lot of greasy, bad...
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Make it a habit!
Like last night, there are nights that I don’t want to work out and don’t want to eat well. I could easily sit on my couch and order chicken pad see yew—my default Thai order before I got my act together—and not go to the gym.
When I started working out with Joel, he said that, after a while, working out would start to feel as natural as brushing my teeth. Like most things...
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The Other Side of New York
For every $5,000-a-month one-bedroom penthouse, there’s a $1200 junior one-bedroom (NY-speak for teeny-tiny one bedroom) or $600 bedroom in a converted 4-bedroom apartment a mile walk from the nearest train.
Which is to say, New York is definitely one of the most expensive places in the U.S., but there are some incredible deals to be had.
After watching some soccer yesterday, my friends...
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robotsraholes asked: Could you explain what "overnight oats" are? I've been following you for the last couple months, and possibly missed an original post about how to make them...
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