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Fitness Friday: Feeling Booby-Trapped?

By Cindy on May 24, 2013

4819333_f260Boobs, boobs, glorious boobs! Small ones, large ones, round, oblong and re-constructed ones, boobs with a mind of their own, pointing north and pointing south. Today it’s all about where to find good athletic gear for the girls.

Finding a good athletic bra that addresses all the mini and major miracles bras are called upon to do can be tricky. I, having bosoms of the bustier variety, need to consider support, support and more support. I can tell you first hand that bras with good support usually mean too many wires, pulleys and hooks — none of which are fun to wear when you’re trying to stay fit and healthy on vacation this summer.

Today I’m asking all of you out there to pull out your underwear drawers and let us see what you’ve got hiding in there. Good bras you’d like to recommend? Or bras you’d only let your cat see you in. Maybe we can help.

Here are some of the athletic bras that I’ve worn and loved, or bras I’ve heard great things about.

My current fav:  Wacoal Sports Underwire Bra 855170. Comfortable, extremely well made (as most Wacoal bras are) and very supportive. The price tag may be a bit steep but some things are just worth it. Bonus: can be worn to work out or to work. Sizes up to 40H. Love.

The Natori Sports Bra 7234439 is tried and true — ever sturdy, yet comfortable. A great bra in 100% cotton, so very absorbent with lots of support under the breast. Good for women who go at it a little bit harder. Sizes up to 42DDD.

Enell  NL100, the famous Oprah bra. Spendy, but secure, and maybe a few too many hooks for my taste, but this Enell gear gets very high marks from its faithful. I don’t think the gals will notice the bounce in your step in this bra. Enell now offers a LITE version, too. Sizes up to 50DDD.

The Champion 360 Degree Max Support Sports Bra 1612 is a popular bra sold here in the fitness department at Green Mountain at Fox Run. Sizes up to 42DD.

Once you’ve decided on one of these bras by trying them on in the department store, you might consider purchasing them on a site that offers lots of sales and discounts, such as Her Room, Bare Necessities or Amazon.

So, what’s in your drawer?

 

Turkey Burger – Fire Up That Grill

By Robyn Priebe on May 22, 2013

It’s the time of year when out on a walk through the neighborhood, you begin to smell people cooking on a grill. The flavor and aroma of grilled foods is so appealing that you immediately want to run home and fire up your own. One easy and healthy option is a turkey burger. Many people choose ground turkey over ground beef as […] read more »

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If You Want to Lose Weight, Listen to It

By Darla Breckenridge on May 20, 2013

In his blog A New Way To Lose Weight: Listen To It, Marc David at the Institute for Psychology of Eating makes a strong case that losing weight for the sake of simply losing weight is incredibly difficult. He says: “Most people who have extra pounds attack their body fat as if it was some foreign and hostile invader. We […] read more »

Green Leafy Vegetables – 5 Ways To Eat Them More Often

By Robyn Priebe on May 15, 2013

Many of us may be trying (or at least considering) eating more vegetables.  There’s one group of vegetables that gets a lot of attention for being loaded with nutrients that support our health, especially detoxification….green leafy vegetables.  I recall going to nutrition lecture as a teen and being shocked by the presenter’s recommendation to eat one pound of greens every day.  […] read more »

40 Ways to Feed Your Spiritual Hunger

By Darla Breckenridge on May 13, 2013

Sometimes it’s just really hard to imagine how to fill yourself up in lieu of food.  Eating in mindless ways can be an attempt to help yourself feel better, but what if the food isn’t getting to the source of the emptiness? What if it’s spiritual hunger? Wendy N., a recent participant at Green Mountain at Fox Run, gave us […] read more »

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Our Turn to B**ch about Abercrombie & Fitch

By Lisa Christie on May 10, 2013

Okay, so it’s not likely that many of us are shopping at Abercrombie & Fitch to start with (I think the pulsing music and disco lights may be a deterrent to the 20+ crowd), but this week it was confirmed that the CEO doesn’t want the majority of us there anyway. According to an article in Business Insider magazine: “Retailer Abercrombie […] read more »

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Self-Bullying Isn’t Just About Us

By Jacki Monaco on May 9, 2013

Self-Bullying, on the surface, is about a person hurting just themselves. Or is it? What I sometimes fail to recognize when I’m in a self-bullying battle is that I’m not the only person that I hurt. When I talk down to myself, neglect my desires and needs, and push my self-esteem down with all of my might, the people closest to […] read more »

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Have Your Carrot Cake and Experiment with It, Too

By Robyn Priebe on May 8, 2013

This morning, in a discussion about books on sugar addiction, I remembered David Kessler’s book, The End of Overeating, which has a lovely picture of carrot cake on the cover.  This also reminded me that many of you have been asking for our carrot cake recipe. With sugar addiction or food addiction one might think they cannot have cake; however, research on […] read more »

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40 Reasons to Stop Dieting Before You Start

By Lisa Christie on May 7, 2013

Yesterday was International NO DIET day. I read some astonishingly heartfelt pieces about why people don’t diet or have stopped dieting. Among them – Tiffany of More Cabaret – on not dieting as an ode to her father who fought his size his entire life. Or the transformation of Mara Glatzel from someone who would do almost anything to be […] read more »

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