The Discovery Training is more physical than I expected.
I’m in the best shape of my whole entire life.
And yet . . .
The peeing my pants in public is just too much.
Stupid post-birth incontinence.
I finally went to my room for the Diva Cup. It helped.
Today I ordered the bizarro Berman Center Isis Beginner Pelvic Kegel Trainer Muscle Exerciser.
I saw it on Oprah.com during the Best Life Web Cast with sex therapist Laura Berman.
Evidently my vajayjay needs her very own workout – with weights. It’d be humiliating if it weren’t so hilarious.
In a …read more

Maybe you too saw the Oprah’s on Hormones?
It occurs to me, watching all those angry, frustrated, fed-up women. . .
Perhaps it is only hormones that makes women put up with so much of everyone’s shit.
Maybe, when we’re in our mid-to-late late 30s, 40s, and 50s – we’ve had enough already.
Perhaps it’s the lack of estrogen that makes women finally stop. Putting up with the world’s shit, I mean.

Blog Fabulous is participating in Bloggy Giveaways by giving away the very popular Fit Girl T-shirt from The Girl Revolution.
We’re tackling this pesky childhood obesity epidemic by running a Fit Girl Series (Obese Teens on Oprah & Weight = Moral Failure) and our lifestyles and how it’s effecting our kids’ health. There will be many more aspects of the issue to explore.
I want to give you a Fit Girl shirt.
The Girl Revolution (that’s me, Tracee Sioux) has been nominated to win Best Mommy Blogger from Scholastic Parent and Child Magazine. Go to Scholastic entry page and …read more

A tip for your self esteem during a lifestyle change. . .
Don’t weigh-in if you’re on your period and experiencing the PMS Pain Body. If you do – you will take it personally that you’re right back where you started.
Take the week off. Not from exercise – because I’ve found that if you are carrying the pain of all women, everywhere, since the dawn of time – that vigorous exercise and yoga is a really good thing to do with all that negative energy. The endorphins to the brain are priceless too.
But, definately boycott the scale …read more

“From the first moment a woman dared to speak that hope — dared to believe that the American Dream was meant for her too — ordinary women have taken on extraordinary odds to give their daughters the chance for something else; for a life more equal, more free, and filled with more opportunity than they ever had. In so many ways we have succeeded, but in so many areas we have much work left to do.”
–Barack Obama, Speech in Washington, DC
November 10, 2005
Fixing the Nation’s Health Care System: More than 19 million women are uninsured in this country, and women …read more

I’ve been reading Eckhart Tolle’s book, The Power of Now.

He introduces the idea of a Pain Body. The Pain Body is also discussed in great detail in his other book A New Earth.

Basically, he says that one part of the human condition is a pain body. We have personal pain bodies that result from things that happen specifically to us. But, we also have collective pain bodies that come from being members of a group – women, for instance.

Tolle says that because of several thousand years of oppression, repression, violence, rape, battery, harassment, slavery and sexism baby girls are born …read more

Man, I really wish I could post on Blog Fabulous today. But, I’m swamped giving away a bunch of prizes elsewhere.

I do have this to say. Fruit makes me gassy and bloaty. Had to stop at the health food store for some enzymes to handle my new eating habits.

I love taking Mondays off my workout routine instead of Sundays. I always have time on Sundays and too much work on Mondays.

Also I’m learning to understand the value of outsourcing.

Photo credit: Newly redesigned and relaunched The Girl Revolution

At RealAge.com you log on and take a test about your exercise, eating habits, vitamins and supplements, social habits, diseases or illnesses and vices like smoking and drinking.
I updated my Real Age this week and I’ve gotten SEVEN YEARS YOUNGER as a result of my lifestyle changes in the last two years. Since last year I’ve reduced my Real Age by nearly THREE years.
Chronologically I am 35.4 years old, yet my Real Age is only 32.5.
When I began my dramatic lifestyle change two years ago, I took the Real Age test. I was 33 at the time, …read more

Five-Stars, Two Thumbs Up, Absolutely Fabulous – I’m wearing it right now and I’m not even on my period – that’s how much I love the Diva Cup.
I was skeptical. I didn’t want to spend $20 in case it didn’t work.
But the thought of never having to buy tampons and pads again pulled me in. As much as I’d like to declare that it’s because I’m terribly concerned with how my period impacts the environment, it’s really because I’m terribly concerned with how my period impacts my underwear.
There were leaks every month. Super tampons just don’t stay …read more

Whatever they are saying about the economy I’m not seeing the negatives.
Everywhere I look there is potential and opportunity.
There’s an Economic Women’s Revolution going on right now in the world and we’re going to see women explode onto the landscape. In large part because so much business can be done on the Internet. More and more of us are asking, Why not me? Why don’t I start that business I’ve always dreamed of?
This year, women will stop the futile wait for The Market to give us equal pay and we’ll create our own opportunity. We’ll create jobs …read more