Discovery Health used to have a show where the contestants were on their own during the week and would check in for fitness challenges and meetings with trainers and nutritionists. It was much more realistic in that you saw them living their real lives and having to prepare their own healthy meals. 

Trying to teach my 100 pound gymnast daughter to be healthy when they put her on a scale every time she walks in the dr’s office. Not one time has the dr mentioned her weight or made sure she’s eating, even though she’s lost 5 pounds in the last 6 months. I don’t think she has an ED, but she certainly isn’t healthy in…

After yo-yo dieting my 20 year adult life, I’ve finally accepted that I’m on the 2-3 year diet plan to lose 40 pounds. It’s not as exciting as the before/ after pictures in only 4 months, but I see pictures of myself from 2 years ago and realize how far I’ve come. I’ve done the diet pills and lose 20 pounds in 2…

My 15 yo daughter became obsessed with Saved by the Bell when she was 12/13, the same age that I was when I watched the original run. When this comes out, she’ll be begging for a Peacock subscription, just like she had to have Disney+ the day it came out. Well played NBC. 

Most life insurances/ IRA’s/ anything with a beneficiary will require that the spouse sign off on it. He was probably waiting for the divorce, so she didn’t have to sign acknowledging the change. I live in a state where the spouse has to sign off on every sale or transfer of property, even inherited property. So many…

I had the opposite conversation. We live in the south, so at one point she tried to tell me that she was going to wait until marriage, but I shot that down as unrealistic. That’s what leads to girls getting married at 18 to their first serious boyfriend. Let me be clear though. I am not the cool mom who will ever let…

Damn the comments system that leaves you this deep in the greys with 6 stars.

Yes, that’s was part of the “that’s not how this works” conversation. Mom of a teenager brag: this was after we left the gyno’s office where she was given the patch because she failed spectacularly at taking the pill. She’s not sexually active, but it’s important to establish a birth control routine long before she…

That lady drawer was set up by whatever his last girlfriend left behind. My boyfriend’s house has trails made by his exes that I toss at will, but I did use all of the emergency tampons eventually. I would have loved a full package of those Neutrogena wipes. There really is no comparison.

My daughter has been crying over a boy for the last 2 months, but they still talk. Last night she tells me that he sends in a group message that he’s writing an essay for a scholarship whose subject is: “discrimination against women is a social construct.” WTF?? I asked what the hell scholarship that was for, and she…

I read the headline and thought “exactly why I don’t take family law cases, especially when custody is involved.” 

He can be trained by Amber Portwood, Teen Mom.

I clicked on the Bhad Bhabie link hoping there was a plot twist, and she’s stepping aside to go to Harvard, like she’s this secret Natalie Portman, or even a small local state college. High expectations for a girl who pronounces “Bhabie” as baby and not barbie. Nope, just a break from Instagram for probably a day.

I thought it was bad having a borderline mother until I experienced having a narcissist as my children’s father. I have guilt that I didn’t choose better (I was 18; bad decisions all the way around, but that’s a bad rabbit hole to go down because I don’t regret my kids) and guilt that I didn’t leave sooner (I thought…

I was working with a health coach (roll your eyes, fair enough) who had me do a 4 day protein experiment, tracking how I feel when I eat or don’t eat protein different times of the day. On the day that I didn’t have protein for breakfast, I had a cup of oatmeal with craisins. I felt a huge surge of energy that…

The Yolanda Hadid diet

I thought I had broken up with The Bachelor when they appointed Colton. Then my 15 yo asked me to watch with her, which she never does. Apparently, she has a huge crush on Peter. Champagnegate could have come straight out of season 1 Unreal (when it was still good). I don’t know whether to applaud or be horrified. I…

I sat on a 3 juries when I was fresh out of college: 2 criminal and 1 civil. It was a formative experience. I’m now an attorney (transactional law, so rarely go to court and definitely not jury trials), so they will never put me on a jury again. I was called up a few years ago and dismissed immediately. They never…

Also evidence that she’s a registered voter

Saw this on Morning Joe this morning and expected it to be covered, as well. C’mon Democrats! Do better. Don’t make me hope for a Buttigieg.