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Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. I was always a chubby kid. I remember wearing shorts in 5th grade and hating the way my thighs looked. I lost 20 pounds in the beginning of high school by experimenting with diet pills, not eating breakfast and only having a 20 ounce bottle of…
Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. Confession: I’ve been trying to grow out my hair for almost as long as I have been an adult. It’s been a long journey, mostly marred by me also having a fondness for changing my hair color constantly. In college, I went from short and red…
Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. Sometimes it takes falling in love to remind you of some of the things that are important to you. For me, that something was healthy eating. I have quite a complicated relationship with food. After a lifetime of being overweight, losing 90 pounds with Weight Watchers in…
Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. When I set about doing Whole30 last month, I knew one very real thing: I was going to need to snack, snack and snack some more! I know that the original program actually doesn’t really encourage snacking. Technically, you should be eating good enough portions that…
Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. DESSERT PIZZA, you guys! I have to say that in capitals because, well, OBVIOUSLY dessert pizza is one of the best things that any of us can imagine. Okay, real talk: it’s been kind of a rough week. Okay, it’s been a really really difficult week…