Santa Barbara Wine Country Half Marathon Recap: I Conquered the Beast (and It Tasted Like Wine)

There are plenty of things I’ve tried once or twice and never gone back to. Pickles, for one. Gross. But some things—like a really full-bodied Cabernet—are an acquired taste that I’ve developed. In the weeks leading up to the Santa Barbara Half Marathon, I wasn’t sure which of these the 13.1 mile distance was. I’d [...]

Waxing Nostalgic

Every fashion magazine, at some point, will ask you if you are classic or trendy. I fall into the classic category, except on the far extreme end of that box. I’m what you would call a “sentimentalist.” I tend to purchase classic pieces that fit in well with my timeless look so that I can [...]

A Day of Fit-spiration (and a Nudge to Go Find Your Own!)

As I mentioned previously, I had the opportunity to go into NYC last week to be a panelist at Fitness Magazine’s recent Meet & Tweet blogger event. I was in fabulous I’m-not-worthy company of some other fabulous speakers for the day, from Brett Hoebel to Rocco DiSpirito to Dr. Jennifer Ashton, author of Your Body Beautiful. So before and after my [...]

Bad News: Stress Fracture in My Foot. Good News: I’m Okay With It

If you’ve been a long-time reader of FBG, you may remember the time I injured my butt, right before I ran my first (and most likely only) marathon. You may also remember me handling said injury not so great. That I felt down about it, sad and kind of just blah. And that it took [...]

How Has FBG Changed YOUR Life? With Special Giveaway!

All this week for our five-year birthday bash, each FBG has shared how her life has changed by being a Fit Bottomed Girl. And instead of us all answering another Question of the Week, this time we want to turn the question that we’ve all been answering to you: How has FBG changed your life? Tell us [...]

How Being a Fit Bottomed Girl Has Changed Kristen’s Life

I grew up learning that bragging was bad. If you do something really, really well, it will be noticed and acknowledged, but you should never acknowledge your own accomplishments. It’s impolite. I get that, but since joining the Fit Bottomed Girl crew, I’ve learned that everything is good in moderation, and that includes bragging. I [...]

How Being a Fit Bottomed Girl Has Changed Tish’s Life

If you would have told me five years ago that I would be a fitness fiend, I would have laughed in your face. I used to believe that gyms were for the crazy…they were for girls with eating disorders and body dysmorphia…men who wanted to look like Arnold. It amazes me how completely off I was. [...]

How Being a Fit Bottomed Girl Has Changed Erin’s Life

Like Jenn said, HOLY COW. Five years of FBG. I don’t even know how it’s possible that I’ve been doing this for so long. In some ways, it feels like the blink of an eye. In other ways, I feel like I’ve always been spreading this Fit Bottomed message. To say that being a Fit [...]

How Being a Fit Bottomed Girl Has Changed Jenn’s Life

Every year for FBG’s birthday, I do some reflecting. (I clearly have a thing for reflecting on birthdays of any kind.) Where have we been? Where are we going? What more can we do to make the world a more Fit-Bottomed place? But as we turn five this week, I’m also turning the question to [...]

A Life Lesson From My Mother

If Fit Bottomed Girls had a poster child, it would have been my mother. She had all the rules tied up in one neat little package: eat well but don’t overindulge, take little breaks when needed, drink lots of water, exercise daily and, most importantly, treat yourself with respect. She would wake me up in [...]

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