Intimidated By Exercise Classes? Don’t Be!

In a recent journey around the internet, I found what was supposed to be a humorous article from a group exercise instructor. It was a pet peeves sort of article, chiding class participants about everything from how they smell to them taking breaks or doing their own thing to what they wore. It left a [...]

Feel the Love! It’s Third-Annual Love Yo’Self Week!

Who’s ready to start the love fest? We are! An annual tradition since 2011, today marks the first day of Love Yo’Self Week! So for this entire week, we’ll be bringing you all kinds of fun lovey-dovey topics. From love letters (Remember those from last year? We’re doing them again!) to how to love up [...]

6 Ways to Feel Confident in Your Swimsuit

Have you ever felt happy and free on the beach? Where you could simply stand there—half-naked in your swimsuit—and feel not only comfortable but also confident? Where every time you move, you weren’t trying to cover up your “problem areas” or sucking your stomach in? Or, worst of all, you weren’t scanning the beach crowd to [...]

5 Tips to Build Confidence

The following is a post sponsored by Dove Clear Tone Anti-Perspirant/Deodorant. For our sponsored post policy, click here. One of the reasons we love working out so much is that it builds confidence. When you put your mind to something and do it, you learn to trust and value yourself—and you also begin to wonder, “What else [...]

How Fitness is Helping My Dreams

It’s amazing how much I’ve changed since becoming a Fit Bottomed Girl. You’d think because I’m an actress-in-training, I would have started working out so that I could be a size negative zero like some of those actresses who we all want to feed large helpings to. But that wasn’t the case. I made the [...]

Why Losing Weight Isn’t All Rainbows and Kittens (Like the Commercials Make It Out to Be)

Earlier this year, we got a poignant email from a reader. Summer Taylor, a senior undergraduate student in Arkansas, told us that she started her fitness journey last year when she started running and lost more than 30 pounds. Despite her weight-loss success, she found that losing the weight brought up a lot of issues. And that “It’s not [...]

The Beauty Blueprint: How to Really Feel Beautiful Inside and Out

When I first heard about The Beauty Blueprint: 8 Steps to Building the Life and Look of Your Dreams, I honestly thought it would be a stretch to write about for FBG. Sure, we’re all about building your life so that you feel your best, but beauty? Well, we’re not much into that in the [...]

Sometimes, You Are What You Wear

We review a lot of workout apparel here on FBG. So I know that I’m in a bit of an unusual work environment where I’m occasionally pushed outside of my own fitness and fashion norms. While the fitness fashion trends have been getting louder and brighter—and more feminine in many ways—I’ve worn whatever has been “in,” testing [...]

3 Tips to Beat the Body-Image Blues

This entire week, we’re featuring select posts and articles by some of the best-of-the-best writers and bloggers across the World Wide Web as part of FBG’s second-annual Guest Bloggers’ Week. Click here to see all of the great guest posts that inspire, make us think and crack us the heck up! If there was one thing you could [...]

When You’re Confident, You’re Beautiful: 3 Ways to Feel Better About Yourself

This entire week, we’re featuring select posts and articles by some of the best-of-the-best writers and bloggers across the World Wide Web as part of FBG’s second-annual Guest Bloggers’ Week. Click here to see all of the great guest posts that inspire, make us think and crack us the heck up!  Good morning, beautiful! When you wake up in [...]

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