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 [...]

Feel the Love: Valentine’s Day-Inspired Workouts for Couples

Happy Valentine’s Day, FBGs! To help us all celebrate this day of L-O-V-E a bit more healthily, Amanda Ebner (M.A, M.Ed., ACE-Certified Personal Trainer, AFAA-Certified Group Exercise Instructor, Schwinn-Certified Cycling Coach, IndoRow Certified Coach) put together a fun little workout for couples routine for all of us on behalf of BodyMedia and FitOrbit. If you’re in a romantic [...]

How to Get Back on Track After the Holidays

Did you overdo it a bit this holiday season? No worries! Today is a new day, and you’re about to have a whole New Year to start afresh with! So take our advice: Do not—we repeat—do not beat yourself up. Beating yourself up for something that’s already done is a total waste of time. Instead, take [...]

FitLinks: Happy Christmas Edition!

Happy Christmas! (Yes, sometimes we like to pretend we’re British.) Since we’re taking the day off (note, too, that all the FBGs are taking a break from their weekly blog posts, too), if you want to do some fit reading, check out the links we love below… We’re digging this new channel for women! —Coral How [...]

Stuff This: 8 Healthy Stocking Stuffers to Give This Holiday Season

Hey, you, stuff this! No, literally, stuff these fit goodies in your holiday stockings. Because the final installment of our fit-gift-guide series (check out our general picks, gifts for healthy foodies, techie-loving presents and our beauty gift guide!) includes our top eight picks for healthy stocking stuffers! Love, love, love these… Holiday Gift Guide: 8 Healthy [...]

Race Medals as Ornaments = Best Tree Ever

I brought out my Christmas tree a week or so ago and quickly realized that it had seen better days. Shoot, Charlie Brown’s tree had seen better days than this thing. But, to be fair, it was a $20 fake tree from Dollar General, and it held up for a few years. Probably, I can’t [...]

Healthy Holiday Menus for the Health-Conscious Host

Cooking is enough of a headache on holidays, so let us take care of planning your menu! We’ve rounded up the lightest, most delicious holiday recipes your most health conscious and diet conscious of guests will love. Let’s dig in! Healthy Holiday Menu: Healthy Christmas Recipes Whether your big dinner is on Christmas or Christmas [...]

Beauty Gift Guide: 6 Gifts to Pamper Our Largest Organ

For this week’s fit gift guide, it’s all about taking care of our largest organ: our skin! So if you’re a product fiend like I am or have someone special on your list who is, read on for the reviews of some fantastic products Jenn and I were able to test out. There are a [...]

Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Run: My Post-Stomach-Flu 5K Recap

You know how I set that goal about a month ago to run the Jingle Bell 5K in 28 minutes or less? Well, that didn’t happen yesterday. But I’m going to go ahead and blame that on a little something called the Stomach Flu. Gross little bugger. For the past month, I’d been running regularly, pushing [...]

7 Tips to Turn Your Holiday Shopping Into a Workout

It may be tempting to forgo the lines and just order your holiday gifts (Need some fit gift ideas? We got ‘em here!) from the ol’ interwebs, but we have found a serious perk to actually getting out of the house and into the stores: extra activity. While shopping can’t really be considered as a [...]

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