Posts Categorized: Life’s a Butter Dream

Life’s a Butter Dream – Author M.J. Pullen blogs about body image, weight loss (and gain) (and loss again), fitness and struggling to stay healthy as a working mom. When my oldest son, Skywalker, was a toddler, he used to sing “Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily… life’s a butter dream.” And he’s right!

Sugar Detox Day Three – Pantry of Doom

posted on 03/26/2014

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Passover is coming up in a few weeks, a time where Jewish households everywhere will scour their pantries, refrigerators and even freezers to root out all the chametz (usually defined as anything containing grain or leavening agents of any type, with the notable exception of matzah). It’s sort of a short, religiously-based Atkins diet. Whatever […]

Sugar Detox Day Two – Harder than it Sounds

posted on 03/25/2014

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First off, I want to thank everyone for the support on my Sugar Detox adventure. Since last night’s post, I’ve been amazed at all the kind comments and private messages you guys have sent me. SO many people, women in particular, seem to have had similar and scary chest pain/ER experiences. Some of these turned […]

Sugar Detox Day One – Why I’m Here (and Trying to Stay that Way)

posted on 03/24/2014

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My friend Meghan at Merge Into Health recently drugged me and forced me to sign up for convinced me to try her 10-Day sugar detox program. I’ve been trying off and on for years to eat better and lose weight, with only marginal success. Something always gets in the way: I slip and fall headfirst […]

Graduating from Parenting Basic (a.k.a Officially Going Over the Edge)

posted on 03/12/2014

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Before you have kids, people will tell you that parenting will change your life, and push you to your limits. Especially the parents of young children, who will grab your arm in the grocery store or at parties and hiss out warnings, as though they’ve escaped temporarily from an institution and want to make sure […]

Vanity Wins in the End?

posted on 02/27/2014

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We have an enormous, steep staircase at our house that goes from the upstairs landing to the front door. It was one of the first things that attracted me to this house when we bought it a year ago, so lovely and open, with hardwood steps and iron rails. It didn’t occur to me then […]

Under the Influence

posted on 02/25/2014

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Have you ever noticed that we often get into our favorite things because of other people? You’re not born a Packers fan or a knitting champion or a soccer freak or a Republican. We develop those parts of our identities over time, as hobbies, interests and opinions are presented to us and we react to […]

And the Oscar Goes to…

posted on 02/20/2014

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The 86th Annual Academy Awards are just over a week away and I am simply vibrating with excitement. Oscar Night has become one of my very favorite nights of the year. It’s not just that I love the speeches and the tributes and the music (I do) or watching people interact on the red carpet […]

Dream Recounted, Death Revisited

posted on 02/04/2014

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I had an oddly vivid dream last night. I’m not a life-as-movie dream person: for example, I never showed up naked on book report day in my fourth grade classroom, or had a dream that could be confused with reality except that my husband was Paul Rudd wearing a horse’s head and green tights. Ahem. […]

“Snowmageddon” – An Atlanta Writer’s View

posted on 01/30/2014

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You may have heard that we’ve had a bit of snow here in Atlanta, accompanied by no small amount of chaos and controversy. My family got off easy on Tuesday: just three and a half hours in the car with our preschoolers to get through what is normally a 20-minute drive. Sounds bad, but many […]

Some Boobalicious News

posted on 01/17/2014

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I am so excited that I’m spilling out of my 38Ds! Okay not really, but you get the idea. I am thrilled to announce that next Saturday, January 25th, I will be hanging out with the fabulous staff and customers at Livi Rae Lingerie – home of Lifetime’s famous Double Divas. If you’re in the […]