Body Soiree

It is amazing to me how being near the ocean( pick one, doesn't matter) can make you feel. Some people say they feel their mortality, small and insignificant or even scared. But as I sit here watching the Atlantic, all I feel or have ever felt, is hopeful. I have had the pleasure of living on both coasts, always near the water and nothing makes me feel so full of wonderment than the ocean. I am always in a better mood when walking a beach (who isn't?) I am able to think clearer, plan better and all of this without wine! A good friend, who is very much into astrology, tried to explain to me my love for water and anything aquatic by saying it is due to me being a Pisces. Hhhhmmm.... I said, because if that were the case I would be able to SWIM! This is what makes this all too funny to me; I don't swim. I was never taught and I love the water. I am not afraid of it, I will get in it with you, splash about and even put my head under, I just can't swim to save my life OR you...

As a Personal Trainer and fellow Human Being, I tend to wonder about the mental state of people. Look! I get it! Everyone wants the "hot and perfect" body(as if that exists) but what I don't get is subjecting our children to these crazy, unrealistic expectations.  Why are parents hiring Personal Trainers for their pre-teens? Nine and ten year old children with Trainers? Really!? Unless they are some type of sports prodigy; I don't get it. Shouldn't outside be their gym? Whatever happened to playing outside? or if it is too cold, playing INSIDE!? When did this become passe'? I actually heard a group of twelve year old's and I knew they were twelve by the class they were in, discussing how they try not to eat carbohydrates! At twelve I didn't know what a carb was. I knew meat, vegetables, fruit, rice and potatoes, I didn't even know those were starches! Now where did those children learn this? The Parent(s)! Body Dysmorphia and myths regarding food a...