The Flying Trapeze is on hiatus until Wednesday, January 2, 2008, for seasonal merriments and troublemaking. Happy holidays to all!!

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I’m sure this won’t surprise anyone, but The New York Times reports (in its fashion section) on the crazy inaccuracy of calorie counts on exercise equipment. Don’t trust the machine!

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There are a gazillion guides to healthy habits while traveling, but I think I’ve got a tip I haven’t seen anywhere else:
Bring an anchor.
My anchor is oatmeal. Except when I’m cutting starches, I have it religiously for breakfast. One day I’ll be old and toothless and still eating oatmeal for breakfast. (See, it’s good that […]

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It’s official: Diet as a marketing buzzword has gone the way of atomic, that catch-all adjective from the ’50s that signified something was bright and shiny and of the future – until we started worrying about the small but nagging possibility of accidentally blowing the planet up.
Bye bye, diet!

The South Beach Diet will be repackaged […]

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No, this is not a post about Spanx.
This is a post about how to get yourself to exercise in the dead of winter, when your seratonin is bottomed out and the fluffy folds of your overstuffed sofa beckon like so many marshmallows.
Trick yourself.
Tell yourself you don’t have to exercise. Bravo, you’re a fitness goddess and […]

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This weekend I held an impromptu holiday dinner party. I love dinner parties! In order to enjoy them without waddling away from the table, I eat light the day of and make sure to get in some good cardio. And I follow a “one cracker only” rule around the appetizers.
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Appetizers:
Goat cheese under olive tapenade […]

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Today the two Melissas birth control pieces are linked on one of my favorite sites, Back in Skinny Jeans. There, Steph mentions that she actually lost weight on the Pill — another reminder that everybody and every body is different. As well, the Pill is just one of many factors that influence your weight, so […]

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By Melissa G.
My subconscious and I have always been of one mind when it comes to my Birth Control Pills. I take one, every day, every weather, every time. Drunk? I take it. Exhausted or traveling in a different time zone? I take it. Ever since my B.C. pill habit was formed during those first […]

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By Guest Writer Melissa H.
I didn’t intend to go off the Pill in September. It just sort of happened that way. My Pill prescription ran out, and by the time I got it refilled, it was too late. So began my first month of chemical-free womanhood in a long time—unplanned, unwelcomed, and unpleasant. But along […]

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A decade ago, all my friends were going on the Pill. We lined up outside the student health center, chatting about how exciting it all was – and about whether we’d gain the dreaded 10 pounds associated with oral contraceptives.
Now, a decade later, I know more than a few women who are going off the […]

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