The proud leader of the #bgg2wlarmy, Erika Nicole Kendall writes food and fitness, body image and beauty, and more here at #bgg2wl. After losing over 150lbs, Kendall became a personal trainer certified in fitness nutrition, women’s fitness, and weight loss by the National Academy of Sports Medicine. She is also certified in sports nutrition by Precision Nutrition. She now lives in New York with her husband and children, and is working on her 6th and 7th certifications because she likes having alphabet soup at the end of her name.
“Maybe, juuuust maybe, it’s time to start taking to the streets to help people. Maybe it’s time to try to bring the resources to the places that need it most – the people who have spent so much time living one way, that they couldn’t fathom living another way…”
As soon as I get my copy, I’m gonna stroll around Brooklyn with two arms tight. Holding it across my chest. Don’t laugh, either.
Beyonce’s “Move Your Body” song, recorded for First Lady Obama’s Let’s Move campaign.
“Pepsi Co., facing a lawsuit from a man who claims to have found a mouse in his Mountain Dew can, has an especially creative, if disgusting, defense..”
“When the third injection was finished… he used superglue to seal the poke hole that was made by the needle.”
Here’s an interesting little tidbit I picked up from a Weekly Spark article about misconceptions that we have about our bodies and doing right by them: So what makes 7
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Scallops that can be served over a nice pasta or over brown rice…
Five athletes who deserve ALL THE PRAISE. ALL OF IT. EVER.
“Erika, I find that lately if I don’t eat clean, I get stomach ache and I live in the bathroom afterwards (if you know what I mean)…”
A pita topped with salad greens, olives, basil, onion and a light cider vinegar.
“If they don’t look overweight, why does it matter if the BMI says they are?”
From NecoleBitchie: Jennifer Hudson continued to show off her amazing new figure over the weekend before performing at AOL Sessions in Beverly Hills. Although, she has been getting compliments left
In a span of 16 minutes, I had 8 different men inappropriately speak on my body. I had a pair of men follow me up a street demanding that I talk to them…
Discussing the increase in sex drive a woman experiences when she loses weight.
View and discuss the Pepsi Max commercial with the Black couple…