Health & Fitness

The week leading up to your period is a monthly experience that affects all vagina-having human beings differently. Some women breeze through the week prior like it’s nothing. Some women feel more tired than normal, and get a few extra pimples. Some experience bloating and back pain. Some ladies feel …

In honor of the smoker’s holiday, I though it would be really cool if I explored the benefits of marijuana. I know that it ruffles some individuals’ feathers, but on the list of things the government should be worried about, those who partake in Mary Jane shouldn’t be one. I …

Getting the recommended 7-8 hours of sleep seems to be difficult when we’ve deemed work, television, caking on the phone, and everything else under the sun more important. In fact, 40% of American adults are sleep deprived. However, there are more advantages to sleep than just feeling rested in the …

In a time where everyone is into fitness, and swears they are a fitness professional, it’s easy to get caught up in myths and convoluted information along your weight loss journey. Because of all the bad information out there, some people believe water is the coming of Jesus, Waist trainers …

With all the information we have on health, diets and fitness, it’s easy for something as simple as living a healthier lifestyle to seem more difficult then it should be. Every trainer swears he has the answer to the perfect body, every dietician promises the perfect diet and all of …

Do you think you have what it takes to determine when you are being lied to? Well if you answered yes, then I am going to share some painful but obvious truth with you. I have joined a gym in my life so don’t think this is mere speculation. We …

Like everything else that can be streamlined and provided through an app, fitness has become widely available to people from the convenience of their phone. No matter where you are, there are hundreds of app options to help with an entire routine, or diet plan, all from the palm of …

What do you do when everyone in your surroundings is in their late 20’s and you’re reaching your late 30’s? For some odd reason you don’t know, what should 30s and 40s look like? The women of our time are looking for that man with that sexy body and big …

While most are decking the halls with boughs of holly, for some, tis the season that’s not so jolly. There is something about Christmas and the coming of a New Year that heightens our emotions as the day approaches. For those who experience clinical depression, their symptoms may become amplified …

I can’t begin to tell you the amount of horror stories I’ve heard about women’s private areas; from pungent odors, to horrible maintenance, I’ve literally heard it all. Some stories are so awful; they’ve made me embarrassed to be an owner of a vagina myself. So, I felt it my …

We are told from birth how crucial exercise is: from family, school, doctors etc. we’ve been taught its importance. However, much like other people in the same denial, I at some point disregarded everything I learned and decided exercise didn’t pertain to me. I figured it was only for people …

STOP CRYING! Boys don’t cry; crying is for girls. The little boy wipes his face and does his best to stop crying. The first time a young boy gets yelled at for doing what is 100% natural for him to do, he starts an all too familiar process of learning …

Imagine going to your routine physical one day and finding out from the doctor that your dream of a family is now physically impossible… You can’t conceive, not now, or ever. You ask the doctor,  how such a terrible thing could happen, because as far as you know you have …

Self-doubt. Atelophobia. One in the same. Plaguing thoughts since the dawn of time; including mine. As a child, you grow up being compared to a sibling or relative. “Why can’t you be more like Sue?” “Why did you get a B? Charlie got an A+ on his project.” There are …

  For @TrainPrettyWithChas getting fit became more about helping others then helping herself. Here is her story. My name is Chasity, but everyone calls me CHAS and I am a Nurse. I felt as a nurse it would be a contradiction to give health and diet advise to my patients …