Wednesday, 15th May 2013
Written by: AliciaMarie
Captain Obvious to the rescue AGAIN.
Federal court has ordered global casual shoe brand Skechers USA Inc. to give 520,000 customers full refunds on their trainer purchases in a $40 million+ class action lawsuit: The company claimed that wearing their $80USD Shape-Ups, $54 Resistance Runner and their $40 ToneUps would actually help you, the gullible customer, to lose weight faster.
The courts considered multiple factors in deciding to approve the settlement and found it provides just compensation to the plaintiffs.
The settlement amount covers more than 70 lawsuits from across the USA. The lawsuits were consolidated in federal court in Louisville. Skechers denied the allegations but said it settled to avoid long litigation.
Friday, 10th May 2013
Written by: AliciaMarie
A&F CEO Jeffries: Dislikes Unattractive and/or Overweight People. #Logic
The CEO of [semi] popular co-ed fave brand Abercrombie & Fitch, Mike Jeffries [pictured] is still REFUSING to add larger sizes of women’s clothing to the stores. They only want “attractive and thin” people wearing their label, and they make no apologies.
When I first saw this story popping around reddit, not gonna lie to you – I thought it was a joke. I haven’t shopped in that store since college, how would I know?
Did some research on the American-retailer and on the news regarding their controversial stance on “acceptable women’s sizing” blah blah blah – come to find out, dude & Co. is serious.
Said Jeffries to Salon in 2006:
“We go after the cool kids. We go after the attractive all-American kid with a great attitude and a lot of friends. A lot of people don’t belong [in our clothes] [in our stores], and they can’t belong. Are we exclusionary? Absolutely. Good-looking people attract other good-looking people, and we want to market to cool, good-looking people. We don’t market to anyone other than that.” (more…)
Saturday, 4th May 2013
Written by: AliciaMarie
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HAPPY STAR WARS DAY!!! Annnnnd it’s almost SUMMERTIME….
Today’s open post is regarding my “workout program change-up”: peep the attached piccie of ME>>>…PHOTOS 1 and 3 were taken one year ago on May 4th, 2012 – and 2 and 4 were taken TODAY (same pants!):
Let me start by saying this: I work hard, I care about and respect my body. But I do not obsess. I was fine a year ago and I feel the same now: HEALTHY. (more…)
Thursday, 25th April 2013
Written by: AliciaMarie
Those of you who know me know that I LOVE ME SOME BEY. She can (most of the time) do no wrong in my eyes.
She’s beyond GORGEOUS, has a killer curvy body, she’s talented and successful, she has a husband who is equally as successful and supports her and she’s a MOM. I don’t know her personally (and it pisses me off) so from my vantage point it looks like homegirl has got it going ON.
But I have to say I am kind of ‘meh’ over this music/video commercial collabo betwixt Beyonce and H&M (she is the “face” of their summer campaign). It feels…”dated?” For lack of a better description. The song featured is her latest, “Stand on the Sun” which is pretty good – the “commercial/music video” features the usual bod-ay, hip rolling and hair-flipping-ness. The video was directed in the Bahamas by Swedish film and video director, Jonas Akerlund who has been in the music video game for a long, long time. What do you think?
My problem is that I expect too much. Girlfriend is exhausted after putting on that incredible Superbowl half-time show and deserves a little ‘creativity’ break.
What do you think of her dark-haired look? Sound off.
Thursday, 25th April 2013
Written by: AliciaMarie
I love the internetz. Why? Because it provides a constant source of “clownery” (one of my favorite new made-up words) every single day.
Today’s hilarity comes to me from the peeps at Shine who got the original tip from the super sleuths at Gawker. They seem to be way ahead of the curve on garbage like this and I love them for it.
Rebecca Martinson, president of University of Maryland’s sorority Delta Gamma, resigned today because a profanity-laced rant that she sent off to her sorors or “sisters” for “being ^%%# awkward and %$%$%^ boring” ended up going “viral.”
The lovely email communication ended up crawling around the world the way everything can and does now-a-days.
Read Rebecca’s words of wisdom below. **WARNING**: If cursing like a sailor, horrid truck stop language and derogatory profanity words offend you, I highly suggest you skip to the end: (more…)
Written by: AliciaMarie
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Monday, 4th March 2013
Written by: AliciaMarie
I need to spend LESS time on the internets. Oh and YES I realize that I have NO EXCUSE for being absent this long…but I haven’t really. I’ve been WRITING new stizz-nuff.
BACK TO TOPIC: Just read that according to a recent “study” performed on 200 newlywed couples by the University of Tennessee, both men AND women stay happiest in relationships when the woman’s BMI (‘Body Mass Index’) is lower than the male’s. Oh, hell. Here we go.
‘Body Mass Index’ or ‘BMI’ is “is a measure of body fat based on height and weight that applies to adult men and women.” This is a random calculator. READ ON… (more…)
Monday, 4th February 2013
Written by: AliciaMarie
Filed under: No sh%#.
Paving the way for mini-skirt season? The new ‘craze’ of doing workouts in high heels or stilettos has spawned a series of classes erupting like a boil on the sweaty back of the fitness industry. Read on…
With spring coming earlier this year, a slew of sexyexercise classes seeks to help you enhance your gait even more by offering group sessions to women who want to work out in, you guessed it, high heels.
Stiletto Fitness Classes in Kansas City, M.O. touts itself as a “core and lower body high-impact strength and training fitness class.” Created by former dancer Coryelle Abney, her class helps women look graceful wearing heels while offering a serious calorie burn. The women saunter (more…)
Written by: AliciaMarie
Because a ’6 pack’ was so last year….
So I love ANATOMY – anything to do with the human machine, you had my interest - now you’ve got my attention…
THIS ONE is from Black Milk Clothing $90.
Written by: AliciaMarie
Some you KNEW…as for the others, maybe you DIDN’T? O.o
THE MUSIC/BANDS THAT YOU HAD NO IDEA CAME FROM ENGLAND:
Black Sabbath
Judas Priest
Iron Maiden
Motorhead
Def Leppard
Deep Purple
Led Zepplin SO MANY MORE AFTER THE JUMP… (more…)
Written by: AliciaMarie
Here’s to hoping that the BULK of you spent MLK day basking in the freedom the great man fought for. I spent it at the GYM, with the masses. Big surprise!
Cutting right to the chase instead of beating around the bush because it’s effectively the start of the work week and ain’t nobody got time for that.
It’s STILL the start of the year…posts like these will be quite abundant here – so expect please. I am trying to find ways help my peeps stay on TRACK!
14 Quick Ways to CUT 100 Calories from your Diet
Aim for at least two ‘swaps’, but three is even better. If you can save up to about 300 calories a day – that’s a whopping 2800 calories a week. And since you need to eat an extra 3500 calories to gain one pound (or cut out that amount to drop it), in less than three weeks, you can keep weight from creeping up on you…[insert horror movie scream]: (more…)
Tuesday, 15th January 2013
Written by: AliciaMarie
Just realized that my little avi there is BRUNETTE which I am no longer. I need to create a few different avis so that I can switch them out as I switch my hair color. MONTHLY.
WHO IS Dr. Lipman? He is the founder and director of the Eleven Eleven Wellness Center in New York City – a health and wellness center that ‘focuses on helping people recover energy and zest for life through holistic and Western medicine.’
For the record – I am behind in about four different writing assignments yet I have time to be posting on Facebook and BLOGGING? M’kay.
Hocus pocus or not – I had to agree with the Doc: these SUPERFOODS should be integrated into your diet – make that part of your ‘resolution revolution.’ MORE… (more…)
Written by: AliciaMarie
WHAT in the actual %$k.
WARNING: Do not read this article if you have an overly sensitive stomach or if you get ‘grossed out’ easily…
A new survey by Harris Interactive commissioned by the Cintas Corporation - has revealed the most revolting conduct to come out of the local gym – and it goes far beyond people who neglect to wipe their SWEAT off the equipment.
Respondents to the poll were asked about the most shocking sights that they have witnessed while exercising in the gym. (more…)
Written by: AliciaMarie
HAPPY NOO YEAR WITH *NEW* sassy bikini bottoms. f…t…w
Wanna know where I got these badboys? After the jump…
I had an out of control Christmas/holiday. Had le fam over for din, cooked up a STORM for Christmas Day and had a good time – BOXING DAY, flew over to the East Coast and Connecticut to see my nuclear fam (mom, dad, Michelle, Liz, nephew Logan), to pray for Sandy Hook and then right back WEST to have NYE with the MONSTER. I got caught in a snow storm and almost had to spend the night in Philly, but a kind-hearted US Airways steward hooked me up and got me out of PA in time to open gifts.
Apparently, (more…)
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MERRY MERRY HAPPY AND SAFE CHRISTMAS, fitPOPPERS!!! 
