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Does This Asinine AskMen.com Website Make Me Look Fat?

I guess we shouldn’t be surprised, considering the infantile editors at this website make their living by posting Top 10 lists along the lines of “Top 10:

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Eating Clean at Starbucks

As many of you know, Starbucks is my home away from home – surprising, considering I don’t even drink coffee. But I DO do decaf Americanos and sometimes writing from home is boring, suffocating and just plain unproductive.

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July is Cankle Awareness Month

A year ago last month, a smartass teenager on the street informed me that I had cankles.

Not that I hold a grudge or anything, Three hundred and ninety days later.

So it was with a combination if horror and elation that I recently read on Glamour.com’s Vitamin G blog that July is officially Cankle Awareness Month, thanks to the kind folks over at Gold's Gym.

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Is Serena Williams a BBW (Big, Black Woman)?

The Kansas City Star’s Jason Whitlock seems to think so.

In a column currently posted on Fox Sports, he blasts Serena (whom he says has “ limitless potential,” calling her the main reason he watches tennis) for her chronic underachievement in tennis.

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Serving Up Sex

There was a point in my childhood when I wanted to play tennis. My reason? The skirts, duh!

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Debbie Does…Salad?

I SO spot the trends.

First of all, I liked butterflies before Mariah Carey made them all transformative and cliché. And in seventh grade I vividly remember pilfering a top from my mom’s closet - bright green top with big black buttons down the front – and wearing it with only the top button closed…unheard of at the time.

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Drop me a line...

GinaMarie! I'll get you your new shoes! Email me at leslie@lrdiaries.com Thanks to everyone for taking the time to enter and telling me all about your summer walking and running goals!

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Show Me Your Moobies!

Moobs: We’ve all seen ‘em. On the beach, in the gym, maybe even on our fathers or husbands. Man-boobs spring up on guys all around us for a number of reasons, ranging from plain old physical inactivity to hormonal inbalances.

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All Day I Dream About (brand new running) Shoes

Despite what some commercials may have you believe, women run for more reasons than to grab a 100-calorie Oreo Cakester – we do it for things like, you know, health and fitness and to look good, too.

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