Jul 2009
FACE LIFT
Hello followers. LIFESTYLE LEMONAID will be having a face lift and will be off line for a week. When we return, we will be wrinkle free and fresh looking. See you soon!
Jul 2009
BENJAMIN BUTTON
First, I must give credit where credit is due. I did not come up with this brilliant phrase which my friend uses to describe all of us who seems to look better and younger with age. I recognize that many entries of LIFESTYLE LEMONAID have touched on the aging process. However, it is a reality! Many of the steps we practice now (ie sunblock one the neck and tops of hands) , I wish I had paid more attention to in my twenties. At least back then, these steps would be aggressively preventative and not reactive. The good news is that it is never too late to adopt new procedures to maintain healthy skin. Every day, dermatologists come up with new topical lotions and laser treatments which promise to rejuvenate and restore. I take it a step further and have started to tell people that I am 40 instead of my true age of 37. It feels so good to be told that I look terrific for 40! Don’t forget to wear sunblock. I just slathered it all over my face and body as my family is on our way to spend the day at a friend’s house in Malibu.
Jul 2009
WHEN YOU ARE JUST NOT IN THE MOOD
Just when you think this entry was going to be about the fun little topic of sex, I have decided to throw a curve ball! Some people are great cooks. Some people even love to cook. Then there is ME. I love to eat other peoples’ food. However, I want my family to eat healthy and to enjoy what they are eating. When I had my first child, my mother in law used to beg me to shop at Trader Joes. She even went so far as to fly out for the day to take me to the market. She dragged me down each aisle and showed me what to buy and how to cook basic tasty meals with many of the products found at Trader Joes. Till this day, Trader Joes is my go-to market to shop and pick up last minute dinners that taste homeade. Tonight, as I was devouring the turkey meatloaf which took no more than eight minutes to prepare, I decided that I was no longer going to pretend it was my recipe. I was going to give credit where credit is due. Trader Joes makes the greatest turkey meatloaf and for those who don’t cook, this is one dish that should be purchased and served regularly! Bon Appetit.
Jul 2009
AND I STILL GOT THE FIX- IT TICKET!
We hear it all the time. The sun is not our friend. This mandate is something none of us truly pay attention to until we start seeing the negative effects in the form of aging. At this point, we are now in reactive mode and we are in effect playing god by trying to turn back the hands of time. This is not an easy task! I am not one who has chosen the “natural” path of aging gracefully without intervention by my genius dermatologist Dr. Khadavi 8185282500. Regardless of which path you choose, there are some regular steps to follow to slow the effects of sun damage and prevent furture brown spots from forming in addition to wearing sunblock.
A friend of mine, who I respect very much, smartly focuses on protecting her hands from those unsightly age spots. Smart girl! She has taught me to embrace wearing driving gloves. So I have been searching far and wide for the chicest of driving gloves.
Morevoer, some people like myself take sun protection a step further- NOT! Tinting my car windows adds to the “I am a hot milf” factor. Yesterday, I was cruising along with my kids in the pimped out Ford Flex. All of a sudden there is a motorcycle cop with blaring lights pulling me over. The kids start getting excited, I start panicking. I roll my window down and hand my registration to a young cop. Hmm, I might have a trick up my sleeve. As he walks away to write down my license, I pull my tank top down and push my girlfriends together. He returns and kindly rejects my son who offers his one and only quarter to bribe off my ticket. Sorry ma’m, he says as he blatantly stares down my shirt. Apparently, my windows are tinted too dark in the front and I have been issued fix-it ticket. (Sorry Buns!) I meekly offer up one more excuse and tell him that I am incredibly fair skinned and that my dear friend with the obsession with driving gloves believes that tinted windows help prevent weathered skin and ugly brown spots. Needless to say, that excuse did not work. He got a free look at my chest and I got a ticket.
Jul 2009
CALL ME CRAZY
It was a bird, it was a plane, no! It was my bulky thighs from tae-bo. Call me crazy but I have the genetically wacky body that bulks from any excercise other than pilates or power walking on flat roads. For nearly twenty years, I worked out six days a week at 6:30 am at tae bo. I never lost an inch. I would sweat, jump, and pound the air only to find my jeans getting tighter and tighter. I then took up spinning and that too bulked my legs. I was getting desparate. I never liked yoga, particularly hated watching my fingers spread and widen. Running on treadmills made me nautious and detroyed my knees. I removed all bread from my diet but still I never lost an inch. Until one day, I saw the light and it was in the form of a beautiful and angelic dancer – and pilates teacher named Jessica. Jessica spoke the same language as me and validated my theory that many workouts negate the very thing you are trying to achieve- a taut and lean body. She supported my belief that certain bodies bulk from cardio workouts. Even as my friends teased me, I stuck to my guns and Jessica would back me up. Today, I do pilates three to four times a week with Jessica and I have dropped a full size. She has transformed many of my friends bodies as well. She is a genius and her choices in which pilates based moves work on indvidual bodies are dead-on. For example, she recognizes that lunges are not appropriate for female bodies. Most importantly, JESSILATES allows my body to handle bread, drink several glasses of wine a week, and not mess up my blow dry which is supposed to last a week. To attempt to take a class with Jessica who has a massive following, call Pilates Plus in encino. Just like Madonna, Jessica’s reputation precedes her and you won’t even need to give a last name.
