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Have you ever seen something resembling a reddish-brown alfalfa seed crawling around on your countertops or in your cupboards? Or maybe flying around in your kitchen?
They’re called grain beetles, and they’re quite common — at least, way more common than anyone wants them to be!
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From Apartment Therapy → Truly Beautiful Backsplashes: Take Your Kitchen to the Next Level
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A few weeks ago, I needed to make a hearty meal for a six hungry folks in less than 45 minutes. When I opened the refrigerator, I saw a bunch of odds and ends of other meals and a few leftovers from other dishes. I didn’t have enough leftovers of anything to reheat and eat or serve, so I need to put things together to create something new.
After plundering though my kitchen and tracking down some poblano peppers, eggs, and ground pork left over from a meatloaf recipe — I was getting closer to dinner. I discovered corn muffins left over in the bread drawer and finally turned to my pantry for a final ingredient or two. I looked right at canned pumpkin — aha! Pumpkin is used in Mexican cuisine — and suddenly a Tex-Mex leftover casserole, with a spiced ground pork and pumpkin layer and a crispy cornbread topping, was born out of what I had on hand.
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If you’re a fan of mug cakes (Kitchn editors certainly are!), this sweet potato brownie is going to be a new favorite. With only two minutes in the microwave, you can have a warm, fudgy treat whenever the mood strikes.
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When I first saw the photo for this recipe, I thought onion rings! Then I thought doughnuts! But I was truly surprised to learn that they are, in fact, fried rings of delicata squash.
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Imagine a gluten-free version of a crêpe that’s as easy to make and as delicate as the French classic, but even more flavorful (on top of also being vegan and rich in protein). That is pudla. This Indian crêpe made with chickpea flour may be lesser-known, but it’s a simple, savory, and wholesome addition to your breakfast routine.
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I spent a sizable part of my life obsessed with the notion that something was horribly wrong with my body. Specifically, that it was too big, and I needed to be smaller.
Leaner.
Skinny.
It felt like that message was everywhere and seemed to stand squarely between the life I wanted and me.
It wasn’t until I became a mother and realized how much self-hate I would be passing on that I changed that narrative and started speaking kindly to myself. I dropped the idea that I needed to change for others and began taking care of myself just for me.
It was only then that I was able to see that it had never been an issue of my size, that the ongoing commentary on my body—and choices with it—would follow me no matter what.
This was honestly shocking to me. I genuinely thought if I could just lose weight, my body wouldn’t be a “problem” anymore, for myself or for others. If I lost weight, my body would stop being a regular part of conversations. People would stop being so critical. It could stop being the focal point of my entire life.
However, as soon as I ventured into making new choices with my body, the commentary amped up once again.
These simple, actionable steps will help you start living more fully and authentically, today.
With the goal of showing myself and my daughter that we deserve our own care, I began working out regularly. Each activity I chose, I would find out, came with its own backlash:
Running would “ruin” my muscles.
Weight lifting would make me “masculine” and “bulky.”
Anything less than a specific, progressive program was a waste of time.
As I began to lose weight, my dietary choices also became a regular topic of conversation for those around me. Suddenly all of my co-workers were nutrition experts, warning me about things like the sugar content in blueberries, or the ill effects of eating carbs.
For the first time in my life I was truly caring for myself in a way that felt wonderful to me, and my body was responding in ways I couldn’t have imagined.
Yet, the result was only more scrutiny, more commentary, and more lists full of things that I was getting wrong.
For so long it had seemed like such a black and white issue to me—I was big, and I needed to be small. But after losing 100 pounds, I got a brand new list of shortcomings. It included items like lifting my butt, flattening my stomach, increasing my muscle definition (but not too much), and somehow keep all my breast tissue, at all costs.
The ways I could be wrong in my own body were never ending. They related to how my body was allowed to look as well as what I was supposed to do with it. In the pursuit of following all of these rules, it never occurred to me that I couldn’t possibly get it right.
More importantly, it never occurred to me to determine all those things for myself. To define my own values.
It never occurred to me that I was an autonomous being who deserved to make (and break) all my own damned rules as they pertained to my relationship with me.
Wow.
Today autonomy is what I strive to teach, how I strive to operate, and what I’m always aspiring to exercise in places I’ve yet to identify. To me that means always coming back to a place where I am operating from my own values and not those handed to me. That I actually stop before taking any action toward my body, or for its appearance, and ask myself if I’m acting out of habit, conditioning, or my own volition.
(Note from GGS: Grab your very own “My Body My Business” shirt here!)
Because so much of what we believe we want for ourselves is the result of gendered conditioning, it can be difficult to even begin examining some of this stuff. Here are just a few values I was operating with that, upon mindful examination, I had never actually agreed with:
My body is a display unit. It is public property and will inevitably be picked apart as one might an advertisement or something meant for their consumption.
Other people’s opinion’s about my body matter. I should be mindful of what others might think before making all decisions about clothing, hair, make-up, even what I have for lunch.
It’s important that I look “put together” for others at all times. Leaving the house in any state of “disheveled” is an indication that my whole life is a mess. Keep it together.
Smallness is important to me. Being small in how much space I take up sitting, standing, positioning myself in a room is of utmost importance. Anything I can do (including all measures to insure weight-loss) are a priority.
The appearance of my body is my first priority. Before I concern myself with developing in any other area, I should focus first on if my body is good enough. That allows everything else to fall into place, or conversely ruins everything.
Other people’s comfort matters more than my own. If someone is in my space or doesn’t like the way I take up space, it is up to me to keep them comfortable.
Some of those might look different for others, based on their geography, religion, culture, and all sorts of variables that factor into our identity.
It turns out all of those things are polar opposite of what I believe. Upon examination, so much of how I used to show up in the world had so much more to do with what I felt I was supposed to do and nothing to do with what I believed in.
If you are still dismantling some of your own beliefs and discovering where your values lie, just be present in your life. Make universal the small ways you treat yourself. Zoom out. If you are thinking “I shouldn’t leave the house without lipstick!” Ask yourself, “Do I believe women should never leave the house without make-up?” Your values are easier to land upon when making the personal moment-to-moment more universal.
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From there, you can make any choice you want, with the fullness of expression you deserve. With autonomy and rules or guidelines only created by you, for you. Even if you don’t agree that all women must put on lipstick to leave the house (or whatever “rule” you are challenging) you can decide that is fun for you to do so. Nothing is off limits. The rules are that there aren’t really any.
While it’s hard to land there from the many lists we seem to be handed at birth, once you begin to dismantle these old notions, you gain immeasurable freedom to move about your life as you truly please.
From the time we’re little girls, we’re not only taught that our looks determine our worth, we’re constantly reminded that no matter how hard we try (at anything), we’re never quite good enough.
It’s no wonder we struggle to feel confident in so many areas of our lives—our bodies, our relationships, our intelligence, our contributions to the world. It’s frustrating and stifling to feel like your voice doesn’t matter, like you don’t measure up to arbitrary and ever-changing standards, or like everyone else’s preferences and needs come before yours.
What if you could feel confident in every way? What if, instead of wondering how it would feel to be good, worthy, and deserving enough… you already knew? What if you truly believed that losing a few more pounds or squeezing into a smaller size dress had nothing to do with how amazing, powerful, and valuable you are?
At Girls Gone Strong, we want to help you show up fully and authentically in your life. That’s why we’ve worked with GGS Advisory Board Member Erin Brown to create Showing All The Way Up: A Guide To Confidence with Erin Brown—and we’re so excited to share with you!
In this handbook, you’ll learn:
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Everyone likes receiving a thoughtful piece of actual mail that is not a bill or catalogue. Another thing everyone likes? Food. Given these two universal truths, we have trawled the web in search of multi-purpose note cards that will delight your friends, charm your colleagues, and make your family very, very hungry.
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Tempo training is common for upper body and core movements, but is often neglected for lower body exercises. Why should you use tempo training for your legs? It all starts with the hips. The perfect squat is about as rare as the perfect running stride. About 90% of the time, any athlete who comes to me for training has dysfunctional hips. Damn you, chairs!
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