Month: November 2019

November 06, 2019 at 04:30AM by CWC There’s just something about tucking into a giant bowl of ramen that’s like a hug in soup form. Plus, it’s cheap, totally customizable to your tastes, and *gasp* healthy? Yep, ramen can totally be a good-for-you dinner option—by making just a few tweaks to the microwave version. Tweak number one: Give it a protein boost with this ramen egg recipe. With just six ingredients in the DIY marinade, it’s much less nutritionally questionable than the ingredients in those mysterious seasoning packets, and way tastier. The real nutritional star of the show? Pete and Gerry’s Organic Eggs, which are Certified Humane Free Range and come from small family farms. Basically, they’re about as close as you can get to just-laid eggs without having a personal chicken coop. The difference in quality is evident from the dark orange yolks and rich taste, and eggs from hens with outdoor access have been shown to be higher in omega-3s and vitamin D. See? Told you ramen could be nutritious—just add an (organic) egg. Watch the video to see exactly how to make a perfect ramen egg, and get the full slurppable recipe below. https://content.jwplatform.com/players/R7KZSNMy-AjgxWzQ7.js Continue Reading… Author Well+Good Editors | Well and Good Selected by CWC

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November 06, 2019 at 01:00AM by CWC “Why are you the way that you are?” is a Michael Scott-ism that I ask myself almost every day. Usually it’s because I’m doing something like ordering tacos for the third night in a row (instead of cooking my fresh groceries) or binge-watching Love Island (instead of, oh, I don’t know, reading a book). But the other week, it was because I was facing crippling anxiety about therapy, because I had essentially ghosted my therapist and needed to make an appointment. I was way overdue for a visit at this point and needed to see my psychiatrist because I had run out of refills on my anxiety medications, thus perpetuating said anxiety. Beyond that big-deal reason for my anxiety uptick, though, I worried he would judge me, or tell me to find someone else out of frustration for my lack of compliance, or straight up just not respond to my request for an appointment. I wondered if I might be better off just seeing someone new, but didn’t really want to go that route, because finding a mental-health professional who fits your needs is hard, and I really liked this one. Well, one thing I had going for me is being in good company because therapist-ghosting is actually relatively common. Psychologist Laura Athey-Lloyd, PsyD, notes that studies and meta-analyses have found, repeatedly, that premature therapy dropout happens often. “The reasons for ghosting vary based on when in the therapy the ghosting takes place,”

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November 06, 2019 at 12:34AM by CWC The arms section of spin class is the biggest mindf**k in the fitness world. Because: How can a series of different curl variations with three-pound weights burn out your arms to the point of complete exhaustion in a matter of less than five minutes? The answer is all thanks to micromovements. By making teeny, tiny tweaks when you do curls via “centimeter workouts”—those where you move your arms just a smidge and feel a whole lot of difference—you’re able to target entirely different subsets of muscles in your arms (fun fact: your biceps are actually made up of three different muscles!). “By moving your arms a small amount during curls, it changes the angles you are working, thereby activating different parts of your muscles you might not otherwise use,” says RYDE instructor Kaitlin Parker, who coached my arms to the point of exhaustion this morning. “It also shifts your focus a bit, so instead of focusing just on squeezing your biceps for example, a different angle or pace might make you focus also on activating your triceps on the way down.” In addition to moving the angle of your arms, you can also benefit from switching up the resistance you’re facing, which is why trainers so frequently ask you to switch from full extension of a move to a series of pulses and back again. “Small adjustments force you to use your muscles differently which tires them out,” says Parker.  “The more variation

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November 05, 2019 at 10:39PM by CWC Emma Watson is happy being single. In fact, she’s self-partnered, she says. My mother sent Watson’s interview with British Vogue to me in an attempt to make me feel better (?) about being single. Later, a personalized astrology app sent me the following notification: “Instead of looking for validation from romantic interests, try to give that to yourself.” So apparently I have a brand, and it is Deeply Single—or, self-partnered. “Cut to 29, and I’m like, Oh my God, I feel so stressed and anxious. And I realize it’s because there is suddenly this bloody influx of subliminal messaging around,” Watson said. “If you have not built a home, if you do not have a husband, if you do not have a baby, and you are turning 30, and you’re not in some incredibly secure, stable place in your career, or you’re still figuring things out… There’s just this incredible amount of anxiety.” Wow, Emma Watson is out here reciting my daily existential crisis like she’s telling someone how to properly pronounce leviosa and I needed to hear this.  Being single can be empowering and awesome (you get the bed all to yourself! No one is there to witness you eating leftovers while standing in front of the fridge, because you’re too lazy to do dishes!), but it can also feel really lonely and sad, as Watson articulated. While I’ve cultivated a healthy amount of self-deprecation about it, I also feel the pressure to

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