February 04, 2019 at 01:12PM by CWC Recently, I had a ~late night~ with some friends during a fondue party. Among the four of us, we may or may not have split more than three bottles of wine. (Look, stuff happens.) As you can probably imagine, I was totally hungover the next day. Yet when I went to go meet one of my friends for brunch, he looked suspiciously bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. He informed me he had gone for a run early that morning. (In contrast, I had spent the morning sprawled on the couch eating leftover Doritos out of the bowl I had put out the night before.) “How?” I asked. “I don’t get hangovers,” he answered cheerfully. “That can’t be right,” I said. “Never?” “It’s true,” he chirped. “I’ve literally never had a hangover in my life, doesn’t matter how much I drink.” I was skeptical, but it turns out my friend might not just be a liar with his pants on fire. “Some people are able to metabolize [alcohol] quite well and quickly,” says Amy Shapiro, M.S., R.D., CSN, and founder of Real Nutrition NYC. Lucky them. The surprising forces behind your hangover (or lack thereof) Before we dive into why some people are more #blessed than others, it might help to understand what causes hangovers in the first place. The simplified version: Your liver enzymes break down all the alcohol you drink into acetaldehyde, a toxin your body then needs to get rid of quickly, Shapiro
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This bonkers food diary from the star of “High Maintenance” is peak wellness—and I love it
February 03, 2019 at 04:30AM by CWC If you’ve ever watched HBO’s High Maintenance, you know that the adventures of a weed delivery guy make for the perfect vehicle for peeking into people’s lives. That, combined with the show’s is-this-actually-a-documentary level of dialogue and its ability to nail the tiniest everyday details, makes it the smartest (and most pleasurable) binge-watch around. If you don’t already know about High Maintenance, then you should probably avoid me at parties. Because I might just evangelize it to you at a level that’ll make you subtly start backing away from me. (Yeah, I get social cues. But I can’t stop.) So I admit it: I love High Maintenance. I also love food diaries, where people disclose all the places they eat and what they order—or even better, what they cook. (Funny how food diarists have so much time to go to farmers’ markets!) The better their lives are, the more hurts-so-good envy I feel. It’s basically schadenfreude in reverse. And now, be still my heart: these two things that I love have combined into what has to be the most wellness-y (and Brooklyn-y) Grub Street Diet of all time, from High Maintenance star and co-creator Ben Sinclair. Let’s investigate. Is there a moringa shout-out? As in, the super-nutritious green that Well+Good ID’ed as a trend back in 2018? You know it. “An African man told me about moringa a few years ago while I was filming man-on-the-street segments for the Tribeca Film Fest. He made me guess his
Yes, Netflix, I’m still watching—despite feeling nothing but pure sadness afterward
February 01, 2019 at 03:30AM by CWC The “Watch it again” section on Netflix might be the single most dangerous spot to land on the web, at least for me. I’m currently cringing internally at the embarrassing number of minutes I’ve spent there catching up—again, and again—with my old pals Winston Schmidt (New Girl), Elena Gilbert (The Vampire Diaries), and Cristina Yang (Grey’s Anatomy). Sure, my Netflix squad never says anything that I haven’t heard before, but there’s something strangely comforting about passing an hour or five with them and their familiar zingers, love triangles, and once-fashionable #lewks. It’s all pure streaming bliss. That is, until I’ve come to the end—or the death—of the show, and the final credits roll, leaving me in a state of mourning. Then Netflix promptly tries to shove a new binge-able friend in my queue, but I’m simply not ready (leave me to grieve, would you!), and I have no idea what to do next. Should I eat dark chocolate and PTFO? Throw my laptop at the wall? Start a Pinterest board of the most iconic Nick and Schmidt moments? Dance to the Grey’s Anatomy theme song in my underwear? You could say that I’m at a loss of the melodramatic variety. Recently, after I once again fell into a marathon-streaming pit of despair after concluding a spur-of-the-moment rewatch of Stranger Things season one (yep, this post-watch sadness lends itself to movies and single seasons of shows, too), I decided that it was time to get to the
Netflix’s “Sex Education” gets down with all the stuff you didn’t learn in high school
January 22, 2019 at 08:39AM by CWC Allow me to set the stage for the one and only childhood memory I have of sex education. I’m in middle school—with a greasy AF middle part in my hair, no less—in Charleston, South Carolina. The physical education teacher has just revealed that my class will be skipping the next installment of our four square unit (really!) in favor of something that doesn’t require changing into scratchy gym clothes. We’re all psyched. That is, until the guidance counselor strides across the gymnasium floor and begins handing out index cards. “Write down any questions you have about sex,” she says. “They’ll be anonymous.” As I hold the piece of paper in hand, I can think of only one query that needs an answer: How can I have a question about something I know next to nothing about? Flash forward a decade and it blows my mind that I possessed the strategic moves to become “King” in a schoolyard game, but I still didn’t know a single fact about the etiquette, laws, and complex societal standards that rule my body. What’s worse, I’d never given a second thought to this lack of curriculum surrounding puberty until I watched Netflix’s Sex Education, which started streaming January 11th. I learned more about sex in five minutes of watching the show than I did in the extent of my time in school. And now, I’m wondering why. How can I have a question about something I know next to nothing about? Sex Education stars
Sorry, hygge-loving binge-watchers: Your Netflix bill is about to spike (again!)
January 18, 2019 at 06:55AM by CWC Nothing stinks more than bearing bad news (except maybe your filthy gym clothes), but here goes: Netflix just announced its prices are rising…again. All three of the streaming service’s plans are increasing by a dollar or two, placing them at to $9, $13, and $16 a month, reports CNN Business. Existing customers will reportedly be given a few months before they see the change reflected in their monthly billing cycle. (Read: You’ll be paying a premium fare just in time for Stranger Things season three’s release on July 4.) All three of the streaming service’s plans are increasing by a dollar or two, placing them at to $9, $13, and $16 a month, reports CNN Business. Sure, having to pay more stinks—but there’s a silver-screened lining: An extra dollar or two from users could help the company finance the creation of even more addicting shows and movies (because Narcos and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before need fuel to keep going strong). After all, Netflix did walk away with five awards at its year’s Golden Globes. Plus, they need to compete with powerhouses like Disney, Amazon, and Apple who are also vying for territory on the public’s to-be-watched queue. Binge-watching might be bad for your health, but it sure is good for the soul—especially with cozy-forward hygge season upon us. This story was originally published on October 6, 2017. Updated with additional reporting by Kells McPhillips on January 18, 2019. These Netflix movies will totally inspire your fall beauty refresh. Looking for more of
Marie Kondo’s Netflix show helped me tidy up my life after a particularly rough year
January 07, 2019 at 12:07PM I certainly wasn’t expecting a show like Tidying Up with Marie Kondo to change my life: I’d had a hell of a year, and my depression was doing me no favors. In fact, all things related to minimalism and the joy-sparking KonMari Method that the home-organizing guru touts were the opposite of my MO. The trinkets of my life had begun to line the walls of my bedroom, unable to find a place to exist. So naturally, when I was offered the opportunity to cat sit at a friend’s for two weeks rather than deal with the state of my place, I jumped. I love avoidance tactics perhaps more than Kondo loves organizing. And avoidance often means watching the screeners I receive for work and pushing the thought of my literal mess to the back of my mind. But when the screener in question is Tidying Up, avoiding that mess is tough. I anticipated turning off the Netflix show pretty quickly, but Kondo’s genuine sincerity while sitting on the ground, introducing herself to the home clawed at my heart. The compassion she has for how hard it is to stay on top of the state of your home felt revelatory to me—a person who grew up getting chastised for never cleaning well enough. This guru got me! Furthermore, like Queer Eye and The Great British Baking Show, Tidying Up features imperfect people doing their imperfect best—and everyone else being nice about it. I watched the rest of
This Is Our Fave Folding Tip From Marie Kondo’s New Netflix Show
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Netflix’s “Dumplin’” is the ultimate feel-good movie to cure your holiday-flick fatigue
December 13, 2018 at 09:22AM “A swimsuit body is just a body with a swimsuit on it,” is just one of the many body-positive truth kernels sprinkled throughout the just-released beauty-pageant Netflix flick, Dumplin’. Basically, the Jennifer Aniston-backed, feel-great beauty-pageant movie is the holiday gift from the streaming gods you didn’t know you needed. Why? Amid a barrage of (totally bingeable) countdown-to-Christmas rom-coms, this new release has no seasonal peg at all. Its central plot isn’t even a love story. How refreshing, right? Our lead isn’t a workaholic ascending the career ladder while totally neglecting her personal life. Rather, she’s Willowdean (Danielle Macdonald), a plus-size teen in rural Texas who learned confidence—and Southern manners—from her confident-in-her-own-skin Aunt Lucy (Hilliary Begley), who passes away at the outset of the film. Will’s mom, Rosie (Jennifer Aniston), on the other hand, is a svelte former beauty queen still riding her small-town fame by way of running the very Miss Teen Bluebonnet competition that afforded her the crown years ago. Frustrated by the apparent ambivalence of her mom—who thoughtlessly, though not maliciously, calls Will “Dumplin’”—about the loss of Lucy, Will signs up for the pageant. She wants to honor her aunt’s legacy, and self-subscribing to the 85-year-old institution she feels to be her sample-size mom’s top priority seems like the best way. What comes next is not a story about a weight-obsessed heroine not-so-heroically shedding pounds in order to win the competition and prove to herself and everyone else that she’s worthy—in time for the end credits