Marathon Training

This is a video of my two friends who are training to run in the Pittsburgh Marathon

Bethenny’s Beautiful Body Secret: Fast Yoga

Easy yoga moves/tips you can do in your dorm room straight from Bethenny Frankel!

Bethenny Frankel and Skinnygirl

Skinnygirl is a company founded by Bethenny Fankel. Most of you might know her as a cast member on the Real Housewives of New York City.

The company started with the premise of a low calorie alcoholic drink. The first product was the Skinnygirl Margarita, which only has 37.5 calories per serving! But Frankel didn’t stop there. With the extreme success of this product her empire started to grow rapidly. Now the Skinnygirl cocktail line ranges from “ready to serve cocktails” like the Skinnygirl Pina Colada, and Skinnygirl White Cranberry Cosmo, “vodka” which includes flavors like white cherry, and island coconut and lastly there is even a wine collection including red, white, rose and moscato. The line of alcoholic drinks has grown tremendously and every single product is low calorie! Perfect for everyone, but especially us girls in college who probably drink more then the average person!

But the line of Skinnygirl products doesn’t end there! The Skinnygirl brand has expanded to meal bars, snack packs, daily cleanse products, vitamin packs and weight management products.  All of these products are healthy and good or your body! I myself have the meal bars and they are delicious and keep me full while I have a long day at school!

To me Bethenny Frankel is a big inspiration not only in the business world but she is making products to help us stay healthy! My favorite part is the lower calorie alcohol drinks because in college it is really hard to resist the temptation to go to parties and drink, so the Skinnygirl products are the perfect way to stay on track!

(all information was found on skinnygirlcocktails.com and skinnygirldaily.com)

Interview with Jennifer Lawrence

The Hunger Games Official Trailer

The Hunger Games Movie Review

Now in the remains of former North America, Panem is country separated into 12 districts, ruled by the evil Capitol. For a reminder of the uprising against the government, each year one boy and one girl are randomly selected from each district to compete in the Hunger Games; a deathly battle that ends with one survivor. The Hunger Games are then televised to the public, as love ones watch their children fight for their lives.  All of the “tributes” are put into an arena to kill each other and hopefully be the last one standing. The movie was based off of the books written by Suzanne Collins.

The story is told through Katniss Everdeen a 17-year-old from district 12, played by Jennifer Lawrence and depicts the character just as she does in the book. Katniss volunteers to be a tribute in the Hunger Games after her younger sister, Prim (Willow Shields), had been chosen by the Capitol. Lawrence really does capture everything about Katniss. After reading the books I was hesitant to see the movie (because like most of us know the movies never do the book justice) but I was presently surprised with Lawrence’s performance. The boy chosen from district 12, Peeta Mellark, played by Josh Hutcherson, becomes Katniss’s love interest once they enter the arena. 

It is a very thrilling movie with a bit of a love scene woven in and captures the book very well. I think the movie perfectly casted all of their characters and was almost identical to the book.

The things I didn’t like though… I think the relationship between Katniss and Peeta was a little too corny in the movie, it could have been more realistic and to the bookI also think the focused too much on the scenes in the Capitol and should have focused more on the scenes in the arena.

But overall I would give the movie a 8 out 10. As a person who also read the books, I was presently surprised on how close the movie followed the book but I also would have shifted focus a little bit throughout the movie.