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    Kimberly Rae Miller

    Kimberly Rae Miller

  • Coming Clean: What Life is Really Like Inside the House of a Hoarder

    Kimberly Rae Miller is a perfectly put-together woman with a great career, a loving boyfriend, and a tidy apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. But she grew up behind the closed doors of her family’s Long Island house, navigating between teetering stacks of aging newspapers, broken computers, and boxes upon boxes of unused junk festering in every room — the product of her father’s painful and unending struggle with hoarding.

  • How to order healthy takeout

    I don't eat take-out very often--as I actually find coming home and cooking dinner to be a great stress reliever after a hard day at work--but sometimes I'm tired, out of food or in need of MSG, and on those days take-out comes calling. On those days that I succumb to dish-free eating, I have a few

  • It's totally okay to be in a holiday funk

    There is so much pressure to be happy around the holidays. If you're not a holly-jolly ball of yule time fun, well, then you better pretend you are. Did you know the number one day for DOA arrivals at Emergency Rooms is Christmas Day. Why? Because people are all supposed to be happy; not cranky, fun

  • How to find the middle ground in fitness

    Slowly but surely I'm learning to listen to my body when it says enough is enough. I have always been an extremist, hence me growing up with a somewhat unhealthy relationship with food--I was either binging or starving. As I got older, I learned that there was a middle ground to eating, but now my m

  • Holiday rule #1: There will be no dieting on holidays

    There were two rules in my house growing up when it came to eating: You have to try everything; if you don't like it you don't have to eat it. (Disclaimer: this rule was often stated but not followed. I distinctively remember sleeping at the dining room table after a "You will stay here 'til that p

  • Top 5 reasons to hit the gym this winter

    Oh, brrrrrrr. It's cold. Cold makes me want to hibernate, well not so much hibernate as sit on my couch drinking cocoa while watching Colin Firth movies--which, according to the last time I checked, does not actually qualify as exercise. Unfair but true. The sun raises later and sets earlier, which

  • Don't forget to eat these wintertime fruits!

    Summertime and the eating is easy. Luscious, juicy fruit is abounding, local farmers markets are bustling with activity at their fruits and veggie stands. I could live on the pickens of the earth entirely and never miss cooked food. But, it's not summer. It's late fall and somehow to me that transla

  • Exercise class review: Punk rope

    Seven-year-old Kim was not into gym class. She was always picked last for teams (probably because she was hiding behind everyone else hoping that the teams would be full before anyone noticed she was there.) Clapping supportively from the sidelines was always more my speed. I was never into recess o

  • Exercise DVD review: Tony Horton's 10-minute Trainer

    I do love me some infomercials. No, seriously, I get totally caught up in exercise infomercials. So, I was wicked psyched when I got 10-Minute Trainer in the mail. The set of two DVDs and resistance bands is designed for those of us who are constantly whining, "I have no time to workout." Apparently

  • Destitution diet week 4: Hosting on a pinched penny

    Last week, as I was trying to find ways to make a nutritious meal out of frozen bread, pasta and 100-calorie Klondike bars as part of last week's Destitution Diet challenge, I received an email from the lovely Nazy suggesting a recipe that only cost her a whopping $3.64. See, I do read your suggesti

  • Calorie warnings on NYC subway ads: A good thing or a bad thing?

    Riding the New York City Subway is much like riding in an elevator multiple times a day for long stretches of time. There's a delicate balance of where to look, and usually it's up or at vacant spots on the wall, which creates a sort of anti-social-tipsy-zombie like commuter population. And that beh

  • The humbler side of healthy living

    Healthy living is the goal, right? I really do try to live a fairly healthy lifestyle. I eat a lot of plants, a lot of them, really, don't sit too close. I exercise, I drink water, I take pictures of all of my food and post it to the interweb, I feel closer to fiber than I have ever felt to any of m

  • Destitution diet, week 2: Homemade convenience foods

    Like most of you, I have a crazy schedule--one that doesn't always allow for long meal preparation. My intentions are always good, but sometimes my lack of time means an increased use of convenience foods. Luckily, there are now many healthier choices when it comes to pre-packaged meals, but what th

  • 5 sources of calcium that don't moo

    Some people don't like milk. I am not one of those people. When I die, put me in a casket full of cheese and lay me to rest. I love dairy products! Dairy products do not always love me however, and as I notice my yogurt, cheese, and milk intake starting to dwindle due to tummy aches I start to freak

  • The destitution diet: The perfect lentil soup

    I'm not sure if ya'll have noticed, but the economy is apparently going down the pooper. Things are crazy expensive these days, especially food. Now, I'm probably not as hard hit as some, because I don't have a car and am not handing over wee fistfuls of cash to the nice men at the gas pumps every w

  • Letters to a new dieter

    My friend Valerie is the poster child for Weight Watchers. She lost around 50 lbs. with their plan and has kept it off for years. She follows the program, and keeps herself in check all the time. She's a friggin' anomaly.I have so much respect for her, but I just couldn't do it. A couple of days ago

  • Adventures in homemade yogurt

    Oh my god, I am a culinary genius! Okay, I'm not really, but I have achieved something akin to the guy that first decided it would be a good idea to suckle up to a cow's teet and suck away. I MADE YOGURT. Real yogurt, from milk that I bought (as opposed to suckled), then heated, and it became yogurt

  • Exercise DVD review: Rodney Yee's Yoga: Core Cross Train

    I love Rodney Yee. In fact, I have quite a few of his DVDs in my ever-growing collection of exercise videos. Why do I love Rodney Yee? There's just something weirdly soothing about him. In fact, if there were a male equivalent of a phone sex voice, Rodney Yee would have it. Talk yoga to me Rodney, t

  • Talking myself out of dieting

    It seems that despite all my best intentions, all the months of really smart eating and being truly proud of my choices, the last few weeks have been Gorge Fest 2008. Perhaps it's because it's the end of summer, perhaps its because of the up-tick in my dating life (seriously dating is the most fatte

  • Thanks for making out but please don't touch me

    The joys of dating are an ever-present reminder that one man's junk is another man's junk in the trunk. I was dating a guy, as I do from time to time. A few months ago, during one of our earlier make-out-where-do-I-put-my-hands sessions he touched my pooch. My lower stomach. The area that no matter