“Happy Living Expert”
Celebrity Chef and Fitness Trainer
Bravo’s Workout
1. My favorite vacation getaway is Santa Fe, New Mexico. The desert offers a peaceful solitude that not many other places provide. When you can look up in the sky and see every single star ever made, you know you’re somewhere special. It’s also the only place I have heard a coyote howl and a desert lute play in one sitting… and that happened when I was completely sober!
2. The best gift I have ever (given/received) would be
Received: My dog/ best friend/ domestic living partner, Sammy. I know your dog is not like any other dog… but my dog Sammy is really like no other dog I have ever met. He’s a little monk, so peaceful and wise, he always anchors me down when I get too high strung.
Given: I named a star after my boyfriend, Calen. I also gave him a telescope so he could find the location. I knew he loved space and wanted to go there one day… though I couldn’t get him on a NASA shuttle, I figured having a star at least got him in the sky in a cute sort of way. We had broken up three weeks before, but I had already purchased everything so I gave it to him as a sign of good sportsmanship. That was a year ago and we just moved in with each other last month. It was a good gift.
3. What’s currently on your Tivo/iPod?
On my TiVo: Sponge Bob SquarePants and Oprah.
I-pod: Most everything you would find on a 16 year-old
girls’ play-list coupled with a few self-help audio books.
4. My advice for achieving happiness/ideal body/success
Let Go, Let God. Keep Everything Balance and do as many things that make you feel “yummy” as you possibly can.
5. This week my guilty pleasure has been: Skinny Cow mint chocolate ice-cream sandwiches.
6. Right now I am so into: The men’s section of Forever
21! Holy Cow… it’s so cheap and yet so frickin’ cool! No one knows you only paid $20 for the jacket; they just compliment it. It’s a like having a dirty little secret.
7. When I need to de-stress I: visit my therapist and take a
spin class, something about the crying/sweating combo that really works it out.
Bonus question:
When I was 15… 2 words, “Loud and Proud"