“I bought the ‘Garmin Forerunner 310XT with heart rate monitor today’. I’ve had enough of being free without numbers. I am driven by numbers, and I cannot hide from them any longer. I shall be plotting spreadsheets of my activity, of Gwendolyn’s activity, etcetera. We shall do some kind of race or long distance bicycle ride (like Pittsburgh to D.C.), raising money for a good cause. And the Garmin shall be a wonderful addendum to our training program. 2013 shall be a year of happiness. Of fitness. Of health. Not a year of being mad about my body.”
Writing these words, last month, to my European best friend, I realised that NicoleAndGwendolyn.com shall, indeed, use our passion to do something excellent for the world! We shall train hard, recording details of such training, blog reporting the specifics of our physically intense activities, all whilst raising money for a fabulous cause whilst promoting another good cause… intense challenge and maintenance of finely tuned and functioning bodies.
Gwendolyn already looks phenomenal. Check out her gorgeous waist!!!
And I shall steadfastly earn back this gorgeous yoga body that existed in October of 2011. Oh la la.
And by doing so, we shall unite people and animals. La la la! :D
The schedule exists such that we shall bicycle ride from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Washington, D.C., following the ‘Great Allegheny Passage’ through the Allegheny Region of the Appalachia Mountains, connecting to the ‘Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Towpath Trail’, emptying into D.C.
With bicycle, Tail Wagon, food, wine, and sister, NicoleAndGwendolyn.com shall enthusiastically complete the 339-mile voyage like did Christopher Columbus, rugged and into the gorgeous unknown.
Kindly, we ask for your donations. Please, pretty please, for Christmas, visit our donation centre: NicoleAndGwendolyn.339. All persons who donate at least $5 shall be automatically entered into scheduled giveaways from now until May.
To those of you who have already donated: the Gorgeous Anonymous; the (adjective-less because she hates them) Sonja; the most wonderful friend since 1987, always and forever, Renee; and a big fat (although she’s thin) chunk of my heart Jessica… thank you, thank you, thank you!!! And a delicate merci beaucoup from Gwendolyn, too! :)
This philanthropic adventure means a lot to us. If our blog means anything to you, we ask that you donate. We are so excited. Thank you, and happy Christmas. xo
© Nicole Marie Story Enterprises, LLC and nicoleandgwendolyn.com, 2011, 2012.
Hi Nicole and Gwendolyn,
It is your NuGo friend, Pam. I made a donation. Good luck in your fundraising. I’m a Pittsburgh girl as well, so let me know if you need any help with any local fundraisers you’re doing! What a great cause. I got my cat from Animal Friends and usually donate to them, but I support all no kill shelters. :)
Oh, dahling!!!!!!!!! We are so tickled pink by your generosity. We thank you graciously for your support of our project. This is short – tending to dog clients right now. But just wanted to say thanks from the bottom of our hearts. xoxoxo
Congratulations! You seem to have maintained a single thread of thought for several days now. New meds?
You’re really weird.
Don’t be silly. She doesn’t take “meds”. At least not for her mental illness, which she believes does not exist. Duh.
You’re a chubby idiot. Moo.
Seriously?! Here, too? You felt the need to point out that you think I am fat in two separate comments. Even if I were (which, again, I do not find myself to be ‘fat’), what the heck does that have to do with ANYTHING? You have said before that you don’t care if other people are, in your eyes, fat. Yet you consistently and publicly devalue the opinions of those you find to be overweight.
Bawk bawk bawk bawk bawk.
Are you ten years old? Seriously, you are the most shameful, idiotic, reprehensible human being I’ve ever encountered on the Internet. And that’s saying a lot. Get help.
Bawk bawk bawk bawk.
(To the tune of merry Xmas).
Good lord your writing is so annoying. I am an editor so it’s particularly grating to me, and I just want to say good luck (sarcastically, in case you didn’t get that) writing that book and getting it published.
Advice? Dispense with the “shall”s for a while and speak like a normal AMERICAN.
And stop trying to fancy it up so much. “The schedule exists such that we shall bicycle ride from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Washington, D.C.,…” should be “We will ride from…”. Those two pieces of advice are free. The rest I will charge you for!
I do find my style to be so much more appealing. ;)
You’re really weird. And she’s right. You do write funny. Not ha-ha.
But I’ve earned your stalkership?
Ha ha! In the funny way. ;)
I count one missing comma, one preposition at the end of a sentence, and one split infinitive in the editor’s edits.
Wow, even typing that made me feel petty and small. :)
Wow, Margaret, can I hire you?
Because I’m sure she’d want to work for a ‘witch’. ;)
OHMYGOD. You totally just nailed it with that witty retort, Nic! That’s really funny, because wow, witch is about the worst thing you could call me. Oh god. Can I ever get over the humiliation?
Did I intend to humiliate? Or to rather cite a realistic fact? You are very emotional.
Good lord Just Some Girl,
Are you still posting at a site that you claim to loath? No, wait sugar britches, I can answer that one for you before you EVEN try to embarrass your little girl self…
Advice? Dispense with the posting at blogs you don’t like…sugar britches : )
Ooh! Will you gorgeously slaughter the indigenous people you find there, like did Christopher Columbus? Just let me know when you get close to DC, since I live here; I’ll need to take shelter.
No.
I’m vegan.
Did your forget?
It’s not vegan if you eat fish or wear wool or silk.
I eat no animal secretions.
But animals for fashion? Fair game. Pun intended.
* animals and their secretions, I should say. Who eats fish, btw?
Are you saying that you don’t drink milk?
Almond milk.
Oh yes. It is a “realistic fact” that I am, indeed, a witch. Nic, I know you are baiting me so I will come back and you will get my clicks. You got me! You got my click! You can retire a rich woman.
Christopher Columbus didn’t personally slaughter anyone. Hades, how I’ve missed taking a stroll down junior high school lane with the little ones, but Nicole, your responses to the teenage trolls have given me such a laugh…you definitely don’t me to chime in : )
Exists:
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Thanks!
This sounds like so much fun! Even more with Stephenie joining in . All the best to you.
We lovvve you, Yasha!
Happy Christmas:):):)
I’m frickin’ in love with your October 2011 legs. What were you doing to get them? Yoga? What kind of cardio? What was your calorie intake?
I’m short too! I love short women with sexy toned legs!
Thank you:)
Kitchen Yoga.
2300.
Have you seen my videos?
Yes! I’m not a yoga girl, though. I’ve never loved it; I’m more into strength training and cardio. I’m never calm enough for yoga for some reason :(
I hear ya on the cardio! I am NOT an om kind of yoga girl whatsoever.
And I’m good at it, from a pose perspective. Exceptionally flexible and strong. So I like to show off, especially for the handsome men.
That makes it exciting for me. :)
Oh the incredible narcissism. The main reason I can’t seem to not keep coming back here is that you are like a living, breathing illustrated abnormal psych textbook come to life. All those defense mechanisms, all those symptoms, all that primary process pouring out for all to see. Fascinating.
Was Ayn Rand the same way?
Okay, that’s it for me. I’m out. I can’t stand to waste any more time getting dragged into your circular, nonsensical arguments, your dancing around questions while never answering any of them, your fancy schmancy (read: terrible) writing style, your delusions of grandeur.
You are NOT Ayn Rand. You have never shared an original thought since I have been reading your posts. You are just a sad, scared, lonely, horse-faced girl who needs to figure shit out.
I delurked to add my opinion to the chorus of intelligent commenters, but I am just getting frustrated and pulled down into the mud with you.
“I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.”
George Bernard Shaw
Oink oink;)
JSGirl – I understand your frustrations and, if you choose not to comment further, I certanly understand…but I will surely miss yo if you do. There are several commenters here I simply love, love, love! You are one of them.
Thank you, JSG. I tried to get away, I really did. But I just…cannot…stop…wanting to yell at this girl. I consider us to be the league of sane people.
Because the soviets were so sane.
I’m sorry, what? Soviets? You do remember I’m Canadian, right? Get that straight, please!
Soviet.
Oh, and JUST SOME GIRL, JUST-FOR-THE-RECORD…you’ve said “I’m out” at least 3 times now, so obviously, you are not love : )
ROYML!!!!!!!!!
(Rolling on yoga mat laughing).
:D ha ha ha!
Good call, Cassy. Only, I believe I said it just the one time? Correct me if I am wrong (oh, I know you will, and Nic will BAWK or call me a Soviet, WTF is that about, or roll on her yoga mat…)
What can I say, love, I can’t help myself…
Because I cannot even wrap my head around this “philanthropic” idea of yours (how will you get back? how did you ‘rescue’ Gwendolyn? what if you DON’T do the ride?), I will simply say that for someone who considers herself “vogue” and loves fashion, I am shocked that you thought that those boots, shorts, shirt, and cardigan were all things that should be worn together.
Ha ha! I shan’t lie. Coming from a fat girl, YOUR criticism of my fashion means zero.
But, I shall hereby use this floor to confirm that I do not dress like others. I simply love the BODY of a vogue girl.
My fashion sense is impeccable. ;)
Wooooow. Going for the “you must be fat because you criticized me” thing again? To my knowledge, you have no idea what I look like. I don’t consider myself fat, nor does anyone that knows me, but I do think that your implication that fat people know nothing about fashion is ridiculous, close-minded, and sad.
I know what you look like. You liked me on facebook for quite some time. I know my followers.
Well, then you should know that I’m not fat. In any event, if you think that I am fat, you need more help than I thought. Also? I don’t care if you think that I am fat. I’m certainly not anorexic, which seems to be the aesthetic that you actually prefer. The fact remains that you clearly, per your earlier comment, think that people who you believe are fat have no fashion sense, which is nothing short of absurd.
*Oh, and if by “quite some time” you mean a few months, before I realized how hateful you actually were, then yeah, sure. Go with that.
Lol. Get a life?
I have one. A lovely one. Which makes me question why I have even been reading this rubbish in the first place. Probably because I majored in Psychology, and you are perfect for a case study. I love how you, whose life is ruled by caloric intake and exercise output feels comfortable telling someone ELSE get a life. You’re not even living, Nicole.
Bawk bawk bawk bawk bawk;)
Jeez, this is a “pretty blog”? Calling commenters fat and making chicken noises at them? You go straight to the nuclear option every time someone calls you on something. Were you drunk when you did all this bawk bawk bawk stuff? I hope so because frankly this reads like a spoiled 10 year-old’s doing. Even as much as I love this train wrecks you call a life, this is really getting hard to stomach.
Bawk bawk bawk ;)
Classy. I find drunkenness unattractive in any woman….regardless of how toned, vogue, yogaized, whatever.
Bawk bawk bawk bawk;)
This isn’t favorite!! I love it when Nic gets so blind with impotent rage that she can’t actually answer comments!
Keep it up JSG and co. – you really know how to push her buttons, and it makes for priceless entertainment!
Bawk bawk bawk bawk.
And Nic is the name of a fellow. ;)
I really like Garmin Connect. I think they have done a great job with it.
Ohhhhhhhhh! You’re on it? I want to see your data! ;)
The Sonja? Makes me sound like a fat dude. bawk bawk and merci beaucoup. I do like adjectives: smart, sweet, intelligent, funny, ravishing… I just don’t like the adjective thin. Because as you now know for sure I am not. That doesn’t mean all options of saying something nice about me are gone. (or at least I hope so).
And now for something totally different: this night I have become a gothmother of a little boy called Ruben. A christmas boy!! (But I’m afraid to go to the hospital because…well, you know)
Merry Christmas!!!
You are smart, sweet, intelligent, funny, ravishing, and I’m jealous of your 2011 legs :-)
Congratulations on becoming a godmother!!!!!!!!! How did this come to be? Do you know this boy, or have you just volunteered for the role? And how does your being non-spiritual play into this? I assumed, by default, that I could never be a godmother due to my rational thought system. But perhaps ‘god’ in ‘godmother’ is irrelevant nowadays? I wanted to use the adjective of pretty, but I knew that you’d slash that down. I also wanted to use ‘brilliant’ but I assumed you would have thought, “WTF so she thinks I’m fat and guy?” Am I right or am I right? :D happy Christmas! I love you!!!!!!!!!
Fat and ugly!
Not fat and guy.
Ha ha ha! :)
:-)
I choose to be a fairy godmother, will go to church when called upon in that duty, but will not receive communion. It’s the baby boy of my brother, he was deliverd around 4 o clock last night. In Europe, where more people are secularized I guess it’s more something of an honor thing than a religious thing.
I’ll take brilliant :-)
:D awwwwwwwww! Congratulations to your brother!!!!!!!!! I’m curious to know of how his wife’s body handled the pregnancy! But I know that’s personal, so you need not reply!
You bought a Garmin! Hurrah! I always use it while out running now :)!
As a somewhat broke college student, I’ll have to wait till I get my next paycheck from my advising job before I can donate, but the bike ride you have planned sounds awesome and love how it’s benefiting a good cause :)!
You are a dahling. An absolute dahling!
I do not expect for you to donate. You are a brilliant college girl and need your funds. I am simply delighted that you are reading my blog and support my cause. Thank you. :) And happy Christmas. xo
Hello Nicole! I’m just discovering your blog and I’m really interested in your story (no pun intended!). I’ve had an eating disorder for 12 years and a few months, and I’ve rarely come across anyone who dealt with a disorder for anywhere close to that amount of time before recovering. It seems people either have had EDs for a short time and then recovered (where it’s hard to relate because their disorder is not as deeply rooted) or they’re not managing it at all (this would be some of my treatment friends, for example–people like me who are definitely not healthy). I’m interested to read more about how Gwendolyn helped you decide to change and what happened after that. I’d love to e-mail sometime if you don’t mind, but I understand if you’re too busy. Either way, thanks for sharing your experiences. Merry Christmas!
-L
Lucy, Hi! I am so happy that you’ve found my blog, and I do look forward to exploring yours! According to my philosophy, ‘recovery’ from bulimia does not exist. Living without bulimia simply is… or it is not. One simply does not binge and purge… or they do. Once I turned it off, like a switch, that is when I stopped for good. Going on three years! I do not email about these sorts of things. I maintain conversations about the ED here at the blog. But I am looking forward to conversing with you again! Mwah, and welcome! x x x
Really Lucy?
Maybe it’s because I’ve been in treatment a couple of times now… but most of the people in treatment where I’ve been have had their disorders for a “long” duration of time. I’ve had mine since I was in the 7th/8th grade and am now 25. I was recovered – truly – for over a year, before a huge relapse. I DO know people who have had it for a similar length in time that truly recovered though. Does it take longer? Probably. Is it harder? Maybe… Is it more uncomfortable? Probably… But can it happen? Definitely.
Really, K.?
Goodness gracious, get a non-socialist life!
xo
Hello Nicole, Its been a while since I responded to one of your blog entries but just wanted to say that I’m sorry that you feel this way about yourself, but love the fact your dedicated to doing something about it and helping others in the process. When I make this comment I just wanted to let you know that I’ve kept my identity hidden, but I do know you from afar and I just want to say personally I think your harsh on yourself sometimes. Any time I have seen you, you’ve always seem composed and well put together, confident in yourself, and giving the impression of a strong vibrant young woman that the world will have to deal with if it gets in her way. As I said in a past post to one of your blogs, I have dealt with addictions myself and still am plagued by ghosts from time to time of that and the issues regarding body image and the like. However as I follow your blog quietly from afar, you give me courage to move forward and stay strong. Keep to your convictiongs, keep doing what makes you happy, and most of all….live YOUR life to the potentional and don’t worry about the world around you, for those who try to drag you back down are only trying to bring people down to their level while they should be fighting their own battles to strive for what you’ve done. If we all concentrated on helping others, and making ourselves better mentally, physically, and socially we would all be in a much better place in our lives day to day.
Happy Holidays!
Pittsburgh_guy
Ok, Pitt Dude, we need to have a man-to-man. Whatever you’ve got in mind?…here’s the best advice you’re ever going to get: RUN AWAY!! You are dealing here with the human equivalent of old and unstable nitroglycerin. I know that quite often “crazy twist” translates into wild sex. Not in this case. Believe me, my friend, you do NOT want to get ahold of this schizophrenic tar baby. She will dub you Sir Whatever and remove your danglers with a crazy grin. I’m not foolin, buddy…guy-to-guy. Run.away. NOW.
Fuck you, moron.
See Pitt Dude? Kuh-razee. Whack-a-doodle.
Jealous?
Sure.
Dear Pittsburgh_Guy,
Your comment has completely captured my heart, and I am so grateful for it.
I have, through my detective skills, figured out your identity.
When I am thin again, perhaps we can meet for a glass of wine.
Or we can just continue observing one another from afar.
Thank you for reading, for encouraging me to be headstrong, and for liking me.
That means a lot.
Pittsburgh_Girl
For God’s sake, move on this guy now, Nic! He’ll start reading here now and…trust me…he won’t be so entranced!
I can’t. I already have my pretty claws sunk into someone else.
You have such an active fantasy life. And oh, by the way? The pink bunny is not a somebody.
Jealous of my pink bunny?!
Depends. Do you fake it for the bunny?
No.
Pal, knock it off. You’re being destructive, not helpful. She knows she’s disordered. You invading her blog and telling her she’s disgusting is not helping her — just knock it off.
No, I am. It disordered. Have you read nothing on my philosophy? Medical monger.
JSG, you really got it bad for her, ey. Everytime sex comes up (or in this case even a kind man paying Nicole a compliment) you become quite combatant, even more so than usual.
Sonja, you’re spot on!
He first commented as “LessThanUseful” @ Dissecting Sir Edmund: Link to his comment.
About weirdo EDmund, a man that I never even dated!
Clearly, sometime in the history of my serial dating, I dropped JSG like it was hot (or I gobbled him up like I did a nice big fat cheesy pizza, and then did, well you know…) ;)
Well since you’ve figured out who I am, I guess you’ll know how to track me down then :) TTYL!
:) xo
I’m new here, but I have to ask the obvious. Are you pregnant? It looks like I spotted a baby bump in this picture. Congratulations! How far along are you?
The photograph of subject is from 2011. I was not pregnant at its capturing.
I am new as well, and thought the same. Too many “tit” and preggo comments… I can’t get over the feeling that there will be a post in the future about a baby. But I’m glad I’m not the only one wondering.
I love it, Brie (obviously hitting the cheese too hard) and Grace…neither of you are new here, you came from GOMI and you are transparent just like the other GOMI idiot babblers. Why not be honest? Oh, oh, let me answer that for you morons!!! Because you haven’t finished high school and you are reading the N&G forum on GOMI? Stop doing that nonsense you silly moose poop heads (and I’m totally only saying that because I was in Alaska all last week and had to side step moose poop…everywhere).
I just looked up GOMI. Google is an amazing thing. I wouldn’t waste my time there. (at GOMI, that is) I’m not being mean or a hater, as Nicole is obviously an intelligent, witty, and beautiful girl who has overcome a tremendous amount in her life. When you open your life to the world, in a format such as this, though, you have to expect others to wonder and question. However 2013 progresses, I wish nothing but the best to Nicole and Gwendolyn.
everyone who “likes” such whores is a whore, too…. -> ONLY SLUTS LIKE SLUTS <-
what if it was your mother, your sister?
what if it was your daughter, your own girlfriend?
would u want that every idiot could look at their naked body ?
this is disgusting, sexism is wrong, women are not objects, and if they show theirself as ones in public,
you should be ashamed for them and not support them.
i hope u think about…… only sluts love sluts……and it's about the heart, not the body!
I stand behind my beliefs, 100%.
But your perspective is appreciated.