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" Let&amp;#x27;s just be honest for a sec. When it comes to our health and our happiness, I think sometimes we fib--would you agree? Maybe it&amp;#x27;s the white lie you told your friend, so she wouldn&amp;#x27;t feel bad, or the bold-faced lie you told your BF about your weight. I&amp;#x27;ve compiled a list of the most common lies I&amp;#x27;ve heard (alright, I&amp;#x27;m guilty of some, too...). And tell me yours!**** 1. &amp;quot;I weigh 125 pounds.&amp;quot; (When you really weigh 140 pounds.) I&amp;#x27;ve known so many people who cling to a favorite number--125, 135, 150--for dear life, even if their real weight is something entirely different. Why do we do this? Why can&amp;#x27;t we just be honest? (P.S. When I asked you about whether you lie about your size, some of you confessed that you lie about your weight pretty frequently.) 2. &amp;quot;No really, I&amp;#x27;m fine.&amp;quot; Why do we do we say we&amp;#x27;re great when we&amp;#x27;re really falling apart? You see this with female celebs all the time. For example: Actress XYZ is on Ellen one morning singing the praises of her fabulous relationship with her husband, the great family and career, and then a week later she&amp;#x27;s in drug rehab, losing her kids and cheating on her husband. Huh? Can we just wipe off the plastic smiles? (True story: There is such a thing as over-sharing, like the time after my first son was born when I broke down in tears to a grocery store clerk (I was hormonal). We actually ended up hugging. Um, I know.) 3. I&amp;#x27;ve never had a miscarriage. This is a big sticking point with me. I know that losing a baby--at any stage in pregnancy--is horrific. And I respect that some women just don&amp;#x27;t want to talk about it. But why does it seem that there is a certain stigma with miscarriage--a stigma so isolating that it prevents women from opening up, even with those they are close to? It&amp;#x27;s as if when we admit a fertility problem of any kind, we admit that we&amp;#x27;re a lesser woman or that we&amp;#x27;re flawed in some way. I say enough! You are fabulous and worthy and wonderful no matter if your uterus is fully functioning or not. 4. &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m not trying to get pregnant--babies, puh-lease.&amp;quot; Have you ever met someone who swore they never wanted kids and then--bam--baby bump? I know there is something to be said about privacy (trying to get pregnant can quickly feel like a race when everyone knows you&amp;#x27;re trying), but do we have to be so militant about hiding our feelings about families and kids? It doesn&amp;#x27;t make you June Cleaver to admit that you want to be a mom--someday. And if you really don&amp;#x27;t want kids, that&amp;#x27;s cool too! (Check out the lies women sometimes tell each other about pregnancy and motherhood.) 5. &amp;quot;I workout.&amp;quot; Men are guilty of this too, of course. But, if you ask your gal friends about the gym, it&amp;#x27;s really hard to get a straight answer--try it. Nobody admits that it&amp;#x27;s been months since they stepped foot on a treadmill. And if they do, they get really embarrassed about it. Newsflash: You are not less of a woman if you are in a fitness rut. (P.S. If you are experiencing a little fitness fatigue, here are some ideas for spicing things up.) What lies have you told about your health and happiness? Photo: iStock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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