Last fall, Brooklyn Nets guard Caris LeVert was playing the best basketball of his careeruntil November 12, when he dislocated his foot in a game against the Minnesota Timberwolves. It was an injury far too gruesome to show on replay, the kind involving a mangled extremity that causes teammates and opponents to collectively shake their heads in disbelief while the crowd sits in absolute silence. (Seriously, dont Google it.) Except, LeVert remembers, it didnt actually hurt that much. At first.

I was more mad than anything, he says. I wasnt even thinking of the pain, which was probably partially adrenaline and disbelief. It didnt hit me until we got in the ambulance 15 minutes after they carted me off the court, and my trainer was talking to metrying to distract me. Next thing I know, theyre jerking my foot, and thats when I realized, Oh, this is real. That moment was the worst pain Ive ever felt.

Remarkably, after doctors popped LeVerts foot back into place, no surgery was required. He missed three months, but returned to action in February. He had an (understandably) up-and-down remainder of the season, but capped it off with an impressive performance in the first round of the playoffs against the Philadelphia 76ers.

This offseason, LeVert prioritized strengthening his foot and ankle by employing a variety of balancing drills, while also squeezing in a healthy amount of hooping. LeVert logged four-a-days: two on-the-court workouts and two off-the-court workouts. Thats an encouraging development for Nets fans hoping hell emerge as the teams second star this season, behind Kyrie Irving (and third star next season when Kevin Durant presumably returns after suffering a ruptured Achilles.)

A few weeks ago, I spoke to LeVert about the full extent of his offseason routine, recent changes to his diet, and his affection for float tanks. At the time of our conversation, LeVert was gearing up for his first-ever trip to China as part of a preseason double-header against the Los Angeles Lakers, and Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey had yet to fire off his fateful tweet about Hong Kong. LeVert said he was looking forward to the overseas experience, which presumably became a bit more complicated than originally anticipated.

GQ: Can you walk me through a normal day for you this offseason?

Caris LeVert: I took about two weeks off after we lost to the 76ers in the playoffs. After that, I started my workouts here in Brooklyn. First, Id get some breakfast inusually two or three eggs, some veggies like broccoli, and I love oatmeal in the morning, too. Id head to the gym around 9 a.m. to do a 30-minute lift. We call those correctives, where youre more working on balance drills, hamstrings, and core work. The Nets are big on that. The corrective workout isnt your typical lift, but it helps strengthen your little muscles.

Then, Id have an hour-and-a-half workout on the court, and after that is a bigger upper- or lower-body lift. Id get some treatment, do some more balance drills to strengthen my ankle back up. Then Id usually go home and take a nap, chill for a couple hours, and head back to the gym later that night and get a bunch of shots up.

Have you always stuck to a healthy-sounding diet?

No, thats been the biggest adjustment the past couple of years: I wasnt really very educated on what makes up a healthy diet. In college, I would eat a lot of Five Guys and burgers. Everybody eats differently, but thats not the best for your digestive system, and Ive learned that over the years. Now I stay away from pork, beef, and things like that. I stick to chicken a couple times a week, and I eat a lot of fish and veggies. I dont really like fruit, so I drink a lot of smoothies to get my fruit intake up.

Yeah, Ive seen that the Nets are big on pre-game fruit smoothies.

Weve got a couple smoothie-makers. Ill drink one on game days, and then any other day, if you ask for one, youll get it. I think as Ive matured and learned more about food, Ive stopped eating as much for taste. I eat and drink based on what I need in my body. Usually my smoothies have strawberries, bananas, some sort of vegetable, a protein powder, almond milk, honey, blueberries, and sometimes orange juice.

Whats the one thing you still sneak in when you can?

Chocolate chip cookies. I cant go too long without having one. Theyve gotta be homemade, straight out of the oven. I dont like the store-bought stuff. They need to be crispy on the outside, soft on the inside.

I read that you eat Chipotle five times a week. True or false?

True, though Im sad to say me and Chipotle have cut ties a little bit. I got sick eating while training in LA over the summer, and Im not positive, but I think it was Chipotle, so I havent had it since. It was definitely tough at first, but Im doing alright now, starting to get used to not eating it every day.

I wrote a hot take essay for GQ where I proudly proclaimed that Qdoba is better than Chipotle, so this is an issue near and dear to my heart. Are you familiar with Qdoba?

I am, and wow, I disagree with that statement. I know a lot of people think that, though, so I dont know if its even a hot take. Maybe its a Midwest thing, but in high school and college, people really liked Qdoba more than Chipotle. To each their own.

You weighed 162 pounds when you arrived at Michigan in 2012. Were you getting thrown around at practice your freshman year?

Honestly, I wasnt. I was so used to playing at that size that I adjusted to it. People probably werent used to seeing someone that small. Playing in the Big 10 was definitely an adjustment though. Unlike a lot of other conferences, its very physical and defense-based. I feel like at a lot of other conferences, everybody scores 80 or 90 points a game, but Big 10 scoring was in the 40s when I was there. I definitely had to bulk up. Some of that happened naturally, but I had a great strength coach too who prepared me for the next level. Going into my sophomore season, I was up to 190, 195. I stayed at Michigan through the summers when people went home and dedicated all my time to my body and my game, and it paid off for me.

One of the many, many reasons I did not advance past high school basketball: I avoided the weight room like the plague. How was your workout regimen growing up?

My high school coach my junior and senior year was a man named Jerry Francis. He played basketball at Ohio State and is one of their all-time great players. He started to get us in the weight room, and I hated the weight room. Wed go in there and Id act like I was doing stuff, but I really wasnt. Id do a pull-up here, maybe a bench press there, but I wanted to play basketball. I was not dedicated to the weight room. He changed my mindset and pushed me on that, which I appreciate him for. But back then, I really didnt want to be there.

Youve had to deal with a couple annoying and painful injuries over the years. Do you practice any relaxation techniques or meditation so you dont go stir crazy during those rehab periods?

Ive been doing headspace stuff since before I had any of those injuries. [John Beilein, current Cleveland Cavaliers coach and former Michigan Wolverines coach] actually brought someone in who taught that stuff to us, and Ive carried it with me ever since. I do meditation and visualization before every game. I do things like the float tank, which helps me get into that mindframe of calmness. I take that really seriously.

How long does a float tank session last?

As long as you want it to, but I usually do an hour. You go into a podits kind of like The Matrix. The first time I did it, I was a little skeptical, because Im claustrophobic. You put headphones on, you dont hear anything, and its pitch-black. Its just you and your thoughts. I use that time for meditation, focusing on breathing and visualization. I do that once or twice a week during the season, and it relaxes me.

Steph Curry ranked the Nets popcorn selection second-best in the league. Have you tried it?

Nah, Im not a big popcorn guy. Ive heard its fire, though.

For a while, I know PB&Js were all the rage in the NBA.

I used to eat a bunch of those my rookie year. Charlotte had the best PB&Jsthey had them toasted or something like that. But I dont really eat that anymore. At halftime now Ill eat, like, pineapples. Just trying to stay consistent with it, you know?

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

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The Inner Hall of Windsor Castle, the queens grand estate an hour outside of London, was opened to the public this week. That sounds coolbecause, well, castles are coolbut what makes the unveiling of the recently restored Inner Hall so remarkable is that this space hasnt been available to view for more than 150 years.

Or 153 years, to be exact. In the 1820s, the Inner Hall, with its impressive vaulted ceilings, was used by George IV as a grand, stately entrance for esteemed guests. But it was closed by Queen Victoria in 1866, its entry sealed off by a stone wall. For the past several decades, it has been a storage space, albeit a fancy one.

But the space was restored thanks to the Royal Collection Trust. Paint was chipped away to uncover the original ceiling design: the work of the famous Regency-era ornamentalist carver Francis Bernasconi. A view of Windsor Castles leafy-lined, two-and-a-half-mile Long Walkthe final stretch of the Duke and Duchess of Sussexs fairy-tale carriage ride after their royal weddingcan be seen from the antique windows. The entire project took two years to complete.

Inside the Inner Hall, which dates back to the1920s and the days of King George IV.

The 1,000-year-old ancient fortress isnt the only one of the queens properties to recently undergo renovations. Buckingham Palace is in the midst of a 10-year, $482 million restoration. Much of the badly needed repairs involve replacing things like boilers, generators, electrical panels, and water tanks. (Its electrical cabling, plumbing, and heating systems have been around since the 1950s.) The palace also hopes to become more energy efficient.

In the fall of 2018, work began on the East Wing, which involved relocating more than 3,000 priceless works of fine art.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex also recently renovated their royal home, Frogmore Cottage. Its said that they used interior designer Vicky Charles, who previously oversaw design for Soho House.

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We broke up because she made out with someone else, is what my ex would tell you if you asked him how we went from (for lack of a better term) #RelationshipGoals to We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together. And while yes, on paper that was the catalyst that moved me out of Marvin*s apartment in Brooklyn and into my parents house in Connecticut at 31. In reality, cheating on my boyfriend by making out with another guy was only the tip of the iceberg of our problems, which, unlike the Titanic, I saw from the second I got onboard our relation-ship.

And before you hate-read the rest of this, as perhaps someone broke your heart when they cheated on you (I can relate! Its happened to me more times than I can count.), I want you to know I am not a cheater. Thats not who I am.

Before this happened to me, I thought cheaters were always cold, heartless, and terrible people, but now I understand why people cheat. Cheating isnt black and white. But it all boils down to one thing: It can take two people to cheat, and cheating isnt always one-sided.

While I wholeheartedly believe that if you are going to or are tempted to cheat, you should get out of your relationship, sometimes its not always that simple. I tried to get out of this relationship many times but felt trapped.

I am writing this not to excuse my bad behavior, because whats done is done. I own all my actions and all I can do is learn and grow from this. I no longer believe in the saying once a cheater always a cheater, as I could never put someone I used to love or myself through this againever.

There were many times in my relationship with Marvin when I felt emotionally cheated on by him. Times, upon looking back, I realize may have been the perfect opportunity to end things.

Like the time he told me that before we started dating he was hooking up with a girl he worked with. He broke things off; she didnt handle it well. Any night hed be at the office late, a pit of fear would eat up my insides. I couldnt sleep most nights, worried that he was cheating on me, and to this day Ill never know.

Or how one day an hour after leaving his apartment, while I was at an event with friends, he tried to break up with me in a paragraph-long text message ending with an eagle emoji. Wed been dating for nine months at this point and had hit all our relationship milestones. You deserve better, the text said, and he was right, I did. But I was too focused on decoding the eagle emoji: Was he trying to tell me he loves America? He wants freedom? Or is it a bald eagle and he wants me to know hes losing his hair? Instead I assured him we were solid and did everything I possibly could do to make him feel happy, never realizing you cant fix a broken person.

Then there was the two months up until the moment I became a cheater. When I felt more alone in the relationship than I ever felt when I was single. Wed go days without talking or texting. And when we did talk, wed have one-word conversations.

It was around this time I kept running into Richard,* a guy I went to high school with, who I always thought was cute, but he always dated my friends. He started talking to me over text more than my live-in boyfriend ever talked to me. Id instantly smile any time his unsaved 203 number flashed up on my phone. Hed ask me how my day was, and what I was working on, questions my boyfriend stopped asking me months ago.

So when Richard asked if I wanted to grab drinks one night, I said sure, viewing it as harmless since we were just friends.

I knew I had to break up with Marvin immediately. But we had his best friends wedding the next day, and I didnt want to ruin it for him. So I decided Id come clean and end things when we got back a couple of days later.

But the guilt was eating away at me. I couldnt believe what I had done. I made out with Richard, I texted my best friend from high school. She knew Richard and how unhappy I was with Marvin. You made out with someone else. You need to tell Marvin, she texted back the next morning.

But the strangest thing happened. Suddenly Marvin transformed from the grumpy boyfriend I never talked to, into the enthusiastic best friend I fell in love with. We were us again, making plans and supporting each other in any endeavor.

What had I done?

Back in New York, for the first time since Marvin and I moved in with each other, he came home in time for dinner. We were eating soup dumplings and watching Sabrina, when he said what I wanted to tell him the second it happened:

I know you made out with someone else.

Turns out he saw the text on my phone from my friend. Which brings me to the whole point of this essay: Always make sure your text previews are off.

Im kidding.

The real point here is while cheating isnt right, there are two sides to cheating. The side where the cheater messed up in a moment, and the other side where the cheater felt cheated on and trapped from the moment they got into this broken relationship but never spoke up out of fear.

It feels unfair that my two years spent in the relationship, all the loving and supportive things I did for Marvin, like uprooting my life in Los Angeles to be with him in New York, the thoughtful gifts, homemade couples costumes, breakfasts in bed, packed lunches for work, and gourmet dinnersdevoting myself fully to someone who rarely put me first, means nothing because I kissed back a stranger and he (to my knowledge) didnt.

But the bigger lesson for me here, aside from, if youre tempted to cheat its time to break-up, is you should never stay in a broken relationship because youre scared like I was. All of those times it was crystal clear Marvin and I were doneI made it work because I was scared. I was scared to be alone in my 30s. And this was one of the reasons our relationship was so broken. I wasnt ready for a relationship, from the moment I asked Marvin What are we? to the second I moved out of our apartment.

That is not a healthy relationship. It is only when you have truly found comfort in yourself and basked in your loneliness, like I have for the past ten months, that you are truly ready to be in a relationship. A relationship that you dont necessarily need, doesnt measure your worth, and you could live without. A relationship in which you mutually add value and happiness to each others lives, so it would be even more backwards to deny this connection solely based on the fear that you will get hurt again. Because most importantly, in this relationship, you feel calm.

Most of my time with Marvin I was anxiety-ridden, heart racing, shortness of breath, terrified it would end. And when it did end (in a way I wish I could rewrite but accept that I cant) for the first time in two years I felt calm. If your relationship ended because you cheated, dont beat yourself up; there was probably a reason. While you cant edit your past, you can take your lessons with you into your future and grow from your flaws.

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We may never achieve a waistline the size of a thumb or go out with a dreamboat like Ken, but not all ofBarbies fantastic plastic lifestyle is out of reach.

The Mattel doll is opening up her famedMalibu Dreamhouse or, at least, a human-sized approximation of it on Airbnb for a one-time-only booking in honor of her 60th anniversary. The best part: Staying in her playful pink pad will cost just $60 a night plus taxes and fees.

Barbie's Malibu Dreamhouse is hitting Airbnb. (Photo: Courtesy of Mattel)

Barbie's spacious dressing room includes a space suit. (Photo: Courtesy of Mattel)

According to a release issued by Mattel, the three-story, ocean-front Dreamhouse is based in Malibu and features two bedrooms, two bathrooms, an infinity pool, private cinema, sports court, office, hobby room, meditation space, a dressing room that would make Carrie Bradshaw gasp, outdoor dining terrace and a gallery wall calling out Barbies countless achievements. It sleeps four guests so theres plenty of room for your very own Ken and Skipper, and everything is decked out in cutesy, Barbie-approved details like a super-sized hot pink boom box, surfboard and the part-time astronauts personal space suit.

The infinity pool is decked out with a surfboard and giant boom box, but the waterslide sadly isn't included. (Photo: Courtesy of Mattel)

As trendy and luxe as this place may be, theres an empowering message underneath it all. To highlight Barbies role as a before-her-time homeowner and global inspiration, Airbnb guests will enjoy experiences with a few other female role models and business owners, from a private fencing lesson with Olympian Ibtihaj Muhammad and a tour of the Columbia Memorial Space Center with pilot and aerospace engineer Jill Meyers, to cooking lessons with chef Gina Clarke-Helm and a meet-and-great with celebrity hairstylist Jen Atkin followed by a hair makeover. A donation will also be made to theBarbie Dream Gap initiative, which strives to empower young girls.

Barbie's all-pink office means business. (Photo: Courtesy of Mattel)

The Dreamhouse sleeps up to four guests, with two bedrooms on offer. (Photo: Courtesy of Mattel)

And how, pray tell, does one check in? On Wednesday, Oct. 23 at 11 a.m. PDT, Airbnb will allow booking for the exclusive one-time, two-night-max stay. While its not a contest, demand for the Dreamhouse is high, so set your alarm and clear your calendar; guests must schedule their visit from Sunday, Oct. 27 to Tuesday, Oct. 29.

Barbie's hobby studio should satisfy all your crafting needs. (Photo: Courtesy of Mattel)

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If youre in the mood for a good cry today, oh boy, do we have the video for you. Prince Harry got emotional in a speech talking about Meghan Markles pregnancy with baby Archie, and all we can say is, grab the tissues.

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On Tuesday, October 15th, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex appeared at the WellChild Awards, an annual ceremony that supports seriously ill young children and those who care for them. There, Prince Harry spoke to the audience about life as a new parent. As he recalled attending the event with his wife last year, when the couple hadnt yet publicly announced Markles pregnancy, he was overcome with emotion. Our hearts can hardly handle this.

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He took a moment to collect himself, and then went on to talk about what it might be like if their future children experienced health challenges, and what it means to him to meet the young people who work with WellChild.

He added, I remember squeezing Meghans hand so tight during the awards, both of us thinking what it would be like to be parents one day, he went on. And more so, what it would be like to do everything we could to protect and help our child should they be born with immediate challenges or become unwell over time.

Prince Harry has been a patron of the organization since 2007, and Markle joined him for the first time at last years awards, just weeks before announcing her pregnancy. While we always love seeing these two use their platform for good, its especially heartwarming to see just how much it means to them to do so.

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PMS and PMDD symptoms affect many women in the days and weeks leading up to their period.

Premenstrual syndrome and premenstrual dysphoric disorder are two conditions that make many women's lives more difficult each month leading up to their period. And while experiencing some type of PMS is common for many women, sometimes the symptoms can be so severe that they interfere with your quality of life. If you can relate to the latter, understanding what qualifies as PMDD can be helpful for understanding your symptoms and finding relief.

Keep reading to find out more about the difference between PMS and PMDD, and what you can do to help ease the symptoms.

"Premenstrual syndrome, commonly referred to as PMS, describes the pattern of physical, emotional and behavioral symptoms occurring one to two weeks before and remitting with the onset of menses," Dr. Jessica Shepherd, OB-GYN, told me. "PMS is common, and affects 30-80% of women of reproductive age," Shepherd said.

PMS can include a wide variety of signs and symptoms, including mood swings, tender breasts, food cravings, fatigue, irritability and depression. It's estimated that as many as three out of four menstruating women have experienced some form of PMS.

The cause of PMS is typically attributed to hormonal imbalances or changes in hormones that occur in the body leading up to a period. Changes also occur chemically in the brain, which can be the culprit behind many of the mood-related symptoms.

PMS can also involve many physical symptoms including muscle pain, bloating, acne and digestive issues like constipation and diarrhea.

"Premenstrual dysphoric disorder is a more severe form of premenstrual syndrome and is characterized by significant premenstrual mood disturbance, often with more prominent mood reactivity and irritability," Shepherd said. "The mood disturbances result in marked social impairment."

So if your symptoms leading up to your period tend to sideline you for days, making you miss work, school or keep you from doing things you normally want to do, your symptoms may require more advanced treatment.

Further, according to Mayo Clinic, in order to classify as PMDD, at least one of several distinct symptoms must be present. "In PMDD, however, at least one of these emotional and behavioral symptoms stands out: sadness or hopelessness, anxiety or tension, extreme moodiness, marked irritability or anger."

Since mood- and behavior-related symptoms are part of why PMDD is so distressing, it makes sense that there's a connection to mood disorders like anxiety and depression. According to Mayo Clinic, it's common for someone who already has depression or anxiety to also experience PMDD. In fact, the hormonal changes that happen in the body naturally before a period can potentially make mood disorders symptoms worse, which is important to consider if you have a diagnosed condition like anxiety or depression.

It's important to note that for a PMDD diagnosis, the mood and behavioral symptoms must only happen about two weeks leading up to your period. Dr. Andrea Chisholm emphasizes in an article for Harvard Medical School the importance of noting the timing of the onset of your symptoms and when they resolve for your doctor to make a diagnosis. If your symptoms occur for a longer period of time, or throughout the month, you could still have PMS or PMDD, but you may also need to be checked for a mood disorder like anxiety or depression.

Period tracking apps like Clue allow you to track your cycle and note any PMS or PMDD symptoms.

One action you can take to help manage your symptoms is to start by tracking your cycle with an app or smart watch. "Tracking cycles can help by knowing when moods may change and helping to find ways to alter these mood changes," Shepherd said. Various period-tracking apps like My Flo and Clue allow you to track not only the days of your cycle, but also important symptoms and mood changes.

Besides keeping track of your symptoms, you can also use diet, lifestyle and exercise to help manage symptoms. Some dietary changes that can help include eating smaller, more frequent meals, limiting salty foods and incorporating more complex carbohydrates (like fruits and veggies over processed carbs like bread or pasta). You can also eat more calcium-rich foods since calcium is shown to help improve PMS symptoms. Limiting alcohol and caffeine can also help.

Regular exercise can also be helpful for overall health, and in preventing and managing symptoms like fatigue and feelings of depression. Other than exercise and diet, you can also work on managing stress and getting more sleep to help manage your symptoms.

If lifestyle interventions don't help, doctors can use a variety of treatments or medications to help. Some drugs commonly used to treat PMS and PMDD include antidepressants, NSAIDs, diuretics and hormonal contraceptives. "There is a strong theory that the fluctuations in circulating estrogen and progesterone cause marked effects on central neurotransmission, specifically serotonergic, noradrenergic and dopaminergic pathways," Shepherd said. "This is important as there are certain medications that can help regulate these pathways and possibly minimize the mood changes."

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"If a person thinks they have PMS or PMDD, it is important to talk to a clinician so that other diagnoses can be ruled out," Shepherd advised. Again, if you suspect you might have PMDD, experience PMS or have mood symptoms that present around your period (or at any point in the month), it's best to see a doctor so you can get the proper diagnosis and treatment.

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Everything to Know About 'The Misery Index' and Host Jameela JamilAcceptBrowsers may block some cookies by default. Click accept to allow advertising partners to use cookies and serve more relevant ads. Visit our privacy policy page for more information.Source: InstagramBy Amber Garrett

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Jameela Jamil has spent the last four years on The Good Place, but her next project is definitely more about bad places. Her next bold move is hosting TBS's new game show, The Misery Index, exploring and ranking real-life situations nobody wants to encounter.

The premise sounds rife for hilarity, but how exactly does it work? Read on for a full explainer of The Misery Index and host Jameela Jamil.

If you haven't already fallen in love with her self-absorbed character Tahani Al-Jamil on The Good Place, you may have encountered Jameela on social media, especially if you travel in activist circles. Like her Good Place character, the British actress supports a number of causes and charities. She is outspoken about diet culture and one of the leading celebrity voices in the "body neutrality" movement.

For readers unfamiliar with body neutrality, it's a bit of a measured response to the body positivity movement, which often leads people (women in particular) feeling shame about their ambivalent relationships with their bodies, and that while celebrating diverse bodies is great, another worthy goal is arriving at a neutral regard for your physical appearance.

The 33-year-old also has worked to make live entertainment venues accessible for people with disabilities and has helped raise money for various children's charities.

Jameela has been in a relationship with fellow Brit James Blake since 2015, and the musician has proved to be a feminist ally for his partner. Recently he took to Twitter to elevate the active collaborative role musicians' partners often play during their creative process, challenging the way the word "muse" is used to downplay and romanticize the work they do. He put his money where his mouth is by crediting her as a producer on his latest album.

The new game show is based on a popular party card game called S--t Happens, where players try to determine where a particular nightmare scenario like finding a pubic hair in one's food ranks among other cards on the 0-100 Misery Index.

On the show, two teams compete to rate real-life events on the scale, which was created by a team of therapists. Each team consists of one contestant aided by two of the prank comedy superstars from Impractical Jokers. In addition to providing comic relief, they help the contestant determine where the real-life situations would rank.

Joining Jameela each week are the four stars of TruTV's Impractical Jokers. The improv comedians essentially dare each other to say or do things for the other jokers' amusements and, if they don't perform adequately, they are subjected to embarrassing punishments.

Since the show's inception, it has starred Brian "Q" Quinn, James "Murr" Murray, Sal Vulcano, and Joe Gatto Jr. All four of the comics are from the NYC borough of Staten Island. They've been friends since their freshman year at Monsignor Farrell High School in the Oakwood section of Staten Island. They perform together at the improv and sketch comedy troupe The Tenderloins, which was formed by Murr, Sal, and Joe with another friend, Mike Boccio, who was eventually replaced by Murr.

They gained internet fame on YouTube and MySpace and eventually won the $100,000 grand prize in an NBC competition called It's Your Show. Their successes led to a development deal with Spike TV, who eventually passed, but the boys later found a home on truTV, where their show is among the most popular programs.

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Afamilyis thankful to a Mentor, Ohio barbershop who helped accommodate their 7-year-old son withautismby moving a chair outside to make him feel more comfortable.

When Brycen Juby was 2 years old, he was diagnosed with autism andapraxia of speechand was nonverbal until he was 5, his mother, Ashley Juby, toldYahoo Lifestyle. When he was a year old, Ashley says they were able to take him to a kiddie place to get his hair cut, but as he grew older it was a "screaming meltdown every time."

"For the last roughly four years my husband has been cutting his hair at home," Ashley said. "[Brycen] would still melt down every time."

Recently, however, Brycen started to tolerate the haircuts without crying, and Ashley and her husband, Joe Juby, thought it might be time to try a barber again. Knowing that Brycen could get upset, they reached out toMarky Fresh Barbershopasking if they could get their son a haircut after the shop was closed. Marco Conti, the co-owner of the barbershop, responded to their direct message and immediately set up an appointment after-hours.

"Marco was happy to help any way he could, Ashley said. To find someone so accommodating was such a relief."

When Brycen and his father arrived, the boy "became very emotional with the whole situation," Conti told Yahoo Lifestyle.

Conti recognized that Brycen felt more comfortable outside the shop, so he asked if it would be OK if he cut his hair outside.

"Brycen, with tears down his cheeks, agreed," Conti said.

They moved a chair outside and Conti started to trim away at Brycen's hair as Joe cradled his son's face. The moment was captured on camera.

"I feel that it is our duty to open our hearts and to accommodate everyone as best as we can with whatever resources we have available with action over intention," Conti said. "I just wanted him to feel loved and comfortable and safe and that there was nothing to fear."

Marco Conti, co-owner of Marky Fresh Barbershop in Mentor, Ohio, cuts Brycen Juby's hair outside after he became overwhelmed in the shop. (Photo: Facebook)

While a haircut may just be another run-of-the-mill errand, this one holds a special meaning for the family. This is Brycen's first year at public school, and picture day is on Thursday.

"This is a new start for Brycen, being at the public school," Ashley said. "He has worked so hard to be in a bigger school and was so ready."

This was also a first for the Marky Fresh brand, but it "won't be the last."

"This has opened doors for those parents that were silent and those that just didnt know that we are more than willing to help," Conti said.

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Jessica Simpsons 100-pound weight loss astonished and in some cases, worried fans. But whatever their reaction, people wanted to know the secret to how the singer and fashion designer dropped so much weight in just six months.

The answer wasnt a miracle drug, fad diet, or punishing hours at the gym. Instead, Simpson made a number of lifestyle changes, including switching up what she ate, walking more, and getting enough sleep, her long-time trainer Harley Pasternak has revealed. Now, hes offering more insight into what Simpson did to slim down after the birth of her daughter Birdie Mae in March.

Pasternak spoke with Us Weekly and explained that Simpsons post-baby weight loss plan involved completely avoiding one particular thing that can stall weight loss in a big way: alcohol.

There are certain things that are more conducive to weight loss and certain things that are going to hurt you when losing weight, and alcohol is absolutely one of them, the nutrition expert and celebrity trainer explained.

I am pretty sure she would not have been as incredibly successful in this physique transformation if she was drinking, he added.

Alcohol can be a major source of empty calories. A 5-ounce glass of red wine contains about 125 calories, while a 3.5-ounce margarita has 254 calories.

In addition to skipping wine, beer, and other alcoholic beverages, Simpson followed the guidelines Pasternak shared in his 2013 book The Body Reset Diet. Every day, she had three meals and two snacks, with a focus on protein, fiber, and healthy fats.

Her meals might include protein-rich foods like eggs, chicken, and fish, as well as veggies and fruits. Snacks might be some almonds or green beans with parmesan cheese, he told the magazine. In a recent appearance on HSN, Simpson also said she ate a lot of cauliflower, which is low in calories and high in fiber and various vitamins and minerals. But it wasnt all healthy foods for Simpson during the HSN appearance, she also admitted to munching on some Cheetos in the green room.

Walking more was also key to Simpsons weight-loss success, Pasternak said. He urged her to walk 12,000 steps a day, and the star is reportedly hitting 14,000 steps a day on a regular basis.

To track steps, Pasternak urges people to use a device like a Fitbit. [I]ts like a gym on your wrist anywhere you go, he said.

Though Simpson did go to the gym several days a week, that wasnt the key to her weight loss.

Its not about the workouts, Pasternak told Us Weekly. You dont lose weight doing biceps curls and lunges. You lose weight by changing your diet, hitting your step goal, working on your sleep those were the things she did so well.

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