Get Fit Slowly

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Note: Before reading further, I want to make it clear that I understand that the issues I have with my own body are just that–my own. I am not an expert in the field of body image issues. […]

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Weight–203.0(-18.0)
BF%–27 (-3%)

When I got on the scale this morning, I was surprised to see the numbers. I had a roller coaster week of food and beverage consumption and my weight fluctuated as well. We hosted a small dinner party on Saturday night where I lost consciousness–meaning I wasn’t conscious of my calorie […]

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I had lunch with my friend Michael today. We ate Mexican, so I ordered a couple of beef tacos. They came with beans and rice on the side. I chose water to drink.
Normally, Mexican food leaves me feeling very full, but today I tried to pay attention to what my body was telling me. As […]

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A friend of mine recently told me about an article she read that illustrates how sumo wrestlers put on as much weight as possible. I went home and found lots of information about how they do it.  Thinking that if I tried to do the opposite, it might help me lose some weight. […]

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During one of our many recent conversations about nutrition and fitness, my wife wondered why food labels always had whole numbers for calorie content. Further investigation into the foods in our cupboards showed that the calorie contents are rounded even more than to the nearest whole number–in fact, they appeared to be rounded to […]

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This is a guest post from greenman2001.
Several times a year, People magazine publishes a “Half Their Size!” issue (most recently on 14 January 2008), in which they profile people who have literally reduced their weight by half.
This is certainly a karmic act since People is the worst offender in perpetuating the cultural norm […]

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Weight–204.4(-16.6)
BF%–27 (-3%)

I’ve successfully lived one week of my new life without worrying about food and still managed to lose 2 pounds–that makes me really happy. My wife and I had some special occasions this week that I knew would bring me some dietary problems.
On Saturday, we cashed in my parents’ Christmas/birthday gift for a […]

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Although I realize there are no quick and easy paths to health, I do sometimes find myself taken in by the promise of an easy cure. I’m never going to believe promises like “take one pill a day and lose 30 pounds a month!” or “buy a big bright green pleasure machine and all your […]

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See that picture? Doesn’t look like much, does it? Yet it represents a strong start on my path to physical fitness.
I picked up my bike from the shop on Friday afternoon. It took them longer to complete the overhaul than they’d anticipated. It was in bad shape. The two mechanics gave me a refresher course […]

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This is part two of several posts reviewing Lisa R. Young’s, The Portion Teller: Smartsize Your Way to Permanent Weight Loss. Part one explained how to “smartsize” your meals.
One of the most practical points that I’ve taken from this book so far is this: Americans eat too much of everything. There isn’t […]

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