Get Fit Slowly

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The average Western diet is too high in fat–but it’s not that simple.  Dietary fat plays an essential rolein our health, development and well-being.  The real issue is that people are eating too much of the wrong kinds of [...]

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On Monday afternoon, Pam was having one of her work colleagues over so that she could see our what our new windows looked like as she’s currently in the market.  I made our famous onion-poppy seed focacia, and Pam made an amazing Indian Spiced Curry Carrot Soup.  What Pam didn’t tell me was that on [...]

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This past weekend was a great one.  I was productive around the house, I had some quality family time, and I was very active.  In fact, when I woke up this morning for the gym I was already sore from my weekend work.  I kind of felt like Sylvestor Stallone.  Not the running around shooting [...]

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I ate broccoli last night for dinner.
I did not hate it, and I did not die.
Afterward, Kris sang with glee. (I am not joking.)

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And that means getting fat season is getting close.  Last year, I wrote about Holiday weight gain at the end of November.  This year, I’m starting to think about it a whole month earlier.  Why?  Because this year I’m 32 pounds lighter than I was last year and I don’t want to return a single [...]

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Monday and Tuesday I experienced almost no back pain–woohoo!  And this comes after a weekend of moving heavy furniture down stairs and onto a moving truck for some friends’ parents.  I was a little leary of the work, but when a friend asks for help, you have to give it to them.
Sometimes it takes a [...]

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Last week I wrote about my problems with vegetables. Via comments and e-mail, readers shared several tips for coming to terms with the foods I dislike. One common refrain was, “I didn’t like X vegetable until I tasted it prepared in Y fashion.” I’ll have to start trying veggies prepared in different ways. (After all, [...]

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It seems odd to me that of all the components to my fitness regimen, it’s my weight-lifting that’s going best. When I started this several months ago, I did so with a grudging heart.
Make no mistake: I do not love lifting weights. Sometimes it’s a chore. But it’s a chore I perform dutifully and [...]

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Today marks the three week anniversary of my back injury.  Back on Monday, I decided to schedule a visit to the doctor to get it checked out.  I need to get back on a lifting routine–I really feel better about my body when I’m doing it.  This week, I managed to go to the gym [...]

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I’ve almost beat this topic to death. But there are a few more tidbits in the SuperFoods Rx book that I wanted to mention.
Way back in the introduction, the book gives a bunch of stats and research about various topics relating to the American diet and micronutrients that I wanted to share with you. [...]

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