Get Fit Slowly

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Just a quick note to say that I’ve updated my page at We Endure with all of my activity for the past month. I intend to keep it up-to-date from now until at least the end of the marathon. […]

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Congratulations to GFS reader (and muse) Sally Parrott Ashbrook, who recently achieved a personal milestone. She writes:

TODAY I OFFICIALLY WEIGHED IN IN THE 160S! Yippeeeeeeeee! Aaaaand . . . I made my husband go clothes shopping with me, and I discovered that I now generally wear a size 12 in pants and a size 10 […]

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Celebrity trainer Gina Lombardi, the host of Fit TV’s “Fit Nation”, recently wrote an article about how to stay on-plan during the nation’s (world’s ?) biggest chip and dip party day of the year.
In “Super Bowl Shape-Up: Get Your Game On!” Ms. Lombardi recommends several courses of action.
Play a pick-up game of flag football […]

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Sometimes during workouts for my high school baseball team, I would be pushed so hard by my coaches that I would puke. That was back in 1992. I’m too old to puke during workouts now, aren’t I? Not according to my new personal trainer over at Gold’s Gym. I didn’t actually […]

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This is a guest post from my stick thin wife, Pam.  The one who makes excellent food choices all the time.
Mac is preaching (and practicing!) the get fit slowly point of view. It is a very sensible plan, one the doctor in me whole-heartedly supports,but one the rest of me has a big problem […]

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Holiday weight gain season has officially begun! A new study put out by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) suggests that the average American only gains 1 pound between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day instead of the commonly reported […]

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This is just a quick note to welcome those of you stopping by from Get Rich Slowly.
Get Fit Slowly will be a GRS companion site devoted to fitness. I believe that the same philosophy that I’ve used to get my financial life under control can also be applied to physical fitness. Crash diets are like […]

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After reading Penelope Trunk’s recent post about eating disorders, I ordered the book Breaking Free from Emotional Eating by Geneen Roth. I figured it was cheaper than paying Lauren for another batch of wellness coaching sessions. I’m willing to give it a shot.
The first chapter of the book is fairly straight-forward: “only eat when you’re […]

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One of the benefits of having a popular weblog (not this one, obviously) is that your readers send you lots of interesting reading material. Here are a couple of blog posts that are actually closely related to each other:
First up, at Brazen Careerist, Penelope writes about four weight-loss tips from her month in the mental […]

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I keep forgetting that one of the reasons I chose this blog template is so that I could post some smaller entries. I also thought that this new format would be a great way for me to leave notes to myself. For example, somebody — I can’t remember whom — forwarded me a link to […]

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