Get Fit Slowly

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I came home from the driving range the other day and was greeted by my little girl as I jumped out of the truck.  When I first saw the door open, I thought it was my wife so I […]

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Pam recently told me that Martha Stewart sometimes says, “Tidiness begets tidiness.” Last night, after the kids went to bed, we spent about 45 minutes cleaning up the house. Later on, I told Pam, “We made a good dent in the housework tonight, we should do that every night.” Maybe there’s something […]

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Ever since Pam and I moved to Oregon, we’ve been bombarded with advertising from Sonic: America’s Drive Thru. Their commercials are pretty funny, often depicting two people sitting in their car bantering back and forth about the food they’re eating. But what really makes me drool (literally) is the splash images of their […]

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I received this email from J.D. yesterday morning:
Yikes. I just got up. It’s my swimming day, but I do *not* feel like going. Is it wrong to skip a workout? I’m not sick — just lazy. I could always go for a run in the afternoon…
–j.d.

My first thought after reading this it was: “Why […]

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Just to be clear, not everything in my current fitness regimen is peaches and cream. My exercise program has been going very well indeed, but like Mac, I’m beginning to have food issues. Maybe that’s stating it too strongly. What I should say is that last weekend was difficult for me.
Most of the time, […]

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This is a guest post from Gal Josefsberg, who writes about smart physical fitness at 60 in 3.
In late 2003, I reached my lowest point:

My career was at a dead end
I was in debt
I was 100lbs overweight

Mostly these things happened because I just didn’t pay much attention to them. For five years I had […]

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I’m a big fan of my local paper: The Statesman Journal of Salem, OR. It’s a top notch publication with really in-depth news stories, a great layout, and hardly any typos…ever. They never rerun the same news story in different sections of the paper and they never forget to tell us […]

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This is a guest post from greenman2001.
For people who are sedentary and overeat, learning to eat properly and exercise are new skills. Diet books and the media don’t usually describe exercise and eating in this way: they’re often described as “lifestyle changes,” as though one could simply substitute one set of behaviors for […]

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I just ate an entire can of mandarin oranges. Yes, this contained just as much sugar as a candy bar, but it’s fruit, dammit!
Actually, as I mentioned Friday, my taste for sweets has diminished. It hasn’t disappeared, but it’s become very manageable. “How did this happen?” asked Greenman2001 by e-mail. “Many of your readers shared […]

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This is a guest post from Lauren Muney, who writes about wellness and behavior at Physical Mind.
J.D.’s recent post about bread started me thinking about making healthy choices to get fit. J.D.’s plan was to find the healthiest bread possible so he could still eat bread. 
In theory this is a very good direction: make healthier […]

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