Get Fit Slowly

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!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 [...]

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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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Motivation is tricky. Sometimes a carrot works best, but sometimes it takes a stick.
Make no mistake — I have the best of intentions. I do intend to get fit, but left to my own devices I’ll do more talking than moving. And I’ve been doing a lot of talking lately.
Then on Sunday an anonymous [...]

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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. I just know how I feel about my appearance, and how my feelings have changed [...]

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I went to dinner with Mac and Pam list night. Mac and I both craved hamburgers, so we decided to let ourselves have them because:

It was his 34th birthday.
It was our monthly Get Fit Slowly “business meeting”.
We’re both doing well on our fitness goals.

Mac has been exercising 5-6 times a week. He looks great. It’s [...]

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Weight–207.8 (-13.2)
BF%–29 (-2%)

It’s hard to believe I’ve only being doing this for eight weeks. In endeavors past, I’d have given up long ago. In fact, I started off 2007 by losing some weight and gave up before the end of January, even though I was being successful. So what’s different this time? [...]

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Apparently stress-eating is still a problem for me. I had a very tense day at the office today. When I got home, the first thing I did was microwave two pieces of chocolate cake, stick them in glass, and cover them with milk. Comfort food. And calories.
But I don’t actually feel any better after [...]

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Weight–209.8 (-11.5)
BF %–30.0 (-1%)

Another week down, but more importantly another 2.3 pounds down. I’m really getting confident in my new lifestyle! In diets past, I was embarrassed to admit that I had a problem and was on a diet. Now, something in my head has finally clicked; I’m not on a [...]

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Over the next few months, I’ll be transitioning from full-time work in an office to full-time work at home. Currently I’m staying home one day a week. Today was that day.
One of my goals is to work out at least once every day that I’m home. In theory, this should be an easy goal to [...]

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