Get Fit Slowly

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!After yesterday’s exhilarating workout, today was a bit of a disappointment. I’ve always known that my upper-body strength was lacking. Even in high school, I could lift great weights with my legs, but my arms were like putty.
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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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After sharing my bread research on Monday, several readers encouraged me not to be so dismissive of Trader Joe’s. Heeding their advice, I made a trip to the nearest store (a 20-minute drive) to check out their bread selection. You folks were right. Trader Joe’s does have good prices.
I found my favorite bread — Milton’s […]

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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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I eat too much bread. I like honey toast, PB&J, and the occasional tuna sandwich. But I know most bread is processed crap — it’s not a good addition to my diet. I’m particularly wary of the high-fructose corn syrup most commercial breads contain.
Because I’m that kind of guy, I recently decided to find the […]

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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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You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.

On Sunday, I went over to a friend’s house for a marathon board-gaming session. I ate too much home-made chili (Will is from Texas) and drank too much ginger ale.
“Do you have any diet coke?” I asked before choosing the soda.
“No,” said […]

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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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I’m a sucker for flavored water.
Because I know how many empty calories I usually drink from soda, alcohol, and juice, flavored water is a favorite crutch when I’m dieting. Talking Rain is a staple — carbonated water flavored with “100% natural fruit essences”. Though it’s unsweetened (and thus has no calories), it makes most meals […]

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I’ve worked out 8 times in the last 11 days (if you count walking 9-holes of golf as a workout). Unfortunately, I haven’t lost a pound in the last 14. In fact, I’ve gained a couple. It seems as if I can either count calories, or I can go to the gym. […]

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