Get Fit Slowly

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

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Lately, much of our family’s dinner time conversation revolves around fitness and diet–shocking I know! I’ve previously discussed how I’m not a very good multitasker, so forgive me if this post seems repetitive. But I think it’s worth writing about again. During one recent dinner conversation, I was noting that I hadn’t [...]

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Let me say it again, this time with feeling. I BEAT STRESS EATING! Have I mentioned before that I’m a stress eater? When things get tough, I head for the fridge. Well really, I head for the carb cupboard or the ice cream, but you get what I mean.
I’m having a [...]

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Kris and I recently spent a long weekend in San Francisco. I was worried about how I’d handle my fitness regimen while away from home. Turns out I had mixed success.
On the down side, I didn’t get any regular exercise in at all. I didn’t have time. My three days were scheduled from start to [...]

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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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My wife and I are totally hooked on NBC’s “The Biggest Loser.”   I’m
embarrassed to admit it, but I’m addicted to a reality TV show. Every Tuesday night, we put the kids to bed at 8:00, spend a few minutes cleaning up the messes of the day, and head downstairs to catch [...]

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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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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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Weight–203.0(-18.0)
BF%–27 (-3%)

When I got on the scale this morning, I was surprised to see the numbers. I had a roller coaster week of food and beverage consumption and my weight fluctuated as well. We hosted a small dinner party on Saturday night where I lost consciousness–meaning I wasn’t conscious of my calorie [...]

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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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