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It’s fine to enjoy a drink or two at your holiday party, but you don’t want to destroy all the hard work you put in at the gym this past year.

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Props to Ice-T’s wife for answering that question with confidence! But what up with the shoes, Coco?

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Recently my friend N joined a gym. As part of his new gym experience, he got a meet-n-greet with a personal trainer. This gym, being of the swanky variety, offered him something better than a New Gym Smell car freshener. (No, I’ve never heard of those being offered but can you imagine how motivating that would be if every time you got in your car you smelled B.O., rubber and Head & Shoulders?) No, N’s personal trainer-for-a-day started him out with a standard spiel and then worked into recommendations that went something similar to this (I say “similar” because I wasn’t there and also I enjoy making up dialog for people.):

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To celebrate my birthday (YES, it’s today!) I am off to the gym with my handy-dandy Gymboss to do the Incinerate Fat NOW HIIT workout I posted earlier this week on CFB. I’m following that up with a manicure and pedicure and then a wonderful dinner on the town.

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This past September subway billboards was the media of choice in a highly aggressive campaign warning against the danger of sugary drinks; a major factor in our current obesity epidemic.

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Too bad Mark Twain is dead – he’s my kind of trainer

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Reader Joshua was so amused by this pic, he had to add on his own ideas: “”Burger King – Have it Your Way” It just lends itself to the product. And then, sad as it is, my mind starts racing to other brand names that could be used in this manner. “Doral – Taste Me, Taste Me” “Hungry Man – How Do You Handle A Hungry Man?” or “Hungry Man – A Man Handler” which seems more appropriate. I’m going to stop now because I could do this all day. (That was an intentional pun, by the way).” It cracked me up so much, I’m bumping his comment up here. Feel free to add your own in the comments!

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If you are a long time CFB reader you well know my love affair with High Intensity Interval Training.

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One of the things I find most mystifying about this season (besides wondering why nobody ever writes new Christmas songs – I’m a fan of all the big holiday hits but a girl can only hear Jingle Bell Rock so many times, especially if it’s Mariah Carey singing it) is why people want to wait until January 1st to do things. See, I’m impatient. And impulsive. And while the two combined have resulted in many a comical life disaster (ask me about the time I showed up to a job interview wearing a dress that I had shortened with a pair of scissors ten minutes beforehand in the parking lot), the good thing is that once I decide to do something I do it. Right then. Even if it is the middle of the night. People love this about me. So much so that my husband now takes sleeping pills and refuses to discuss anything of import with me after 10 p.m.

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I just finished reading this article in my hard-copy issue of The New Yorker. It’s a very interesting primer on health-care reform in the US.

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