Jan 23
2010Do This: Start each workout session with a plan that clearly outlines what exercises you will be performing, what the goal is for each exercise, and how long your workout will take.
Jan 23
2010Two short items of GFE business:
1) As you may have noticed, I have been picked up by a few spam bots resulting in about 20 spam comments a week – mostly on old posts. They’re annoying and stupid. I wish they would leave me alone. But all of the ways to prevent the spam – captchas filters and the like – usually make it harder for legit commenters. So I want to know if you are irritated enough by the spam that you think I should put the filters back on (and realize you’ll have an extra step in posting a comment) or if you don’t mind the spam. Personally, I don’t mind manually deleting the comments as they pop up but that doesn’t stop them from being sent out to people who subscribed to that comment thread. I’ve created a quickie poll – please take a second and tell me your preference* (click thru to my site to take the poll):
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Jan 22
2010
I’m a freak. And I’m not talking about on the dance floor. Well except for Middle School. But nobody counts Middle School, right? No, I am a biological freak. Specifically, my left foot is a size 8.5 and my right is a 7.5. That’s right – a whole size different. It’s a miracle I can walk without toppling over (somebody start the telethon!).
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Jan 21
2010
It is not often I feel genuinely sorry for celebrities and yet – have you seen the video of Giuliana Rancic pestering women on the red carpet at the Golden Globes about their diet secrets?! Jezebel provides a helpful mash-up:
Jan 20
2010
Last week, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the Health Commissioner, Dr. Thomas Farley, announced a campaign to cut the quantities of sodium in packaged and restaurant foods by 25% over the next five years.
Jan 20
2010
You eat right and exercise. You get your flu shot. You even drink cod liver oil because it is the world’s best source of omega-3 fatty acids AND vitamin D, all together in one foul cocktail that you burp until lunch. Preventative care is your middle name. But there is one healthy living tip that you may not have heard. A tip so powerful that the evidence supporting it is even more compelling than than that of cigarettes causing cancer or obesity causing heart disease, according to Drs. Willcox, Willcox and Suzuki, authors of the famous longevity study The Okinawa Program.
Jan 19
2010
Well, that’s going to leave a mark!Jan 18
2010Start date: 12/27/2009
Starting weight: 240 lbs
Current weight: 235 lbs
Jan 18
2010“If you’ve got it, flaunt it!” so the saying goes and fitness people certainly subscribe to this mantra. Seen a health or fitness mag lately? Unless it is Experience Life, I’d bet you a trailer of tuna steaks with whole wheat couscous and arugula (’cause everyone has those on hand right?) that the cover model is in some state of undress. The bikini-clad-standing-thigh-deep-in-generic-water pose is so popular that I don’t think Shape has done a cover in the last 5 years without it!
Jan 17
2010Slacked this week on posting my workouts on CFB, but happy to say that at least I didn’t slack on the workouts. I was really pleased to have completed my second full week on a planned exercise regime. It’s been 8 months since I’ve been able to do this, so it’s a long time coming!