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During our annual camping trip with a group of friends, one family brought a projector, projector screen, and laptop. So every night while making smores, we watched a movie under the sky. One night we watched Kung Fu Panda. I don’t like Jack Black too much so I never felt the desire to watch Kung [...]
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I am a total dunce when it comes to pop culture. I rarely contribute to any discussion about the latest episode of America Got Talent or American Idol. Sometimes my friends wonder out loud whether I live in a cave. To some extent, I do. I try to insulate myself from activities that do not [...]
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I think people in general do a lot of waiting. Waiting for the right moment to start exercising. Waiting for the special person to come along and change your life. We just wait and wait until our ship sails in. There is nothing wrong with patience, but at some point you need to stop waiting [...]
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Most of us can point to a number of reasons why we should lose weight. The reasons range from “my doctor told me to lose weight because of health concerns” to “I want to look good in that dress during my 20th high school re-union.” With the millions of reasons out there, we should all [...]
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I see a lot of similarities between my cooking reluctance and sedentary people exercising for the first time. Notice how I NEED to have all the proper kitchen equipment, just like some people NEED to have all the proper exercise equipment. Whatever happened to just doing it?
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Exercise and eating healthy is like having a baby, after a while, you cannot imagine it not being part of your life. Your body becomes used to having an outlet for stress and being fueled with high octane gas. But when you are starting out, just like pregnancy, you are uncomfortable and maybe fearful of things to come.
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I am writing to let you know that I am breaking up with you at the end of the month. No – it is not you, it is me.
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The thing about having a goal like “staying fit to have a healthy baby” is so wishy-washy. The best time to lose any excess weight is before getting pregnant. So lately I have taken “staying fit to have a healthy baby” as my workout mantra. Problem is – the mantra is actually less motivating than having a defined goal of losing 2 inches around my waist by spring.
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When my back stopped hurting from my car accident, the doctors were no longer interested with my complaints about hip pain when my first MRI and x-ray showed that there is nothing wrong with my hip. I even started believing that it might be from muscle imbalance or something I did from my workouts.
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If I watch what I eat and use some weight loss tools, I can almost believe that everything is “normal.” This post is a discussion of some weight loss tools I have around the house that I am using to get rid of my post-holiday weight gain.
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