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Health tip: Hate yourself enough to love yourself
I know, hate is a strong word, but think about this for a moment (especially you new runners). Our entire lives we focus on self-preservation. From an early age we’re told “Don’t touch that, its hot.” or “Don’t jump off of that, it is too high.” And, obviously, this is good advice. It saves us [...]
What your lungs remember your legs quickly forget
My recent jogging resurgence has taught me a little bit about my own body’s memory. It turns out that my lungs have not forgotten that this past spring I was jogging a lot. That I was jogging further and further and more consistently than any other time in my entire life. And that I was [...]
Tracking my weight all the way back down to 180, again
It is hard to believe that The Diet is about 3 and a 1/2 years old. It was over three years ago that so many of us decided to get healthy, lose some of our extra weight, and try to help one another stay motivated to do it. It still surprises me to look back [...]
“Lost 1lb. in one week” – Good advice from Made Fit TV
This can not be stressed enough. Slow, consistent weight loss is much more healthy, much easier to maintain, and a more realistic goal than all of the get-thin-quick diets you see advertised at 2am on TV.
Made Fit TV’s Jennifer DiDonato is an expert in the field of fitness. She recently a no-brainer video and blog [...]
Posted in Links Also tagged dieting, exercise, fitness, jennifer didonato, made fit tv, weight-loss 4 Comments
Weight loss tips by Matt Haughey
Although I don’t agree with Matt’s “weigh yourself everyday” approach I do believe that different things work for different people and so I suggest reading both Matt’s tips and his weight loss blog Stronger, Fitter, Faster. Via Dan Benjamin.
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I guess you could say that I’m starting to enjoy jogging
All good stories start at the beginning. This one starts on August 14th 2006 when I publicly stated my goal to run 1 mile before my wedding anniversary that year (which was about two weeks later). In that declaration I said:
“Last night Chris and I went for a run, and while he had no trouble [...]
Posted in Notes Also tagged chris-fehnel, dieting, exercise, jeff johns, jogging, nepa, rail-trails, running, sam wagner 4 Comments
Weigh in: May 19, 2009
I didn’t weigh in last week. On Monday I was sick and the rest of the week sort of just ran away from me. This week I was really excited to weigh in to see how I did over the last few weeks.
Today I weighed in at 189 lbs. which is down three pounds since [...]
Posted in Diet Also tagged 5k, basketball, chris-fehnel, dieting, exercise, goals, jogging, p90x, pat dryburgh, running, weigh-in 1 Comment
Weigh in: May 4, 2009
You’ve all been waiting with baited breath, I know – but at long last, here it is – my weigh in for this, our sixth week back on the diet.
It has been a great week. I ate very well this week. I don’t remember missing a single meal, I ate enough calories every day, and [...]
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Weigh in: April 27, 2009
If I were to graph my week of activity it’d look something like the silhouette of a camel standing in the sunset. The beginning of the week started out great with a really great basketball session on Monday and Wednesday and we finished off the week strong with some basketball on Sunday evening. In between [...]
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Jennifer DiDonato interviews Pete Thomas
Eliza and I are big fans of The Biggest Loser, a reality show about people trying to losing weight, and so when I saw that Jennifer DiDonato (Viddler member whom I interviewed on The Viddler Spotlight many months ago) interviewed the Season Two “at home” winner Pete Thomas I knew I just had to share [...]
Posted in Links Also tagged dieting, food, jennifer didonato, pete thomas, television, the biggest loser, tv 1 Comment
Weigh in: April 20, 2009
A bad start to the week and a strong finish resulted in me not losing a single pound this week on the diet. I didn’t hide this fact either. On Tuesday I let my competition know that his chance was now.
I hope he took it.
This week I’m going to try very hard to make [...]
Weigh in: April 14, 2009
Well, I’ve got good news and bad news. Which would you like to hear first? Ok, I’ll give you the bad news first. The bad news is that I didn’t have a great weekend insofar as the amount of food I ate. I didn’t eat anything bad. Just a little too much. (What can [...]
How to create a new habit
Somewhat related to this week’s weigh in, where I mentioned habits, I found two good resources for striving to rid yourself of old habits and creating new ones.
Installing a new habit and breaking an old one – an essay by Dr. Stephanie A. Burns
18 tricks to make new habits stick – A simple list of [...]
Weigh in: April 6, 2009
I’m happy to report that I did much better during this second week of the diet than I did during the second week of the diet back in June 2006 (Wow, has it been that long already?) when I gained 3 pounds. This week I’m down another four pounds and I currently weigh 199 pounds.
My [...]
Posted in Diet Also tagged basketball, dieting, exercise, jogging, running, weigh-in, weight-loss 8 Comments
Weigh in: March 29, 2009
The first full week of the new diet effort is over and done with. The response from this round has been great. I really like having family and friends join in on trying to get healthy. It helps me stay motivated and focused on my goals and I hope that I help others do the [...]
Calorie needs
Pat Dryburgh, my dieting nemesis, wrote up what I think is a thoughtful approach to his diet. He explains how he measured his current caloric intake and then researched what his intake should be. He also explains how he is planning to lose 1-2 pounds per week by simply eliminating 500 calories per day.
This approach, [...]
The Diet – Part Thrice!
The diet is back!
Posted in Diet Also tagged challenge, colin-devroe, dieting, health, pat dryburgh, weight-loss 39 Comments
Videos: Lose weight at the office
Two videos to help you shed pounds while you work at your desk.
Posted in Notes Also tagged desk, Diet, dieting, jennifer didonato, madefittv, marc lebert, office, the equalizer, weight, weight-loss, workout Leave a comment
Weightbot, the iPhone application for dieters
If you have an iPhone and want to track your weight; get Weightbot.
Posted in Links Also tagged apple, application, dieting, iphone, suggestions, tapbots, weight, weightbot 1 Comment
Weigh in: November 16, 2009