Goodbye Guido

Long time readers of my gym escapades know that I attribute a lot of my success to my relationship with my trainer, Guido.  He believed in me before I believed in myself and he was regularly astounded by success.  “The hardest working woman in the gym..” was how he’d describe me.
You may have noticed that [...]

Open Letter to My Gym

Today I’m returning to you, gym, after I’ve missed almost two complete weeks. I am deconditioning as I write.
I had one light workout the week before BlogHer, but most of that week I was distracted and feeling stressed.  I worried that my lack of focus might inadvertently cause me to hurt myself, so I let [...]

Just so you know…

I’m working on a hard post about body image.  Something I never thought I’d write about.  I want it to be good.  I want it be honest.  It’s taking time because I have so little energy at the moment and this post is an energy suck.
It’s coming.  I hope it’s worth the wait.
In the meantime, [...]

Bounceless

Besides picking up the BlogHerbola virus this past weekend, I did manage to find one useful link that many of my readers might appreciate.
Tomima Edmark was at my table during the Health and Fitness Bird of a Feather session. She owns the women’s lingerie site: Her Room. While chatting about one thing [...]

Healthy Eating at a Conference. Possible?

I have returned my annual 4 day love-fest that was BlogHer 08 with the same souvenir I brought home last year. A cold. I’m proclaiming an allergy to too much conditioned air; good think I don’t like in a region where even in my own home I’d have to have conditioned air most [...]

Me? Yeah, I’m physical…

If you had asked me two years ago, I would have told you that I’ve never been a very active person.  I’ve enjoyed walking for years and that’s about it. But as I started exercising, I started telling stories:

how I used to go white-water rafting every year.  At least once a year.
how I played tennis.  [...]

When it comes to dieting, don’t go it alone.

Science Daily reported on a University of Missouri study comparing Weight Watchers to gym membership weight loss programs. While the WW participants lost about 5% body weight, this was mostly comprised of lean muscle mass. The gym participants, in contrast, did not lose much weight, but did lose significant amounts of intra-abdominal fat. [...]

Tale of the Scale: Question and Answer

Reading Marste’s blog Take Up Your Bed and Walk, I was all ready to answer her latest question with a full affirmative reply.
Then I took a breathe and felt into the corners of my heart and the edges of my ego.  I had to stop and take several hard breathes.  Then I had come here [...]

I feel sorry for the men…

Yesterday was my normal Sunday easy whole body workout. Well, except that it wasn’t all easy.
This year, Guido has done away with the bench press that made me so very happy last year, and instead is advocating a variation on the chest press.
(why? because he believes that the bench press causes many people [...]

Happy Healthy Girl, I am!

When I was 34 my father underwent quadruple bypass surgery.  He was 61 (or 5 years older than I am today).  He’d had some vague symptoms for several years before unstable angina forced the surgery.  Those symptoms were always attributed to something else.  He never had a screening blood test that might show his high [...]