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Updated on Feb 18th: Added information about additional breast cancer and research fundraising walks and runs around the world.
The Susan G Komen for the Cure charity sponsors races around the country to raise money in the fight against breast cancer. I have sponsored a few racers [...]
Continue Reading →Continuing the theme, this funny video runs through the list of things runners say (or “Sh!t Runners Say”). Most of us runners have uttered these phrases at some point in our training.
“Jog? I run!”
Continue Reading →Judging healthy portions is difficult, especially given that the portions sizes in general have grown larger and larger in recent years. My own trouble with portion control is that I’ve become used to outsized servings offered at restaurants. It is easier to reduce your portions of food through visualization, weighing and by physically restricting the [...]
Continue Reading →In keeping with time-honored traditions it is time to create a list of resolutions for the new year. This year I plan to lose weight, spend smarter through my Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and on vitamins that work, and take control of my own health care by getting copies of my medical records. I’ve listed [...]
Continue Reading →Tara Parker-Pope writes for the New York Times Magazine about the difficulty dieters have in maintaining, rather than just achieving, lower weight, due to, among other issues, metabolic levels in the newly thinner requiring much more exercise and lower calorie intake compared to those who are naturally at that weight.
Although it may [...]
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