February 2009

Daily Links: Exercise and Eating Edition

February 27, 2009

My recent trip to sin city did me well.  Since I’ve been back, I’ve been a calorie counting machine.  I love entering my exercise into Lose It! and watching my net calories for the day drop.  It’s so liberating!  If I exercise every day, I can basically eat whatever I want and still lose weight.  [...]

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The Busy Man’s Health Shake

February 26, 2009

This is a guest post by Jeff Rose. Jeff Rose is an Illinois Certified Financial Planner(TM) and co-founder of Alliance Investment Planning Group. He is also the author of Good Financial Cents, a financial planning and investment blog. You can also learn more about Jeff at his website Jeff Rose Financial. Anybody interested in losing [...]

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Wednesday Weekly Weigh In-2/25/09

February 25, 2009

Vacations have been terrible for my weight loss in the past and our recent trip to Las Vegas certainly didn’t help.  In fact, when I got home on Sunday afternoon, the scale said 192.0 pounds, up from 189.6.  I wasn’t happy with the weight gain, but I also wasn’t discouraged.  After all, I spent 4 [...]

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A Run in the Park

February 19, 2009

Mac and I ran on Tuesday. I drove to Salem, and we ran around Bush Park, and down to the waterfront. Then we ran back. It was a miserable experience for me. I had run on Sunday with Bernie and Ed, and felt fine. My shins hurt a little at the end of that run [...]

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Wednesday Weekly Weigh In–2/18/09

February 18, 2009

The scale shows a 3.4 pound loss for me this week.  But just as last week’s small loss didn’t get me discouraged, this week’s large loss isn’t going to get me too excited either.  The physics diet graph below shows the kind of results that I’m looking for.  A 7 day moving average of -1.0 [...]

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