Entries from October 2007 ↓

Did you enjoy the Bradbury Bruiser?

The Bradbury Bruiser Trail Race was this past weekend on October 28th, and since I was out of town I was not able to be there. From what I have heard, the vast majority of people had a great time, even the ones that got to compete in the “Best Bruise” contest.
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Need a last minute Halloween costume idea: Obsession from Animotion

I saw this video in the gym today. Remember Obsession from Animotion? My goodness this is a total 80’s throw back. I do love this catchy tune. The video is actually full of Halloween costume ideas. I think I’d like…

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No More Weekly Weigh-Ins for this Fatso

I have decided to stop weighing myself on a weekly basis. When I first started out I had planned to weigh myself at the end of each month, but figured a weekly weigh-in would help me see results faster and would in turn keep me motivated. Well, that worked and now it’s time to move [...]

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Weigh-in Wed: #22 week “Halloween, when Matt first said I love you”

Jumping bags of pumpkin peeps, I dropped 1.2 pounds and 1.0 inches this week. Only 7.2 small pounds left until I reach my goal of 25 pounds and 22 inches bye-bye. This week started off really good, and I had…

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Ugly Betty showing boobage for Marie Claire UK and other candy corns around the skinny-sphere

Our fave America Ferrara will be on the cover of the December issue of Marie Claire UK. In the photo spread, America is showing more boobage than I have ever seen, quite seductive there missy. In the article America says,…

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End of the Farmers Market

So sad to see the end of the farmers market already. I rely on my weekly trips there to stock my office with apples and buy squash from the Amish guy. I went today and there was one lone farmer there with apples and squash. No more tomatoes, cucumbers,…

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Veggie Gate: Deceptively Copied?

Well, I’m sure you’ve heard about “Veggie Gate.” Jerry Seinfeld’s wife’s new cookbook, Deceptively Delicious, has gotten a lot of buzz stemming from her recent Oprah appearance. Problem is the cookbook, which hides veggie purees in comfort foods such as butternut squash in mac and cheese, and spinach in brownies, is remarkable similar [...]

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Intensity vs Duration

I have taught dog obedience classes for about six years now. When teaching the “stay” to my puppy class students, I always stress to the handlers to never try to work both distance and duration at the same time. Meaning, don’t move 5 feet away from y…

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Rotator Cuff Exercises Exposed!

In a Friday link roundup awhile back, I posted a link to an article with some good tips for taking care of your rotator cuffs. So let me explain some of the exercises.*External rotation (scarecrow)Holding light weights in your hand, stand as if you’re…

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Jill Scott: weight gain and weight loss

R&B and soul singer, Jill Scott has certainly experienced the ups and downs in her weight the past year. In addition to winning 2 Grammy’s, she’s got her big Hollywood break by getting a role in the move “Why did I get married?” which began filming in February. She had just lost 28 [...]

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Ben Affleck: Weight Loss Secret

Ben Affleck says his strategy to lose weight is working out, avoid late night eating and “”lay off the bread.” That sounds like good advice to me. Bread gets everyone in trouble because it’s high in calories and contains very little water. You should “eat your water” meaning that foods with a [...]

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Your Weight Is Just Right

Feeling like you don’t fit into the social norms for weight (meaning that you feel too fat or too skinny) can cause stress and depression, according to a new study discussed here. If I’m reading this correctly, it’s not based on whether you are, in fact, too fat or too thin, but whether you perceive [...]

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My Marine Corps Marathon Experience - The Race

I was about 4 people away from the starting line when the gun went off.
It took all of about 1 second for me to cross over the line. My goal was to run between 2:40:00 and 2:45:00, and I was hoping to be at 2:45:00 pace halfway through and then run negative [...]

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Halloween Bento Box

Bento boxes are simple food such as rice and vegetables made beautiful by art. I’ve talked about them before here:

Starling Fitness » Bento-licious!
Starling Fitness » How To Make A Bento

Kawaii Crafter made a Halloween Bento box just in time for the holiday:

zakka life: Halloween Bento

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People are starting to notice

I stopped to the Vets office yesterday to pick up some ear infection medicine. Yeah, three of the seven dogs have a little yeasty ear stuff going on. This stuff knocks it out pretty fast. I haven’t had to take anyone there in about 3 months. (kno…

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Should You Sneak In Your Veggies?

Books like The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids Favorite Meals suggest you should sneak vegetables into your child’s diet by pureeing them and adding them to their favorites. Mimi Sheraton thinks that’s wrong:

The terribly wrong message sent by Jessica Seinfeld and Missy Chase Lapine. - By Mimi Sheraton - Slate [...]

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My Marine Corps Marathon Experience - Pre-Race

I am not a big fan of traveling, and getting down to Virginia this past weekend has not made me a fan of it. The only flight that was on time was the one that left Portland for JFK. I’ll leave it at that.
When we arrived in DC, it was raining pretty hard. [...]

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Tipping the Scales: 1.4 lbs. Lost this Week

After the disastrous day that I had early last week I was sure that I wouldn’t lose any weight. But I managed to do it. I got back on track and stuck to my routine for the week. I was able to drop 1.4 lbs, which considering the fast food pizza I ate, is great! [...]

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“When Things Get Back On Schedule…”

When it comes to my diet, that’s what I’ve been telling myself lately. “There is just too much going on this week” is another favorite. These past two weeks were a perfect example. The Red Sox where making their championship run. As a displaced Red Sox fan, I was meeting up [...]

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That’s Weightertainment

What do Oprah, Britney Spears, and Kirstie Alley have in common? They’re all part of the phenomenon that one writer calls weightertainment: our obsession with how much people weigh or don’t weigh. She blames Oprah for starting the trend, and posits that the best way for a celebrity to gain attention these days is to [...]

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Dinner at Lonestar

So I had to meet John and the in-laws for dinner when I got out of work yesterday. John’s family lives about 2 hours away, so we usually just try to meet in the middle for dinner occasionally. This time they came here and they all decided on Lone Sta…

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Quote on Halloween costumes


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The European Union is parodying people into stop smoking

The European Union has launched an anti-smoking campaign, and is using parodies to get people to give up the ciggies. They created this mock company called Nico Market which features several tobacco lovers products that really are supposed to disgust…

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Going on a Hiatus

For some reason, this blog isn’t motivating me as much as I thought it would. It’s not due to a lack of support, because many of you have been awesome leaving encouraging comments. I think it’s because I feel I should be exercising instead of sitting at the computer.
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Off seasons for competitive athletes

In a continuing collaboration with Scott over at Straight to the Bar, we will be writing about things that deserve more attention throughout the month of October. This week, I will finish the month off with a discussion about off seasons.
Competitive athletes need an off season, and recreational athletes would probably be better off [...]

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Cooking the perfect turkey

Copyright © 2006-2007 Building Nutrition. All Rights Reserved. As it gets closer to Thanksgiving, many of you may be wondering how to cook that perfect turkey.
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has a great handout titled “Let’s Talk Turkey” that explains how to thaw a frozen turkey, how much turkey to allot per person, [...]

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The Liquid Vitamin Shop

When I first loaded Liquid Vitamin Shop, it wasn’t very difficult to see what it was that the company was selling. (Good Thing.) However, after that point, it all became incredibly cluttered.
The website itself seems as if it was built in 1997 and hasn’t been updated since, except for the products. As far [...]

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Obesity Map

This obesity map of the United States is currently under discussion at The Usual Suspects. The interesting thing is that, according to the map’s data, obesity in America has sharply increased since 2004. As Beth points out: “What in the hell is going on? That’s not just fast food and television; those things have [...]

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A perfect trip…

Everyone needs a vacation once in a while. Nothing refuels the mind like some time off. One of the best vacation spots in the United States of America is St. Augustine, Florida. St. Augustine is the nation’s oldest city. Not only is it a beautiful and …

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Ten best and worst foods

After some reading, I’ve put together a list of what I think are the ten best and the ten worst foods.Best: 1. Sweet Potatoes 2. Grape Tomatoes 3. Fat-Free or 1% Milk 4. Broccili 5. Wild Salmon 6. Crispbreads 7. Brown Rice 8. Citrus Fruit 9. Diced Butt…

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Sorry for the echoes…

Sorry to everybody for the echoes here at the finish of the race yesterday!
I was a little worried when my wife kept receiving alerts after I finished running that that had happened, but there was not anything that I could do and when I got home past midnight after the race I just wanted to [...]

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Stairmaster: Friend or Foe?

The Stairmaster certainly started out as a foe. The Stairmaster in the gym at my work has a minimum setting of 5 minutes. When I started working out, I would set it for the 5 minutes and then have to stop at 2 ½ minutes. Not much to crow about, but …

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It’s, Like, So Meta

For a meta trainwreck, feast your eyes on the trouble brewing between Big Fat Deal and My Fat Spouse. It’s in the comments here and on their board here. Apparently Big Fat Blog is talking about it too. Here is what Crash of My Fat Spouse has to say (my comments are in brackets):
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Beauty

Have you guys ever thought about how the idea of “beauty” has changed over the years. I mean, in ancient times, the perfect man was sculpted and a beautiful woman was “plump” even fat. Even earlier in the 1900s, most beautiful women had more meat on th…

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GO DAWGS

OK; I know that it may not have a lot to do with fitness, but the Georgia Bulldogs played great Saturday verses the Florida Gators. After years of disappointment and frustration, Saturday was a great day for me. GO DAWGS!!!!

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Calories In / Calories Out

The lifehacking community is composed largely of engineers, and engineers like elegant, simple solutions. The “eat less than you need” diet was very popular in this scene, and the comments to anything more complicated invariably include a few “it’s as…

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First Bag of Fat Clothes are Gone!

This weekend I actually got around to cleaning out some of my closet and threw out my first bag of fat clothes. What a great feeling. Had the clothes been in good shape, I would have donated them to a charity, but since I have been doing Dave Ramsey, I…

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Inside the Carbohydrate Addict’s Diet (Episode 97)

Taking a closer look at the Carbohydrate Addict’s Diet
Hello and welcome back to another exciting episode of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore.” This is the Internet’s premier low-carb podcast online today and we have YOU to thank for that!
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This ain’t your granny’s greeting cards any more, unless she’s Maxine

Last week I mentioned that I traveled to Kansas City, MO. I was there at the Hallmark Cards corporate offices for their very first Blogger Conference along with a handful of other bloggers who specialize in parenting, weight loss, and…

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Catherine Zeta Jones isn’t anorexic just skinny and other whoosie-whats around the skinnysphere

Catherine Zeta Jones laughs when people suggest that her recent weight loss is due to anorexia. Girlfriend does look thinner but I wouldn’t put her in the bone brigade camp yet. Can’t a celeb lose weight and get back in…

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The muffin top commercial. How sweet.

Everyone knows how much I love the word muffin top. Makes me giggle every single time. Lifesavers did this really cute commercial of a guy explaining the term “muffin top” to his woman. Although, I have to say that this…

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Fat Mean Jogging Machine

A couple of weeks ago I decided to stop running/jogging for a while. Why? Well, for a couple of reasons. One reason was because I was feeling sluggish on my runs. The second was because my left knee was feeling a bit out of whack. I thought that by taking the pressure and stress off [...]

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Top Signs that you are a Trick or Treating Weight Watcher

10. You know how many knocks it takes to earn an activity point.9. You are the only Power Ranger in the neighborhood with a pedometer and a point finder.8. You ask at each house if they mind if you step on their scale—just to compare.7. You ask to tr…

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BLAINE MOORE, 02:48:00 @ Finish, Pace 6:24.
MCM presented by EDS - EDS Supporting The Marathon!

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BLAINE MOORE, 02:48:00 @ Finish, Pace 6:24.
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