A recent edition of Arnold’s Pump Club newsletter included the following chart: It’s from You Can’t Screw This Up by Adam Bornstein. It indicates that all diets work because they find a way for you to limit your intake of calories. It shocked me to see Intermittent Fasting included. With diets like Weight Watchers and…
I have never understood some people’s disgust or discomfort with public breastfeeding. It’s natural. It’s beautiful. It’s amazing. A mother can feed their child with their own body. Awesome! Most humans throughout history were breastfed. It’s normal. There’s nothing obscene about it. And it’s not sexual. For goodness sakes. It’s one of those weird North…
As expected, this was a month where the pendulum swung the other way. The weight pendulum, that is. After a few months of decreasing my weight, I gained back most of it. My average weight for April was 208.9lbs. Almost up to my January weight. It would have been higher if I hadn’t revisited Intermittent…
I’ve been thinking about it for a while. I think it’s time I went back to some Intermittent Fasting. I fell off the Intermittent Fasting wagon a few months ago. Actually, it’s closer to eight months or more. Maybe “fell off” is the wrong description. I had wanted to try something else. The problem is…
I don’t know why I thought the day after the Around the Bay would be pain free. Probably because most of my long training runs were somewhat pain free. I did some stretches after the race. I took an Epsom salt bath. But I’m still a bit creaky today. The pain isn’t in my thighs.…
At the beginning of the year, I decided to get a subscription to Runner’s World. I wanted access to some of the online articles, but it includes getting the paper magazine, as well. I figured that the articles could help me prepare for the Around the Bay race. It had been many years since I…
The Around the Bay race is only two weeks away! My weekly running got kiboshed because I was expecting to do a run on my treadmill, but the treadmill is not happy. It’s out of commission at the moment. And let’s face it, I’m not following the “Motivation follows action” motto. I should have prepared…
It might shock you, but I didn’t do any running while I was on my trip to BC. I know. Crazy. But then when we got back, I had the sobering realization that the Around the Bay road race was only four weeks away. And I had only run 16km as my longest distance. The…
It’s funny how some bits of information can stick with you. Nine months ago, I read a post about the effects of loneliness. And I keep thinking about it. Researchers studied the impact of social isolation and unhappiness on older people. One of the findings was that loneliness ages you faster than smoking. Previous studies…
Psst. Do you want to know how to add 7.5 years to your life? Quit smoking? Lower your blood pressure? Reduce your cholesterol? This one thing has a bigger impact on your life span than those other things. What is it? Having a positive attitude towards getting old. Having a positive mindset has as much…
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