Misc

I purchased a Reebok StayBall a couple of years ago in yet another attempt to get in shape and lose weight. I think I used it twice. Then it became just another thing collecting dust in the spare room. Last year I hurt my lower back and had a lot of trouble sitting all day [...]

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So you may notice that the one thing missing from this site is progress photos. It’s not that I didn’t think about taking them. To be honest, I really didn’t think I would complete the program so I didn’t think I’d need “before” pictures. As I’ve mentioned before, I never worked out for more than [...]

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I’ve never been one for taking vitamins regularly. I always buy them and then they end up sitting there for a year until they expire and I throw them away. But, now that my diet is better and I’m paying attention to the nutrients I’m getting, I have also committed to taking a few supplements. [...]

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The Beachbody people push their recovery drinks pretty hard through P90X, understandably since they make money off of them. If you already use protein or recovery drinks anyway, it probably makes sense to use theirs during the program. I don’t use any recovery drinks because I am on such a calorie restriction. Recovery drinks have [...]

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One of the biggest questions I’ve had so far doing P90X is “how many calories am I burning during the workouts”? I read various articles and blogs where people estimated they were burning 1,000 calories during plyometrics and kenpo. While that sounded promising and while plyo certainly feels like it should burn 1,000 calories, I [...]

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We spent a day painting our house this weekend. All that painting burned 3500 calories so I had plenty of room for a reward sushi dinner and a few drinks. Even after eating normally during the day and having a big dinner and drinks I still had a deficit of about 500 calories. Unfortunately, when [...]

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I spent my 20′s racking up credit card debt and gaining weight. What do these two things have in common? Budgeting. And it took me 10 years to realize it. Most people know, to a reasonable degree, how much money they are going to make in a month and how much their bills will be. [...]

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This is the food pyramid that is being taught now (click on the image for a larger version). I think the fact that it looks like a circus tent is a great commentary on the state of nutrition education. But, the appearance aside, there have been many improvements made but there is still room to [...]

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As I’m trying to balance getting the nutrition I need without going over my calorie goals, I’m learning more about food and nutrition than I was ever taught in any health class in school. I even started college with a nutrition minor! When I was in school, this food pyramid was pretty much all we [...]

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