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Category: Health
What’s for Dinner?
I’m trying to be healthier in my food choices, and more frugal in my spending choices. I recently purchased Absolute Fitness1 for my iPhone and have been tracking my nutrition and caloric intakes (along with my very sporadic and very low level of exercise right now—I know, I know, I’m working on it). Simply taking …
Updates & Errata
The chain, sadly, does not remain unbroken. But I’m averaging exercise five times a week. Sometimes the gym, sometimes getting off at Dekalb Ave & walking, briskly, home, sometimes doing aerobics at home, and sometimes going for a walk up to Prospect Park. While I do not have an unbroken chain of Xs on my …
That Old Beast Nicotine, Revisited
So, I hesitate to say that I’ve quit smoking. In part because I’ve said that before and it was only true in very limited terms and didn’t remain true for very long. However, I can say that I have significantly cut down on my smoking. Very signficantly. The last time I bought a pack of …
Second Workout
Really didn’t feel like going out today, so I used the stepper I purchased, as well as a series of other cardio stuff like jumping jacks to get the ol’ pulse racing and my body moving. I was a bit surprised to see how quickly something like jumping jacks wears you out! In all, it …
First Workout
Went to the gym and did 5 minutes on one of the step machines . . . man those are hard! After that, I went onto an elliptical for 55 minutes, keeping myself around the target heart rate for my age (148 bpm). Because I bought a step machine for home, and because I find …
30 Days 30 Workouts
I am the heaviest I’ve ever been. I feel bulky and thick and my body gets way too little exercise. Hell, it gets way to little movement of any kind. I don’t like my body. So starting tomorrow, I’m going to work out every day for thirty days. Most of those workouts will be at …