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admin I just about scared the collar off of one of my dogs when I yelled "YEEEAAAHHHHH!" at the top of my lungs, though. Five hundred fifty-five points on beginner level. The advanced level is still eating me for lunch. I cracked 300 points once and most of my other tries were in the low 200s … Read more
The State of Alabama isn’t taking its workers’ obesity lying down. The state’s 37,000 employees have been given an ultimatum: Slim down, or pay an extra $300 per year. Obesity has become a bit of an oversized target for cost-shifting. With over 30% of the state’s residents obese, Alabama will be the first state to … Read more
A report issued this past Tuesday by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Trust for America’s Health blamed a bunch of things for the rising obesity rate in thirty-seven states, including: Federal, state, and local governments School cafeteria meal planners Long commutes Longer work hours Exclusion of obesity treatment from health coverage High cost of … Read more
I’ve been a slacker on the pushups but I’ve been keeping on with Wii Fit, mainly with the aerobic workouts. I enjoy the Basic Run Island Lap. It doesn’t use the Wii Balance Board but it does use the Wii remote: just hold it or stick it in your pocket and it registers your steps … Read more
I’d fallen off the wagon a bit with my hundred pushups workout so I dropped back to Week 3 tonight. (We were without air conditioning for a week, and doing much of anything physical was a chore.) At the suggestion of Fit36 I tried tightening up the rest periods between the levels, and ended up … Read more
I just crossed the 20-hour mark in Fit Credits on Wii Fit. My Fit Bank got an upgrade to silver. It’s all shiny and stuff. Tonight I put over an hour on Wii Fit because my wife found out how to take different routes on the Island Lap run. We had wanted to find the … Read more
This weekend I participated in our Lions Club’s highway cleanup. We have a stretch of road about a mile long that we walk over every couple of months and clean of any trash we find. It’s great to provide some community service. It’s also good exercise. Bending over, going up and down inclines in the … Read more
I’m very thankful that the positive feedback that comes from beginning an exercise program comes quickly. Here are seven little things that my wife, myself, and others have noticed already about me since I began exercising again: I feel better. This happened almost immediately. Just the act of finally doing something about my weight made … Read more
Two days’ worth of updates: Week 4, Day 1, Column 1: 16, 13, 13, 11, max = 21 (total 74) Week 4, Day 2, Column 1: 16, 14, 14, 12, max = 20 (total 76) I’m still being pretty generous with the breaks in between the different levels but I cut them down a little … Read more
Someone passed on a copy of Fred Brooks’ software classic The Mythical Man-Month to me. The introductory page to the chapter on progress tracking has this question and answer: Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time. Small slippages here and there add up, … Read more