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Are grapes the Skittles of the fruit world?
I blogged recently about rescuing sugar (in moderate amounts) from its detractors. See Sugar on my tongue: In defence of the sweet stuff . You see, around here we’re committed to the idea of...
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Talk Review: Forks and Knives–Weapons of Mass Destruction or Instruments of...
Fruits and vegetables in the shape of a heart, green on one side, red on the other. Photo credit goes to http://saladexpress.ca/en/blog/fruits-and-vegetables-canadas-food-guide-superstars Can the way...
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Stretch or bust! (Guest post)
One other important thing I have learned working with personal trainers (see my post Rediscovering my Body: Personal Training) is the importance of stretching. I used to never stretch. Unless you count...
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How Do You Measure Your Fitness Success?
What measures do you use to determine your success at becoming more fit? How to determine whether we’re approaching our “fittest by 50″ goals is one of the things Sam and I have pondered right from...
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This Time I Mean It: New Year’s Resolutions, Self-Forgiveness, and Fitness...
Image description: pretty wild flowers in a field On a recent walk in the (long overdue) spring weather, a friend impatiently reproached himself for failing to live up to his New Year’s resolution to...
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When Things of the Past Lose Their Luster–Alpa Mare All Washed Up
I mentioned the other day that next on my fitness tourism list was a trip to Alpa Mare. It’s a place that I first visited when I was a teenager traveling in Europe after high school and before...
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Well intentioned lies, doctors, and the diet industry: If weight loss is...
Recently the CBC repeated news many of us know to be true, that significant long term weight loss is so difficult, so rare, that it counts as near impossible. I thought the piece was pretty...
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“Healthy stuff is still healthy, it just doesn’t make you thin”
Yesterday Sam posted about the CBC report with latest “news” about obesity research: “Obesity research confirms, longterm weight-loss almost impossible.” This is hardly news. We’ve said this many...
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Let’s do the time warp again!: My Friends for Life Bike Rally team raises...
Bring your props, wear your costumes, because we’re having a fun fundraiser. The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Fox Theatre, July 5th. Tickets are $25.00 apiece. We’ll have a keg from our beer sponsor...
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Non-Dairy Ice Cream Cleanse. Really?
The article asks: “Would you go on an ice-cream diet to lose weight? New cleanse prescibes FIVE PINTS a day for four days straight.” Let’s start with my answer to the question: No. I don’t care if it’s...
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Canine fitness coach (Guest post)
At one time I thought it would be good to have a small dog that I could take places with me, but I soon learned that a big dog could take me all sorts of places I really wanted to go! I had the chance...
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Disappointing news (Guest Post)
It wasn’t all that long ago I was celebrating being off blood pressure meds and musing poetic about losing 20lbs. On Oct 15, just 5 days after my fortieth birthday I had a follow-up with my doctor for...
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Giving Up Giving Up: On Becoming an “Athletic Learner” (Guest Post)
I can’t. I’m going to be no good. I don’t know how. I give up. Never in my life have I thought of myself as an Athlete. In high school gym class, and later in social activities and sports as an adult,...
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Vitamin D: What’s a reasonable person to do?
I often blog about topics where I’ve done some research and thought I’d save you the time. On topics such as exercise non-responders (Or, are you a non responder?), intermittent fasting and women’s...
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On Athletic Teachers: Finding Your Coach(es) (Guest Post)
Anyone who has played ball as a kid knows what it means that I spent my first few years of softball in right field and batting at the bottom of the order. (For non-ball players, it means that I...
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To ‘Bit’ or not to ‘Bit’? (Guest Post)
by Ange B A few weeks or so back I was wondering whether an activity tracker would be a worthwhile purchase. I am generally wary or gadgets and so, when I first heard about these new super-charged...
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Exercise and coping with extreme stress (Guest post)
Me and my mom, in my less active youth! Members of the Fit is a Feminist Issue non-virtual community (that is, those of us who live and ride and row and lift and run here in little London, Ontario)...
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Is Strenuous Exercise “Bad” for You?
There’s a new study, called the Million Women Study, that says that strenuous exercise is bad for you if you do too much of it. I’m never sure what to think of this kind of thing. And the reporting...
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The joy of diagnosis: Sleep apnea (Guest post)
Testing for sleep apnea I’m sick…. ill, and I’m really happy about it! I’m relieved to know that I have sleep apnea, and especially that it’s severe. Although my treatment hasn’t started, good...
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When you and your doctor don’t agree on what “healthy” means (Guest post)
I can tell you when I lost faith in the medical establishment’s sovereignty over my body. I was sitting in my doctor’s office and she was showing me a graph that showed “healthy” BMI as it relates to...
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