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Metabolic Health Is a Feminist Issue #tbt
For #tbt posts I like to go back to the same month in a previous year. Today we go back six years, to February 28, 2013, when I posted about metabolic health. Reading posts from the early days helps me...
View ArticleA WayBetter way to exercise? (Guest post)
Elan Paulson is an exercise-curious, occasional guest blogger on FIAFI. The world of business has many concepts to describe how it sells things to people. One is innovation. According to Clayton M....
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How Bettina learned to stop worrying and love the physio (well, maybe ‘love’...
My mother has back problems. And shoulder problems, neck problems, and arm problems. In short, she’s a chronic pain patient. It started when she was in her early fourties. One day, her shoulder...
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The Latest Weird Thing About a Stiff Neck
Last year, I wrote about how my neck gets stiff when I am anxious and about how I get anxious when my neck gets stiff so it’s hard to parse which came first. A few weeks ago, I discovered that there...
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High maintenance life followup: Catherine’s profile
Hey readers– did you catch Natalie’s post on Saturday? Nat realizes she is high maintenance! If you haven’t gotten to it yet, do check it out. But if you’re too busy, here’s the tl:dr version: Natalie...
View ArticleKeeping Fit While Healing from Hysterectomy, Part 2 (The Lifting Edition)
It is now nearly 10 weeks after my complete, laparoscopic hysterectomy, and I figure it’s about time for an update on my progress! When I last wrote, it had been about a month, and I was working on...
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If You Stack A Cord of Wood, Do You Still Need to Workout?
Functional fitness (aka functional movement) is a thing now. That’s exercises that train our muscles for regular life activities, like squatting to pick up something we’ve dropped, or reaching for...
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Today in Not News, “Fatter people not taken as seriously by their doctors as...
Sometimes, when you see a repeated injustice, you get cynical or resigned and roll your eyes. And sometimes, you get teed off. I’m guessing you can guess which one I’m more predisposed to. Sam shared...
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Couch to 21.1 km (Guest post)
by Jennifer Burns Content warning: Body image Last Sunday, I ran my first race. I’ve been running for eleven years (and are my legs ever tired!) but I’ve never run any kind of a race before. Mainly...
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Language matters: how words in health contexts can hurt
CW: talk of fat-shaming and weight connected to health (for purposes of describing my presentation). The past two weeks have been conference-intensive. I was in Guelph, Ontario a couple of weeks ago,...
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Anchoring myself for December
I do December the same way most people who celebrate Christmas do – a rush of preparations combined with extra social events, with a hearty attempt to fit in all of the things that I meant to get done...
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Trigger Warning: Pseudoscience
CW: Discusses diets, food, BMI and commonly held misconceptions. If you like to believe everything you think is 100% correct, are prone to all-or-nothing thinking, or want your beliefs reinforced on...
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Sam gets frustrated with midlife precision and the complications of fitting...
There’s a story we tell here on the blog. Do the things you love, whatever movement fits into your day is good movement, eat what your body feels like eating. Regular readers, you know our drill. It’s...
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How far do I have to cycle to burn off a banana cream pie?
CW: mention of weight stigma and eating disorders. Food labels are a good thing. Otherwise I might have to purchase my own bar code scanner for the kitchen. can of food. who knows what’s in it? In the...
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Kim’s 2020 wellness goals, beyond the bike
Here at FFI I’m one of the “bike bloggers”; along with Cate, Sam, and Susan, I get jazzed about the riding. We all have different styles and prefer different kinds of riding-based holidays, but the...
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Sam watched Brittany Runs a Marathon and recommends that you don't
Catherine wrote a blog post about Brittany Runs a Marathon without watching it. That was definitely the wiser choice. See her commentary here. She writes, “So why I am writing about a movie I haven’t...
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Health and wealth and years of happy living
Conference Sam in sunnies and sneakersWalk the LabrinthBig cactiCaution: Snakes!Tennis courtsLots to do!The gymThe pool I’m staying at a beautiful resort in Tucson, Arizona. I love it here in the...
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8 Lessons for Living with Uncertainty From a Perennially Vulnerable Adult
I get it. You’re facing down the barrel of your mortality right now, and the mortalities of your parents, grandparents, children and other people you care for. It sucks. Random, horrible things can...
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How much is too much? Some thoughts with lots and lots of links
So we all know that this isn’t the best time to get into the best shape of your life, no pressure from us, relax and do what it takes to help you cope in these stressful, strange times, but we also...
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COVID-19 and the Gym: Building Engineers Weigh In (Guest Post)
by Sarah and Cara As mechanical engineers who consult on heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, we’ve been closely following the evolving body of knowledge about how the SARS-CoV-2...
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