Johns Hopkins recently conducted a very interesting study: displaying the amount of time you’d need to jog in order to burn off sugary drink calories may be the key to curbing intake. After introducing signs displaying either calorie counts, calorie counts as a percent of recommended daily ca[...]
Posts Tagged ‘losing weight’
January 4th, 2012 - 10:00 am § in Exercise, Workout Reviews
Reinvigorated My Love for Spinning
I went through a recent period of loathing spinning. I don’t know if it was that the times were off for the classes or they were just too standard. Then last month, Matt came to Gold’s Gym Clarendon on Tuesday nights and reinvigorated my love for spinning. Last week, even though it was a[...]
How Did I Miss This?
Thankfully NYMag’s Vulture is doing a recap of some of 2011′s best videos, otherwise I would have completely missed this amazingness created by Beyonce to help Michelle Obama’s obesity cause. Seriously, this is probably one of the best tactics I have seen used to fight childhood ob[...]
December Challenge Kinda Falling Short
It can take quite a bit of willpower to go for the healthful food choices when everyone around you has plates filled with cookies and spinach artichoke dip. All the traveling we have done (or at least I have) in the last week didn’t really help much either. That’s not to say healthy items arenâ€[...]
December 14th, 2011 - 10:00 am § in Exercise, Workout Reviews
Getting Fit as a Couple Week 2: Biggest Loser Calorie Knockout Review
We are headed into week 2 of “Get Fit as a Couple” and true to form the hubby has dropped four pounds and I have lost 1.5 pounds. It isn’t like I needed to lose a ton of weight or any weight at all. I just needed to firm up again, but it is amazing [...][...]
Freshman 15 a Total Myth
My freshman year I went to the gym every day, sometimes for 2 hours at a time. I lived on campus it was really easy to get there (parking wasn’t an issue) and it was the first time since volleyball season that I had a gym available to me always. I was in the best [...][...]
December 7th, 2011 - 10:00 am § in Exercise
Getting Fit as a Couple
At the wedding both J’s parents and twin brother made mention of my athletic abilities and their family’s lack there of–hoping this match would mean the family line had a fighting chance. Considering this and that nasty stat that married people tend to gain weight in their first ye[...]
November 30th, 2011 - 10:00 am § in Exercise
Keeping a Strength Training Routine
Since the wedding I put on just a few of the pounds I lost, probably a combination of the cruise and not strength training as much. For some reason I just can’t get into a groove with that when I am not working with a trainer. I have all these great routines that my trainers and [...][...]
November 23rd, 2011 - 10:00 am § in Exercise
Turkey Day Workout
Tomorrow I am attempting my first Thanksgiving. The whole shebang—turkey, sweet potato soufflé, corn casserole and couple of other shall we say courses. Needless to say I am prepared to work all that off (or as much as possible) in the days before and after. Only issue is that my entire family is[...]
Active Commuting
One of my favorite things about working in NYC was the fact that it took me 20 minutes door to door to walk to work.  It was perfect for catching up on phone calls and an easy way to save money—it was also a built in 40 minutes of exercise. A group of researchers from [...][...]
