Go ahead. Move your yoga mat or change your spin bike! Getting out of a rut is good for you.
From Eileen: We’re having squabbles in my spin class lately. The Fitness Center changed the room, as well as the configuration of the bikes, and that has put everyone in a real tizzy. The room is too hot. It’s too cold. The sound system is too loud. The bikes are too close. The complaining is near record proportions.
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From Joe: Are you eating out less because of your new diet? Or because our new economy demands more frugal living?
Are you feeling deprived because you miss those frequent trips to restaurants? Professional chef Sara Jenkins might make you feel better about eating more meals at home:
Picking a diet plan just got easier.
From Eileen: So what’s the best diet out there? The one you can stick with over the long haul, of course.
To help you along the way, US News and World Report compiled a group of 22 experts and took an unbiased look at 20 popular diets. (For those of you who are curious, here is the methodology they used). The two big winners were Weight Watchers and the government developed DASH diet. (DASH stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension.)
Thinking about sweets might actually help you eat less of them.
From Joe: Writing about Treats without Calories, Henry Alford asks us to imagine if imagining ourselves overeating some snacks can help us lose pounds:
I’m what any right-thinking nutritionist would call average size. But note that the number 165 is rendered in heterosexual pounds. In gay pounds, I’m Precious. So when I hit 170 this winter, I knew it was time to test-drive a Carnegie Mellon study I’d read about. Scientists there discovered that when you repeatedly imagine eating a certain food, your craving for that food (but not others) is reduced.
Sitting behind a desk is making us fat. Try a walking meeting when you can.
From Eileen: Working is not good for your waistline. Or should we say sitting at a desk for eight hours a day and only getting up to wander over to the candy dish is definitely not good for your waistline and your overall fitness level?
In a study of the American workplace, a group of researchers found that 80 percent of jobs are sedentary or require or light activity, which is way down from 1960 when 50 percent of the jobs in the workforce required some sort of moderate activity.
What's the secret to exercising every single day for six years? Just do it!
From Eileen: In a little more than a week, I will be coming up on my six-year anniversary of exercising every single day. I know! I can’t believe it myself.
And while I sometimes joke that given the work I have put into this, I should look a lot better than I do, I have to say I have never felt better. I wish I had started this whole crazy thing 30 years ago!
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