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Reverent Agnostic, True Mystic, and a "Very Funny Lady."fitness
Do you like to read or do something else while you are working out?
I think it’s better to be mentally focused on working out when you work out. Doing something else to distract yourself from working out reminds me of taking vocabulary courses instead of reading books. When you do that, you are missing the experience of the activity, to get to the side effect. Of course, It [...]
Can you be fit and fat?
YES! Fitness and percentage of fatness may correlate but they are not the same thing. No, my friend, they are not. If you are one of those fat prejudiced people and you justify your judgment by saying that people who are fat are being unhealthy, it is time to stop that right now! Check out [...]
Kathy Smith’s fitness blog
Do you remember Kathy Smith, the star of many fitness videos? I found a couple of her videos at the thrift store today and decided to hop online and see what she had to say for herself these days. It turns out that she has quite a lot to say. Click here to check out [...]
In Defense of Food
My food resolution this year is simple: eat food. What else would I eat, you ask? Well, according to Michael Pollan in his book In Defense of Food, there is now a lot of edible non-food available in the grocery store. He writes about the history of food in America and how the idea of [...]
Me without Tivo
Me without Tivo means me watching wayyy too much T.V, but that is a post about functionality and human performance for another time. Me watching wayy too much T.V. means my brain getting affected by the not too subliminal messages they are sending my way. I felt myself wanting to look a certain way tonight- [...]
The Mood Cure
The Mood Cure by Julia Ross really saved my bacon after I ran a marathon in 2004. I thought I just had the after-a-big-event-blues, but it turns out that it is not uncommon for people to feel down after a marathon because people use up their mood producing amino acids. (It’s an even worse scene [...]
Loneliness
Loneliness was the theme of Grey’s Anatomy this week and the theme of the post over at Starling Fitness. …don’t let Hollywood convince you that being fat means that you have to be lonely. Loneliness is caused by isolating yourself from people, not from your body shape. If you are lonely, it’’s not because you’re [...]
Just in time for the holidays: My Christmas Wish List
A list of wants that are buyable, ’cause my family keeps asking. The big one, in descending order of cost Ecologically built house in a co-housing neighborhood by the mountains and the sea, in the country near a city, close enough that I can ride to it on a bike, or a train. :) Ecologically [...]
A new diet, just in time for the holidays
I started a new diet on Halloween. Halloween!! All that missed candy!! In sharp contrast to Laura’s advice at Starling Fitness, I am doing a diet which restricts my food choices. It’s an experiment. I’m trying it until Thanksgiving Day, at which time I will eat everything that I want to, which will probably not [...]
Let the soft flesh of your body love what it loves
Your Superpower and Your Kryptonite, a great article over on Starling Fitness reminded me of this poem: You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it [...]
