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Foods to avoid

In my ongoing effort towards a healthier life for me and my family, I’m avoiding purchasing certain foods. Ironically, most of the foods on this list are the ‘convenient’ foods parents purchase for their kids. I don’t know why the food industry thinks our kids should be loaded with heart-clogging fat and cholesterol and dangerous […]

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In my pursuit of a healthier life for me and my family I’m trying to get many more healthy foods in the house, in many cases replacing ones we used to eat.
This is my list of foods we’re buying, and where I’m getting them. I’ll update and add to it as needed. If you […]

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Wednesday 03-14-07 DDR

Dance steps: 4921 (approx*)
Calories burned: 320 (approx*)
Time: 35 minutes (approx)
Playing: Dance Dance Revolution Universe (XBOX 360)

* Dance Dance Revolution Universe for the 360 is disappointingly glitchy. Several times an error message has appeared while I’ve played it saying my ’save file was corrupted’, and that it was going to start over my save […]

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Exercise log 03-07 & 3-08-07

I’ve played Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix 1 and 3 a lot over the past 1.5 years on the XBOX, but the past couple months I hadn’t played them at all, in part because I’ve been impatient for the new one to come out for the XBOX 360. Last Sunday (at a time when the migraine […]

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Maybe I should add Wii time to my exercise log. I don’t know if the following article is wholly accurate. Some Wii games definitely get your heart rate up, and some like Wii Sports can push that even more, but many games still allow you to remain fairly sedentary at your perogative. However, […]

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Exercise log 02-01-07

Thursday 02-01-07 Elliptical trainer

Laps: 5.5
Time: 24 minutes
Watching: Lost in Translation

The other day when I started this elliptical business up again I decided to take my measurements. This was something I did weekly when I started losing weight a few years back. I wrote them on the calendar at first (I still have the calendar - […]

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Back on the elliptical

Some years ago when I was very overweight I decided to start running on an elliptical trainer. I’d do it almost every night, for longer periods of time each night as the months wore on. I’ve lost a lot of weight since those days, going from 284+ pounds at my heaviest to my […]

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