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More weight and more muscles

October 27th, 2008

Sorry, I know I’m not very good about updating this frequently, but here’s a quick one.

My weight, which for the past 3 years has hovered between 100 and 105, is now stuck at between 106 and 108.  What happened? I’m not sure.

Do I look like I gained weight?  Quite the opposite.

My arms look more tone, and my stomach has more definition.  Do I weigh more because I have more muscle than before? Hmm.

I am back to my normal eating habits, … see the full entry

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Testing 123

September 26th, 2008

Just a test as I’m trying to figure out putting sticky posts up.

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Wondering what I look like?

September 18th, 2008

Well this is close!

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Twitter and FatAndSkinny.com

September 18th, 2008

I’ve just installed a plugin that will automatically notify my  Twitter whenever I post a new blog entry at FatAndSkinny.com.  Let’s hope it works. :-)

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Typical Weekday

June 19th, 2008

6:00 AM - Alarm goes off, get out of bed, eat breakfast, get ready

6:30 AM - Start walk to gym (1.6 miles)

7:10 AM - Arrive at gym, start workout

8:10 AM - Hit the showers, get dressed for work

8:37 AM - Get to the subway station (0.2 miles to station, 0.5 miles from station to work)

9:00 AM - Arrive at work, have snack

12:00 PM - Lunch

3:00 PM - Snack

5:35 - Leave work

5:52 PM - Catch subway home (0.5 miles from station … see the full entry

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Rant about deceptive before and after photos

June 12th, 2008

Pet peeve:

I just saw a banner ad online for weight loss. It showed a before and after picture of a girl’s stomach from the side and the “amazing” results she got. It was so obvious that, first of all, in the before picture the girl wasn’t even fat and didn’t have much weight to lose. In the after picture, the lighting was better and she was very obviously standing up taller and sucking it in. I went … see the full entry

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