Category Archives: Health

I’m giving up Cheez-Its.  Not for Lent, but forever.  After eating six of these suckers tonight I spent the evening nauseated as if I had feasted at Taco Bell followed by a never-ending roller coaster ride.  This ain’t the first time, either, that I’ve suffered a Cheez-It attack.  It is the first time that onlyContinue reading “No More Cheez-Its”

The results are in from my annual physical, and they’ve got me pretty down: I’m overweight.  I’m out of shape.  I have bad cholesterol. Things have to change.  But with three children, a church job, little disposable time or income, and questionable will power, how do I make a change? And after a week inContinue reading “O Where, O Where Did My Disciplines Go?”

(Writing from a hotel in St. Paul, MN, where I am briefly in town for my cousin’s wedding – congrats Rob and Caitlin!) Yesterday I wrenched my back while picking up my pudgy 11 month-old daughter off the floor.  Those of you who are unfortunate enough to frequent these pixels know that back in FebruaryContinue reading “Fitness Failure #27”

Today I went to the YMCA for my fitness evaluation.  I underwent various tests – strength, flexibility, blood pressure, heart rate (at rest and after three minutes of exercise), sit-ups and push-ups, among others.  They punched all the numbers into a computer that tells me my body age (using the Polar Body Age system).  Here’sContinue reading “My Fitness Evaluated”

It’s true.  Back in high school I was a track star.  Nearly every weekend I collected a few medals or even a trophy at track and cross-country meets, some for individual accomplishments and many more for my role on a relay team.  My highlights include running a 4:23 mile (at that time the third fastestContinue reading “I used to be a track star”