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Gaining Weight = XP Loss
Courtesy of TenTonHammer When you’re working on losing weight, there is only one thing worse than the dreaded weight-loss plateau: actually gaining weight. Whether you weigh-in on a daily, weekly, or...
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Ambassador Beej, At Your Service
A while back, Fitocracy posted a blog about the relaunch of their #FitocracyAmbassador program. It was a good opportunity, so I applied. And… I got accepted! Yay! I’m terribly excited about this. I’m...
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The Biggest Loser: My Guilty Pleasure
When I was obese, I never really watched The Biggest Loser. I knew it existed and what it did for people, but never watched it. Heck, I had even thought about trying to get on it, but–and this was the...
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Why Did I Gain So Much Weight?
Watching The Biggest Loser really made me realize that I used to be that big. It made me ask myself: Why did I gain so much weight? Like them, I was huge. And like them, I had my share of emotional...
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2 Simple Steps to Prevent A Weight Loss Backslide
As you progress on your fitness quest, there are a lot of milestones that mark your progress. You will see lower numbers on the scale, increased energy and activity levels, new personal bests for...
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Book Review: The World’s Strongest Librarian by Josh Hanagarne
Disclaimer: I was provided an advance review copy of The World’s Strongest Librarian from Gotham Books. It has in no way influenced this review. When I started blogging, I had no idea what I was doing....
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Forget High School: Being an Athlete Doesn’t Mean You’re a Jock
High school sucks. Or at least, it sucked for me. I was an overweight, non-athletic, videogame-playing, good grade-making, drama geek. I got picked on for everything under the sun by everyone under...
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Jedi Fitness Icon: Yoda
Jedi are in crazy shape, but how do they get that way? In the original Star Wars trilogy, we see Luke backpacking across Dagobah in The Empire Strikes Back, but that short time with Yoda was hardly...
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Detox from Technology for a Happier and Healthier Life
About a month ago, I broke my cell phone–my beautiful and precious Nexus 4–and it was one of the best things that has happened to me in recent memory. It took the loss of my favorite piece of...
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My Biggest Fear is Getting Fat Again
With Halloween just around the corner, it’s the time of year where we go out of our ways to scare ourselves silly. We go to haunted attractions and let actors dressed as zombies and werewolves jump...
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Awesomeness, Online Coaching, and Books.
Even though I’ve been pretty terrible at updating this blog for the past few months, a lot of awesome has been going on behind the scenes. Since that awesomeness very much affects you as readers of...
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Are You REALLY Happy?
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately, and one of the things I keep coming back to is the idea of happiness. We all spend so much time stressing out and worrying about things we can’t change, and I...
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30-Minute Bodyweight Workout – Tony Stark
A while back, one of my friends asked me to make a bodyweight workout routine for him that would take 30 minutes and that he could do at home with no extra equipment, and this is what I came up with....
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I’m Writing a Weight-Loss Book. And I Need Your Help.
One of the best things about writing for this blog is when I get an email, Facebook message, or tweet about how my story inspired someone to lose weight of their own. Over the past year, more messages...
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I Stopped Weighing Myself, and It’s Been Awesome
When I was in the middle of my weight loss, I weighed myself every day. Almost everything I read about it said that I was doing it wrong, that I should have had a Weigh-In Day once a week. I tried it,...
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My Word Is “Run”
I’ve been on a audiobooks-while-running kick this summer. Thanks to a great post over at Run To The Finish, my most recent audiobook is Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. Since I’ve been working on...
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My End-of-Summer Self-Evaluation
Well, my semester officially starts in under a week. Summer break is behind me, and I’m at that weird point in the limbo between vacation and work where I get in a kind of funky mood and evaluate...
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Running Shoes and Gender Roles
I’m a lot of things, but I am not a stereotypical guy. I mean, the only oil I want on my hands is for my cuticles. When people buy my wife lotion and candles as gifts, guess who ends up using them?...
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Announcing Stratus: A Steampunk Novel (Part One)!
First of all, this isn’t a fitness related post, but it’s about the other side of my geekery, so I thought you all may want to know about it just the same. Stratus, my newest novel, is coming out on...
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Ten Years of World of Warcraft. OMG!
I started playing World of Warcraft when it was still in beta 10 years ago. Until the end of Cataclysm, I maintained a pretty steady subscription to the game. It was only after I killed Deathwing that...
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