A Message To The Coworker With The Candy Dish At His Or Her Desk

Bowl O' Candy

My enemy!

If I ever run a company, I’m going to make sure the kitchen is stocked with Almonds, peanuts, turkey and roast beef slices, cashews and maybe some berries. I’m going to make it a rule that employees cannot have giant bowls of candy at their desk and I’m going to outlaw the kitchen fridge from having any sodas in it.

I say all this because my biggest enemy in the battle of the bulge has been well meaning office managers and coworkers who insist on tempting me with their unhealthy wares. Seriously, it’s like there’s a competition going on at the office to see who can bring in the most unhealthy items. One day it’s banana nut bread and the next it’s chocolate from Hawaii. In the mean time, the well meaning office manager is stocking up on cereal, granola bars, bags of candy and cookies.

And oh how much I hate these people!!! [Read more...]

How To Improve Your Posture

Bad Posture WestLB, 2002I’ve spent the last three days having an absolute blast in Las Vegas with a group of my closest friends.  This is my first time here and my first time actually gambling, so I’m having a ton of fun.  I’ve been keeping up with my marathon training but I did decide to take three days off from my 4 hour body diet.  It’s worth it I think and I’ve been getting good enough results so far that I’m perfectly fine taking a few days off.  Anyway, that’s not the point of this post.  The actual topic is the complete lack of back pain I woke up with this morning.

Wait, why is this special?  Afterall, aren’t we supposed to wake up with a lack of back pain every morning?  Well yah, but we don’t, at least I don’t.  I have had low and mid back pain for many years now.  Nothing severe but it’s definitely noticeable.  So it’s interesting that I woke up without pain morning.  I tried to think about the last few days and figure out if I had done anything specific that might account for this change and the only thing I came up with is the lack of sitting with bad posture. [Read more...]