Archive for September, 2007
Inspiration: John Stone
From time to time I come across someone’s personal story of fat to fit that just blows my mind and is a source of encouragement that reminds me that this can be done. One such person is John Stone. At his website you’ll read and see the results of his decision to be fit (rocked [...]
Lumosity Upgrades
One of my favorite brain strengthening website has upgraded with some great new features. I’ve blogged about my affection for Lumosity.com before and they are wooing me even more with
Two new games
Word Bubbles – a verbal fluency task
Chalkboard Challenge – a numerical reasoning task
Brain Performance Index
From the site: Check your BPI Lumosity calculates a BPI [...]
Pizza, oh for shame!
Last night I had pizza. It was not my free day but boy, was it good. This particular pizza had lots of meat, onions and cheese. The crust reminded me of a crunchy soft pretzel. It had that kind of flavor. It was freak nasty good and if you are ever in South Bend, IN [...]
10 Math Tips For Your Head
I’ve always had a hard time with math in my head. I just have so much trouble keeping track of all the numbers floating around in my head. listverse.com comes to my rescue with 10 great tips for calculating in your head. Until now, I never understood how my friends were multiplying by nines with [...]
Where did I go?
Friends,
Thank you for coming back despite my horid blogging habits. It turns out that I suck at blogging. It doesn’t matter why I’ve missed posting, what does matter is how I plan on approaching this blog for the time being.
I started this blog hoping to document my 12 week journey on the Body-For-Life fitness program. [...]
Day 7 Recap
Wheee! A week has gone by and it’s been great so far. Day 7 went well. I ate everything I was supposed to eat and nothing I wasn’t. We had salmon for dinnerand it was awesome! I get a larger portion of fish and so I felt satisfied but not gross when dinner was over.
I [...]
Day 3 – 6 Recap
Blogging every day is harder than I thought. Sorry for the inconsistency. Days three and four went well with no turning from my current goals. I stuck to my meal plan for both days with no trouble. I have, however, wanted to eat ridiculous amounts of popcorn and Rasinets while watching a movie or two.
My [...]
Harder Than I Thought
No, Body For Life is not harder than I thought. It’s plenty hard, but I expected that. Blogging on a daily basis is hard as you can see from my sporadic Daily Recap postings. Day three through six are missing posts, I know. But I am keeping track and will post soon. Right now I [...]
Geek Brain: Lumosity
Brain health has become increasingly important to me in recent months. I’ve come to realize that I don’t use mine nearly as much as I could. Several months ago I received an invitation to join the beta testing program for a website called Lumosity.
Lumosity provides brain exercising games via Flash and tracks your progress over [...]
Day 2 Recap
Day two went much better. It started with an intense cardio workout on the stationary bike. I think my legs are still burning. I definitely reached level 10 today and my energy levels were up all day and they carried me nicely to my sleep at around 11:30 p.m.
I did not stray from today’s meal [...]
