Archive for February 2009
How to design your weight loss plan
Posted by: poundsaway on: February 7, 2009
Before you sign up with that weight loss centre, adopt a popular diet or join that expensive gym (that you may not even need!), you need to do your groundwork.
Trust me, I’m a veteran weight loser, so I’ve had to learn things the hard way. This is my community service to prevent you from [...]
Do you need an exercise machine at home?
Posted by: poundsaway on: February 4, 2009
In my parents’ home, the study room is a graveyard for fitness equipment. A threadmill now serves as a clothes hanger than a place to sweat it out. A rowing machine lies folded in one corner, dusty from years of unuse. A mini stepper is used to hold books.
Things are quite different in my apartment. [...]
Midnight exercise
Posted by: poundsaway on: February 3, 2009
I was so annoyed with thwarted attempt to exercise this evening that I did the craziest thing: I put on an Kathy Smith aerobics DVD and worked out – at 11.30pm!
At a time when most people were already in bed, I decided to go crazy in front of the TV. Never in a million [...]
6 ways to fit exercise into your daily routine
Posted by: poundsaway on: February 3, 2009
1. Exercise at a time you preferI know with absolute certainty that I’m not a night exerciser. Which is why I’m sitting here typing this instead of being in RPM class like I originally (and very foolhardedly) planned. The reason? The traffic snarl in front of my office, which would most assuredly make me late [...]
The fat comments of Chinese New Year
Posted by: poundsaway on: February 2, 2009
Wow. I survived Chinese New Year, which meant that I survived my relatives!
I hated CNY for as long as I remember. Not only for the “when are you getting married, why are you still single” pesky queries, but for my relatives’ creative ways of telling me that I’m fat.
Now, being fat and Asian is like [...]