Fitness Follies

I’ve been trying to get fit(ter). For about 40 years now. I’m a slow learner. I do yoga about twice a year, which is just slightly less than I exercise. Lately when I do yoga poses, I feel not-so-limber. Kind of like Lego. In fact, doing yoga when you’re in your 40s is a lot like […]

My funny husband is going post-al on my blog today. Here is his take on my new fitness regime. . .  if “refusing to eat a third piece of cake” can be called a regime. Here he is. In the movie Pulp Fiction, Samuel L. Jackson’s psychotic character Jules states that “my girlfriend is a […]

It’s Week 2 of my public campaign, Shrinking My A$$ with Sass. Yes, I’ve been watching my weight. Now there’s a term. Last week, I watched my weight go up after eating healthy-ish. This week, I watched my weight and it actually crept down below my starting weight. I celebrated by eating a chocolate bar. […]

I could say that I’m trying to get in shape, but such a statement implies I have no shape at all, like I belong to Amoebas R’ Us. I do have a shape, of course; it’s just expanding, like the universe. Every time that I go to my doctor, she shows me a graph of […]