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I had no idea there was an Overeaters Anonymous but it’s great that such an organization exists, this week at Fat Man Unleashed there is a guest post by Jenny Clark about the group. She gives us an inside look at Overeaters Anonymous meetings.
Can walking prevent a common cold? I’m surprised to find out that it might. Why? You’ll have to read to find out. 
NCN is on schedule, losing a pound a week.
Kevin at Weight Ladder reviews the South Beach Diet Supercharged. I’m not one for diets but if you are and have considered this diet plan, check out his thoughts on the book describing it.
Subscribe to the comments for this postRoundup: My First Round of “Real” Golf
A few weeks ago I decided I’d like to pick up golf. Since then I’ve been practicing on my back deck hitting balls into a net from my little path of artificial turf heaven. My father had given me his old set of clubs, which were in great condition, and so I pretty started up on the habit on the cheap. Well today I played my first round of “real” golf at Gunpowder Falls Golf Course in Kingsville, MD, a little par-64 3100+ yard executive golf course. It was a great afternoon for it though the winds were a bit blustery. I have to say that my afternoon wasn’t bad considering we didn’t have a chance to warm up and I was able to hit one par-4 for par and only get bogey and double bogey on all but another four or five holes (which max’d out at double-par). It was definitely a fun afternoon and fed my desire to keep playing and improving.
This week, the Fitness Health Network offered up a nice helping of health/fitness posts:
- Weight Loss Journal featured a guest post that discussed six ways to beat fatigue.
- Obviously given the choice between fresh and canned or frozen fruits and veggies, you go for the fresh because of flavor. However, if you are choosing between frozen and canned, go with frozen because canned veggies have been shown the least nutritional value. I didn’t know that!
- Need some ideas about creating a food budget? NCN shares some of his tips and none of them have to do with $$$.
- When you are working towards a goal, occasionally you get knocked off track. Well Israel at Fat Man Unleashed has been knocked off the last few weeks and posts this weight loss confession. Stuff happens, things don’t always go as you plan, but it’s how you respond and recover that decides how dedicated you are.
- Lazy Man offers up six cancer-fighting superfoods I didn’t know where cancer-fighting superfoods. Oddly enough, I eat all of them, so double win for me!
100 Pushups Update: Week One Done, Elbow Issues
Week one has been a success though my elbow continues to make a clicking noise. I’ve been more cognizant of the way I’ve been holding the bar at Body Pump during the leg track, when I believe I hurt my elbow three weeks ago, and haven’t experienced as much soreness as last week. The clicking is a bit disconcerting but we’ll see if it translates into pain, so far it hasn’t.
So, how have my friends in the Fitness Health Network been faring this week?
Weight Ladder has a review of Bob Harper’s Are You Ready. Bob was one of the trainers on The Biggest Loser and Kevin loved it. Check out his review.
NCN has joined the 100 pushups craze and noted that he’s been doing his pushups wrong… so he retested himself and restarted the process.
Lazy Man reviewed his health this week and took down some measurements.
And last but not least, Fat Man Unleashed’s Dr. Kal took a look at some of the 125 Best Foods for Men from the June 2008 issue of Men’s Health.
Weekly Roundup: Diets & Pushups Are Popular
The man who told me about 100 pushups in the first place is also joining the 100 push up challenge. A few others are joining the craze as well, we’ll all be ripped in six weeks.
Elsewhere in the fitness world, there’s been a deluge of posts about diets. Fat Man Unleased unleashed a post on the 4 physical laws of dieting while Lazy Man was concerned about the safety and effectiveness of diet pills. Not to be outdone, Weight Ladder gave 3 tips on how to avoid diet stress.
Finally, NCN shares a recent trip to the dentist and some basic dental hygiene tips.
Roundup: Great Accomplishments
Props to Kevin at Weight Ladder, he’s dropped 46 pounds in 6 weeks and over 7 this week.
Lazy Man has an anonymous guest poster this week that doomed all diets to failure. “Pretty much every diet fails at some point or other. Yes, it’s true - diets are doomed. No matter how well-designed the diet is, almost every person on the diet will end up cheating at some point.” That’s how it starts.
Need a way to make squats more fun and memorable? Israel’s guest poster, Josh Morrow, gives two ideas.
I wrote about how Diet Coke is going to drop Sodium Benzoate, but that’s not soon enough for NCN, who dropped all diet sodas.
Weekly Roundup
Weight Ladder offers his thoughts on the American Heart Association’s No Fad Diet book while Lazy Man tricked himself into going to the gym!
Israel of Fat Man Unleashed is starting a new cartoon series with an inaugural toon about the lemon diet, which sounds horrible.
Enjoy the week and please have a save and pleasant Memorial Day weekend!
Fitness & Food Posts of the Week
JD wrote a great post this week about the best part of exercise: indulging! On a day in which he ran for 12 miles (wow!) and then biked for 29 miles (double wow!), he also chowed down on a Hershey bar with almonds, a bottle of Propel fitness (both while on the ride) followed by a hundred Vietnamese Fish Sauce Wings. (okay, he only wanted a hundred of those wings) You can indulge in your food fantasies if you run for 12 miles and then bike for 29.
Israel interviews former fat guy Rob Cooper about the mental mindset of fitness. Israel has interviewed Rob twice in the past (once on fitness, once on nutrition) but this focused on the mental and not the physical. “How you think, and more importantly, what you think is possible is more important than the training or nutrition side of the equation.” Good interview.
Lazy Man warns against playing the Blame Game when it comes to your body. Blame solves nothing and accomplishes nothing, do something productive … like run (or walk).
NCN is back on track!
Here’s a great retrospective comparing food portions today versus twenty years ago. Two slices of pizza twenty years ago amounted to 500 calories, today they’re more like 850. “… if eaten a two times a month, would put on two extra pounds a year, or forty pounds in the next two decades.” Yikes.
And lastly I leave you with this healthy tidbit … here are ten reasons you should have more sex.
