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Forum Post: Hello everyone, I am a twenty seven year old wife and mom, with a weight problem. I have always felt fat since I was a teenager, and because of my body frame being naturally large I had to shop in…

As many as 50 million Americans are living sedentary lives, putting them at increased risk of health problems and even early death. This according to researcher Steven Blair, who called Americans’ physical inactivity “the biggest public health problem of the 21st century.”…

Do you eat more, or less, when you are eating with men? With women? A recent study done at three universities, by Meredith Young, PhD candidate in the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour at McMaster University in Canada, found…

Have you read Time magazine’s cover story, “Why Exercise Won’t Make You Thin”?  It’s an interesting piece on a theory
(supported by scientific evidence) that exercise does not help individuals shed lbs. Instead, the author argues, exercise actually stimulates hunger. The result: post-workout people are overindulging on food, eating more calories than they’ve
 
actually burned. I get it! In fact just last week I wrote that swimming makes me hungry and that after the pool I need food
(and no I don’t always choose the healthiest snacks). But that doesn’t mean that I’m ready to throw in the towel on sweating. For me, exercise has always been about so much more than losing or
maintaining my weight. I workout to challenge myself, to connect with fellow moms, to be part of a team, to try new things, and to have FUN! Most importantly I exercise to keep my heart healthy, and to prevent whatever diseases I can, so hopefully I can stick around to see grandkids. If exercise won’t make you thin, will you continue to make working out part of your daily routine?

It is definitely not raining (it’s the opposite, hot & sunny) but we thought we could use a little break from the beach today so we ate breakfast and headed into town instead. Mike’s dad took his turn cooking today, bacon and eggs because breakfast is his specialty! We needed that breakfast to fuel all the walking around we did. We obviously hit every children’s shop there was but somehow only managed to buy a couple of small things — all the cute Maine lobster stuff they had was hard to resist though! We grabbed lunch at a restaurant on the harbor and now we are relaxing a little bit before going out to dinner with Mike’s parents. We may have to head over to the beach for a quick swim because that would be a nice way to cool down — we’ll see if we have time!