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I'm believing that whoever needed to read your story read it when it needed to be read, and now is the time. There are other issues that my have delayed their publishing your story, like the lawsuits that have been filed against all gaming companies that use motion sensors.

Run as quick as you can to the book store, apple book store, amazon, etc or your local library and get this book, SPARK: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain, by John Ratey, MD. There are several chapters on how exercise effects the brain's chemicals and moderates the ones that control mood and emotion.…

cmae you look fabulous, you have two years on me :happy: Started fitness program, fast walking, Feb of 2006, past two years it's circuit training, step aerobics and zumba, belly fat is gone. It took a while to go, it was the last thing that went. Perseverence wins the day and remember, this is a journey not an event.

NYC has put in some adult play grounds with "Play" equipment that is used for strength. I'm not sure where they are in Manhattan or even if they are there, but I'm going to look around. Good luck and study hard and be sure not to get caught up in the street life of NYC. Also see if Fordham has a reciprocity agreement with…

• I work in Manhattan and live in Brooklyn. Visit the Y's in that area and see what kind of equipment they have. They all have student membership, the one I work for (14th Street and 1st Avenue) has a student membership which is less than $50.00 • • By the way are you going to Fordham? If you are that is right near Central…

Invite your neighbors to come up and workout especially if they are unfit, then noone would be home when you need to move those feet.

A lot of the issues here are what you've stated, but the reason why people are going for a failed non-existant model of what folks should look like is because folks don't like themselves. Learn to love yourself no matter what body you are living in. Your body is only the house you live in, it ain't who you are.

I'm a grandma and I don't have bat wings. Maybe good genetics maybe not; however, my weight came off slowly, very slowly and my exercise routines include triceps kickbacks two/three times a week. Don't know if this helps but I include a lot of Omega-6 foods in my diet which has (beef) been fabulous for my formerly dry skin.

You have an identity problem, you are allowing others to tell you who you are and from your description of the night/event, you have attracted people who are willing to define you to your determent. Let me give you a working definition of a friend. A Friend is someone who knows everything about you and STILL likes you. You…

Find some other reason to do what you're doing besides weight loss and then keep doing what your're doing for that. Feb of 2006--The beginning of my fitness journey. It was the fifth year after being diagnosed with type II diabetes and I was sick and tired of being sick and tired. The realization came to me that my health…

The cover is different but it appears to be the same. When I purchased my copy (Wii), the x-Box wasn't out. I'm glad Sony brought it to X-Box.

The EA Sports Active Series, EASA2.0 and their NFL Training Camp have to be used with a H/R moniter/senser. If that isn't on, then the game ain't working. Although the H/R moniter accurate as it could be (I've matched it minute for minute with my Polar FT60), for me the little avatars are like the "rabbit" at the dog races…

They just gave the kids the games, there was nothing to inspire them to use it. We do what we know. As an Exergamer, my gaming system, the Wii, was purchased only for working out and nothing only. I can attest to the usefullness and benefits of using certain games. jSome of them are crap. Although abandened by EA,…

idg are you on blood pressure meds, specicly Beta Blockers? If you are, then that's your problem. Research beta blockers and weight loss.

Don't have an x-box but I'm an avid Exergamer using the Wii (Exergamer = one who uses Exercise Video Games). Currently I use: EASA2.0 (EA Sports Active) which is on the X-Box if you can find a copy (There is a group of us, cross platforms, on this site) EASA NFL Training Camp, this was only made for the Wii Get Fit With…

In a book filled with research papers, Handbook of Exercise in Diabetes, several of the research papers, used this acrostic, MONW, Metabolic Obese Normal Weight, that little ditty stuck with me.

When you begin a new exercise program or change up on the type of exercises you have been doing, going from biking to running as an example, you body is basicly in shock and calles on the liver to produce more glycogen. Once the body gets use to your exercise routine, it will moderate the glucose production to match what…

Niner I like you and thanks for the flowers :love:

That's it ninerbuff can I ask will you be my friend? I luv it and I luv all the dog metaphors. Dogs, hamburgers, eating, throwing rocks, barking ... But in all seriousness I'm the grandmother (African American, as you can tell by my pic) of an Afro-Asian granddaughter who has diabetes running through both sides of her gene…

I laughed when I read your response and it brought back to my memory a statement by a preacher, "If you throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that barks is the one that got hit." The only problem here is that no rocks were thrown, there was anticipation that one "might" have been, could have been or probably will be…

In ALL THINGS, not some things, not half of things, but in all things moderation. You cannot live on "diet" you have to live on lifestyle. Change is the key. And change ain't change until it's changed.

niner, the subway line I take is underground except for the last five stops where it comes up from the ground to above the ground. One summer the thing that sticks out on the bottom of the train car which touches the third-rail, was loose on one of the cars and it took out the third rail further down the line where the…

"[/quote] I don't think it's posts like this that cause obese people to have low confidence. We do it to ourselves. We beat ourselves up, we feel guilty about our food choices, it's a vicious cycle. There is no one more judgmental than ourselves. Posts like this point out the obvious. It's what's happening all over the…

My church has an All-You-Can-Eat picnic @ or around the fourth of July and folks eat like there is no tomorrow and like they have never had a meal. When they get in the parking lot and out of the buses or cars, many run to get the food (the food is served all day from the time we get there to the time we leave). I took a…

Good for you. Actos was one of the four drugs I was put on when first diagnosed. I hated it. It caused my feet and ankles to balloon up with fluid as well as messed with my skin. It was terrible for me. I hate Actos!

Resistance Work, aka Strength Training and Yoga work, DO NOT burn the same calories the short run as Cardio. I'm am currently doing EASA NFL Training Camp (Video Game) and although it is a Circuit type Training like it's sister/brother EASA 2.0 Personal Trainer game, there is a greater emphesis on strength work than…

Oops, I never answered your question, I have seen Sick and Nearly Dead, yes it was inspiring; however, not enough for me to give up meat. Maybe because I've seen a lot of vegan's macrobiotics and vegetarians and nearly all of them had very bad grayish looking skin and brittle hair. I gotta see some glowing skin, and hair…

Balance is the Key to Life, in all things moderation. There is nothing wrong with eating meat, we, especially in the U.S., kind of over do it.

It's water. Your muscles are inflamed because you are working them and that's just how the body works. Once your body gets use to working out, it will calm down. I had, notice the past tense, the same issue when I began doing upper body work years ago, my chest and back would increase in size so I would stop my exercise…

Yeah!! If you were only on Metformin, you may want to bump up your exercise sessions by 10/15 minutes more.