Everyday Systems

Seriously, dogs are the BEST thing to force you walk several miles a day.

We have a beagle/hound mix, breeds that were bred specifically to trail game for miles and miles and miles. If he doesn't get at least two good walks a day, he runs like a maniac around the house and chews everything up. But ...

When I was first married, we only had one car and worked in opposite parts of town. My husband used to drop me off at work in the morning (I worked the early shift) and I would walk the 5 miles home in the afternoon.

This was in South Carolina, where *no one* walks, except maybe people too poor to ...

I've always walked pretty much everywhere with my kids. When they were in that annoying in/out of the stroller age (too old to ride, but too little to keep up with me), I had a stroller with a little platform on back that they could hop onto for a ride when they got tired.

Mine was a Peg Perego ...

As far as overloaded plates, why not load it up with stuff like veggies or fruit? I just filled my lu nch plate with a sandwich, baby carrots and a sliced up apple. Plenty-o-food for me.

Regarding restaurant supersized vs. home supersized, remember that restaurants usually use the low-nutrition ...

Well, anytime you are eating below maintenance caloric levels, you WILL lose muscle as well as fat. In fact, your body is programmed to do so -- it assumes that there is a famine going on, and it jettisons the muscle first as it requires more calories for maintenance than fat.

This is why ...