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MTC- Day 2 3/10/09

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Day 2: completed. Motivation: still here. Awake factor: not lively. Day 2 started out with a 5:30am spinning class. Yes, I know that this is not a party of the program, but spinning is one of the little joys I have in my life, and I decided before I started the program I was not going to give it up.…

MTC- Day 1 3/9/09

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I completed my first day of "Making the Cut," and the enthusiasm is still here. Let's see if that begins to lag at all. At 5:30am I headed to the gym for my first workout. Some might be thinking, "Holy cow, Batman, but that is early!" Unfortunately, I go to work at 7:30am and…

My Attempt at "Making the Cut"

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About 1 month ago I was over at a friend's house for dinner. Over the course of our eating a yummy pasta with veggies and sausage, she began to tell me about this new program she was on to get back into shape. We are both ex-collegiate athletes, and, although neither of us has gained a…

Elastic Waist book club: Making the Cut--how do you keep going?

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We're at or nearly or so close to or just a little bit past the halfway mark in the 30-day Making the Cut program! Woo! Sob. So let's talk about how not to give up: When you're standing in the middle of the kitchen, eyes glazing over, about to faint from hunger and so tired and so not...

Elastic Waist book club: Making the Cut--the preliminaries

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Okay. So a goodly number of you are going to do this crazy Making the Cut thing with me, but we've all solemnly sworn to not be crazy about it, right? If we can't do a side plank, we're not going to burst all the tendons up and down our bodies trying to do a side plank, and if we...

Elastic Waist Book Club: Making the Cut: The 30-day Diet and Fitness Plan for the Strongest, Sexiest You

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We have talked a lot here about Jillian Michaels, the kind of terrifying trainer on The Biggest Loser with the amazing abs. Weetabix has had a long, complicated relationship with Jillian, which has moved from hate to fear to a kind of bemused and wary understanding. I have so far been lucky enough...