There are 24 hours in a day.
I can spend 1 of them exercising.
(And if I haven’t been doing it at 6 am when its pitch black and the mythical rapist is the only one out at the track – well, during The View or Oprah on my garage sale eliptical is still an hour of exercise. And if I ate 4 boxes of Girl Scout Cookies last week, oh well – I still got all those exercise endorphans to my brain!)

Did anyone see Gwyneth Paltrow on Oprah last week?
She works out 2 hrs a day to keep her lithe post-mom body.
Her logic was this: If I even think about counting a calorie or limiting sweets or cutting back on food I will gain 5 pounds. I have to exercise 2 hrs a day so I can eat.
Now, in our house we’ve been confronting our family’s weight issue for probably 2 years now. The kid got the red zone flag and I noticed I was getting dangerously close to 200 lbs, and my husband gained even more weight after …read more