Category Archives: Moving

Your friendly neighbourhood plague rat.

By Michelle | Published: October 11, 2012

French version of this post here, courtesy Stéphanie Potin-Grevrend. I like to go on walks. I live in a good neighbourhood for it, near the beach. During the summer, I spent a fair bit of time swimming at the beach. I have a lot of anxiety about going outside at all, thanks to about twenty [...]

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Food and exercise are not matter and anti-matter.

By Michelle | Published: August 14, 2012

How often do you hear someone say they need to “work off breakfast,” or that they spoiled their workout by eating some calorific food afterward? I hear it quite a bit, and it always bothers me. Let me count the ways. First of all, reducing food to “calorie intake” and movement to “calorie expenditure” – [...]

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Gym class.

By Michelle | Published: February 23, 2011

Let’s talk about goddamn gym class here for a minute. I wasn’t a particularly fat kid, but I was always slightly larger than average. I was heavier, and a little taller, than most of the kids my age (until they caught up with me, height-wise, later on — then I was just heavier.) And though [...]

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What’s all this, then?

By Michelle | Published: June 1, 2009

It’s my blog about normal eating. You’re reading it. So, I’m working on this thing I like to call my Unified Theory of Kicking Ass. What that means is, I’m reading and learning stuff about normal eating and nutrition and how people change their behaviour. I have a pretty decent understanding of this stuff already, [...]

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Stairway to Health, or, Let’s Judge People for Not Taking the Stairs.

By Michelle | Published: January 18, 2009

So here’s the thing. I’ve worked at several different places, and am now going to school at a place promoting the ubiquitous Stairway to Health campaign. And here’s the second thing: people are really goddamn preachy when it comes to taking the stairs. I was at work recently when an older man, likely in his [...]

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