http://fatguyradio.castpop.com A diet, fitness and weight loss show for the BIG of this world. Mon, 11 May 2009 20:28:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en First, how have you been doing on your Couch to 5k program? I've been walking 20 minutes every day at lunch. The 260 minute total was the minimum you should have walked in Month 1/Phase I of this more conservative C25K program. I found this program over ... http://fatguyradio.castpop.com/2008/05/04/40-couch-to-5k-update-brain-rules/ Brain Rules is the book by John Medina that looks at "12 principles for surviving and thriving at work, home and school". I found the whole topic fascinating and so I had to order the book. I just received the book from Amazon and over the next 12 ... http://fatguyradio.castpop.com/2008/05/01/brain-rules-rule-1-exercise-boosts-brain-power/ http://fatguyradio.castpop.com/2008/04/23/brain-rules-video/ The time has come to re-initiate the Couch to 5k program that I had to abandon a couple months ago. Knee pain is gone. I've been walking, though not as "religiously" as I had planned. With the extra walking, the knee wasn't getting better fast enough. ... http://fatguyradio.castpop.com/2008/04/02/couch-to-5k-conservative-run-program/ So I decided to start a new category, Life Hacks, that don't necessarily fit into the weight loss/fitness category of most if not all the posts here at Fat Guy Radio. This first post is about a book called Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, ... http://fatguyradio.castpop.com/2008/03/19/john-medina-brain-rules/ So I'm checking the stats today, not for Fat Guy Radio, but for The Podcast Studio. If I had it to do over again, and I have done it over again, I would have picked a different name for this blog/podcast. Maybe then I wouldn't see the following ... http://fatguyradio.castpop.com/2008/03/18/be-careful-what-you-name-your-podcast/ On Fat 2 Fit Radio, we recently did a show on gastric bypass surgery. In fact it was an interview with a recipient of gastric bypass surgery. He had a standard gastric bypass, on where the duodenum is bypassed and the small intestine is re-attached to the smaller ... http://fatguyradio.castpop.com/2008/03/04/what-is-vertical-banded-gastroplasty/ So, my road to running God has been cut short. I mentioned that the running program that I'm following upped the time running. I also mentioned that week 5 seemed wholly impossible. Well as week 4 went on, especially my Thursday run pushed to Friday, I was ... http://fatguyradio.castpop.com/2008/02/23/couch-to-5k-the-partys-over-for-now/ Who has one? What a load of crap. Don't ever confess to having bought one of these. Dismantle it and throw it away in small pieces over the next couple weeks. http://fatguyradio.castpop.com/2008/02/16/sit-your-way-to-awesome-abs/ So it wasn't a mistake, and it's only going to get worse. Maybe it's getting better. Power of positive thinking, right? Week 5 is still a couple days away, and at least one more run away in Week 4, but man. Week 5 is going to ... http://fatguyradio.castpop.com/2008/02/13/couch-to-5k-week-5-looms/