The Resolute Woman

Category: fitness

  • Fat is relative

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    “I wish I were as fat as I was the first time I thought I was fat,” says Kay Wills Wyma, author of I’m Happy for You (Sort of…Not Really): Finding Contentment in a Culture of Comparison. I heard Wyma discuss her book in an interview on “Think” on KERA National Public Radio.

  • The Big Fat Lie

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    Weight loss does not depend on exercise, says cardiologist Aseem Malhotra in an article in the May 31, 2015, issue of The Dallas Morning News. “Exercise–no matter how many gym memberships you buy or how often you wear your Fitbit–won’t make you lose weight….Curbing the global obesity problem will require changing what we eat, not…

  • Running a marathon at 92

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    Did you hear about Harriette Thompson, age 92, who finished a marathon in San Diego in 7 hours, 24 minutes and 36 seconds? Yes, she’s 92, according to an article in the June 1, 2015, issue of The Dallas Morning News. Thompson is the oldest woman to finish a marathon—and definitely a Resolute Woman. She’s…

  • Just do it

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    Since my fall when I shattered my femur, I get tired at night. I feel pretty good and have a good attitude during the day, but, at night, I sometimes get tired and discouraged. That’s when I tell my husband, Jerry: “I do not want to get up tomorrow and do all those exercises prescribed…

  • Addicted to sugar?

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    “Sugar is addictive,” wrote James J. DiNicolantonio and Sean C. Lucan in the December 22, 2014, issue of The New York Times. “And we don’t mean addictive in that way that people talk about delicious foods. We mean addictive, literally, in the same way as drugs….Cravings induced by sugar are comparable to those induced by…

  • Exercise keeps you healthy

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    Scientists at King’s College London and the University of Birmingham in England studied men and women, ages 55 to 79, who bicycle regularly. The men could ride 62 miles in six and a half hours, and the women 37 miles in five and a half hours. They found that, on almost all measures, the bikers’…

  • Just lose a little

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    Losing just 5 percent of body weight increases self-esteem, reduces depressive symptoms and improves body image, reports the September/October 2014 issue of Weight Watchers magazine. The magazine also lists these statistics. Ten percent of women say they’re completely happy with their bodies. The average overweight woman says she wants to lose 28 percent of her…

  • Advice from Willie

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    “I don’t feel 81,” Willie Nelson told AARP The Magazine. “I feel about 20. I’m exaggerating a little. “ But, I just got my fifth-degree black belt in (the Korean martial art) GongKwon Yusul. Every day I ride my bike or golf or ride my horses. I do calisthenics on the bus. So far, it’s…

  • Be grateful

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    What do you need to do to be healthier? “Most things I would say are commonsense—things you were taught in first grade,” Dr. David Johnson, chair of internal medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center told The Dallas Morning News in an article in its September 30, 2014, issue. “You don’t have to…

  • Laughter for your soul

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    Titana Kaula, a yoga instructor in Albuquerque, remembers when she was a single mother and she was working full-time. She was so busy that she had to exercise during her lunch hour. She soon realized that those workouts relieved her stress. “Engaging in exercise is some kind of laughter for your soul,” Kaula told Donna…