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		<title>Where Your Feet Can Take You</title>
		<link>http://fatgirl2fitgirl.com/2010/08/30/where-your-feet-can-take-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exercise]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Long Island]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I live on Long Island. It&#8217;s a big place with lots of beautiful beaches on the South Shore, cliffs on the North Shore, farms out east and, of course, lots of congested suburban neighborhoods. We spend most of our time in the congested neighborhoods. When my kids were small and even still today, one of my favorite pastimes has been to drive to the less congested areas and see what there is to see. And trust me, I thought I&#8217;d seen just about everything. Then I started walking and running. It&#8217;s amazing what you miss when you are in a car. I&#8217;m just sayin&#8217;. This weekend, my friend Jen and I went walking in an upscale neighborhood (an understatement). The neighborhood is probably one of the most upscale in central Suffolk County. The couple mile walk up the main road is spectacular. Million-dollar-plus homes with the Long Island Sound in the backyards. Gardens to be rivaled. Tree-lined streets. Even the air is cooler in this neighborhood. I&#8217;ve driven on this road before. My husband and I love to visit neighborhoods we could never afford and pick out the house we would buy if we won the lottery. But walking it, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Know What To Do</title>
		<link>http://fatgirl2fitgirl.com/2010/08/25/i-know-what-to-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[expectations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This has been a summer of ups and downs, challenges and successes. Mostly challenges. Some of the challenges have been physical. Hurt hip. Cranky shoulders. Blistering heat. Raging hormones. Yes, I will admit,  I am at that later point in my life where the hormones all go wonky again for a while. More though, the challenges have been mental. I&#8217;ve had trouble staying on top of my food intake. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I have good days. Heck, I have good weeks. Hence the successes. But I&#8217;ve had bad food days too. Very bad food days&#8230;and weeks. Where once there was discipline, there are now cravings that will just not be ignored. Where once it felt fabulous to know I&#8217;d gotten a substantial amount of nutrition in a reasonable number of calories, now it sometimes takes everything I have to not eat cookies all day long. Or Hershey&#8217;s Kisses. Or a half gallon of ice cream. Can you tell sugar is the nemesis here? More than letting those errant sweets slip into my day, though, I&#8217;ve stopped tracking what I eat on paper. I keep track of points in my head, but  as any good Weight Watcher knows, that doesn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is It Yogurt? Or Dessert In Disguise?</title>
		<link>http://fatgirl2fitgirl.com/2010/08/19/is-it-yogurt-or-dessert-in-disguise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Weight Loss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, as a snack, I tried a new flavor from Yoplait’s Light Yogurt line: Black Forest Cake. I’m beginning to wonder if these little treats should really be classified as yogurt. To be honest, this one was disappointing. It tasted like cherry yogurt. Not that I mind cherry yogurt, mind you, but I was expecting something a little more chocolatey considering the name. Maybe instead of cherry pieces, they could have filled the container with chocolate cake pieces. Now that would be like Black Forest Cake, and probably couldn’t be classified as yogurt in that case. I know Greek yogurt is better for you, but I can’t wrap my tastebuds around it, even with strawberries or honey. And I’m not a fan of plain yogurt. But yogurts with names like Raspberry Cheesecake, Red Velvet Cake and Apple Turnover (Yoplait), how can you go wrong? Weight Watchers has also come out with some wonderful new flavors, like Apple Pie A La Mode and Blueberry Pie. Yum. According to the packaging for these goodies, they are real yogurt, with cultures and everything. Both brands weigh in at 100 calories a serving, although you get more with Weight Watchers. And both slide in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Long Run Sunday</title>
		<link>http://fatgirl2fitgirl.com/2010/08/15/long-run-sunday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Running]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[half marathon training]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Facebook this morning, the first thing I saw was a note from the Run Like a Diva group asking if we&#8217;d done our long run yet this weekend. That got me out the door. I should have started long runs last week but I had a stomach bug and running was not on the agenda. In fact, I didn&#8217;t get out to run until Friday of this week when my stomach finally settled. On Friday when I went out (after more than a week of not running), I opted for a 2.5 miler. The weather was blissfully cool and humidity-free and the run was one of the strongest I&#8217;ve had all summer (no walking whatsoever). But it was only two and a half miles. No way I&#8217;m running a half marathon based on a strong 2.5 mile run. Today was my first long run. It&#8217;s been an up and down training summer, and I haven&#8217;t run more than 3.2 miles in as many months, if not more.  I&#8217;ve been walking 4.5 miles and sometimes even 6 miles, but I haven&#8217;t run it. Today I figured I&#8217;d start with a 4-mile run. I figured if I could handle that, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recovering from Vacation Eating</title>
		<link>http://fatgirl2fitgirl.com/2010/08/09/weight-loss-vacation-food/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[getting back on track]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week was a vacation week of sorts for me. It started as a bona fide vacation. We went away for a couple of days for a family reunion. And then my sister was in town for the rest of the week, which had me visiting her around my work schedule. I have to admit, it was not a good food week. Not a great exercise week either. What rattled me most was how easy it was to slip out of good habits and back into bad habits so quickly and easily, all because it was a vacation week. Added to the family vacation was the departure of one of my co-workers this week. Between the two events, there were lunches out, dinners out, fast food and drinking. Now, it&#8217;s not like this is the first time I&#8217;ve gone out for meals since I started eating healthier two years ago. But in months past, I always stayed conscious of the types of food and the amount of food I was eating. This week? Let&#8217;s just say I threw caution to the wind. There were lots of fried, greasy foods, some old favorite fast foods, and comfort food like Lobster Mac [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Love Running&#8230; I Hate Running&#8230; I Love Running&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://fatgirl2fitgirl.com/2010/08/04/i-love-running-i-hate-running-i-love-running/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exercise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Running]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[getting fit]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a post I wrote last year around this time and reading back, I realized that it is really relevant to my life again now, so I&#8217;m re-running it. I&#8217;ve been on vacation this week and will be back to regular posting tomorrow. But this has always been one of my favorites! Recently, I came across a greeting card that on the front said: I love running, I hate running, I love running, I hate running. I loved that and if I could find it again, I would totally link you to it! I loved it, because as a newbie runner, it&#8217;s exactly the way I feel, when I&#8217;m running, when I&#8217;m about to start running, when I finish. It is totally a love/hate relationship, although lately, the pros definitely outweigh the cons. While I was running my 3.2 miles this morning (my version of a long run), I thought about this the whole way. What is it that I love about running? And what is it that I hate? It was more an exercise in keeping my mind occupied and made my run today go quickly. The highlights? I love running on a morning like today. It was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eye on the Prize: Long Island Diva&#8217;s Half Marathon</title>
		<link>http://fatgirl2fitgirl.com/2010/07/27/running-long-island-divas-half-marathon/</link>
		<comments>http://fatgirl2fitgirl.com/2010/07/27/running-long-island-divas-half-marathon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Running]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diva's half marathon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Staying on track from a food perspective has been tricky these past few months. And I plan on getting that back in order just as soon as I can. Today will be a good day. Tomorrow will be a good day. Then I&#8217;ll have VACATION. This weekend I head off to a family reunion, where I can pretty much be guaranteed I will overeat and overdrink. But it will be loads of fun, and I&#8217;m not planning to limit myself too much for the couple of days I will be away. When we get home, that will be a different story. When we get home, I will be training for a half marathon that I found in my area that just looks like awesome fun. It&#8217;s called the Diva&#8217;s Half Marathon and you are greeted at the finish line with champagne and chocolate. Now if that&#8217;s not an incentive to finish a race, I don&#8217;t know what is! I&#8217;m in the process of trying to get my sister to do this with me. I&#8217;ll be working on her at the reunion! Like that sis? Now I&#8217;ve called you out in my blog&#8230; how can you say no?? The thing is, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Running: Conditions Matter</title>
		<link>http://fatgirl2fitgirl.com/2010/07/23/running-conditions-are-everything/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Running]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[a blog with substance award]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fat girl to fit girl]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went for my second run this week. It&#8217;s still hot. But not nearly as hot as it was on Wednesday. Again, as I write this post it&#8217;s raining, which we&#8217;ve been told will bring in more scorching heat tomorrow,  however short-lived. With the impending rain, it was humid again this morning too, but again, not nearly as humid as it was on Wednesday. Today&#8217;s run was bearable. Today&#8217;s run actually wasn&#8217;t bad. I still had to walk a bit, but I went 2.5 miles with less walking and more efficient running than Wednesday. In fact, I did the longer distance in about the same amount of time. I didn&#8217;t feel like I weighed 2000 pounds on today&#8217;s run. That could be because I have been eating much better than I was earlier in the week. It could also be just that the air wasn&#8217;t as heavy. Today&#8217;s run left me feeling like with a few more weeks of training, I can get back to where I was last year pretty soon, pre-injuries. Today&#8217;s run had me contemplating how far I&#8217;ve come rather than the steps backwards I&#8217;ve taken recently. I forget that sometimes. I forget that before last year, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh, It&#8217;s Hot Alright</title>
		<link>http://fatgirl2fitgirl.com/2010/07/21/running-in-hot-weather/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actually right now it&#8217;s raining, and while it will still be hot here in the Northeast tomorrow, the weather gurus say the string of thunderstorms blowing across Long Island will bring in some nice, dry hot air for a change. Yay! I&#8217;ve been avoiding running a lot lately because of the heat and humidity, but today I got tired of avoiding. I got up. I got dressed. I got outside. My sunglasses fogged up because my house is air conditioned and outside, well, it was sauna-like. Not only was it 80 degrees with 90% humidity, there wasn&#8217;t a leaf moving. No air. None. I still moved forward. I went for a two-mile run with some walking thrown in. It was not a fun run. It also wasn&#8217;t the worst run I&#8217;ve had. The negatives? I needed to walk, quite a bit. I hadn&#8217;t been eating great, even with my new photo diet thing so I felt really heavy this morning, like my sneakers were stuck to the ground with gum. In the beginning of the run, my shorts kept riding up and I had to keep fixing them&#8230;really annoying!  The air had that hanging garbage smell that only a hot, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diet By Camera: a weight loss accountability tale</title>
		<link>http://fatgirl2fitgirl.com/2010/07/16/diet-by-camera-a-weight-loss-accountability-tale/</link>
		<comments>http://fatgirl2fitgirl.com/2010/07/16/diet-by-camera-a-weight-loss-accountability-tale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Weight Loss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photo food blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weight Watchers points]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, right after I posted about it, I started taking pictures of my food BEFORE I ate it. I&#8217;m using my iPhone to take the pictures so the quality of the photos are not very good, but I have to say the quality of the food I am eating since I started this little experiment has gone way up. When you take pictures, you want the presentation to be pretty— I&#8217;m not a great photographer to begin with, but I try— and that means colorful food. What is the most colorful food you can think of? Why fruit and veggies of course! I&#8217;ve only been doing this for two and a half days now, and I will admit I ate my dinner last night (weight watchers pizza) before remembering to take the picture, but even without the picture, I was way more conscious of what I was putting in my mouth. I have needed a new way to be accountable for what passes for food with me for some time now, and at least for these first few days, this seems to be working. The trick is to take the picture and actually look at the picture before eating [...]]]></description>
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