It’s been around six weeks since I started CrossFit, and it’s been… great. I look forward to my M/W/F midday workouts like I’ve never looked forward to movement in my life. It’s not a heat-seeking missile feeling – like the anxious anticipation leading up to the first glass of wine at the end of the…… Continue reading Six Weeks of CrossFit at Fifty
Category: Body
Prepping for my first Memorial Day WOD
As of today, Memorial Day 2024, I’ve completed four CrossFit 1:1 onboarding sessions, participated in three group CrossFit classes (with modified moves) at my local “box” (AKA, CrossFit gym), and sort-of completed three WODs (workouts of the day) while traveling for work and my uncle’s funeral on Martha’s Vineyard. I also did a hot yoga…… Continue reading Prepping for my first Memorial Day WOD
Sore After CrossFit Session #3, One More to Go!
I went to my third CrossFit personal training session yesterday. There are only four onboarding personal training sessions, then I’ll be kicked out of the nest. I think I’m expected to join the classes which are filled with flocks of insanely fit, competitive and passionate CrossFit cult members. Unless I decide to continue to pay…… Continue reading Sore After CrossFit Session #3, One More to Go!
I’m Fifty and I Just Started CrossFit
On Monday April 29th 2024 I went to my very first personal training session to introduce me to CrossFit, and I decided to chronicle my experience here because I googled “starting cross-fit at 50” and “anti-diet CrossFit” all I could find were before-and-after videos all centered on shrinking body size, or CrossFit marketing materials about…… Continue reading I’m Fifty and I Just Started CrossFit
How sobriety has changed my life.
The last few months (AKA, this summer) have been a ginormous roller-coaster ride. I lost my job at the SF startup (I think you all know this). I took time out to think and write and explore creative pursuits (AKA, hobbies outside of Facebook scanning). I’ve actually made – with my own hands – rings…… Continue reading How sobriety has changed my life.
I talked shit to my bod, and it fought back.
I was on an airplane sitting next to a fabulous woman two days ago. We talked about everything, as one does on airplanes. At one point I was telling her all about my “make gorgeous clothes for larger women” fantasy. I tried to describe my core concepts, using existing designers as baselines – for example,…… Continue reading I talked shit to my bod, and it fought back.
Exercise.
Hi. Good morning. It’s Tuesday morning here in Seattle and it’s finally time to start talking about exercise. Movement. Sweating. Breathing hard. It’s all got to be written but I’ve avoided writing about it. So, here sits Fatty getting ready (with lots of words, so many words) to write about moving her body through space…… Continue reading Exercise.
About that last post…
Hi everyone. I want to talk a little bit about that last post I wrote (“My perspective on dieting and booze”). When I re-read that post (every other day since I posted it) I cringe as I viscerally react to my own know-it-all voice. And in many ways I regret posting it. It’s didactic. It…… Continue reading About that last post…
My Perspective on Dieting and Booze
We all are born to a body type, just like hair color, height, skin color etc. If we are born to a bigger body type, we don’t fit in — and we have a natural desire to fit in and be considered desirable — so we diet (or cut out sugar, or reduce carbs, or…… Continue reading My Perspective on Dieting and Booze
Two (2) years sober.
Ah, year 2 is done. Mixed bag of a year, to be honest. After year one, it felt a little like my rainbows and unicorns – unappreciated by me on a daily basis – moved on to the people who needed and wanted them more. The humdrum of life is back in full force, but…… Continue reading Two (2) years sober.
Total Fatty 