New Metroknow project: AlmostFit.com
I've been away from life in Portland for a few days, but despite the travel I've decided to officially launch my next little project: AlmostFit.com.
In essence, AlmostFit describes my efforts to improve my health on a whole scale by losing weight, reducing chemical and processed food intake, and hopefully picking up some solid exercise habits along the way. In a nutshell, the focus is on bucking the low-fat low-cal packaged foods mantra that our culture has pushed on us for too long. We're eating less fat than we ever have, and exercising more than we ever have, but we're still getting fatter. Something is broken, and a few people seem to think that they've figured out what that is. I tend to agree.
Here's an excerpt from the most recent post entitled, "30 days to form a new habit? On the moon, maybe":
See, in my head, I have these little sugar-coated pixies running rampant through the wide-open echo chamber that is my mind. Skipping to and fro, they often stop at the little microphone horns that lead to my ears, and whisper to me things like, "Hey that's great! You lost weight - incredible! That was soooo hard. You really deserve to treat yourself. Go ahead. After all, your new habits are now a way of life, so a little indulgence isn't going to hurt, don't you think? After all, you've made it past the magic 30 day mark! Since 30 days have passed, these new habits are all solidified and permanent, right? I mean, even Science agrees on that, right?"
Swing on over to AlmostFit.com and check it out. Let me know what you think - I'm still tweaking the look and feel, and adding new features every day I have the chance. I'll be posting links to new entries for a while as a reminder in case you're interested.
