Other fitness blogs -- and a shoutout from Mary Rambin!

Last August, I got my Wired magazine and was surprised there was a pretty, 20-something woman on the cover. The story was about Julia Allison, a blogger living in NYC -- where I was about to move. She's apparently one of the most hated people on the Internet, but, hey, that also means she's one of the most known people on the Internet. Anyway, I started reading her blog and have been hooked ever since. I also started reading her cobloggers' blogs, Mary and Meghan.

Mary may be a god-awful speller, which, sometimes makes her posts a bit hard to read for this grammar nazi, but her blog's gotten better and better. She also teaches occasional spin classes and is really into fitness. To that end, she's been devoting posts on Mondays for the past to weeks to fitness tips and secrets -- including how to set up your spin bike! Now, I've been taking spin classes for the past year and a half, but I never, never knew the handlebars were supposed to be below the saddle. I could feel if the seat was too high or too low, but that was the extent of setting up my bike correctly.

Yesterday, she asked for readers' favorite fitness blogs, so, learning from her coblogger, I took the liberty to do a little self-promotion and sent her a link to this here little blog, which she linked to! Hello NonSociety readers and thanks for visiting. Hope you like what you see, and feel free to let me know if you don't. (Which I'm sure you will.) I'm a professional writer, but still trying to get my blogging sea legs.

And thanks for the shout-out, Mary!

What keeps me going?

Jeans.

I went to my folks' house in NJ this weekend for a baby shower yesterday and a golf lesson with my dad today. I hadn't been feeling so hot at the end of last week -- I don't know if my stomach got totally overwhelmed from all the veggies/fiber I've added to my diet or what, but I was glad to catch up on some sleep and lay low in the big NJ. I might also add I managed to make it to NYSC (in NJ) yesterday and go swimming this morning at the gym!

I'm lucky that my parents have a lovely-sized house and that my closet there is roughly half the size of my apartment. Which means I can keep the clothes that don't always fit there and not have to further overstuff my closet. Preparing to return to NYC this afternoon, I decided to visit the land of jeans-that-used-to-fit in my closet. Aside from a rogue pair of Sevens, I can now fit into quite a few pairs of jeans that didn't fit just a month or so ago. Including the Citizens for Humanity ones I'm wearing right now (not pictured; my ass doesn't look that good yet!)

Sure, I had to do the squat-and-wiggle to get into them, but I'm in them and I've even worn them all day. And I can still breathe! My trainer promises I can see the return of other clothes that didn't fit soon.

He also promises a free session if I can lose more than two pounds this week. Whaddya think?

What this week looks like for me

And how I plan to get my exercise in.

Monday: cardio before work; 1:30pm 30-minute trainer session (yes, mid-workday)

Tuesday: 7:30am 30-minute trainer session; cardio immediately following

Wednesday: OH DEAR GOD. 6am trainer session. If I can make it through the work day, I'll do some cardio after work. If I die, however, I won't have to do cardio!!

Thursday: 8am regular one-hour training session; bringing Bailey to NJ at night. No extra cardio that day. But if I'm still standing after four trainer sessions and three other days of cardio, I think I've earned it.

Friday: Will be commuting in from NJ; will try for cardio...at some point. Flying to DC at night!