Alex Heberling

Every year for the past six years or so, my parents have thrown a martini party in the dead of winter to liven up this bleak season.  I’m in charge of designing the invitation every year, to (in my mother’s words) put that art degree to use.
The first several years we did variation on the [...]

This Week in Fitness
I’ve not yet lost any weight, but I’m little by little gaining muscle mass thanks to my situp and pushup routines.  I completed the third week of 200 Situps, after a very high-scoring exhaustion test at the end of week 2.  Week 3 was much more rigorous, so I think I’m going [...]

So it’s been about a week since I started my new health and fitness strategy.  I’ve been doing quite well at sticking to the routine so far:
1.  Eat more slowly, which will make me feel full more quickly, and therefore I will eat less.
2. Take baby steps toward a fitness regime.
I’ve been journaling my progress [...]

Well, it’s my first blog post of 2009.  According to my dashboard, I blogged 52 times last year, which averages once a week.  It’s actually a bit more since I didn’t start really blogging until March.  Still, a post a week isn’t too bad.  One of my goals for 2009 is to blog more often, [...]