Health and Fitness Week at GeekMom

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Better Each Day: Jessica Cassity's 365 Expert Tips for a Healthier, Happier You

It is ironic that I am the one writing the introduction to GeekMom’s “Health and Fitness Week,” because with all of the things that I can claim legitimate geek cred for, “health geek” is not one of them. I regularly indulge my salt and chocolate cravings, often drink half a carafe of coffee before heading off to one of my two sedentary part-time jobs, and likeGeekMom Ellen, I like to stay up late and sleep odd hours. What’s more, I definitely don’t exercise enough: I always feel so serene and refreshed immediately after a yoga class at my local Y — and yet, that doesn’t translate into anything more than sporadic attendance. In the interim, my clothing shrinks and buckles.

Beyond a bit of klutziness, I have no excuse. I do not live with physical handicap like our bionic GeekMom, Judy. Nor do I have preschool children requiring constant attention like GeekMom Sophie. I just haven’t made health and fitness a priority. And yet: I want to fit into my “skinny clothes” in two months for the “Geek Family’s Guide to the Movies” panel at South by Southwest...

Read the rest of Andrea Schwalm’s post and other Fitness week posts today and comment over at GeekMom.

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