http://maggiewang.com Random ramblings on nutrition, fitness, money and life as an unabashed geekette Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:36:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today I am combining my long-standing love for office products with my compulsion to make charts to track all things related to fitness, and I am going old school and low-tech in the process. I decided to turn the $2.25 Paperchase clearance journal I picked up at Borders this weekend into ... http://maggiewang.com/2008/09/04/mf-w3d4-tracking-it-old-school I hit the gym after work and got in a full leg workout with increased weights in all exercises again. Taking last week off with trampoline whiplash didn't seem to hurt my progress at all, I am happy to report. Since I still had 30 minutes to kill after finishing ... http://maggiewang.com/2008/09/03/mf-w3d3-dr-mario-cured-my-cardio-boredom I finally got around to refashioning this 2XL tee from Threadless. It is a design called "Treasured" by designer Chow Hon Lam. I used Simplicity pattern S4380 (out of print) which includes raglan baseball tops for guys and gals, loose-fitting drawstring PJ pants, a stretchy tank top for women, and ... http://maggiewang.com/2008/09/03/refashion-treasured-baseball-t-shirt If you want some support and accountability over the next two months to help you reach your fitness goals, come join us at Pink Dumbbells for the Lean, Mean Halloween 2008 challenge! The challenge is open to all fitness levels and all goals, whether you want to lose fat, put ... http://maggiewang.com/2008/09/03/pink-dumbbells-lean-mean-halloween-2008-challenge I got into an interesting conversation today on the nature of hobbies with a friend of mine. Our husbands are both primarily gamers in their spare time, which means that they spend many hours at a stretch engaged in an activity that ultimately produces no tangible goods. This must be ... http://maggiewang.com/2008/09/02/mf-w3d2-are-you-a-maker-or-a-doer Hey, hey! It's a new month, and what better way to start things off than with a day off from work? We had a pretty lazy Saturday and Sunday, so I felt compelled to get some things done on this day off from labor. Today I: - made breakfast with my DH - ... http://maggiewang.com/2008/09/01/mf-w3d1-my-labor-free-day I was looking for something cheap and crafty to do while enjoying a little Star Trek: The Next Generation season 2 marathon today when I came across Lion Brand Yarn's free crochet pattern collection. It turns out that they have a slew of quick and easy amigurumi (cute crocheted or knitted ... http://maggiewang.com/2008/08/31/fortune-cookie-cat-toy And I mean that in a good way. This is a happy day, for I am back on the bench and pressing up some iron again! I have been allowing my neck to recover from Saturday's trip to Rebounderz for the past few days, which means that I haven't lifted since Saturday ... http://maggiewang.com/2008/08/28/mf-w2d4-back-on-the-bench I seem to be suffering from fitness ADD this year. I'll start a program with the pep of a 5-year-old at Disney World, follow the plan balls to the wall (figuratively speaking) for 3-4 weeks, then lose interest, usually when it's time to swap out exercises and change things up ... http://maggiewang.com/2008/08/27/my-year-of-fitness-add To those of you who have downloaded my Excel workout logs and diet calculator for The New Rules of Lifting for Women in the past and encountered problems with the file crashing Excel, could you do me a huge favor and post in comments: 1. What version of Excel you are ... http://maggiewang.com/2008/08/26/nrolfw-workout-log-debugging-help-needed