Well, I have been a member of a gym here at the Fort for two months or so now. I joined a gym in order to keep my weight down. I knew that without mandatory exercise daily that it would be tough to keep my weight at a manageable level. My job doesn't let me get up and move all that often. I am kinda chair-bound. I am running and doing the elliptical trainer for thirty minutes at a stretch, at least three times a week. I am also following the weight training regimen in Muscle & Fitness...

By my estimation, I am 25 pounds overweight. (If we're looking at the Army figures, I am actually about 40 pounds over their expectation for my height, age, etc.) By that reckoning, I need to burn 90,000 calories more than I take in to get myself back into shape. No pressure... 45 minutes on the stair climber becomes almost exactly 1000 calories. (It was actually 999 today. I am such a slacker.) I have tried to do other things in my spare time, but there is no other exercise machine th...

Wendy's has renamed its Biggie and Great Biggie drinks in order to... umm, make people feel better about their food purchases? DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) — "Biggie" fries and drinks at Wendy's have been demoted. The Biggie portion size, formerly the fast food restaurant's equivalent of a large, will now be called a medium. It's only a name change, and the portion customers get — the equivalent of almost three 12-ounce cans of soda for the drinks — won't get smaller. Wendy's Internationa...