NATIONALLY RANKED

Dear family check out our website (salem.edu) and go to the athletics page. :) Salem College Soccer is Ranked NUMERO UNO for goals scored on offense. Check it out its kind of awesome.

April you'll hate this

the article which a talked about in the post before this, caught a lot of your attention. Now let me tell you WHY the general public would agree. mostly because in his article he brings to the floor the words of professionals, and its published in TIME magazine he makes it sound believable. However, exercise IS vital to losing weight however he makes it seem like it's the ONLY important factor that is where he is wrong. Exercise will not make you thin if you are not watching what you put into your system. True exercise does make you hungry, obviously you just burned tons of calories and your body is fatigued. The author indeed uses the words of professionals but in what context were those words said? he gives no background to those said professionals. BOTTOM LINE Exercise won't make you thin, and neither will fad-diets because those are two things that rely on a bigger issue what we eat.
To truly lose weight it consists of a few factors 1-30 MINUTES of moderate/vigorous exercise everyday (if you can talk while you are exercising its not vigorous)2- Intake of foods which are HEALTHY (avoiding products with the first ingredients listed as corn syrup/starch) 3-WATER the average person should consume ATLEAST 8 8-ounces of water, and 4- SLEEP our bodies need time to rest and reset for the next day. A healthy amount of weight to lose is TWO POUNDS.
APRIL- the biggest thing these liberal, outspoken, orange-haired professors have burned into my brain is there are no short cuts. and to challenge questions. We can't cut out something and not expect a consequence later. Nor can we expect one thing we should have done and didn't to be compensated for by something else. BASICALLY these wiry, saucy professors focus on LIFE LONG CHANGES, we can't expect to lose weight if we only sporadically exercise, or if we only change our diets for a little while. These changes we make must be for life.

TIME Magazine

Recently i read an article written by John Cloud posted in the TIME magazine. Now i know this isn't unusual for me, but this particular article struck my medulla oblongata quite forcefully. The article title is Why Exercise Won't Make You Thin. ??? Yes this blew my mind also for i thought exercising helped us lose weight? (are you sitting down?) Newsflash it does not. Exercise is great for our bodies it helps our immune system, lowers the risk of heart disease, and diabetes, increases endorphins and... stimulates hunger? Thinking about it now it makes sense. On a day when we do not have morning conditioning i wake up about 8 stroll down to the Rat aka the Rafactory and eat a bowl of cereal and some fruit usually occasionally a bagel instead of cereal. Now on days we do have conditioning i'm up and at practice at 7 -8:30 then i head up to the Rat and without a doubt eat an omlet, a bowl of fruit, pancakes, and possibly a bagel. Though guarenteed i did just work out for 90 minutes but i just consumed a few thousand or so calories. which basically washes out my workout from that morning. If we look at calories and exercise on a balance scale (like the one they use in church for the Justice v Mercy lesson.) Our exercise is supposed to be heavier than our caloric intake. HOWEVER exercise stimulates our caloric intake. Ergo studies and (i'm sure this will be advertised at some point) magazines will now make the push not towards joining a gym but towards eating healthy.

side note the book Born to Run (the reason i have those funny toe shoes) author Christopher McDougal will be in Winston-Salem on Saturday.

Weekend :)

Normally my weekends are uneventful but since it is soccer season... Tonight was the opening games for the Meridith Tournament Salem played Peace. It was a fun game at first we opened up and scored early (3 goals in the opening ten minutes) and often. But once we pulled ahead Jay pulled his starters. So i rolled the pine for most of the game. However, i don't think Jay knew what to do when even with his starteres out we were still scoring!! It was an awesome game tomorrow however... we play Merdith. Kellie (aka the roomie) says HEY!!! Ho!!!