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		<title>Plugging ahead in 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 01:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some perspective may be required today. You see, I weighed in this morning &#8212; the midpoint for an 18-week weight-loss contest I entered on Nov. 1 at the Muscatine Community Y. The good news is I&#8217;ve lost some weight. The bad news is I have only lost 8 pounds. That&#8217;s equal to about a pound [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctsteinbach.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11002864&amp;post=957&amp;subd=ctsteinbach&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on Christmas morning</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Dec 2010 16:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This blog has been woefully neglected, but some stories have to be told and this seemed like the best place to tell this one &#8230; This Christmas, I bought a gift &#8212; which, if it had been left up to me, I would not have bought &#8211; for someone I don&#8217;t know well. And today I&#8217;m glad [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctsteinbach.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11002864&amp;post=943&amp;subd=ctsteinbach&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who is your style icon?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 05:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steinbach Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw this on another blog. It was one in a series of questions passed from one blogger to the next and answered as a way to introduce themselves and, I&#8217;d guess, attract new readers. It&#8217;s getting late for me. Normally, I&#8217;m sound asleep by now, so I&#8217;m not going to mess with the other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctsteinbach.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11002864&amp;post=936&amp;subd=ctsteinbach&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An early peek at my newspaper column</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 02:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steinbach Chris</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Muscatine Journal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was told this week that I need to post here more often. That will be a challenge, but here is a draft of the column I wrote for Saturday&#8217;s Muscatine Journal:     Try to teach an old newspaper guy to dance and he’s more apt to learn other lessons.   To an observer, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctsteinbach.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11002864&amp;post=928&amp;subd=ctsteinbach&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Everyone say hello to Pat</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steinbach Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had an amusing meeting Tuesday in person with a lurker, someone who reads the ramblings I write here, but has never commented. I&#8217;ll write more about it later in the week when I have some time. But I may have to stop saying that only my mom and five other people are reading this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctsteinbach.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11002864&amp;post=924&amp;subd=ctsteinbach&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2 + 2 = 5</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 00:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steinbach Chris</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Muscatine Community Y]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I decided to utilize what initially appears to be the contradictory advice of two good friends. My goal is to give my metabolism a bit of a boost and, more importantly, wean myself completely from the vending machine at work. Four years ago, I worked with Jill Skeem, a good friend and macrobiotic nutrition counselor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctsteinbach.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11002864&amp;post=888&amp;subd=ctsteinbach&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thanksgiving Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 00:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steinbach Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was my plate today at the Holiday Inn, where we went for its Thanksgiving Day dinner. Add to this a pretty small dessert thing.  Didn&#8217;t even go back for seconds. But I have to say I&#8217;m reminded again how much I like sweet potatoes. Should definitely eat them more often. I&#8217;m attributing today&#8217;s burst of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctsteinbach.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11002864&amp;post=867&amp;subd=ctsteinbach&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adding a new wrinkle</title>
		<link>http://ctsteinbach.wordpress.com/2010/11/13/adding-a-new-wrinkle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2010 23:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steinbach Chris</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Muscatine Community Y]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chicometrics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[﻿﻿﻿I wrote in a recent posting about my workouts for the week. This week was similar: Cycling classes (4); Pilates classes (2); Chicometrics classes (2); one fitness class in which we do circuit training; two sessions in the weight room. One of the sessions in the weight room was today – and that’s where I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctsteinbach.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11002864&amp;post=863&amp;subd=ctsteinbach&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Squat thrusts suck</title>
		<link>http://ctsteinbach.wordpress.com/2010/11/08/squat-thrusts-suck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 14:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steinbach Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My high school wrestling coach called them Up-Downs, and we did thousands of them. Seldom did we finish a practice in which they weren&#8217;t part of our conditioning. I&#8217;d leave huge pools of sweat on the mat when we were done. The awful Up-Down has returned to my life with a new name: Squat thrusts. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctsteinbach.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11002864&amp;post=856&amp;subd=ctsteinbach&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Hibernating Bears</title>
		<link>http://ctsteinbach.wordpress.com/2010/11/07/the-hibernating-bears/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steinbach Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Muscatine Community Y earlier this year held a weight-loss contest, the Y&#8217;s Weigh, which was won by Brad and Mary Spratt and Mike Gimble and Penny Corber, all of Muscatine. They lost an average of 13.18 percent of their body weight in nine weeks. I lost &#8211; get ready for this &#8211; 8 ounces. Undeterred, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ctsteinbach.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11002864&amp;post=848&amp;subd=ctsteinbach&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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