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There’s a long staircase weaving up a hill where I live, it has 174 steps. I had plenty of time to count. I decided to jog up and down the stairs as many times as I could before my heart gave out.

Let me tell you, for a woman of my age, 174 once is about enough for me. I could barely make it to the top!

At least going down was much easier.

The only problem with going down, though, was I parked my car at the top of the steps, so I had to go all the way back up one more time to get to my car! I believe it took me 20 minutes just to climb the stairs the second time, and there was no jogging about it. I was trudging up those steps like an old biddy without her oxygen tank.

Today I’m sore and sore, and then some. But I feel great, and because I’m such a masochist, I’m going back to the steps in a few days, and I’m going do go up and down them twice, and nothings going to stop me! Maybe next time I won’t look like such an old biddy, or if I do, maybe six or seven times more and I won’t look like such a biddy. I know one thing, I’m taking some best multivitamins before I climb those stairs the next time.

Also, I’ve really launched myself into the primal nutrition way of living, which means mostly meats and vegetables. I’m not looking for washboard abs, but a nice flat stomach would be good to have.

Stair climbing is not one of them.

I am just not a stair climber, I don’t think my body was built for it. Jogging, bicycling, even lifting weights are all fine by me. But, something about me knees or my hips, or the way I waddle a bit from side to side when I climb stairs just ruins the whole process for me. It’s not something I enjoy, nor will I ever.

So I take the elevator.

As much as I push the “health at the office” thing, I still take the elevator, even though it is one of those common first steps (no pun intended) to getting back in health. “Don’t use a remote control!” “Stop eating desert” “Stop using elevators!” Well, I don’t use a remote control (no TV), and I don’t eat desserts, but I’m going to keep using elevators until the day I die. Until then I’ll find other ways to keep in good health at the office, as I’ve been doing successfully for most a year now.

Speaking of which, one of the things I’ve been doing is research on healthnets. I found a great site called primal nutrition where you can buy vitamin supplements. The company also runs a health blog where they post on subjects like abs on a high fat diet.