Check out this link if you want to be HORRIFIED by the calories in most candy:

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Please be careful with all the candy around.

I went to get a haircut today – candy

I went to Bloomingdales to return something – candy

I went to workout – candy and please note, this was not at my studio!!!

I went to lunch and at the counter, just today – candy.

Please, everyone, don’t blow weeks or maybe months of hard work on a bunch of useless candy. It’s not worth it.

And please, scrub your kids mouthes tonight as they have probably been eating way more of this stuff than usual.

Jim

This is a weight loss book specifically for women 5′4″ and under.

I am on final edits, and this one bit of research just keeps popping out at me:

We literally control our weight SO much by who we hang out with. It’s as critical to your success as your actual plan.

Take Oprah and Gayle as a perfect example. I don’t know Oprah, but have known Gayle for many years since we did a project together for “0″ magazine.

Right now, they both look high in weight, which makes sense given that they are best friends.

Now, if you look back at the time when Oprah was thinner, you will also see that Gayle was thinner.

I see it all the time in groups of people. Generally, many of your friends may be a weight and fitness level close to yours.

If your friends are in good shape, that’s great. If they are not in that good of shape, well, not so good.

I remember having a talk with a group of people that went to the best restaurants together once a month. It was a club. They loved to eat and you could tell the moment you laid eyes on them.

Other people joined the group, who were smaller, and said they had to bow out as they just could not STOMACH the amount of food that was brought to the table at these dinners.

Check out the November issue of “Real Simple” magazine on page 120.

My “uber” trainer, Don Scott, put together a great exercise plan.

Don trains Hugh Jackman in addition to other “Who’s Who” in New York City.

Check it out.

Jim

As far as I know, Elizabeth is the only anchor who lifts weighs.

And you must have wondered how she stays in such AMAZING shape and you never see her weight fluctuate up and down.

It’s because strength training is magic!

Jim

Oak Park, Illinois, is a suburb that I know very well that is just 15 miles west of the city of Chicago.

They are proposing a ban on eating while driving as they find it is distracting.

I agree, but also believe that people eat way too much while driving AND eat all the wrong, easy foods to eat.

I say we ban it all over the country.

Remember Oprah’s “no text while driving” campaign? I was blogging at that time that we should forget texting and go after the eating and continue to feel that way today.

Jim

I bumped into a few chiropractors and physical therapists that I know in Chicago.

ALL agree, the marathon is GREAT for business as so many people are injured while training for the event, then the actual week up to the event and the week after is a virtual BOOM to business.

Why? About .000001% of the people running the marathon should be doing it. The rest are just breaking down there bodies.

As you can imagine, I am not popular around town when I express my opinion on marathons. BUT, even though who have completed one or more agree that the marathon training and the event destroyed their hips, back, knees, you name it. They defend the running AND agree that it hurt them for life.

What’s that about?

You tell me. I call it addiction, and in some instances, as it happened last Sunday, a deadly one.

Jim

Can you believe people ran barefoot….in the streets of Chicago.

What is the possibility of stepping on a stone or some glass. I would say HUGE.

Jim

Yep, it happened again.

A 35-year-0ld firefighter from North Carolina died just 500 yards from the finish line. He was running for a charity that helps burn victims.

WHY, WHY, WHY do we allow these marathons to go on. People get seriously injured just training for them. Half the people running them are injured as you can see all the tape and knee braces from the punishing activity.

Then, someone dies. Look, this guy was a firefighter. Odds are, he was in decent shape, but the stress and abuse of the 26.2 mile run killed him.

Marathons Kill. Please help me put a stop to them!!!

Just saw Hugh’s new movie and it’s terrific.

And he looks amazing, compliments of Jim Karas Personal Training in New York.

Check it out as I know it will be a big hit.

Jim