Exercise: Why Getting Started Can Seem Like Torture

By Michelle Pearl, CosMed Clinic’s Guest Blogger Exercise can feel overwhelming when you first start. You don’t have any cardio-respiratory endurance, so you get winded easily. And to top it all off, you are probably really uncomfortable in skimpy exercise clothing. How many times have you made a promise to yourself to start [...]

In the Battle of the Bulge-Exercise Your Right to Lose Weight

By Michelle Pearl, CosMed Clinic's Guest Blogger The truth is that exercise and I did not start out as such fast friends. When you are an obese kid, you immediately dislike most physical, “sports-like” activities innately. Being the fat kid brings on a whole fresh set of humiliations when you are always the last one [...]