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Q. Hi Fitz. My sister lost a bunch of weight recently. She's thirty years old and the weight loss was necessary, but now she looks closer to forty. She's not smoking or sunning, so why does she appear older? Rachel

A. I've heard this before Rachel, so you're not crazy. I've also seen people look decades younger due to major weight loss as well. For the most part, I think people just associate a fuller face with youthfulness. Know many angular -faced children? Probably not. Know any gaunt elderly folks? Yeah ... we all know a lot of them!

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Fitzness Fiends is a section devoted to you, the reader! We all have learned so much on our path to becoming more fit, and now it's time to learn from and inspire each other! Fitzness Fiends are constantly working to better themselves. Some are perfect, some are not. All have health on the mind. Please send Fitz your answers to these questions with a photo of yourself. Time for you to be the motivator!

Name: Cindy Wooldridge

Age: 38

Occupation: Stay at home Mommy of three!

How often do you exercise? About five times per week.

What type of exercise do you do? Running, yoga, Pilate's, jumping rope, lifting weights, hiking, swimming when weather permits, and step aerobics. Mixing it up keeps me interested!

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Did you have a sister growing up? Did she make you crazy? Yeah, me too. My younger sister drove me absolutely nuts from when I was about 12 to approximately the age of 25. That's a long time to be angry at someone, but I did my best just like I feel she did her best to "borrow" my CDs and clothes and "forget" to give them back, until I had to seek them out and find them destroyed or smelly and balled up in the back of a closet.

Of course, that's just my side of the story. While some sisters get along like best friends, others have to work at having a positive relationship with their female siblings and often, it doesn't come until we're a little bit older, a little bit wiser and a lot more forgiving.

If you're currently trying to forge a relationship or even better, a friendship, with your sister this may help you out. It offers up some unique perspectives about why you might not be getting along with your sister, as well as advice on how to remedy things, but it's all based on birth order. Whether you're the oldest, middle or youngest sister, the article can help you understand how you feel as well as how your sister feels, and perhaps knowing where each other is coming from may help you get along better.

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The Ballast Ball is the new and improved version of the stability ball. In fact, you can do absolutely everything you can do on a stability ball with the Ballast Ball....except for consistently fall on your head.

Created by BOSU, I tested out the new product last week at a fitness conference. Ar first glance, I thought "no way am I dropping another sixty bucks on a ball with some sort beads in it, I already have too many!" But then I tried it. I squatted down on the ball, and when I stood up it didn't roll away. Then I put both feet on the ball and my hands on the floor to do push-ups.....and I didn't roll away! Then I lifted it up for a while and my arms got tired, my core remained engaged and my glutes never unflexed themselves. Hmmmmmm I though. Maybe it is worth the sixty bucks.

The Ballast Ball is genuinely cool, and I simply wish I'd thought of it myself. You can do all of your regular stability ball exercises better, because the ball is more stable. It weighs five pounds, which offers a whole slew of other productive things you can do with it as well. I did end up buying one. My beginner clients love it, because they can do what I ask them to do without constantly falling and readjusting. My high level fitness clients love it cause they can do the really advanced exercises without losing the ball.

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