Health Magazine article on rowing
Posted: September 29th, 2006, 3:06 pm
http://www.health.com/health/article/0, ... 77,00.html
After a lifelong battle against fat, she transformed her body—and her community.
The look in the mirror
Health reader Ruth Lytle-Barnaby, 44, figured she’d been born with the fat gene. Puberty first packed on the pounds; a sedentary lifestyle sealed the deal. After years of grad school, marriage and kids, a full-time job, and a full-time diet of processed food, “one day you look in the mirror,” she muses, “and you say, ‘Oh. My. God.’”