Last Friday I had to meet with a benefits adviser from my company; we are switching benefits providers, and there was “some important information that had to be documented, such as beneficiary elections, etc”.

It turned out it was just an opportunity for the provider to try and sell their benefits one on one.

To be honest, I was really turned off by the benefits, or more specifically the number of benefits I was offered. Not that we don’t have enough benefits, that’s not the case at all. There were just too many benefit options above and beyond the standard health, vision, …

It’s that time of year again. Holiday cheer, Christmas shopping in conjunction with raiding the left over Halloween candy isle at the grocery store, and oh yeah, open enrollment for benefits at work. Blehhhh.

That’s probably my least favorite administrative task at work. Pick a health plan. There’s only three, they’re all free, but if you foresee yourself needing this little benefit in fine print, you need the “premier blue” plan, but that comes with an additional $500 deductible, a smaller approved doctors lists…

…and this is where I lose interest.

To its credit, my company spends a lot of time and money …

I’ve been battling the precursor to a cold for the last week or so. I call it a precursor because it’s not a full blown cold just yet, but I can tell my body is working overtime to fend something off.

I’ve always been a big fan of Sudafed, but regardless of the marketing to the contrary, Sudafed seems to throw my brain into a fog, but it does seem to work.

Since I don’t want to be completely worthless for the next few days, I want to stay away from the Sudafed till I really need it.

Yesterday during lunch I went out and bought a big jug of Vitamin …

I don’t write about health and fitness very often (or at all, for that matter), but I had a revelation that I found very interesting after a trip to the gym and a freak encounter with an unopened bag of Oreo’s.

After going about a mile on the treadmill, the fancy computer told me that I burned about 160 calories as a result of my efforts. Muscles aching and sweating profusely, I left the gym and went home. When I walked through the kitchen, a brand new bag of Oreo’s was calling my name.

Knowing I’d feel guilty about snarfing down some …