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What the Heck is Cranky Fitness?

Cranky Fitness is was a health and fitness blog, sort of. It was started by Crabby McSlacker in 2007, which in blog years, makes it approximately 97 years old. It was officially put out to pasture in June of 2020, but regular posting ceased a couple of years earlier.

Photo montage by the awesome Bossy of I Am Bossy

This blog is no longer being updated, so sorry! But there are still a lot of old posts here which you are welcome to read.

Would you like upbeat inspirational advice about how easy and fun it is to eat healthy food, lose weight, and stay in shape? Then you will not like it here. One of the founding principles of Cranky Fitness is: Healthy Living is a Pain in the Ass.

Blog topics at Cranky Fitness have included general health, fitness, nutrition, personal development, disease prevention, and aging. There is also plenty of miscellaneous griping about unrelated topics.

Disclaimer: Crabby and various other contributors may have offered opinions and advice, but could not know your individual situation. Crabby in particular tends to forget where she heard things and mixes things up, so always double check for accuracy. And in particular, do not take any advice seriously and then try to sue when Bad Things Happen. Consult your doctor, pharmacist, psychotherapist, herbalist, chiropractor, dentist, shaman, voo-doo practitioner or other appropriate health professional before doing anything that might affect your physical or mental health.

Sponsored Content:  Sometime products or even cash were offered up in exchange for blog coverage. Despite being a totally greedy product-freebie whore, Crabby always attempted to offer honest feedback and disclose when she got stuff for free or got paid.


About Crabby McSlacker:

Crabby McSlacker, also known as Jan Graham, is was a Life and Wellness Coach, She is was an ACE certified Health Coach, and author of a silly fitness ebook with a swear word in the title.  She is still licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist but that liense is now inactive and she doesn't have a therapy practice anymore. Oh, and eons ago she used to be an attorney, which seems awfully unlikely, doesn't it? She is now retired and does nothing but fritter around, though at some point she may try to get back into the social media game. Probably not though, she's pretty damn lazy.

Crabby still tries to stay active and keep fit and eat healthy and sometimes makes a decent effort!

But other times, not so much.

Who is "The Lobster?"




Crabby shares a happy bicoastal life with her Most Amazing Wife, known on the blog as "The Lobster." The Lobster sometimes acts as an has been the unofficial, extremely patient blog photographer who will take 347 photos of Crabby in a pair of headphones or shorts or shoes until Crabby finds one she doesn't look too funny in.

Crabby and the Lobster have been together since 1990 and were married in Massachusetts. They both grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, but now split their time between Provincetown, MA, and other places, most often San Diego, California.
 
Recent Contributors:

Jan Bono

Jan Bono is a retired teacher-turned-writer on the Long Beach Peninsula, tucked away in southwest corner of Washington state. She wrote a bi-weekly humorous personal experience newspaper column for over 10 years, garnering 11 state awards. Her first published book, in 1995, was a collection of those columns.

Since then, Jan has had four more collections of humorous personal experience stories published, as well as two poetry chapbooks, one book of short romance, nine one-act plays, and a full-length dinner theater mystery play. She’s written for numerous magazines ranging from Guidepost to Star to Woman’s World, and has had 28 stories included in the Chicken Soup for the Soul series in the last five years.

“Back from Obesity: My 252-pound Weight-Loss Journey” is Jan’s most recent book, and can find it in print at Jan Bono Books, or as an eBook on Jan Bono's smashword page . She has maintained a daily “Back from Obesity” tips, tricks, and thoughts Facebook page since August, 2014.

Jan was Grand Prize winner in the Coast Weekend serial mystery chapter contest in 2012 and is currently writing a cozy mystery series set on the southwest Washington coast.

Tiffany Reiss

Dr. Tiffany Reiss serves as an adjunct faculty member for Seattle University, Lake Washington Institute of Technology, American Public University and Walden University. She received her PhD from the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in Health Promotion at Virginia Tech and holds a MS degree in Exercise Physiology from Appalachian State University. She is a contributor for the Sports and Fitness Network and is the co-founder of TheHubEdu: A Learning Library.  

About Former Co-bloggers Merry, Jo and Gigi:

Former Cranky Fitness co-blogger Merry can be found at her blog Sheesh; likewise, Jo hangs out at  Head Nurse. Gigi can be located at Chunky Monkey Mama. Some great posts in the Cranky Fitness archives were written by these fine bloggers!