Article: A wintertime fat-blasting guide

For beautiful scenery, fresh air and a major workout (you'll burn up to 800 calories an hour!), break out with cross-country skiing, By Elaine Glusac

Fall melancholy turns into the winter blahs shortly after Thanksgiving for this Chicago girl. But winter teaches tolerance, the lesson being if you can't banish it, embrace it. Buy good boots, accept hat head and above all don't stay indoors - the air's too stale. Go cross-country skiing.

For the last several winters, I've cross-country skied in as little as two inches of snow on a local golf course. I made a $100 late-season investment in skis, boots and poles, put one board in front of the other, and was soon gliding along. On flat terrain ...

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