While waiting for the egg timer or the microwave heating your oatmeal to go off, use the kitchen counter for support, and get going with 20 calf raises and 20 lunges and 20 counter push-ups.

FORBES: Here Are Some 100-Calorie Workouts For Your Work Day

To answer your questions, slow-cooked oatmeal can be reheated without losing any nutritional benefits, so that is certainly a good approach if you like the taste of slow-cooked oats.

CNN: Is instant oatmeal just as healthy as traditional?

You can always add the lobster and filet later on as small portions of your account just to keep yourself interested, but having a solid foundation of the oatmeal will do all of the heavy lifting for your investments.

FORBES: Index Funds -- the Oatmeal of the Investing World

This morning your blogger finds himself in Baltimore, eating oatmeal and yogurt at the Marriott and feasting on an unexpected delight.

FORBES: Are Buyouts Good Or Bad For Stocks?

Ways to get it in your kid's diet: Sprinkle it on oatmeal, pancakes, cold cereal and yogurt, and add a few extra dashes of cinnamon to muffin or quick-bread recipes that call for it.

CNN: 10 nutrition powerhouses for kids

Because instant oatmeal has been processed to cook more quickly, it is also broken down and digested more quickly by your body, giving it a higher glycemic index.

CNN: Is instant oatmeal just as healthy as traditional?