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Weekly Update - 12/16/2007
2007-12-16 11:44:00 Diet starting weight: 295 Week starting weight: 266 Today’s weight: 267 Week weight gain: 1 lb Total weight lost: 28 lbs This is the second week in a row where I didn’t make the kind of decisions necessary to be moving ahead on my journey from fat to fit. Last week I was able to somehow get away with it and still come ... More About: Updates , Update , Weekly
I Am Giving Away A Pedometer!
2007-12-13 10:51:00 I bought this Omron HJ-720ITC Pedometer a couple of months ago but only used it a few times. That’s not indicative of the pedometer - it is the top ranked pedometer in it’s class on Amazon - it’s a reflection of me alone. I just didn’t use it like I thought I would. So it has ... More About: Giving
A Tough Start To The Week
2007-12-12 11:55:00 I’m really going to have to kick it in gear now that I am back from Chicago. The last few days have not been terrible, but they haven’t been great either - something I have been saying too much lately. It started on Sunday when my son and I went to McDonald’s for breakfast prior to ... More About: Start , Observations , Week , Tough
Jennifer Love Hewitt - Maybe Not So Inspiring After All?
2007-12-11 12:03:00 So I was planning on keeping mum on here about Jennifer Love Hewitt . I really was. For those of you living in a cave who haven’t yet heard about this, Jennifer has been fighting back against some (in some people’s opinion, not mine) unflattering photos taken of her while on vacation. Here is what she posted on ... More About: Jennifer Love-Hewitt
Weekly Update - 12/09/2007
2007-12-09 12:53:00 Diet starting weight: 295 Week starting weight: 267 Today’s weight: 266 Week weight loss: 1 lbs Total weight lost: 29 lbs I didn’t have losing 30 pounds as one of my official milestones (50 is the first one), but there is no question that the “decades” represent a significant accomplishment. To say “I’ve lost 30 pounds” would sound so much better than ... More About: Updates , Update , Weekly
Still Looking For That First Compliment
2007-12-07 12:23:00 I’ve written before how in 2001 I lost 40 pounds on Atkins and how good it felt to get compliments from people about my weight loss. For some reason I can’t explain, shortly after I started getting the compliments I went on a weight gain slide that lasted until this last August when I started ...
Winter Gets In The Way
2007-12-06 13:55:00 Winter is getting in the way of my best laid exercise plans. After running outdoors in Paris last week I came home planning to take some of my cardio off the treadmill and on to the pavement. The problem is, I live in Minnesota. It hadn’t snowed yet when I left for Europe so perhaps I was ... More About: Winter
My Goal Weight
2007-12-04 14:29:00 In a comment here yesterday John asked, “So what is your ultimate goal weight?” The easy answer is 185, down from 295 and a total loss of 110 pounds. At 267 I am a quarter of my way to that goal. But that’s my perspective from the start of the diet, I expect it might change as ... More About: Health , Weight , Goal , Weigh
Weekly Update - 12/02/2007
2007-12-02 14:04:00 Diet starting weight: 295 Week starting weight: 269 Today’s weight: 267 Week weight loss: 2 lbs Total weight lost: 28 lbs My goal for November was to lose 6 pounds and I am very pleased to say I hit that mark exactly, despite a harried travel schedule. I think it is very likely that I actually gained a couple of ... More About: Updates , Update , Weekly
Reader of the Month for November, 2007
2007-12-01 12:59:00 My reader of the month is Diana from Scale Junkie, who left 17 comments here in November . A Scale Junkie is not what Diana is any more - she writes on her blog that she is a reformed scale junkie having learned “that the scale is only one measure of progress towards the path to ... More About: Reader , November 2007 , Month , Mont
Tollwood Winter Festival - Munich
2007-11-30 20:46:00 My hotel in Munich is right next to Theresienwiese, an open-air park that is the official grounds for Oktoberfest. A couple of months late for that festival, I have to settle for Tollwood, a Winter Festival taking place on the same grounds. Stop reading right now if you hold the least bit of respect for my ...
Safe and Sound in Munich
2007-11-29 23:48:00 I arrived to a chilly Munich tonight, finally settling into my hotel at about 9:30. It is noticeably colder here than London (big shock, duh) but I was surprised to see the actual temp is only a couple of degrees below zero - it felt a lot colder than that. Having run on 3 days in ... More About: Sound , Safe
London Observations
2007-11-28 23:13:00 I lived in South Africa for a year when I was ten. On the way home we first stopped in Australia for a month and I’ll never forget the feeling I got seeing those big American cars driving around Melbourne after a year of not seeing them in South Africa. I felt a little of the ... More About: London , Observations
Adieu Paris
2007-11-27 06:39:00 I leave Paris for London this afternoon. I leave Paris happy not only for some great memories of a fun vacation with my wife but also happy for some validation that I am indeed a changed man. I put in over 9 miles over 3 days of running here, something I simply could not have ... More About: Adie
I?m Eating A Lot Of Bread
2007-11-26 08:18:00 We spent most of the day yesterday exploring the Hotel Invalides which includes Napoleon’s Tomb and an incredible Museum featuring Arms and Armor as well as World War I and II history. It was very moving seeing old movies of Charles de Gaulle being welcomed as he strolled up the Champs-Élysées, talking the same walk that ... More About: Bread , Eating
Weekly Update - 11/25/2007
2007-11-25 08:59:00 Diet starting weight: 295 Week starting weight: 269 Today’s weight:? Week weight loss: ? lbs Total weight lost: 26 lbs Can’t do a traditional update because I don’t have my trusted scale with me in Paris (or any scale, for that matter). But I must say I do feel thinner. My goal is to come back next week ... More About: Update , Weekly
Paris Is Expensive And Other Brilliant Observations
2007-11-24 09:03:00 Paris only made #13 on the list of the World’s Most Expensive Cities (with London at #2, great - I’ll be there a couple of days this week), but with the declining dollar everything is 50% more expensive, which is really brutal. Ordinarily we’d do a lot of Christmas shopping on a trip like this but ... More About: Paris , Observations , Brilliant
French Breakfast
2007-11-23 08:06:00 We are staying at the Hotel Concortel on rue Pasquier in Paris. Breakfast at the hotel is a standard continental, which means lots of bread, which I am trying to stay away from. This is what comes with breakfast: Freshly squeezed orange juice Hot drinks Basket of baked goods (croissants, bread, cake, Danish pastries, etc.) Possible supplement: free-range eggs, fruit ... More About: French
Blue Diamond Smokehouse Almonds
2007-11-22 13:15:00 Without a doubt one of my favorite snacks is a handful of Blue Diamond Smokehouse Almonds . A serving of 28 almonds is 170 calories, of which 140 is fat. I have to say I was pretty happy to read somewhere that almonds made a good healthy snack. If it isn’t true, don’t ...
We Need A New Refrigerator
2007-11-21 12:25:00 We had a power outage this weekend and didn’t notice for a couple of days that while the refrigerator did look and sound like it came back with the power (the fan was running and the light was on) that it actually wasn’t working any more. So we had to throw away a lot of ... More About: Gera
Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
2007-11-20 13:17:00 Last week I hosted a group of 5th graders (my son’s lego robotic team) to watch Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? on FOX. If you’ve never seen the show it can be quite maddening. Because of the adults. The adults on the show are usually really dumb. Last week it was Kellie Pickler, who ...
A Few Questions About Calories
2007-11-19 13:44:00 I got to thinking this weekend about calories. In particular, how many calories there were in some soup I was thinking of making from scratch. Maybe this is a dumb question, but how do I figure out how many calories (and other nutritional data for that matter) are in something I make from scratch? I’ve Googled ... More About: Questions , Calories , Calo
Weekly Update - 11/18/2007
2007-11-18 12:59:00 Diet starting weight: 295 Week starting weight: 269 Today’s weight: 269 Week weight loss: 0 lbs Total weight lost: 26 lbs It’s been another of those weeks where I have to force myself to look at the bright side. I’m not happy that I didn’t lose any weight, but I am still in the 260s despite a week where I did very ... More About: Update , Weekly
Where In The World Are You Coming From?
2007-11-17 19:22:00 Seeing Make Lard History’s A Greener World reminded me that I’ve been running Google Analytics here and that I haven’t checked it out for a little while. The last time I looked I was still 4 states short in the US and hadn’t penetrated much outside of the US and Europe. Now I’ve been visited ... More About: The World
The 4-Hour Body?
2007-11-17 03:50:00 I have not read Tim Ferriss’ The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich but I did run across his blog recently. The most popular post he has written is titled How to Lose 20 lbs. of Fat in 30 Days… Without Doing Any Exercise. What do you think about that? Just by ... More About: Body
I Should Always Eat With Someone
2007-11-15 23:38:00 I noticed an interesting thing over the last two and a half days that I was in Chicago. When I eat alone I eat everything on my plate. When I am eating with a large group I eat everything on my plate. But when I am eating with just one other person, I don’t eat everything - ... More About: Observations , Always , Some
What Do I Need To Do To Be Perfect?
More articles from this author:2007-11-14 14:08:00 In over three months of this journey from fat to fit I don’t think I have ever once had the “perfect day.” That day you do everything right. As I was going to bed last night I was thinking about how I did yesterday, and at first I was feeling pretty good about how the day ... More About: Observations , Perfect 1, 2, 3 |
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