Category: health

I’ve only been at this diet thing for just short of seven weeks, but it seems like forever since I enjoyed the drop to 225.4. OK, so it was March 28 when that happened, but the three weeks since have had me spending more time above that milestone than at it. Well, yesterday (and again …

Read more “Double Digits”

Also known as : Lunch. Only when I’m dieting will I construct a monstrosity of such epic porportions, and eat. the. entire. thing. Parts included: Green Apple – 145 grams Spinach – 145 grams Chicken breast – 135 grams Celery – 113 grams Sweet Peppers – 96 grams Tomatoes – 63 grams Broccoli – 55 …

Read more “The Mother Of All Salads”

Last Saturday I wrote of dropping out of my 230s for the first time since beginning this diet March 1, and I qualified the milestone with the understanding that what goes down must go up. I did just that the next day, re-crossing the threshold and landing at 230.4 on March 25, but the days …

Read more “Freefallin’”

It’s a bit like a long-distance swimmer cheering himself on for passing a milestone that’s still miles away from the finish, but so what. Twenty-three days in to my latest round of nutritional hyper-awareness, one that started with me at 234.8 pounds March 1 (but then jumped up to 236.8 on March 3 and stayed …

Read more “Outta the 230s”

Stepping on a scale early on in a diet can be an exercise in futility. In the two days since beginning this diet, I’ve expended about 3,300 more calories than I’ve ingested, which nutritionists will generalize to be near the benchmark one needs to accumulate in order to shed one pound. Stepping on the scale …

Read more “Off In The Wrong Direction”

It would be an understatement to say I was slow out of the blocks in terms of a New Year’s resolution to shed the weight that crept back up on me across the fall, but today’s finally that long delayed day that I moved out of neutral and into first gear by taking that first …

Read more “Weight, Weight… Don’t Tell Me”