Back in January 2006 when I was sitting very uncomfortably at 263 pounds, I signed up for a free account on Fitday.com and began monitoring and controlling the calories I put in and put out (by way of visual reference, the picture at right was taken in 2000 when I was closer to 270 at …
I watched about 90 minutes of this Olympics. Some men’s diving. Some women’s beach volleyball. A few qualifying heats on the track. Some of the women’s marathon. It made me sad to be so apathetic, but it can all be summed up when I turned on the TV this past Sunday thinking I might watch …
A ridiculously hyper-stylized iPhone image snapped during our walk with Ranger this dawn, captured from LaFayette Park Place looking northeast, with the moon and Venus even closer than yesterday morning.
Out in the backyard this morning to let Ranger out for a pee, I found Venus, the Moon and Jupiter aligned across the northeastern skies and fading into the dawn’s early light. Having skeptically snapped it with my iPhone I was later surprised to find all three visible (Jupiter, barely) in the image, annotated for …
Two-Oh-Eight! Yep, 24 hours after busting below my previous low-low (and needing almost a month to do so), I achieved my third-stage goal of 208 pounds — and did it 24 hours ahead of schedule. This is the first time since starting this diet in March that I’ve actually hit my target on or before …
Four short weeks ago, the pumpkin patch was just a row of sprouts: Here’s where we’re at as of today. My how we’ve grown:
Well, I’ve finally come through a static period that truly tried this dieter’s patience. I hit my lowest low — 210.4 pounds — back on July 11, only to yo-yo above that mark until this morning when I stepped on the scale to finally! break through that barrier and achieve a new low weight of …