I’ve been neglecting my blog for the past several weeks. I run a lot, I tweet a lot but I just can’t get my act together to put a blog post up if my life depended on it. Maybe I should do short and sweet blog posts that don’t take more than 30 minutes to [...]
I know it’s the middle of September and I’ve been totally slacking on blog updates but August was such a great month that I thought I still have to mention it by name and write some of the specifics that have happened during the month of August in terms of running. August had a lot [...]
A month ago I wrote about how I quit measuring foods and counting calories. It was an experiment and, as David put it, the “next step to being healthy being a normal thing”. The big question was would I be able to do it? Did I gain the knowledge and experience in 7 months to [...]
During my transformation I’ve been getting a lot of comments and a lot of questions. One of the most annoying one has been “So when are you going to be done with your diet?”. But nothing really tops the ultimate question that I get more times than I could care to count: “What’s your secret?”. [...]
I’ve been losing weight, mostly fat, for the last 7+ months and I feel like I’m in the home stretch. I have lost 70+ lbs and I think I only have another 10 lbs to go. But this last 10lbs seems to be the toughest to lose. Why’s that? I see a lot of people [...]
Today was the last day of my son’s soccer camp and for the past four days I’ve been eating lunch with him at various places. Monday we went to McDonald’s, a place where he’s only been about 3 times in his entire life. Tuesday I took him to my favorite lunch spot, a Thai restaurant [...]
I don’t have a specific topic in mind for today’s post so I thought I’d just write down a bunch of the tings that have been happening and I feel might be relevant. Yesterday was a long run day for me and I ran 8.1 miles (13 km) in an hour and 9 minutes. This [...]
That’s a whole lot of numbers for a blog entry title but I thought it was fitting to kind of compress the state of my progress into a tiny little one liner. So let’s look at the numbers one by one. 200 Miles. That is the number of miles I had run since the first [...]
As you could see on my last weekly update my weekend calories were much higher than the weekday calories. On Sunday I have reached an all time high of 2,233 calories, a number I have not seen since November 11th, 2009. In November it was Olive Garden, an Italian restaurant, for dinner and leftover from [...]
Ever since I have embarked on my lifestyle change I have been facing challenges at every step of the way. Elliptical machine breaking down, injury that would hinder my running, weights getting harder and harder to lift instead of easier, but the biggest challenge still has to do with food. A proper diet is the [...]