I’m still not where I want to be. I’m improving in lots of ways–including my weight–but my sugars have been running high and I seem to be more anxious than I can remember being. To try to counter that, I’m reducing my caffeine intake. Which is really hard to do when you love Diet Pepsi […]

I’m in an eating funk that I need to get out of. It’s been a more than stressful few days and my diet has shown it. I have to get it together before I not only gain weight with less than a week left until the Great Aloha Run but have other problems like a […]

A couple of my friends are doing visual food diaries–photographing everything they eat this year. That might be a way to track my eating better. I’m convinced that I work out enough, although I don’t necessarily do enough strength training–that’s changing soon enough. On the other hand, my diet could use work. I’m considering whether […]

My weight hasn’t been up consistently, but it’s not going down either. On the other hand, my body fat has been going down a bit. I want both to go down. My body weight was up markedly today–an anomaly to be sure, but anomalies are recorded–to 184.4 pounds, the most by far since I started […]

I’m starting at ground zero. Well, kind of. It’s clear to me that I’ve done well with my training and diet up to this point–eighty pounds of weight doesn’t just come off–but it’s going to have to be more. So from here on out, this is again ground zero. I am currently working on research–I […]

I can work out, work out, and work out. At most, it’s only half of what keeps me healthy. The other half is diet. Diet is where I often fail. Part of the issue is simple: I have to eat. And while I make a lot of efforts to eat healthily (what is healthy is […]

If there’s anything that’s common to everyone’s training program it’s to drink a lot of water. Fortunately, in Hawai’i, we have absolutely great tasting water. And it’s cheap enough–sometimes free. The problem is getting enough of it. I’ve been taking a stainless steel water bottle around with me everywhere at work. I’m not measuring how […]

I’m disgusted with myself, but I realize the only way out of this is to get my act in order. My weight has been creeping up to the point I’m about seven pounds more than I’d like to be. I hold my going out to eat too often as the culprit. But it’s never too […]

A blog post on why endurance athletes don’t always lose weight was linked to on Twitter the other day, and while (1) it was more of a rant on some television show I’ve never seen and (2) I think that the logic of calories is flawed (I’m no less than a zillion percent convinced that […]

I’m wavering. I’m having success with some of my results, even though my training and diet have been mixed. I keep starting on a better diet or a more diligent training program and I get derailed by poor weather, other commitments, or my own laziness. This has got to stop–again. Life, to me, appears to […]