I’m struggling to get back in form. I’m not horribly out of shape, but my weight has gone back up to closer to 190 than 185. For various reasons I’ve already mentioned, life is not cooperating. But I’m starting. I always say there’s really only a couple of things that can be done to fix […]
One of the big areas that I’ve slid in since the century ended is diet. I’ve gotten lazy. Until the last month or so, I’ve been pretty diligent about my diet, but it’s really disintegrated with more social events, my schedule coming apart at the scenes, and just being outright lazy. That has to stop. […]
Every so often I try to reinvent myself. That doesn’t mean that I become a different person, just skilled in a different area. A few years ago I decided I wanted to learn how to write computer programs, so I went ahead and did it. I decided not long ago I wanted to try to […]
I’m on vacation this week. Some of these posts may be a bit short, but they were written to give you something to read while I’m traveling as well as to continue on our ongoing themes: Accountability is a word I hear thrown around a lot at work. Basically it’s used to let people know […]
I’m on vacation, finally, after a really long work stretch of eleven days, a relapse of a cold, and a lot of stress. I still have many things to do before I get on the plane on Monday night, including preparing enough blog posts to make sure I don’t miss any days while I’m on […]
I’m tired. Today I’m finishing up day seven of an eleven day work stretch—that’s correct, I’m working eleven days in a row. This is something that might be meant for younger social workers than me. In addition to that, for six of the past seven days I was on call, 24 hours a day, seven […]
The weigh in. Necessary, but controversial, in a weight loss quest. Why is it necessary? Two really simple reasons: if you don’t know where you’re at when you start, you can’t set a goal reasonably and if you don’t know if your plan is working as it goes along, you don’t know whether a change […]
“Portion control” really sounds like something other than a diet issue, but it is, really, a diet issue. It basically has to do with how much you eat. My biggest diet weakness–and it remains a huge weakness for me–is portion control. In my case, it’s more like portion out of control. I have a desire […]
When to eat? It seems that’s not a question that is asked very often. At least in America, we seem to be raised on the idea of three meals a day–breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Is there a better way? I’m not sure. The Abs Diet recommends a six meal a day approach, which I try […]
That response (or something similar to it) is one of the lines Gretchen Becker suggests in Type II Diabetes: The First Year for those times when a well meaning friend gets a bit overly extended in their comments on your diet. This happens all the time when your friends know you’re diabetic. It’s one of […]