I’m bouncing. No, not like Tigger from Winnie the Pooh or like a pair of breasts from some juvenile prank in a cheap movie; I’m bouncing between 186 and 183 in my quest to get my weight down further. I’ll admit it–it’s discouraging. While I think my fitness is better–for instance, I did a 60 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I realized I said I’d talk about food this time around, but I thought this was more important right now. I’m burnt. Not burned out–what sometimes happens to athletes, students, workers of all types when they experience long term exhaustion and diminished interest–but sunburned from multiple rides and runs this past weekend. However, there’s no […]
If you have success with losing weight, it’ll be very evident on the scale early on. If you’ve been eating poorly and not exercising for years, once you start, if you keep at it, you’ll definitely lose weight–and for a little while, rapidly. There’ll be other changes too. Your clothes may start fitting more loosely, […]
You know how I hate running? I don’t hate swimming, but as difficult of a time as I have running, I’m far worse swimming. It reminds me of the times I’ve spent as a beginning cyclist and a beginning runner, when I couldn’t figure out gearing or when the best time to shift was, or […]
Testing. If you’re a diabetic, chances are you have a glucometer of some kind. What’s a glucometer? It’s a (usually pretty small and portable) medical device that allows you to test your blood sugar. Usually you have a test strip that is inserted partially into the glucometer, a lancet with which you prick your finger […]
Some people wonder why I largely exercise alone. It’s not (just) because I’m antisocial; there are other reasons as well. First off, getting someone to meet me at 5 am on a weekend morning at my house in a somewhat rural area of the island for a three to five hour bike ride tends not […]
I’m not perfect; I’m often tempted by food. A friend of mine who is vegetarian but was an omnivore up through early adulthood used to tell me that even after years of not eating meat, his mouth would still water at the smell of it. “It never goes away,” he would tell me. One of […]