After yesterday’s insane “cheat day,” it’s time to face the music Yesterday, I decided to get serious about losing weight. That’s because yesterday was also an insane “cheat day:” I ate whatever the hell I wanted. Let’s see: pasta eggs cheese cake coffee cream muffins part of a donut nuts whatever. In other words, the […]
Category: Weight Loss
The trick is to lose weight because you are more healthy, not less.
I got serious about improving my overall health; now, I need to get serious about losing weight I’ve make some great strides in improving my overall health, especially over the last year. But, after my seasonal weight gain, I haven’t made much progress at all in taking it off, and here we are in March. […]
Good news at the doctor’s
I rode my bike to my doctor’s appointment while fasting today and got some good news
Keep an eye on the big picture
It seems like my weight loss has stalled over the last few days, as I’ve been weighing in an my weight is basically the same, if a little lower each day. I looked at the trend line and noticed a sharper dip in the last few days, if I look at my weight over the […]
Terrifying test results
My lipid panel results from this April were so terrifying that I realized I had to get serious and lose some weight. I had also done a carb binge a few days before the test and my triglycerides were through the roof — over 2,000, and normal is considered less than 140. My triglycerides have […]
A longer run & weight loss
Yesterday I ran the long loop of my favorite trail run, a 5K, and it took me an hour. My leisurely pace was 18’52”. It felt pretty good, although my left hip felt tight in the beginning. I got the Apple Watch badge for doing 50 minutes of exercise to celebrate the 50th anniversary of […]
More good news on the scale today! I’m down to 292.0, which means I took off another 1.5 lb. That’s pretty good, and here are my weight loss totals by month: April: -3.0 lb May: -3.7 lb June: +2.1 lb July: -8.2 lb August: -4.8 lb September (to date): -6.9 lb I reached my heaviest […]