I finally made good on my 2019 and 2020 resolutions with my new system for ensuring I made charitable donations. How'd I actually do on my 2021 resolutions since the end of July?

Stop Eating At Home After 9pmI gave myself a B last time. Since then, I've barely thought about it. We eat dinner somewhere between 7:30 and 8:00 most nights, so I ( Read more... )

Well, this was a weird year, which had a big impact on my resolutions, as seen in my one prior update.

1. Stay Small And HealthyI was concerned about this when CrossFit was shut down in March. They did reopen in the summer with a number of changes for safety, but I opted not to return anyway, which I still feel was the right choice. Fortunately, ( Read more... )

I had another physical in December. Much like 2019 (which I didn't summarize, apparently), my good cholesterol is way too low. That's been a recurring theme for many years, despite my taking fish oil pills for several years running. Also like 2019, my bad cholesterol was just slightly higher than they are comfortable with. If I was in my twenties ( Read more... )

I had my health screening several months ago, with a full physical in December. In short:

- I weighed in at 214 pounds. That's up a little last year when I was at 207, but still down 18 from January 3, 2017 ( Read more... )

I had my annual health screening. Since I lost a lot of weight since last year, I had high hopes that my fasting blood sugar would improve ( Read more... )

So last year my annual health screening came back with my blood sugar in the pre-diabetic range for the sixth straight year. I was already doing CrossFit and biking, so I added a resolution to further reduce the amount of sugar I ate at work. Since that's the main place I ate sugar, this seemed like a good call ( Read more... )

It's time for another update on my 2015 goals.

1. Facebook only on weekends - This has basically completely fallen apart since I returned from Europe. Of course, I was on Facebook exactly twice while I was in Europe, but somehow I don't feel that balances things out ( Read more... )

My August diet numbers were just ok compared to July, at 7 days following the diet compared to 5 not. However, it was a moot point as we had the health screening in mid-August as opposed to last year when it was in late September. Did all this self imposed restrictions on junk food help? After all, most of my sugar was at work, and reducing the ( Read more... )

As stated on Facebook and, my goal for the summer is to commute to work via bicycle an average of two times a week for May, June, July, August and September. I was doing great at the end of July and August, and I'm pleased to say that I finished September strong and ended up commuting exactly 42 times in 21 weeks, starting with May 5 and going ( Read more... )

So, I ran my four 5Ks and earned the jacket. Between that and my dietary changes did I actually improve my health numbers? After all, I ran 51 times this year between April 29 and October 7 for a total of 101.3 miles. That's admittedly only about 2.3 runs per week, but injuries have to be respected, and that total doesn't include ultimate either. ( Read more... )