Well, in the last update, I said goodbye to the upper-300s. Now I can say goodbye to the 340s as well. That puts me on about 1.5 lbs/week lost since the last update, which is progress, but slower than I'd like. But, I've been doing some strength-training (mostly body-weight stuff, but some actual weight-lifting, too), so I'm hoping that my fat- ( Read more... )

Last week I got a surprise "Dear John" letter.Dear John ( Read more... )

As usual, I don't remember all the details, but the one piece of the dream I remember really clearly was the act of vomiting up three whole mushrooms. Now, it wasn't *vomit* that came up, but just a sense of expelling the mushrooms out of my throat/mouth ( Read more... )

While I've had faith that I'm getting in better shape (due to the way my clothes fit), it's been a long time since I weighed myself. While my weight was increasing, I didn't want to face it, and once I made the decision to get in shape, I really wanted it to be about getting healthy, and physically getting functional, then fit, and eventually ( Read more... )

I was watching a video of Michael Pollan, the author of In Defense of Food (hat tip to Kristen), and he had a number of good quotes about whether something is "real food ( Read more... )

Since I've recently decided to do more home-cooking, I've been looking at various cookbooks, especially ones that will help me stay on my low-carb regimen ( Read more... )

Well, after a slip-up on day 7 (three days after my "day 4" post), I'm back up to day 10 ( Read more... )

Scalzi has some words for today that I find inspiring:
I hope you will do the right thing, the just thing, and the moral thing when you vote, and that is to cast your vote against discrimination, against bigotry and against prejudice. You don’t have to approve of same-sex marriage to recognize that voting to take away a right already won is unjust ( Read more... )

Well, I think I'm finally back on the wagon. After consciously letting it go for my Italy trip (and semi-consciously ignoring for a month while dealing with work stress), I've been *attempting* to get back on my low-carb eating program for about a month. I've had real trouble keeping to it -- sometimes due to serious cravings that I caved in to, ( Read more... )

Well, after nearly 9 months of gestation at work, my baby was born today. Things were touch and go at first, but after just a couple hours on the respirator, it's breathing on its own, and has a nice pink color ( Read more... )