Merry Christmas Triple X Man!

Everybody who gave me a shirt today, gave a XXXL. I thought I looked like I was losing weight.
This is how I felt. A frick’in walking billboard for the XXXL size.
Merry Christmas.

The Devil is in the Change!

True story. Raced home to type this in. Driving all day with no food. Forgot to prepare. Stopped at McDevilsl, the only option in small town tonight. My total at the drive-up was 6.66. I did a double take. I saw the Omen movies. The mark of the beast. I smiled a wry smile. McDevils [...]

Feedback Fasting Phantom

I’ve been worried about my scale weight for so long, now that I don’t weigh myself daily or weekly I find a vague worry concerning my progress. Hard to put my finger on it.
I’m determined not to watch the numbers until Valentines Day. I’ve grown more hyper about my trouser fit. Do they fit more [...]

Body for Life Paint by Numbers

 
So many of us paint by the numbers when designing our weight-loss program. Numbers, measurements, circumference, percentages. How about painting with the right side of the brain. Intuition, impressions, emotions, and wholeness. Here’s sketchy version of my ideal. Finger painting my way to success while I wait for the real thing.
Where am I going with [...]

The swirling vortex of doom…

Have you ever been fighting a craving like mad, for perhaps hours, and the world starts to do this:

Good me too.
What to do? Just wait out the spin cycle. Doom is not so bad. You get back on track and get better resisitance for the next time. Learn to enjoy the ride without stopping for [...]

Look ma, no spine!

I’ve noticed when I’m hungry, when I feel like there is a hole in my stomach… You’ll notice I have no spine. I lose my spine. It simply disappears.
I don’t know why. It just does. I try to resist the fast fix, the donut, the soda, the hotdog. But to no avail.
I think my spine [...]

Measurement-Free Health is Fun!

So I’ve thrown out the scales, the body fat calipers, and the tape measure, at least for these first one hundred days.
I know my beginning numbers. Now the fun is this: if I exercise to a sweat at least 6 times per week, drink one gallon of water each day, and get 7.5 hours of [...]

Endo Man?

Upon reading some interesting physique transformation literature recently, I discovered I may be endomorphic. This I had not really paid any attention to in the past. Well, not in the recent past anyway. I do remember, at age five, not having as big a bicep as my friend Terry in the neighborhood. He would “make [...]

Body for “Exxon McDevil” Life…No Wonder I’m Huge.

I just added up two catagories on my bank statement. How much I spent on food items while gassing up at the pump, and how much I spent at McDevil’s last month.
Answer: $440.62
I have to now concede with a surgeon who fixed my hernia a few years ago. As I was going under anesthesia, the [...]

Goals Objectives and Desires…Oh my!

I’ve been told that the main reason for not losing body fat is the lack of clearly defined goals. Written down goals. Goals which inspire and motivate. Goals aligned with my values. Goals, goals goals.
Unfortunately, I was raised in a goal setting culture. I have had a difficult time getting excited about “GOALS” per se, [...]