Ponderous Fitness Content
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Back in college, I worked as a grocery store cashier, so I could see all the magazines that were in the checkout lane. Each month, they would add a new Cosmopolitan. It didn't take long to see a...
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My Fitness Results 2022
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In March, I posted My 2022 Fitness Plan. How well did I stick to the plan? Mostly pretty well, but I had an injury that slowed my progress. I did return to the gym and most weeks I went 3 times,...
Read more →Fitness Updates (December 2018)
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I thought I'd give some updates on my fitness goals and progress. #1 Project Cardio After many years of doing no cardio, I decided to add some to my fitness routine. You can read my reasons in the...
Read more →Finding Fitness Focus
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Whenever I take on too many fitness goals, I lose focus. It is much easier to direct energy in one direction than several. When my primary goal was losing weight or doing knee rehab, I made progress....
Read more →How My Diet Got Derailed
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I haven't posted about my 20 pound fat loss bet in a while. The reason is after losing 10 pounds, I stalled and then starting gaining again. This post will explain what went wrong. #1 Coffee...
Read more →20 Pound Bet: Week 9 Weigh In
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For a background to this post see How I Plan to Lose 20 Pounds and Win the Bet. Week #9 Weigh-In: \-2. Total Loss: \-10. This was a good week. My plan last week was to journal the number of hours in...
Read more →20 Pound Bet: Week 8 Weigh In
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For a background to this post see How I Plan to Lose 20 Pounds and Win the Bet. Week #8 Weigh-In: \-1. Total Loss: \-8. 8 weeks, 8 pounds. Grinding away. My knee rehab had a setback this week....
Read more →20 Pound Bet: Week 5 Weigh In
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For a background to this post see How I Plan to Lose 20 Pounds and Win the Bet. Week #5 Weigh-In: \-2. Total Loss: -7. After I posted the ant-Quantified Self post, I decided I didn't want to continue...
Read more →20 Pound Bet: Week 4 Weigh In and Food Journal
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For a background to this post see How I Plan to Lose 20 Pounds and Win the Bet. Week #4 Weigh-in: \-1. Total loss: \-5. Slow and steady appears to be how my body wants to drop the weight. The good...
Read more →20 Pound Bet: Week 3 Weigh In and Food Journal
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For a background to this post see How I Plan to Lose 20 Pounds and Win the Bet. Week #3 Weigh-in: \-1. Total loss: \-4. This was an odd week. One of my competitors left a big bag of sliced salami in...
Read more →20 Pound Bet: Week 2 Weigh In and Food Journal
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For a background to this post see How I Plan to Lose 20 Pounds and Win the Bet. Week #2 Weigh-in: Unchanged. I weighed myself a few times this week and was down, then up, but I ended the week even....
Read more →20 Pound Bet: Week 1 Weigh In and Food Journal
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For a background to this post see How I Plan to Lose 20 Pounds and Win the Bet. Week #1 Weigh-in: Down 3 pounds. From 216 to 213. I suppose this is a common weight loss in the first week. It is...
Read more →How I Plan to Lose 20 Pounds - And Win the Bet
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For those that don't know the background story read How I Regained the Weight I Lost, The Fat Loss Bet and The Fat Loss Side Bet. In this post, I am going to outline my plan for losing 20 pounds and...
Read more →The Fat Loss Side Bet
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There seems to be some disagreement on if the terms of the Fat Loss Bet are motivating enough to me to either win or sabotage myself. So I contacted the woman that came up with the bet idea in the...
Read more →The Fat Loss Bet
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In my last post How I Regained the Weight I Lost, I mentioned the bet. > Yesterday I entered a bet with three others. We are all going to lose 20 pounds. If I lose, I will be required to go 1 week...
Read more →How I Regained the Weight I Lost
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For almost a decade I was weight stable at 210 pounds. My height is 6 feet 2.5 inches (189 cm). Not overweight, but not lean. Like other ectomorphs, I've always valued muscle over leanness. When I...
Read more →Too Many Conflicting Health Goals
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Seems I'm in a bad place where my current health goals are conflicting with each other. 1. Reduce headaches 2. Reduce neck and shoulder pain 3. Lose 10 pounds 4. Bring sugar cravings down to...
Read more →Health Goals - Late 2011 Edition
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I'm long overdue when it comes to setting new health goals. My last list was made 2.5 years ago. Before I list my new goals, let me share my current health state. I am lean, my skin is clear and I...
Read more →Reviewing My 2009 Health Goals
I was preparing to put together a new list of health goals when I realized that I never did a follow up post to Health Goals - Last Year and Today from April 2009. Shame on me. Anyway, here were the...
Read more →Seasonal Strategies - Winter Update
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For those new to the site, I am currently testing a nutritional strategy that I call the seasonal approach. In the post Winter Strategies For Nutrition and Fitness, I outlined a list of goals I had...
Read more →The One Book A Week Goal
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My pal Stuart over at Brainmower announced he was setting a goal to read one book each week in 2010. This is an admirable goal, which I completed in 2008 when I read 60 books that year. However, in...
Read more →Health Goals - Last Year and Today
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In early 2008, I had 5 health goals. 1. Stop Getting Sick from Colds - Every year I was spending more and more days sick. I was sick and tired of being sick and tired. 2. End Back Pain - Do...
Read more →Defending the 4-Hour Workweek
Back in June I read one the most talked about business books of the year. I didn't blog about it at the time. The book spoke to me. I wanted it to sink in. And I wanted some time to pass. Before...
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