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Update to Healthy Living 49 – The Trainiverssary and the “Great Plateau”

Today is my 42nd birthday.  It's also been one year since I've been to my trainer at the York JCC.  I stepped on the scale there this time last year and had the following results... In case you can't see... Continue Reading →

Update to Healthy Living 44: Separating Fact from Bullshit

Eat before and after you workout.  Don't eat before, you should do intermittent fasting.  Don't eat after because you spike your insulin and insulin blocks fat burning.  Carbs are evil.  No, just sugar.  You need to do progressive loading to... Continue Reading →

Update to healthy living 42 – To err is human!

I've never been on a cruise. People rave about them.   All of the places you visit.  The food.  The drinks.  The FOOD.  My advanced physics professor in college, Dr. Khanna, used to love telling us that every time he... Continue Reading →

Healthy Living 39 – Pizza, pizza, pizza!

I love pizza.  Too much.  It's a core reason I ended up in the position I was in.  I gross myself out now thinking what I did...for many years.  But - I have also been learning a lot about nutrition... Continue Reading →

Update to Healthy Living 37 – 70 pounds!

So it's been awhile since I've posted.  Life happens.  In my other life, I'm an IT manager over a rather large number of individuals in the public sector - so sometimes I get buried in work.  This stress has done... Continue Reading →

Update Healthy Living 33 – No more excuses

My writer friend wrote last week about "roots" in conjunction with being from the east coast (mostly) and living in LA.  It reminded me of how a lot of this journey began.  This post is about roots - and how... Continue Reading →

Update to Healthy Living 32- adjusting to a new life

This blog post is to educate you a little about what it's like to be ridiculously fat, and how life seems to change when you're....less ridiculously fat. I decided to write this because I've noticed a lot over the last... Continue Reading →

Update to Healthy Living 30 – perspective

Very often, we execute at the micro level - we have to.  We count calories, we  perform exercise, we measure progress on the scale. But not so often, we must look at the macro level.  Today, I want to take... Continue Reading →

Update to Healthy Living 27 – making YOU the priority in your life and being a “selfish person”

It seems selfish.  You have to make YOU a priority over everyone else. You're a bad husband.  A bad father.  A bad son.  A bad human. You're being selfish. Yes, I am. I was faced with a crisis last summer... Continue Reading →

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