Probably Shouldn't Have Gone for the Super Corn Dog

So I stepped on the scale this morning and it wasn’t great.  I walked a lot, did some actual labor, and felt fairly good, but I know the downfall this past Labor Day weekend was my diet.  Friday – not bad.  Saturday – Well, drinking the giant, small chocolate shake didn’t help.  Sunday – A [...]

Is a Corn Dog a Good Food Choice?

Okay, I know a corn dog isn’t really a good food choice, and I hate to make excuses, but it is Labor Day, and nothing screams Labor Day, other than a woman in labor, like a carnival corn dog.  The good thing about the day is it looks to have a lot of walking around, [...]

Up Until the Milkshake

A quick post today, but my wife and I decided to split a hot dog and fries (not too bad), and we decided to get a milkshake, too. The milkshake was huge, and my wife bailed early, but there it was, in the car cup holder, and every time I grabbed for it my wife [...]

Are We Allowed a Bad Day?

I knew it wouldn’t be a good one, and I did my best not to pay that much attention as part of A) Seeing what happens when I don’t pay attention and B) I didn’t want to feel that guilty about it until this morning, but yesterday was a bad day, at least in terms [...]

Yup, I Need to Weigh My Food. For Awhile.

So yesterday I went for a 45 minute walk, and a short walk with Milo, and scored 10017 steps for just over 5 miles according to my Fitbit.  It was hard.  Okay, it wasn’t that hard, but the 45 minute walk is a tough go every day.  As I analyze today, with maybe a shorter [...]

Day 3: How Did This Morning Get Busy?

Well, the voting got done yesterday, and I think it was my obsessing over a few election results here in Illinois that slowed me down this morning (How about our Governor race where in the end it might have come down to abortion and gay rights?), yet here I am, about 5 minutes behind in [...]

Only One Pound

I survived my bachelor party weekend!  Yup, some friends of mine decided to drag me out of town and I told them I wanted to go to New Jersey, which seems weird I suppose, but Long Beach Island is a great vacation spot, and I got to stay on a private island!

It was an enlightening [...]

A Birthday Assessment

So my birthday was a few days ago, and although not where I would really like to be in terms of my weight loss, I am down about 8 pounds so far, which in the grand scheme of the world is about 2 pounds a month.  Even so, I am feeling better, I keep using [...]

The Exception, Not the Rule

The weather broke (it was a gorgeous day here in Chicago) and I was curious, so today I did something I know will rarely happen, but might, every now and then – I spent over an hour and a half exercising.  No, I did not do this all at once, instead it was grouped into [...]

Doing Nothing, So It Seems, and I'm Hurting

I was in a parade today.  The thing is I didn’t even have to walk the parade, I got to ride on the back of a car. And yet I’m wiped.

I guess the getting off to the bad start came with the time change because 7:30 on this Sunday morning came an hour quicker than [...]