New, New Beginning
on Jan 5, 2009Here I am again. Its been over 20 days since I logged in. The holiday season is official over, and now its the first Monday of the year. I just weighed in, and I'm at 251. I'm pretty pleased with that considering all the eating I did since T

Week 10: Day 3 - Great to be back
on Dec 10, 2008I went back to the Y today. It felt great to work out. I did the elliptical nice and easy for 30 minutes. It wasn't one of my usual machines, so it was hard to quantify the difference in effort, but I just set it kind of low-medium and went. I bu

Biggest Loser Review
on Dec 10, 2008Biggest Loser was boring last night. It was a total time-filler episode before the finale. All the retrospectives have really been done multiple times already this season: yes, we know Michelle was abandoned by her mom, but now reconciled. Yes, we...

Week 10: Day 2 - Little Steps
on Dec 9, 2008Ok - didn't make it to the Y, but I did get on the treadmill for 35 minutes. I kept it pretty easy. Warmed up at 3mph, then put it up to 3.5 mph. That's barely enough to sweat, but I burned a few calories and proved to myself that I'm fe

Week 10: Day 2 - I'm back!
on Dec 9, 2008I have really been sidelined this last week with a bunch of things. My cold essentially gave me a terrible asthma flare-up. I haven't had asthmatic symptoms for several years now. Saturday, things got so bad that I ended up in the E.R. late at ni

Week 9: Day 4: First Post-Turkey Weigh-In
on Dec 4, 2008253.5 today. On balance, I'm not too upset. I just wish I would get over my cough so I could get back to working out. I am feeling a bit better today, but these things can take a week, and I've really only been sick for about 2 1/2 days. I&#

Week 9: Day 2 - Stalled
on Dec 2, 2008I seem to have come down with this pretty bad bronchitis. There's no way I can work out this week. The good news is that I'm really not all that hungry, and I'm just trying to eat some nutritious food so I can feel better. These things h