Celebrating my return to actually losing weight this week, I’m introducing a new scale image!  I was getting a little tired of the 1 vs. 100 copycat routine my little graphic was doing, and thought I should put up something that was more me, so I created this little podium with Fat Silhouette Man standing [...]

For the past few weeks, I’ve felt great.  Life has been going in a positive direction for just about every aspect of who I am, except my weight – and weight moving in a negative direction is a good thing, right?  Thing is, I’ve felt thinner, lighter, better.  That is, right up until this week.
This [...]

I’ve got to stop being so negative.
For the last couple days, I’ve been a little worked up over the notion that I wouldn’t see a net loss in weight this week.  I had decided to give up my “free weekend” (every weekend is supposed to be free, in my program), go out walking, watch everything [...]

So, no immediate response from Samuel L. Jackson.  Of course, I don’t exactly expect a response.  After all, he was probably talking to bloggers who have one of those things.  You know… an audience.  Here I am, blogging away at bigsimon.com, and really don’t get more than five to ten hits a day.  Not very [...]

If the President of the United States can do it, why can’t I?
For those who have kept up, I moved the blog away from The Simon Project and started using an old domain I had sitting around, the one I used for blogging way back in when online journals were new.  That’s change number one. [...]

Like I said, I had this plan.  And plans are good, right?  Yeah, this one is all kinds of good, as far as intentions go, but we’ll see how it turns out.  What is it? you ask.  What is this grand plan of yours, Mr. Simon? Well now, I’m glad you asked.  I (with the [...]

Last week we had a great turn-out for Your 100 Words.  This week, we’re going to go with a little bit of a lighter topic:  Exercise!
Laying there in bed, he doesn’t want to move.  Every muscle aches, every joint throbs.  Most mornings aren’t quite so difficult, but this is the first dawn after the day [...]

100 Words is a writing exercise, wherein I take a word and write 100 words about it – no pretense, no agenda, just writing.  Today’s word is “exercise”.
The music blares in the background, pounding out a rhythm of bass, snare, and high hat, thump-tap-crashing to the tempo guiding his feet while horns and guitars and [...]