What’s this?  A mid-week post?  It is!  It is indeed!
I’m afraid I’ve left the tremendous number of readers I have here (all three of you) a little in the lurch by not posting anything but Friday weigh-in blogs.  Well, this is not a weigh-in post, and it’s not Friday, so rejoice!  After all, I’m only [...]

With a title like this one, well, I feel like Richard Simmons.  With the exception of our vast weight difference, of course.  He was a big guy once, too, I’ve read, but never quite the same kind of big guy I am.  Vast difference between being three hundred pounds and being five hundred.  Still, I [...]

I lost seven pounds this week.  Pretty cool, huh?
One of the biggest pieces of advice I hear, pretty much from everyone, when I talk about losing weight is this:  “Don’t think of it as having to lose over two hundred pounds, do it in five pound chunks”, or “take baby steps and you’ll get there!”, [...]

Bratwurst.  Burgers.  Potato salad.  Chips.  Apple cake.  Ice cream.  Pink junk.  Fruit Salad.
I ate way too much this weekend.  Not all at the same time, of course, but spread out from Friday until last night.
But it’s Monday, and I’m back to what I should be eating.  That and some exercise, and maybe I’ll manage to [...]

Well… it’s Friday.  Remember when I said I was moving weigh-in to the end of the week?  Well, it’s come.  I’ll be upfront here: something in the back of my head had me convinced this week would see some weight gain, so I was none to excited to hit the scale.  You see, I haven’t [...]

This week was rough.  I walked, but there were a few problems.  You see, I walk barefoot.  I do so for a number of reasons, all my own, but I was foolish enough to walk barefoot on the track this week.  The track we have nearby isn’t dirt, isn’t rubber, and isn’t standard asphalt.  It’s [...]

It’s Tuesday.  I don’t think anybody really thinks much about Tuesdays (except maybe people who celebrate Mardi Gras, which literally means “Fat Tuesday”), but I do.  Tuesdays are the kind of days where you’re just finishing up all our early in the week stuff, but you’re not quite at the late in the week stuff [...]

This is it.  In the last couple days I’ve been told I likely have Type 2 Diabetes.  I’m waiting for one more test, my A1C, to confirm it.  That means I now have three debilitating conditions, all caused by my weight.
I like who am, don’t get me wrong.  Many of you know that the first [...]

So… a couple days later, I’m up to about six minutes, maybe close to six and a half.  I think tomorrow I’m going to start using the timer so I know just how many minutes I’m actually doing the Shovelglove routine.  I’ve been using the clock on the cable box, while watching a little television, [...]

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 [...]