January 2009

Five Pounds in January

January 31, 2009

And so January comes to a close. It started well for me, as I focused on just one task: tracking my calories. But even that proved too much once stress set in. The past couple of days have been better, though, as my life has returned to some semblance of normalcy. Just moments ago I [...]

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Weighing In For Wednesday

January 29, 2009

I’m not losing any weight. I’m in good physical shape, but I’m not losing any weight and I still have too much excess body fat. I’m not sad, depressed, or mad about it, I’m just stating a fact; I’m not losing any weight. I still need to be losing weight slowly, but it’s not happening. [...]

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Face-to-Face with Stress

January 28, 2009

The last two weeks have been incredibly stressful. I push myself a lot under normal circumstances, but when Real Life throws its might and fury at me, things can push me to the breaking point. On the fifteenth, one of my best friends killed himself. At first I was overwhelmed by shock and grief. I [...]

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Galloway Running

January 27, 2009

1 week down, 15 to go! I successfully completed week 1 of my 16 week half marathon training plan. I’m betting this thing gets harder because I felt like I hardly sweated at all this week. It consisted of four runs (2,5,2,7 miles respectively). The only hard one was the 5-miler in the middle of [...]

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How I Use Fitday

January 26, 2009

We received an interesting comment the other day from skuud: Is there a way to use FitDay if you cook your own food, or is there an alternate site I could use? Otherwise, it seems to only work for people who eat packaged food or constituent ingredients in isolation. This is an excellent question. It’s [...]

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