Tag Archives: diet

Numbers are a geek’s best friend

If you’re new here, you may want to sub­scribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!As a self-​​​​confessed geek, I love being able to quan­tify things. Track­ing data and detail helps me to make sense of what I’m doing. And so it is with my train­ing. As I’ve become more dili­gent the past cou­ple of […]

Cornucopia

It’s no secret I like my food. I’m a sucker for a good pas­try or dessert. It’s how I got the way I am after being lean and healthy in 2001.

After read­ing a story in the New York Times a few days ago on The Calo­rie Restric­tion Exper­i­ment (hat-​​​​tip to my good friend, Mark Pesce, for […]

Week 1 — Mindsets and making it happen

One of the biggest fac­tors I have found in being moti­vated to lose fat and get fit is to have great men­tors. The other is to, obvi­ously, keep doing the right thing in terms of exer­cise and diet and the periph­eral tasks around them. It helps to main­tain the right mindset.

So, this week, I did […]

Day 3 and the munchies hit

It’s always the way.
When I’ve tried diet­ing in the past and not been suc­cess­ful (which is most of the time), it’s about now that I fall flat. I imag­ine it’s pretty much the same story for many peo­ple who strug­gle with their weight. We have great inten­tions but we aren’t often moti­vated enough to stick at […]