Surprise, surprise. This was not a good month for approaching my Marathon Weight. I’ve fallen into the trap of making plans but not following through with them. I know what to do but I don’t do it. My average weight for February was 209.9lbs. Up two pounds from January! My lowest weight for the month…
Every time I build up some sort of momentum, I have a bad habit of squandering it. That’s right. Just call me Sisyphus. He’s the guy that was cursed to roll a large boulder up a hill every morning. Only to see it roll back down to where he started by the end of the…
This was one of those two-steps-forward and one-step-backward kind of months. Meaning that the last two months my weight went down, but my weight for May went up. My average weight for May was 191.7lbs. Up 1lb from my April weight. I had a high weight of 197lbs, which is my highest weight all year.…
I had high hopes for moving the needle a little further towards my Marathon Weight. But November pushed me further away from it. My average weight for the month was 183.3 lbs. Up 1.1 lbs from October. Oh well. My heaviest was 188.1 lbs and my lightest was 180.6 lbs. What happened? I didn’t do…
When I was a kid and people asked me what I wanted to be when I was grown up, I would say: Famous. It was my stock answer and it usually got a laugh. I didn’t specify what I would be famous for. I figured it would have something to do with acting or writing.…
I’m still working my way through The Antidote by Oliver Burkeman. And just finished the chapter “Goal Crazy”. Burkeman suggests that we have an unhealthy focus on goal setting. He suggests that the dark side of goal setting can lead to destructive behaviours and even death. He makes reference to the 1996 disaster at Mount…
I’ve used affirmations for years. I think that’s one of the reasons the Miracle Morning and the SAVERS were so easy for me to adopt. Sometimes I use wishful affirmations where you make a statement that you hope will some day be true. Like “I have an abundance of wealth” or “I pay all my…
Seventeen years ago, I started training to run a marathon. I was turning 40 and I figured that it was time to start working on some things on my bucket list. Running a marathon had been something I wanted to do since I was a kid. I trained and ran the marathon. And then I…
It’s been almost 6 months since I reached my KFC Weight (200lbs) and I’m astounded that my average weight for the last 6 months has been 198.5lbs. Why astounded? I’ve been trying for years to get to that weight, but I barely came close in five years of trying. And now, I’ve been able to…
When December started and some of the annual reviews start happening, I got a momentary pang of stress. It’s the end of the year… What have I accomplished…? But then I remembered: I started my year in April! I’ve got almost four more months to get things done. Suddenly, the rush of season feels a…
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