NCN has a goal so I have one too

Thanks NCN for being man enough to admit that you’re starting anew with your goals.  I probably wouldn’t have done that. I need to do this too.  I’m at 247 pounds, which is six pounds heavier than I was when I began this blog.  My original goal was to hit 151 pounds by May of … Read more

Is the key to weight loss exercise or eating less?

Jim and I read this Time article at about the same time: Why exercise won’t make you thin (A friend on Facebook pointed me to it.)  The article suggests that exercise has comparatively little to do with weight loss. What does make the difference is simply eating less.  The calorie-burning effect of exercise is marginalized … Read more

Eleven times

That’s the number of days over the past three months I’ve exercised 30 minutes or more, according to my records at Joe’s Goals. Ouch. Like most every great plan at the beginning of the year, this one fizzled. It takes a lot of discipline to be the one out of twenty that will lose a … Read more

Find somebody to bug you about exercising

One of the guys that works in the same building I do at work bugs me every chance he gets about whether I’m going to the YMCA to exercise or not. This is a very good thing.  I’ve asked him to keep needling me. He’s a little older than I am, and he’s trying to … Read more

Elliptic trainers are fun

I’m working out on them a couple times a week.  Four or five times a week would be better. I prefer the ones that give an arm workout as well as the other parts.  Holding onto the railings on the other machines seems a little like cheating, but I’m not one to talk right now. … Read more

I hate fundraisers

Well, maybe I should be a little more specific:  I hate fundraisers at work where they just leave a box of candy bars and an envelope in a high-traffic area. I fell off the wagon over the past week or so and became a really, really good customer of this particular fundraiser.  As in I … Read more