Start (Dec. 31): 447 lbs. Last week: 454 lbs. This week: 463 lbs. Total (2020): 16 lbs. gained --- I’m fine. I’m good. I’m well. How are you? That’s what I say when people ask me how I’m doing. Truth is, I’m not fine, I’m not good, and I’m not well. I don’t have ...
Start (Dec. 31): 447 lbs. Last week: 437 lbs. This week: 438 lbs. Total lost in 2020: 9 lbs. --- The number doesn’t show it — a 1-pound increase from the week before — but I actually had a better week than I’ve had all month, not that we should rely solely on weight as an indicator ...
Start (Dec. 31): 447 lbs. Two weeks ago: 433 lbs. This week: 437 lbs. Total lost in 2020: 10 lbs. --- Shortly after writing these words two weeks ago, I began to struggle: “Although I have not yet struggled with any major issues so far this year, I know that eventually life will knock me ...
Start (Dec. 31): 447 lbs. Last week: 437 lbs. This week: 433 lbs. Total lost in 2020: 14 lbs. --- I’ve written about my weight-loss struggles many times in this column over the past six years, and although I have not yet struggled with any major issues so far this year, I know that ...
Start (Dec. 31): 447 lbs. Last week: 437 lbs. This week: 437 lbs. Total lost in 2020: 10 lbs. --- A friend of mine who is a seasonal resident of Keene Valley recently emailed me a list of helpful eating tips from losing weight and getting healthy and said it was OK to share these with my ...
Start (Dec. 31): 447 lbs. This week: 437 lbs. Lost in 2020: 10 pounds --- I hate starting over again when it comes to my physical fitness, which isn’t very good at the moment. Gone are the days when I was training for and competing in the Lake Placid Half Marathon in 2014 and 2015, but ...
Start (Dec. 31): 447 lbs. This week: 440 lbs. Lost in 2020: 7 pounds --- Meatless Monday. It’s a thing. People are being encouraged to skip meat on Mondays — essentially going vegetarian for one day a week — to improve their health and the health of the planet. But why stop there? If ...
Start (Jan. 1): 457 lbs. End (Dec. 31): 447 lbs. Lost in 2019: 10 pounds --- There’s one major problem with the Lake Placid Diet; there are too many voices in my head. The vast majority of people who’ve contacted me about the column since I began writing it six years ago have been ...
It’s like looking in a full-length mirror every time I file a new column. That’s why it’s taken me so long to give you an update on the Lake Placid Diet. I dread looking in the mirror. Like many people, I have a problem with overeating and underexercising, and I don’t like the way I ...
A childhood friend of mine died last week, just shy of his 53rd birthday. I’ll be 50 in September, and it gets me thinking, “How do I want to live for the next 10 years?” You’d think that my own near-death experiences in 2011 (hemorrhoidectomy) and 2017 (blood clots) were enough to ...
During a weight-loss journey, there’s no better feeling than stepping on a scale and finding that you’ve lost weight — whether it’s for a day, a week or a month. It’s a high that lifts my spirits. Then the goal becomes repeat, repeat, repeat. My question this year, however, is how, ...
January was a tough month, but I got through it OK with 6 pounds down on my latest quest to lose weight. I spent half the month sick, like a lot of other people in the Tri-Lakes region, so I haven’t been to the Fitness Revolution gym much over the past four weeks. I’d rather not spread my ...
Every day, I open the curtains in my living room and say, “It’s going to be a wonderful day,” even though I don’t really believe it. I figure, if I say it enough, I may start having more wonderful days. It’s hope more than anything. That’s kind of what starting the new year is like ...
This week: 436 lbs. Last week: 433 lbs. Start (Jan. 2): 444 lbs. Total lost: 8 lbs. --- Now that spring is here, I’ll have to find new methods of exercise. While I’m less a fan of winter today than I was 25 years ago, I’m continually thankful for the snow and its unknowing ability ...
This week: 432 lbs. Last week: 433 lbs. Start (Jan. 2): 444 lbs. Total lost: 12 lbs. --- On Monday, I started writing a column about thinking positive and optimism and all that good-feeling stuff you need to crawl out of the holes of depression we find ourselves in when the times get ...
This week: 429 lbs. Last week: 430 lbs. Start (Jan. 2): 444 lbs. Total lost: 15 lbs. --- It’s hard not to watch the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, on television and the internet and not be inspired, especially in Lake Placid, host of the 1932 and 1980 Winter ...
This week: 430 lbs. Last week: 432 lbs. Start (Jan. 2): 444 lbs. Total lost: 14 lbs. --- One of my friends from high school — Tupper Lake Class of 1987 — spent more than two hours on Super Bowl Sunday cooking meals ahead of time for the week, prepping muffins and dinners for her ...
This week: 432 lbs. Last week: 430 lbs. Start (Jan. 2): 444 lbs. Total lost: 12 lbs. --- The longer I live, the longer it takes me to do things and it’s driving me nuts. I’m not a patient person. This week, what’s getting to me is the time it’s taking to lose weight and recover ...
This week: 430 lbs. Last week: 435 Start (Jan. 2): 444 lbs. Total lost: 14 lbs. --- Yes, I actually wrote those words in a weight-loss column: Comfort food is a necessity in life. After all the health-related crap I went through in 2017, I came to realize that when you strip it all down ...
This week: 435 lbs. Last week: 436 lbs. Start (Jan. 2): 444 lbs. Total lost: 9 lbs. --- With my current mobility problems — in the middle of winter — quality exercise has been limited, so I’ve had to rely mostly on modifying my diet to lose weight. More than likely, when you see ...