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 ...