Category: Dieting

Five months with the Fitbit

I bought a Fitbit in July of this year. I know it was July, not because I keep up with dates very well, but because I was teaching summer school at the time. My first […]

Coming Soon to a Diet Near You

If I remember correctly, I’ve been a vegetarian since 1994, though to be honest, it’s been long enough that I may not have the exact year straight in my head.  Suffice it to say that […]

Foods of a Certain Sound #dieting

Dieting Again: Day 7 In Rick Riordan’s Kane Chronicles, there’s a baboon named Khufu who only eats food that end with the letter O — Doritos, Cheerios, and I am sorry to say an occasional […]

Giving Myself a Break #dieting

Dieting Again: Day 6 Here’s the good news. This morning — Day 6 of my new diet — I was down 3 lbs from where I started out on Day 1. Yay for me. Nothing […]

Dieting Again:  Day 4

I’ve come up with a plan for this phase of my dieting that I think is pretty much guaranteed to work if I stick with it long enough. It’s simple too. Just stay busy. I […]

Dieting Again: Day 2

I indulged in a little diet backsliding when I met my friend for breakfast today, but it was very much worth it. I’ll try to make some sort of recompense tomorrow.

Dieting Again:  Day 1

I’ve been saying I was about to go on a diet for the past several weeks. Well, here it is. Today is the day. This is the first day of the rest of my diet. […]

On a Diet Deferred

I had big plans for this week.  This was going to be my time to go on my super-charged, vegan, raw foods, organic, locally grown, vegged out and vegged up diet extravaganza.  Turns out diet […]

Diet Hack: Box It Up

This is what half my dinner from last night looked like when I got it out to warm it up today. I ate this half for lunch after skipping breakfast. I felt too full even […]

Salad for Breakfast, or Born to Run

From South Beach Diet Pics Last summer I read Born to Run. It’s great. Lots of running. You should do like I did and read it through your iPod ear buds while running. Okay, the […]