Tweet I’ve bored you many times with my long-standing ambition to lose enough weight to wrestle Shute. You know, the shtick about how I was a high school wrestler, and there’s only one really great high school wrestling movie, and it’s “Vision Quest,” yadda-yadda… Well, this is sort of about that, but more about the […]
TweetAn unpleasant thing happened the other day. But first, a bit of background… Last time I mentioned my usual weight-loss standard — which involves losing down to 168 so I can “wrestle Shute” — I was actually almost there. That was early 2018. I was spending a lot of time on my elliptical trainer at […]
TweetAs y’all know, my usual standard for “getting in shape” involves getting my weight down so I can “wrestle Shute.” (For the uninitiated, that’s a reference to “Vision Quest,” which I love because I, too, was a high school wrestler.) That means getting under 168. Yeah, I know — I’ve set that goal before, and […]
Tweet Yes, another “Vision Quest” reference. Blame my elder son this time. He brought the above weigh-in video clip to my attention because he knew it would remind me, as it did him, of the big weigh-in scene in the movie. (Oh, and to you adolescent boys out there — don’t bother watching the above […]
Tweet I find that this Advent I am becoming a way I thought I’d never be. All my life, I’ve heard about how people gain weight during the holidays. I never did, partly because I’m not the kind who puts on weight easily (eat your hearts out), but also because I’m allergic to most of […]
Tweet One of the various newspapers to which I subscribe had a story this morning about people who have done an extraordinary job of sticking to ambitious resolutions. I can’t find that story now, but who cares about those slackers? At the moment, I’m more impressed at what I did. In early May, I reported […]
TweetOK, so, these things don’t usually go so well, but here goes. Fortunately, most of them don’t require much typing, because I can refer you to when I made the same ones in years past. But I’ll start with something a little different: Lose weight. This still feels new to me, although as you know, […]
Tweet I experienced a shock yesterday. I stepped on my bathroom scale, and it read 187.0. Yeah, I was fully dressed, including a sport coat, wallet, keys, iPhone and very heavy shoes. But still. Almost 190 pounds? I’ve never come close to that before, and I’ve been weighed at doctor’s offices while similarly burdened many […]
TweetOr one of them, anyway… Lately, I’ve become all-too-accustomed to weighing in at over 180 (sometimes well over) on the rare occasions when I do weigh myself — at doctor’s offices, or when I’m at someone else’s home and they happen to have a scale in the bathroom. That is not my fighting weight, not […]
Tweet I saw this ad, being blasted on both sides of the Atlantic for its body-shaming message, and it reminded me: I weighed myself over the weekend, and it’s time to go back to the full paleo diet. It’s not that I looked at this ad and decided I need to do something because I don’t look […]