I was finally able to workout today after about a week and a half off.  I still haven’t regained all my strength and it felt like I had a pallet of concrete on my back when I attempted some push ups.  Seeing I didn’t workout last week I’m sticking with last week’s workout. Laying in bed [...]

I just got back from the gym and planned to only do 20 minutes of  cardio but when I was done I was surprised that I wanted to lift.  Why? After 5 months of intense training I thought I may want to take some time off.  But I realized I love it. At least today [...]

I won. Go figure. Now, I what am I going to write about? I had this, what I thought was going to be , really great post on losing ready to go. I need some time to think about it so instead I post a few pictures which are probably more fun than my silly [...]

I’m down to the last day. I’m a little nervous but also excited to be done. I’m ready to eat something other than chicken and asparagus which is all I’ve had for the last few days. For the past week and a half I’ve been working on my suits non-stop. Gluing over 2000 little 5mm [...]

Remember the days of doing the “flex arm hang” in school for the Presidential Fitness Test? A few months ago, I decided I wanted to move beyond the “flex arm hang” so I set a goal that someday I would do a pull up all by myself. Pull-ups are fantastic for your entire upper body [...]

Or in my case pants. So I’ve been storing about 6 pairs of pants for about 10 years in hopes that someday I’d be able to fit back into them. Well that day has come. Today I tried them on and low and behold they fit. But after 10 years they look more like “mom [...]

Who? You’ll have to keep reading. I worked up the courage to step on the scale yesterday morning. I had gained 3 pounds. As I said the other day, under “normal circumstances” this would be okay. No big deal. But with the competition coming up it is a big deal. My body fat is or [...]

It’s pms week and that means I want to eat my body weight in nachos. The crazy train arrived Saturday night while I was teaching “Sunday” school during the nighttime service at church. I had been a little “crave-ish” but not too bad. It was going well until snack time. I passed out the graham [...]

This weekend, I’m officially eight weeks out from the show and I’m feeling really great. Nope, my life is not perfect and everything is not going exactly the way I want it, but despite it all, I feel better than ever! I think most of it has to do with getting regular exercise and eating [...]

I love to make lists. All sorts of lists. Anytime I want to procrastinate, I procrastinate by writing of list of things I won’t get done because I’ll procrastinate again by making another list. I even have a file folder in my filing cabinet labeled “Lists.” So my website wouldn’t be complete without a few [...]