The other day I decided I wanted to run to my son’s school.  Okay…jog…but run just sounds so much more hardcore.  His school is only (to be exact) 3.4 miles away but it’s almost entirely a gradual uphill run.  For me, this was very difficult.  I set a goal to run it in 30 minutes [...]

Sprinting is good for you.  Or so I’ve read… This weekend I decided to go to the local highschool track to get in a sprint workout in hopes of carving my log-like thighs into something more shapely like tubas.  I was disappointed to find the local track surrounded my 8 foot fences and locked.  So [...]

The other day I walked to the grocery store and while searching for the spices through the mecca of transfats and sugar I ran into a huge chip display.  Seriously, I’m talking the Arc de Triumph of chips.  I stopped and stared for a moment at the 8th wonder of the modern world and then [...]

I’m walking on a lonely road.  Or so it feels that way.  It can be difficult to maintain that elusive, and not so little thing, called motivation. Last week, I had enough motivation for an army.  Today, I considered getting out of bed an accomplishment.  I blame it on Present Monster Syndrome (PMS). I’m not sure [...]

  Stories of sadness, fear, and loss are surrounding us during this unstable time.  It seems to me that many people are walking through “valleys” right now.  I was thinking about this today.  I don’t like being in the valley. I like being on top of the mountain.  It’s a much better view.  But I [...]

Each day we can look at our goals as a fresh sheet of paper. Everyday we each get so many hours to fill our blank sheet of a paper with drawings.  I must confess I struggle with getting started.  More often than I’d like to admit I doodle meaningless little squiggles along the edges just [...]

I feel like I’m wobbling on the edge of losing all self-control.  I’m not thinking about dying my hair blond and leaving my family in search of Elvis.  It’s food.  Once again I’m struggling to not be controlled by food.  Will this fight ever end?  Probably not. At least, as long as I live in [...]

I was at a The Corner Bakery Cafe in Burbank the other day and saw on the table behind me two unfinished desserts.  ”What in the world??” Here’s a close up.  Yes I looked like a freak getting up and taking pictures of people’s uneaten food. Two half eaten pastries. Who does this???  Actually there [...]

It might not seem like it but I actually have interests other than fitness and food.  I’ve been trying to get up early for weeks so I can start writing another screenplay.  You can see a trailer my short film, Sunny Life here. I weight about 25 more pounds than I  do now and I [...]

I began this blog with one goal in mind: to share my story and the knowledge I have (and will learn) in hopes that some might be encouraged and inspired.  In the first email to my friends when I was letting them know what I was up to, I said Competing to Lose was my [...]