During one of my morning workouts, I caught a glimpse of my shadow. In an instant, I went from feeling strong to feeling like a pear or a bowling pin.  No matter how many swings, sprints, or squats I do, I’m still a bit of a pear shape.  I started to get down on myself. […]

It’s July 1st.  That means six months of this year have come and gone.  That leaves 6 more months to accomplish what you set out to do this year.  I re-visted my list of goals from January. 1. Compete in another competition. – Done. 2. Hold a 5 minute plank.  – Over halfway there. 3. […]

A man who wants to do something will find a way; a man who doesn’t will find an excuse. – Stephen Dolley Jr I love making lists and unfortunately my list of excuses is probably one of my longest lists.  For years, I made up all sorts of excuses of why I couldn’t lose weight, get […]

Every time I come across a new weight loss plan my heart skips a beat in hopes that this will be the answer to slimmer thighs and a tighter butt.  I know better.  Even so, today I got an email for some magic fat loss system that claims to have you safely losing more than […]

Am I going to follow through or drive thru??? I’ve been asking myself that multiple times a day the past week.  I’m going to be honest. Training for my upcoming competition has been very hard and lonely.  Last time I didn’t have a trainer but I did have an accountability partner who was training for the same […]

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 […]

I think this is the first year that I don’t have “lose weight” on my new year’s resolution list since I was like 10.  Yeah, I was one of those messed up little kids who thought I was fat in junior high.  I wasn’t.  Not at all. But this time last year I weighed about 16 more […]

I’ve learned some lessons from Bob the Builder. I have to confess, I’ve been lazy with my time. I spend more time thinking than actually doing. We each are given 24 hours a day or 1440 minutes or 86,400 seconds. It makes me sad to think about how many hours of my life I’ve wasted. […]

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 […]

Even it is a little cliche. “It’s not how many times you get knocked down. It’s how many times you get up.” Or as my mom once told me, “You take a licken’ and keep on ticken’.” I don’t know who first said it but I like it. A lot. As an “aspiring”  actor/filmmaker/writer I’ve […]