The holiday season, traditionally, for me, is a straight run from the first week of October all the way through the new year – almost 3 months of unfettered food hedonism filled with meats and candies, gravy and rolls, and general gluttony galore. Does that paint a pretty picture? Probably not, but it sure has [...]
Posts from ‘November, 2009’
How to eat at Claim Jumper without killing your diet…
Many restaurants are a challenge for the diet-concious, but perhaps none so much as Claim Jumper, land of gargantuan portions of fatty, tasty meat. Just check out their nutritional information right here (and kudos to them for offering this information in an easy-to-read chart format at every table, at least here in Washington state). Keep [...]
What’s the mindset?
Successful dieting, I think, requires the right mindset and attitude. I have started several diets before, none of them successfully. There’s a saying: “Diets don’t fail. We abandon them.” I started this diet in September, when I weighed 251 pounds, and I was determined to do it differently than before. The mindset really feels different [...]
Cracked 230!
After almost two weeks of stagnating around 231-233 pounds, I finally cracked 230 a couple of days ago to weigh in at 228.8! I’m very excited about this, because it’s the first time I’ve weighed in the 220s in about 10 years. That is a very big milestone for me, and I now begin the [...]
