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Good day, building willpower

by Colin May 7, 2009

Ok, so I’m not back to where I was a year ago. I lost 30 and gained back 14. I’ve chipped away at 4 pounds of that, so now just 10 more to go! I want to reinforce the “winning moves” by committing to them to everyone: today someone brought donuts, and I didn’t eat [...]

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Seeds of change.. grow better when watched

by Colin May 4, 2009

Ok, I know I can “do right” — eat less, exercise, whatever — but I’ll create change if I reinforce these behaviors by reflecting on how I succeeded and on things I regret from the last day or two. One thing I learned from IOWL (inside-out weight loss) is that we all self-correct. Yo-yo dieting [...]

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Back after a long hiatus; peripatetic method

by Colin May 2, 2009

Hi all! After not exercising for nearly a year, I’ve gained back about 12 of the 28 pounds lost, so have run headlong into an easy “away” motivation to get back into fitness. That is, I am motivated to escape (get away from) wearing the same few clothes I still feel ok in, instead of [...]

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Week 6 weight-in: closing in, I think

by Colin September 1, 2008

(crossposted to fitnessdeathmarch.com) Today, in new shirt Weeks Complete: 6 Starting weight / waist: 194 / 40″ Current weight / waist: 180.4 / 37″ Goal weight: 180 (with strength increases) 7-day change: -5.2 pounds Total change: -13.6 pounds (-32.4 counting from Nov. ’07!) To goal: 0.4 pounds I’m pretty sure I’m at the low end [...]

Weekly weigh-in 4, month one done!

by Colin August 17, 2008

My reward, yesterday (consumed with — suicidally — about 2 tbsps of regular soy sauce the day before a weigh-in): Weeks Complete: 4 Starting weight / waist: 194 / 40″ Current weight / waist: 185.6 / 38″ Goal weight: 180 (with strength increases) 7-day change: -4.4 pounds Total change: -8.4 pounds To goal: 5.6 pounds [...]

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Weekly weigh-in 3

by Colin August 10, 2008

(crossposted to fitnessdeathmarch.com) Yesterday I was on the verge of 6 pounds down, just what I’d be looking for at the end of week three, but then I had to go and eat a pound of stir-fried vegetables for dinner — the sodium in the black bean garlic sauce and the weight of the vegetables [...]

So far so dium

by Colin August 6, 2008

Man, salt sure does screw with the scale.  I don’t want to become too salt or fluid-conscious, but an overnight gain of 5 pounds was pretty impressive.  I think I’ve kicked much of it already, in part by going to the gym twice today. I still read up on it, though, and found some suggestions [...]

1 week down

by Colin July 27, 2008

(crossposted to fitnessdeathmarch.com) Starting weight: 194 Current weight: 191 Goal weight: 180 (with strength increases) 7-day change: -3 pounds Total change: -3 pounds To goal: 11 pounds Highlights of the week, fitness-wise: There was free pizza at the all-day gaming event I attended yesterday, but I had four really good all-natural nutrition bars (2 Larabars, [...]

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Pagan gods

by Colin July 22, 2008

I don’t know about you guys, but variety wherever I can find it helps me stick to my diet. Like Warhol’s silent films of faces, in which the eventual blink is like a thunderclap, adding onions to turkey sandwich #1,006 was a revelation. So, I started the day with something different: 1 cup of pureed [...]

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