Reactuate

Thirty days ago I started a low carb diet and a few days later posted about it. Well the book I was following was a 30 day book, so it seem time to give you an update. If a picture is a 1000 words, here they are:

Since I didn’t give weight details at the start […]

I’ve been trying to talk less about myself in the last few days since I read Jason Calacanis’ post about not blogging about yourself and what you are promoting. But, this post will be at least a little about me.
I crossed over the 220 lbs mark right before SXSW. I’ve known for a while I’ve […]

A couple of years ago I decided to do the presidential fitness test every year on my birthday. Well today is my birthday and I went to the local middle school track and did the test. Here’s this years results. You can see 2005 and 2006 results as well.

Event

Ron (42)

Curl Ups (crunches)

46

Shuttle Run

11.68 sec

Push ups

17

One […]

I entered the Survival Blog’s writing contest and my entry was posted today. I’ve been thinking about writing on phsical fitness as a survival skill for awhile now. So when I decided to enter the contest it was the first thing on my mind.
When people talk about preparedness they often focus on the stuff they […]

I haven’t run in a couple of months, but finally got my butt out of bed this morning for a little “test run”. Wanted to see how bad it would be. But you know what? I ran for 25 minutes without stopping. I felt it a little in my legs and back, but not in […]

I’m applying for life insureance and just found my permium doubled because I have hight cholesterol. My main doctor - who doesn’t accept the medical party line - told me the whole cholesterol this was bogus and I shouldn’t worry about it.
Went looking and found this article on the cholesterol myth. Very interesting.

Because I know y’all are waiting with baited breath to find out how I’m doing. It is 3 weeks into the diet now and I’m 199.4 (-11.6 lbs) this morning after a weekend with some cheating. The Mrs made me make homemade ice cream and chocolate chip cookies for a church thing. It is impossible […]

This morning I weighted 203.8, which means I’ve lost 8.2 lbs in a little over a week. I was consistently going down each day until Sunday, when my wife had to make cookies for the church group meeting at our house. See got sugar free cookies, but even then that’s enough carbs to make you […]