This is one of a series of posts about my health/fitness journey. The first one is here. Part 6. Befores and Afters I promised a blog entry on the whole “Endomorph/Ectomorph” thing and it’s coming, but the research is taking me to some interesting places, and it’s gonna take a while to complete, plus I’m […]

This is one of a series of posts about my health/fitness journey. The first one is here. Part 5. Diet Nonsense Of all the aspects of health and fitness, I believe the most controversial is what we put in our mouths. There is just a huge amount of contradictory beliefs out there about food, and […]

This is one of a series of posts about my health/fitness journey. The first one is here. Part 4. Nerdstrong (part 2) The name itself pretty much sold me. These guys are very good at branding. I only had to read a few reviews to understand that I was the target audience. Nerdstrong is a […]

This is one of a series of posts about my health/fitness journey. The first one is here. Part 4. Nerdstrong (part 1) Before this year, the thought of going to a gym was akin to the thought of singing “Oklahoma!” to the clerk at the local 7-Eleven. It wasn’t in the cards. So was the […]

This is one of a series of posts about my health/fitness journey. The first one is here. Part 3: Old Age Superpowers At fifty three, there’s a lot of things I can point to in myself that aren’t what they used to be. My reflexes are slower. My hearing is worse. My knees are fucked […]

This is one of a series of posts about my health/fitness journey. The first one is here. Part 2: The Change When I was obsessed with Cryptography, I learned about this cool photo. It was on the desk of William F. Friedman who ran a government agency that we now call the N.S.A. In the […]

I’ve lost a lot of weight, rapidly, this year. On Tuesday, September 6, I weighed in at 185 pounds. On Saturday, March 5, I weighed 240 pounds. So a loss of 55 pounds in six months. My goal, which I set in March, was to lose 2 pounds a week for six months, and I’ve […]