We had a neighborhood party tonight, to say goodbye to some good friends who are moving to St. George tomorrow.  There were a lot of people there, all neighbors who I know well, but with everyone’s busy schedules and lives,…

“I can’t lose weight unless I start eating right and exercising.  But I can’t exercise because I’m so heavy that everything hurts when I do anything.  But if I can’t exercise, what’s the point of eating right?” That’s the cycle…

I realized today that I hadn’t mention this here on the blog yet, and I wanted to make sure it’s here for anyone who is thinking about giving it a shot. The first couple weeks I was doing Slow-Carb, I…

Earlier today, when I was writing about “The Biggest Loser,” I got off onto a tangent that I decided to cut out and make its own post.  This is it.  If it seems like I’m starting mid-thought, I kind of…

I used to occasionally get asked if I had ever considered trying to be on “The Biggest Loser.”  (I didn’t get asked that a lot, because it’s not the kind of thing you ask a person unless you are very…

I want to tell a little story.  I promise it will eventually make sense in the context of this blog. In early March of this year, my oldest son and I took a road trip down to Arizona to watch…

A blog like this is a tricky thing — there are some general, all-purpose topics I want to cover, but then there are also some specific, practical aspects of what I am doing that I want to share.  As I’ve…