Tiny Glow

Click on the image below to enlarge the story of my caloric intake and fitness efforts for the month of February:

These are the eggs I bought this weekend at the downtown farmer’s market:

You may not be able to tell from this photo, but the two eggs in the upper right corner are both a pale greenish-blue color. I love it!
When I buy chicken eggs that have been gathered by hand on a nearby farm after [...]

Yesterday morning I headed out to my second open-to-the-community boot camp workout down under the bridge at Town Lake! Remember the first time I went to one of these, just a month ago? Attending that session convinced me to give the whole boot camp thing a go—and doing that has helped me to shed about [...]

I stepped on the scale this morning to the tune of 2 lbs down since last week! Hooray! I’m down 41 lbs overall, which means it’s time for my next mini-reward: scheduling a massage. I have been wanting this massage since September! I am going to savor it.
This past week was so much better than [...]

So after a rough week last week, I decided to be less regimented about certain aspects of my nutrition transformation. As most of you know, I lost my first 35 lbs by just sticking to a calorie budget and exercising regularly, without worrying about the nutritional content of my diet. However, more recently I’ve challenged [...]

Gold star for me—my attendance at boot camp this week was 100%! Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings I was up there on the top level of that parking garage soaking the concrete with my sweat. The view of downtown is pretty fantastic from up there; not that I choose my fitness endeavors based on aesthetics [...]

This past week was the first one since I began this weight-loss effort in which I let life and my emotions truly derail me. The damage included two-thirds a of a Tubular Taco (really an unholy, mammoth burrito/enchilada beast) and two missed workouts (including one session of boot camp). I did lose half a pound [...]

I’m feeling quite a bit better today, although I’m still not sure what shape my Challenge is going to take on. I’m sticking to my plan to stay off the diet soda, because that’s something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time. I hate being dependent on that stuff! Today is Day 5 [...]

Yesterday was a bad day. It just was. And for the first time in almost 5 months, I went “off-plan” with my eating and ordered and ate 2/3 of a big Mexican dinner. I wanted to eat the whole thing; guess I’m not as chompy as I used to be.
Today I’ve been eating normally again; [...]