Posts Tagged ‘fitness’

Tour de France is underway!

Le Tour is underway once again and it has a couple of new twists. Instead of a prologue time trial to begin, this year’s race begins with a true road race. As pointed out by the VS. television crew, this means that anyone can lead after day one. Speaking of the television crew for VS, [...]

Paleo Update

Okay, so it is natural to slip when transitioning your diet from the high-fat, high-processed, high-sugar junk – so I guess I am not a complete failure. I went to see my doctor last night and felt like a nervous kid going to confession. I blurted out, “I totally blew it today with a coke [...]

ChrisCast 05-13-2011

We had a great time at the Jacob’s Well Field Day. Dallin ran (and got first) in all four of his events!

Food, Inc.

Longtime readers know I am a fan of documentaries. I especially like learning about how “the man is keeping us down.” Food, Inc. is not only a great lesson in that but, as someone who has taken a lot of time to educate himself on our food supply, sure to be on my suggested “must [...]

Paleo Faileo

Okay, so I am not 100% on this Paleo Diet yet (see earlier post.) While I have done a good job when my wife is around, I tend to fall back into old patterns quickly without her to keep me honest. The major slip-up has been eating some potatoes (which are no-nos when trying to [...]

ChrisCast 04-11-2011

Chris gets back on the bike – this time for a good cause.

A Cycling We Will Go

That’s right.  The cycling has dropped off quite a bit in the last year – it was my second lowest amount of miles ridden in a year since I started keeping track (29 years ago!) While I have already doubles last year’s total, it is far from a great start.  To that end, and with [...]

Major milestone reached – and a bonus along the way!

That’s right! I have broken the 200lb barrier. Thinking back, the last time my weight began with a 1 instead of a 2, I was about a year out of college. I have officially now lost 41 pounds and accomplished the initial goal I set for my “getting back in shape” plan. In retrospect, it [...]

I will be close, but may come up a bit short

Six months and 36 pounds ago, I didn’t really have a goal for my weight loss – and in the grand scheme of things I still don’t. I sorta pegged 200 pounds as a preliminary goal and put the deadline of June 21st (for personal reasons) as a target date. I am four pounds away [...]

These clothes make everyone look good!

I’ve managed to keep dropping the weight despite some trips to the “fattest city in America.” Houston, Texas. At last weigh-in, I was 208 pounds – a full 32 down from when I moved to San Marcos. I only recently started to actually do strenuous workouts. Up until now, it has all been about 1) [...]