Start (Dec. 31): 447 lbs. Last week: 437 lbs. This week: 437 lbs. Total lost in 2020: 10 lbs. --- A friend of mine who is a seasonal resident of Keene Valley recently emailed me a list of helpful eating tips from losing weight and getting healthy and said it was OK to share these with my ...
Start (Dec. 31): 447 lbs. This week: 437 lbs. Lost in 2020: 10 pounds --- I hate starting over again when it comes to my physical fitness, which isn’t very good at the moment. Gone are the days when I was training for and competing in the Lake Placid Half Marathon in 2014 and 2015, but ...
Start (Dec. 31): 447 lbs. This week: 440 lbs. Lost in 2020: 7 pounds --- Meatless Monday. It’s a thing. People are being encouraged to skip meat on Mondays — essentially going vegetarian for one day a week — to improve their health and the health of the planet. But why stop there? If ...
Start (Jan. 1): 457 lbs. End (Dec. 31): 447 lbs. Lost in 2019: 10 pounds --- There’s one major problem with the Lake Placid Diet; there are too many voices in my head. The vast majority of people who’ve contacted me about the column since I began writing it six years ago have been ...
It’s like looking in a full-length mirror every time I file a new column. That’s why it’s taken me so long to give you an update on the Lake Placid Diet. I dread looking in the mirror. Like many people, I have a problem with overeating and underexercising, and I don’t like the way I ...
A childhood friend of mine died last week, just shy of his 53rd birthday. I’ll be 50 in September, and it gets me thinking, “How do I want to live for the next 10 years?” You’d think that my own near-death experiences in 2011 (hemorrhoidectomy) and 2017 (blood clots) were enough to ...