Tag: Weight loss

The race is on!!

So far I have not gotten as formal about the exercising as Mark. I have gotten started, and have a plan of action, but in the spirit of bureaucracy that I so love (← can you feel the sarcasm?) I have so far spent more time on the paperwork and planning then the actual activity. That said, I also […]

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The Idiot’s Fitness Progress: Week #2

  I’ll be using this post to update my fitness progress each Monday until we depart on the hike. Thanks to Steve for leading me to the website “myfitnesspal.com” which has been a great help in allowing me to track my calorie intake and exercise. My personal goals for the years and months leading up […]

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I know what I am doing, I swear!

As Mark said, I have been feverishly pretending I have a clue about making websites for a day and a half now. With a fair amount hair pulling (fortunately that does not hurt me much), I have managed to get us a functioning website that (mostly) resembles the original. Comments are still and issue so if you […]

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Our first sucker … ahem … pledger!!

I have been part of many a crazy plan in my time. In recent months I have dubbed myself Steve Quixote, since I am always chasing “impossible” dreams and doing my best to fight evil windmills whenever I come across them. My success rate is not one that inspires Hollywood to make a movie out of my life, but […]

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Humbled Idiot

OK, so Steve has gotten REAL serious about getting in shape and losing weight, hiring personal trainers to yell at him and all……… I walked 4 miles yesterday and had planned on resting until like…..October……….so that my body could recuperate from the trauma of yesterday’s walk. Then, Steve takes the gloves off, so I have […]

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Things are getting serious now……….

Only 1091 more days until we hit the trail, and Steve has cranked up the training competition a notch or two…. Steve knows that most of the calories I burn in a typical day are burned while sitting here typing at the computer on one of the 3,951 blogs in my Idiot Empire. Steve also […]

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The trail tail grows

I did not really intend to write again so soon, but the decision to go forward with this has given me a serious sugar high. It has nothing to do with anything I have ingested recently. I swear! As youse observant types might have noticed, there is a new menu item up that away ↑↑↑. Whatever you do, […]

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Oh yeah, we are supposed to be training: Day 1.5

GuiltedInspired by Mark’s fresh start and enthusiasm, I too must step it up, and it does not hurt to post the official starting stats to shamegoad me into action. So here I am with the details of MY fresh start: April 3, 2013 9 pm A Wedding Function Hall Taochild (affectionately known as Kramer in this […]

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