253 this week. First down direction in three weeks. I'm cautiously optimistic I'll make it to 250 for next weeks final weigh in. We...

As a libertarian, I'm a firm believer in smaller government. I'm not sure we need our military spread out across the world; I'm ...

Can you say plateau? I was flat week ten at 254, then went up to 256 the Friday after Thanksgiving. But, the last three weeks had my wedding...

My goodness, what a great gnashing of teeth in some quarters that President Obama has been reelected. Reactions have ranged from agonizing s...

Made it! And now I really need new pants.

257. So, so close to being down 30 pounds from my starting weight. I'm going to try to be aggressive this week with exercise to try to h...

259. I can tell I'm starting to plateau a bit. May need to bump up my workouts to compensate. Stay tuned....

A lot of pundits are commenting on how often Romney agreed with Obama last night on a whole string of foreign policy issues. Even when he ma...

I've been using a CPAP machine for two months now. This week, I had a follow up with the CPAP tech who confirmed what I already knew...

Despite eating out all weekend, Cheryl and I both had good progress on our weight loss this week. I've now lost 24 pounds since starting...

262 pounds at my work weigh in this morning. On my home scale undressed I'm consistently getting weights under 260 most mornings. I ha...

This weekend at Capclave, I'm going to be on a panel with James Morrow called Doublespeak. The panels topic is: "The proliferation ...

Long time readers of my blog know I used to write a lot about politics. I eventually shied away from such posts for a couple of reasons. Fir...

Weighed in today at 264 pounds. A bit of a surprise; I'm obviously clothed at work for these weigh ins, and my home scale had me at 266 ...

I got my bloodwork results in the mail today. Results were even better than expected! Last year, most of my cholesteral numbers were right o...

Weigh in today: 267. Can I hit 264 by next Thursday? I know I'll probably plateau soon. But, for now, I'm happy with my results. I...

Today at work I weighed in at 271 pounds. That's 13 pounds gone since starting my dietary changes two weeks ago. I'm less than a wee...

I weighed in today at 274 pounds. Losing ten pounds in a week is a nice start, but I'm realistic that the path ahead won't be quite ...

I'm fat. For the first half of my life, I had the exact opposite problem. When I was a sophomore in college, I only weighed 140 pounds...

Ayn Rand has been in the news lately since Republican VP candidate Paul Ryan is on record as saying that his thoughts on government have bee...