This is my 2020 Diet – Week 13 check-in. I’m going to keep it short and sweet. Why? Because, I just finished my Week 12 check-in two minutes ago. I’m behind a bit. What can I say? Have you seen what’s going on in the world? I’ve been distracted. Work was busy. Hectic, really. I

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First of all, regarding my 2020 Diet – Week 12 check-in, I have to make a full disclosure. This entry is not just late. It’s extra late. I’m writing this entry on the day after my Week 13 check-in was due. Not good! My excuse? Well, can I use this coronavirus pandemic as an excuse?

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Well, the world started falling apart and I went and realized that I hadn’t checked in last week. My 2020 Diet – Week 11 check-in is already six days late. At least I am not putting up two entries tomorrow. Okay, yeah…crazy shit going on out there. And yeah, it’s directly affected my diet and

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This was a terrible week for my diet. I’ve got no excuses either. I could blame it on our new dog by saying that I’ve just been too interested in keeping him occupied. That’s kept me from getting to the gym. Sure. Yeah. I could, but what about all of the extra food and beer

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I was worried. February wasn’t a great month for me sticking to the plan. My intended routine includes at least day during the workweek to involve getting the the gym, eating lighter and avoiding beer. January was a good start to that routine, but February came with some distractions. The first distraction was the fact

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Okay. 2020 Diet – Week 9 check-in. Here we go. February has been a rough month. I’ll admit that. I was easily distracted by temptation due to a change in my intended weekday routine. I took a guitar building workshop that was two or three nights a week for three weeks in a row. It

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Aw man, 2020 Diet – Week 8, and I’ve lost a little ground. It’s not a lot of ground, mind you, but it is ground loss nonetheless. I’ll survive. I’ll bounce back. At least I hope I will. Doing weekly check-ins as I have been doing, I kind of expect the occasional back-step. As long

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This is my 2020 Diet – Week 7 check-in, but I might as well just redirect the post title to Week 6. Why? Well, nothing has really changed since last week. I was pretty good a couple days, but not so good most days. Under the circumstances, it could have been worse. I suppose I

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Wow, has it really been six weeks already? I guess it has. Okay, here it is. This is my 2020 Diet – Week 6 check-in. As usual, here’s a link to where I started this year. I’m going to admit right away that this is going to be a short check-in. It was a rough

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One of the things I wanted to do for 2020 was to make my weight-loss goals a little more realistic. Over the last three years, I’ve pretty much said, “I plan to be down to 205 pounds by the end of the year.” I knew it was a long shot, but I wanted to aim

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