Ten things I am not going to miss in six months: My shirts puckering around the buttons over my belly The extreme discomfort of having your belly hang over your belt buckle on long road trips or airplane trips Worrying about buckling the seatbelt on an airplane Not being able to open my laptop on […]
Last week was a travel-for-work week. And this wasn’t just any pop-up-there-for-a-night trip. We had three nights in Chicago (a little city you may have heard of in Illinois – right on Lake Michigan) for a decently large meeting that included an awful lot of the sales team. One of the things to know about […]
And its a freaking selfie. I’m traveling for work this week – and, dear god, these people are trying to make me gain 5 pounds this week with the food. Steak place, seafood place, tonight is Italian. I’m not going to complain about good food, but making good choices is challenging this week. Geocaching is […]
They say that setting goals is important, and communicating them is equally important. In that spirit, lets talk about goals. Back in February I turned 38, and on that day I weighed 314.8 pounds. Which is not as heavy as I was back in 2012 when I started this blog, but still much heavier than […]
O beautiful for spacious skies, In Pangburn, Arkansas, where I grew up, they have been blowing out their 4th of July celebration for decades. The event is an all-day affair that starts with a parade in the morning and ends with fireworks at night. There is live music, free BBQ (a full blown pig-in-the-ground when […]