So I’m doing my 3rd Half Marathon a week from today. I did one in April of 2017, then last April. I am quite calm about it overall, as I believe I…
Category: Running & Health
Day 206: I finally learned how to eat
These days, my diet has waaay changed from what it used to be. Since last summer, I have a completely altered my way of eating: not only have I stuck to intermittent…
Day 177: A Jog in the Fog
This morning I took a nice 9-mile jog from our flat in Midtown Sacramento to Discovery Park, across the bridge, to Old Sacramento, and back home. It was a nice calm Sunday…
Day 146: Fast Times with Intermittent Fasting
Over four months ago, at the end of August, I began doing intermittent fasting. This involved a significant but quite manageable adjustment to my eating schedule. Instead of eating at all hours…
Day 136: A Winter Wonderland of Leaves
Okay, so maybe we Californians at coastal altitudes do not get to experience those winters that are the mythical subject of so many Holiday songs. The key missing ingredient, of course, is…
Day 117: Cereal of the Gods!
I have always been a big cereal fan. Ever since I was a child, I have associated cereal with comfort food… and with home. Up until recently, my wife liked to joke…
Day 100: Sugar Free Me… Well, Almost
So about a month ago I started my sugar-free experiment: one Sunday I stopped eating cereal, grains, breads, and processed sugar. I did this in conjunction with my intermittent fasting to make…
Day 98: It’s All About Attitude
I have heard Tony Robbins (I think) say, “Success Leaves Clues.” Well, I heard that somewhere, and very likely Tony Robbins said it, if not many others. To me, this concept means…
Day 81: How Dissatisfaction, Food Poisoning, and a TV Show Brought Me to Intermittent Fasting
So I have been doing Intermittent Fasting for over seven weeks now, and as you might guess from the rhyme I wrote about it a few days ago, I couldn’t be happier. …
Day 79: Why I Love Intermittent Fasting (in Rhyme!)
Okay, so keeping with the recent rhymes I’ve been doing, I’m going to write a rhyme about why I love intermittent fasting. First a little background: I “discovered” Intermittent Fasting a few…