The Month Flew By! My Final Thoughts on Personal Trainer Food

At the end of December, I started a Personal Trainer Food program called RECON. They provided me with a four-week supply of food, and I followed their program diligently. On simple terms, it’s a very low-carb program (no grains, no sugar, almost no fruit), and I was eager to switch up my eating. So for the past month, I’ve been enjoying their food (which is basically all proteins and veggies), and having meals like this:

Italian Style Meatballs with Omaha Vegetable Blend

The month flew by! It seems like it’s only been a few days since

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These Are the Last Photos I’m Gonna Share from Seattle and Portland, I Swear

I must’ve written reams about my three days in Seattle and Portland (case in point: this post and this post), and I’m almost done, I promise. Just one more post, because this was a successful weekend in addition to my stair racing endeavors. Why? Largely because of snacks.

My trip fell during my final week of my month doing the

The Second Half of an Brutal, Exhausting and Undeniably Awesome Weekend (Portland Fight For Air 2016 Race Recap)

I woke up in Portland on Sunday with a very peculiar combination of feelings. I was still riding high with pride, thanks to my record-breaking performance during the Seattle Fight For Air Climb just 24 hours earlier. I was was also sore, achy and stiff, also thanks to that Seattle race, because racing up 160 stories is, to put it mildly, difficult. Then, when I flung open the curtains in my hotel room and saw the race venue right across the street, I started feeling really, really nervous.

The US Bancorp Tower (which the locals call ‘Big Pink’) is about the

The First Half of an Brutal, Exhausting and Undeniably Awesome Weekend (Seattle Fight For Air 2016 Race Recap)

WHAT. A. WEEKEND. You wouldn’t guess it from the pain and misery on my face in this first photo, but this weekend delivered outrageous amounts of happiness. I wouldn’t be surprised if my blood was currently comprised of red and white blood cells, plasma, platelets, and PRIDE.

You may already know the headlines if you follow me on social media (find me on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter), but here’s the nutshell:

Well, At Least This Shitty Week Was a Healthy One

My car has been in and out of the shop for the past week. I have my car now, but it’s been a super frustrating experience, and an expensive one, too, but this isn’t a blog about auto repair, is it? So instead of boring you with details about alternators and poor customer service, I’ll share the details about how I turned a shitstorm of a week into a healthy one.

TUNE-IN ALERT! I’m Going on the Radio Tomorrow!

Whatcha doin’ tomorrow (Wednesday, 1/20/16) at 11:30am EST? I’m gonna be on the radio! I’ll be chatting with fitness expert Tom Holland on “The Burn: The Bowflex Radio Show.” We’re going to be discussing weight loss, stair racing, and more! You can listen LIVE by going to www.wgch.com, or, if you’re in the Greenwich, Connecticut area, just tune your radio to AM 1490!

Now I Know What Kangaroo Tastes Like

I had to clean out my freezer a few weeks ago to make room for all the Personal Trainer Food that arrived, and in doing so, I found something I forgot I had: KANGAROO MEAT!

I bought this a while back – a year or two ago, perhaps – at Sprouts. They have a small selection of frozen game meats, like

It’s My Anniversary… And I Know Exactly What You Can Get Me

Six years ago this month, I weighed 402 pounds.

Six years ago this month, Richard Simmons reached out to me, after meeting me in person only a couple hours before, and offered to help me lose weight.

Six years ago this month, and after 2 or 3 weeks of hemming and hawing, I took Richard up on his offer.

It’s been six long years that I’ve been working hard to get my health under control, and the end result still astounds me: I’ve lost 160 pounds and kept it off!

Left: Me in 2007. Right: December 2015, at the Hike the Halo race.

I’m so proud of

Personal Trainer Food Update – I’m Two Weeks In!

Two weeks ago, I started on a new food program called RECON from Personal Trainer Food. They very kindly shipped me a month’s worth a food, and I’ve been eating it! I wanted to do a little update, since I’m about halfway through the month.

My Favorite Smoothie Recipe – You’ll Love It Too!

Smoothies are usually a let’s-see-what-I-have-around affair. I’ll put in a little of this, a little of that, whatever fruits and veggies are about to go bad, or whatever, and I never measure or even jot down how I made them. That makes mediocre smoothies easy to forget, and great smoothies difficult to replicate!

Recently, though, I started paying attention, and through trial and error, I refined one of my recipes to the point where I can say that