August 19th, 2008 — , Blog, clutter, dead web sites, dmoz, weight-loss-blogs from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
One of the blocks of clutter I have in my life is that I go off on these tangents that interest me but that really are something I probably shouldn’t be focusing on. Tonight is a great example. I noticed from my referral logs that I was getting some hits from my [...]
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August 18th, 2008 — , Exercise, Life, Other Blogs, clutter, time management, weight loss blog from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
If there is one thing I have learned this year it is that you only have so much time in a day to accomplish all of the things you need to get done. Think of a 24 hour period as a box, and the daily tasks blocks that you are putting into the box. [...]
Related StoresAugust 6th, 2008 — , Guest Posts, Health, fitness, lifestyle, weight loss blog from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
This is a guest post by Andrew Scott from Discipline or Regret.
Living a fitness lifestyle brings holistic benefits to not only the physical body but also our psychological well-being. This should be anyone’s first step to a successful life, because when you are healthy physically and mentally then you are going to be ready [...]
Continue reading → The Fitness Lifestyle: So What Are You Getting Off Your Ass For?
August 5th, 2008 — , goal setting, goals, weight loss, weight loss blog from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
No excuses but I neglected to post an update on Sunday but I have updated the graphs since I did weigh-in on Sunday. Flatline is not what I want but it’s better than going up. I’m going to work hard this week to lose at least a couple of pounds and keep up [...]
Related StoresAugust 2nd, 2008 — , Blog, Guest Post, guest blog, guidelines from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
I finally got around to establishing some guidelines for guest posts and will start accepting submissions now. Guest posts are a good way for me to give you different points of view than what you normally get from me and a great opportunity for the guest poster to get some exposure to their blog, [...]
Related StoresJuly 31st, 2008 — , Health Blog Posts, aquasana, contest winner, giveaway, gymsoap, water filter from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
Congratulations to the winners of my Soap & Water contest, I’ll be contacting you for details on how you can receive your prizes.
There were 3 winners of a bottle of GymSoap and 1 Grand Prize winner of a water filter combo pack from Aquasana.
Congratulations again!
I recommend the Don’t Go Broke Weight Loss eBook
Tags: water [...]
Continue reading → Winners Announced for Soap & Water Contest!
July 31st, 2008 — , Observations, documentation, history, weight loss, weight loss blog from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
As you can easily see by my graphs I was doing well until the beginning of this year at which point I took a bit of a slide until a month ago, when I weighed in at my highest for some time, 279. I’m now a month in and had an unofficial weigh-in today [...]
Related StoresJuly 30th, 2008 — , Products, antifungal soap, aquasana, contest, giveaway, gym soap, water filter from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
As a reminder, my Soap & Water Giveaway Contest ends tomorrow night - I’m not exactly sure when I’ll have the time to close it off so get your entries in early if you can. So far I think I have about 20 contenstants each with a varying amount of entries.
In this contest I [...]
Continue reading → Soap & Water Giveaway Contest Ends Thursday
July 25th, 2008 — , Exercise, diet, goals, running in boston, weight loss goals from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
Since we are leaving for Boston this morning and not getting back until Sunday night I thought I would post an update today on my goals for the week since I won’t be posting my normal Sunday update (and unless I have the time and a computer in the hotel I probably won’t be posting [...]
Related StoresJuly 24th, 2008 — , Observations, big fat blog, fat acceptance, the gap, xxl from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
According to the Big Fat Blog The Gap has decided to no longer carry XXL sizes for men. As I don’t shop at the Gap this decision does no impact me (I still need to buy XXXL at speciality stores) but I find it fascinating that it can make this decision in light of the fact [...]
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July 22nd, 2008 — , Exercise, Feelings, diet, weight loss blog from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
Amy,
Do you remember back in January when we were talking about the weight I had lost and you asked me what was making the biggest difference in my success? What I told you was, to put it simply, eating less and exercising more.
But there was something I didn’t tell you.
Since August of last year, almost [...]
Continue reading → In Which I Tell My Wife About My Weight Loss Blog
July 21st, 2008 — , Health Blog Posts, goal setting, lose weight, weekly goals, weight loss goals from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
Given the success of my goal setting last week I decided I would try again this week. In yesterday’s update I mentioned my schedule was a little turned around this week with a travel day but I was only talking about my work schedule - I completely forgot that my wife and I are going [...]
Related StoresJuly 20th, 2008 — , Updates, lost weight, weekly update, weight loss blog, whey protein shake from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
Diet starting weight: 295
Week starting weight: 277
Today’s weight: 275
Week weight loss: 2 lbs
Total weight lost: 20 lbs
Last Sunday I established three goals for myself this week and I am pleased to say that I accomplished all three. I am particularly happy to have lost the two pounds that I set out for myself as [...]
Related StoresJuly 18th, 2008 — , Products, aquasana, contest, giveaway, gymsoap, soap and water from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
I’m always looking for ways to give back to my readers, which is why I occasionally hold free giveaway contests. Being able to send a free bike valued at $400 to Mama Bear June was one of the high points on my blog this year.
This time, I’ve take a little different approach. I’ve [...]
Continue reading → Announcing the Soap & Water Giveaway Contest
July 18th, 2008 — , Products, aquasana, filtration, water filters from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
Disclaimer: While this is not a paid review Aquasana has offered to provide a prize to be used in a contest giveaway. Nonetheless, my opinions are my own.
A key part of my journey from fat to fit is drinking a lot of water. At least a gallon a day if I can. [...]
Related StoresJuly 18th, 2008 — , Products, antibacterial, antifungal, bacteria, gym soap, gymsoap from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
Disclaimer: While this is not a paid review I did get sent a sample bottle and 3 additional bottles to use in a contest giveaway. Nonetheless, my opinions are my own.
If you are on the path to a healthy lifestyle like me you probably spend a fair amount of time in the gym. [...]
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July 16th, 2008 — , Observations from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
So far so good in my quest to achieve my goal of losing two pounds this week. Monday I was about as good as I can be, Tuesday I was good until dinner, then we went out for my wife’s birthday to where the kids wanted to go - Buffalo Wild Wings. While [...]
Related StoresJuly 14th, 2008 — , calories, diet, food diary, food journal, weight loss blog from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
The first goal in my goals for this week was to record 100% of everything I ate today. Mission accomplished:
Breakfast
2 egg omelet with avocado, mushrooms and a little smoked provolone. (531 calories)
12oz Spicy V8 (75)
16oz decaf coffee with 2 sugars at McDonalds (for the commute) (30)
Morning Snack
Banana (105)
Lunch
Small bowl Thai Curry soup with no [...]
July 13th, 2008 — , Add new tag, Health Blog Posts, lose weight, weekly goals, weight loss blog, weight loss goals from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
Inspired by a reminder of the importance of making small, incremental changes I am going to do something which I haven’t done for awhile and that is set some goals for the week.
Goal #1: I am going to record 100% of everything I eat and drink on Monday.
I have always had a hard time doing [...]
July 13th, 2008 — , Updates, olive garden, one hundred pushups, weekly update, weight loss blog from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
Diet starting weight: 295
Week starting weight: 277
Today’s weight: 277
Week weight loss: 0 lbs
Total weight lost: 18 lbs
I actually had a pretty good week this week despite what the scale said this morning. Yesterday I weighed in a pound lighter, unfortunately I think what put me back up to 277 for today was dinner last [...]
Related StoresJuly 12th, 2008 — , Products, Weight Loss Program, don't go broke weight loss plan, dr. kal, weight loss plan from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
Disclaimer: While this was not a paid review I do get a referral should you choose to click through and purchase the product.
I was recently contacted by Dr. Kalvin C. Chinyere ( aka Dr. Kal) to review his Don’t Go Broke Weight Loss Plan eBook.
Dr. Kal has been writing on his blog since November [...]
July 12th, 2008 — , binging, diet, health vice, lose weight, nighttime eating from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
This is the closest I’ve gotten to the start of a meme, where Fit36 started this meme by tagging Andrew who tagged me.
Fit36’s vices are eating out at lunch and tequila. Andrews exercise vice had been having his exercise plans fizzle out (but he is past that now as evidenced by now being a [...]
Continue reading → What is Your Biggest Health/Fitness Vice?
July 6th, 2008 — , Exercise, Updates, diet, weekly update, weight loss blog from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
Diet starting weight: 295
Week starting weight: 279
Today’s weight: 277
Week weight loss: 2 lbs
Total weight lost: 18 lbs
I should have known better than to think I’d be able to have a perfect week this week, especially with parties to attend on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I probably better stick with one day at a time [...]
Related StoresJuly 3rd, 2008 — , Food, Health Blog Posts, calorie bombs, fowl balls, turkey testicles from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
I wanted to point out a couple of articles I read today that I thought were interesting and relevant.
First is this unique description of a succulent ballpark treat from Andrew Zimmern’s Chow & Again food & dining blog.
Chris Schwab, with the Sioux Falls Canaries Baseball Club in South Dakota, sent me an e-mail a few [...]
July 2nd, 2008 — , Exercise, Health, diet, health plan, weight loss from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
On Monday when I wrote that I was going to go after a perfect week of health I had major doubts as to whether it was the right thing to do. One day at a time is surely a better approach, particularly when I have been off the wagon for so long. Yet [...]
July 1st, 2008 — , Challenge, Pushups, crunches, exercising, hundredpushups, one hundred pushups from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
Like many of my fellow fatbloggers I’ve signed up for the One Hundred Pushups Challenge. The correspsonding program is a progressive training program designed to slowly, over a period of at least 6 weeks, get you from sloth to stud. At least that’s the idea.
Yesterday I did the initial test which simply calls [...]
June 30th, 2008 — , Exercise, Health, diet, health plan, weight loss from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
After being bad for so long I don’t know what makes me think I can make it past a day, let alone a week, but my goal for this week is to have that perfect week. Stay on my diet. Get the exercise in. No binging. With July 4th parties it’s [...]
Related StoresJune 26th, 2008 — , Health, Products, diet, fizzy lizzy, sparkling juice from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
photo credit: iirraa
I was recently contacted by the PR department at Fizzy Lizzy with an opportunity to sample their sparkling juice and to write a review of their product. I said I would agree to do so on the condition that they understood my review would be honest and that if I didn’t [...]
June 25th, 2008 — , Exercise, Health, exercising, swim, swimming, swimming pool from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
I don’t believe I have mentioned it before, but we have an in-ground pool. We put it in 4 years ago or so and if you don’t try to calculate the per-swim cost it’s been great. The idea behind getting the pool was that the kids and their friends would tend to congregate [...]
Related StoresJune 24th, 2008 — , Las Vegas, diet, poker, travel, vacation from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
There are two kinds of trips - business and pleasure. Over the last year I have had some success in watching my diet and exercising while on business trips but it’s a different story when I’m on vacation.
And I think that’s OK.
I suppose it’s easy for me to say this given how bad I [...]
June 19th, 2008 — , Health, fitness, poker, vegas from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
I’m leaving for a few days of poker in Vegas tomorrow morning. It’s been hard to get full-bore back into my health plan knowing this trip was coming up. It isn’t that I go wild in Vegas, in fact I pretty much just sit at the tables and drink water, but I do [...]
Related StoresJune 15th, 2008 — , Exercise, Feelings, diet, weight loss from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
The last month I have been extra busy at work with a lot of writing that caused me to have no interest in writing in my personal life. And I’ve strayed significantly from my diet and exercise plan. I’ve updated the charts today and they are not pretty. I am particularly disappointed [...]
Related StoresMay 27th, 2008 — , Restaurants, akita, edamame, hibachi, sushi from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
I took the kids to a new Sushi & Hibachi place tonight thinking it would be a fun thing to do to try something new, give my newly vegetarian daughter some new food options and maybe give me a chance to use the little Japanese I know. I was able to do this because [...]
Related StoresMay 15th, 2008 — , breakfast cereal, calories, cereal, diet, golden grahams from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
I don’t usually eat cereal for breakfast but the last couple of days were exceptions. I needed something fast, and having a bowl of cereal with skim milk sounded like it would hit the spot. How bad can a bowl of cereal be?
How about 640 calories.
How’s that, you ask? Well, first you [...]
May 13th, 2008 — , breakfast, diet, mcdonalds from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
photo credit: ThiagoMartins
[I am writing this while stuck in O'Hare Airport in Chicago- my flight that was originally scheduled to leave at 8:00 is now delayed until 10:30. The joys of flying!]
I’m still no expert at proper eating while traveling and today started in typical bad fashion - breakfast at McDonald’s. The [...]
Continue reading → Bad Meal of the Day - McDonald’s Breakfast
May 11th, 2008 — , Updates, diet, sick, weight loss from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
Diet starting weight: 295
Week starting weight: 274
Today’s weight: 270
Week weight loss: 4 lbs
Total weight lost: 25 lbs
Feels good to see my weight chart move in the right direction again. Of course the cynic in me says losing 4 pounds in a week is easy when I had gained so much recently and I was [...]
Related StoresMay 11th, 2008 — , Products, bike, contest, fuji crosstown from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
My Fuji Bike Giveaway contest had more entrants than I expected, a total of 29 entrants with 13 of you getting an extra entry for giving the post a Stumble. Thank you to all the entrants! The total value of the prize package was almost $500, which is nothing to sneeze at. [...]
Related StoresMay 10th, 2008 — , chorgie, chow chow, maddie, pictures from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
Since I have been as sick as a dog the last few days I thought I would post the puppy picture that has been requested a few times since I mentioned we got a new puppy. Maddie is a Chow Chow/Corgi mix and is about 11 months old. She has a really calm [...]
Related StoresMay 7th, 2008 — , Bad Meal, Subway Sandwich, Worst Meal, diet from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
A comment on Mike’s blog got me thinking about some things I need to do differently, one of which is improve my logging of meals. I’m finding that really hard to do, but I know I need to do it. So to start with I am going to try to write about the worst meal [...]
Related StoresMay 6th, 2008 — , Products, bicycle, bike, lipton, white iced tea from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
As a frequent drinker of Lipton Diet Green Iced Tea I was more than happy to receive an invitation from Lipton to promote their “Free Your Y” campaign around their new White Iced Tea. I have not yet tried the product, but as it is Lipton I am sure it is good. They [...]
Related StoresMay 5th, 2008 — , exercising, strength training, weight lifting from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
I lifted weights this morning for the first time in almost two months and for only the second time since February 12th. Forcing myself to get up at 4:00am to workout wasn’t easy, but it is a habit I just have to get back into - I don’t have the luxury of being able [...]
Related StoresMay 4th, 2008 — , Updates, dedication, weight loss blog from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
Diet starting weight: 295
Week starting weight: 274
Today’s weight: 274
Week weight loss: 0 lbs
Total weight lost: 21 lbs
This is only my second official weekly weigh-in since February, which is a significant problem, both because I have gained weight since then and because I fear I am losing a grip on my program. So I am [...]
Related StoresApril 23rd, 2008 — , Observations, inspiration, inspire, obese from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
I have been thinking a bit about inspiration tonight as I read through some of the recent blog comments. What I am realizing is I don’t know that I know what truly inspires me.
Andrew wrote that I have inspired him:
You can get back on the horse John. Back when you posted about running 2 miles [...]
April 19th, 2008 — , exercising from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
I took a walk this morning with our new puppy Maddie (I’ll have to write up a post about her later, she’s a real cutie!), an approximate 4 mile loop to a local lake and back, with on occasional jog here and there. I probably only jogged about a half mile out of the [...]
Related StoresApril 17th, 2008 — , Media from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
I’m hooked on many of the shows on the Bravo network like Top Chef, Project Runway and Workout. The latter is just starting their third season and I watched the Premier episode “Hard Body… Thin Skin” tonight on my DVR. Workout documents the business of Sky Sport & Spa, an up-scale L.A. gym run [...]
Related StoresApril 8th, 2008 — , colorado, ski, telluride, travel, vacation from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
Skiing was great, nice fluffy winter snow up at the highest altitudes although at the bottom things would get a little slushy towards the end of the day. We had fresh powder almost every day we skied which was great. I skied OK but I’m still too out of shape, particularly with the altitude, to [...]
Related StoresMarch 28th, 2008 — , exercising, ski, skiing, telluride from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
Check out my new weight loss forums!
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March 24th, 2008 — , Blog, Health, community, fitness, forums, weight loss forums from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
Have you checked out my weight loss forums yet?
So far we have 21 registered guests and have had over 165 posts. I think forums are a nice way to interact with my readers and also a great way for my readers who don’t have blogs to share their story. So far the longest [...]
March 23rd, 2008 — , Cardio, Exercise, Updates, plateau, skiing, telluride, weight gain, weight loss from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
Diet starting weight: 295
Week starting weight: 268
Today’s weight: 268
Week weight loss: 0 lbs
Total weight lost: 27 lbs
I started the week off well but could not sustain it. But I’m OK with it. I wish I had lost weight but I know I didn’t deserve to with the effort I put in. I’m [...]
Related StoresMarch 18th, 2008 — , Products, inpirational music, lose weight, skinnysongs, weight loss from john - from fat to fit @ John Is Fit - Personal Weight Loss Blog
When I was contacted last month with an offer to review SkinnySongs I expressed interest, not because I was really interested in the songs, but because I was interested in the back-story of how Heidi Roizen, Founder and Lyricist of SkinnySongs, was using the Blogging community to get the word out about her new venture.
I knew Heidi’s [...]