I’m almost certainly going to upset someone with this, which isn’t my intention. I feel that it needs to be said anyway.

There are many quirks of language use that I find irritating. One among them, I find irritating for the implications it carries. That’s the phrase “that doesn’t work for me” or the variant “that might work for you, but…” ( Read more... )

Let’s talk about weight loss for a bit.

Ever since I first learned of the Hacker Diet, I’ve been a proponent of the idea that calories in < calories out = weight loss. It makes intuitive sense. Your body is a giant furnace, requiring fuel. You provide it that fuel in the form of food, which it burns if it needs and stores if it does not. It doesn't ( Read more... )

In March of 2008, I made a commitment to start losing weight.  At that time, I weight 206 pounds (and had already come down from my all-time high of 215, which I only reached through lots of drinking and junk food during college).  My goal was to get down to 175 pounds, which was 5 pounds less than my lowest weight during high school.  Once I ( Read more... )