Circa 2004. How many resolutions do you imagine I’d made before, including and after reaching this state of body composition? I don’t know, but I’m sure it had something to do with the typical: eat less, move more. Rich and Rotor …And how many more? Rich and Rotor: double plus more By this time, I [...]

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I suppose the best thing about all of this Paleoishness and conditioning is that though months go by without a lot of progress perceived on my part, it’s gratifying to see it after a year. And guess what? I weigh exactly the same as I did a year ago, about 180. Here’s what it looked [...]

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Feedback on my workouts has been so good and helpful that I’m going to take advantage of it. I have already incorporated a number of changes and improvements from comments to my last workout post, so why not just keep it going? While my benefit is clear, it just might motivate some of the others [...]

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My friend Robert snapped the picture to the left this was cropped from sometime in the spring of 2007, nearly three years ago. The one to the right was Christmas evening, cutting up the prime rib. It was right around the time I began this most wonderful journey, though I initially began pretty much with [...]

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Things have been going quite well. Since publishing my last series of personal progress updates nearly three months ago here and here, I went through a couple of months bouncing between 180 and 183 (5’10). Then, last week, maybe the week before, I suddenly went to 178. Then it was back to 180, and, now… 176 this morning, [...]

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Many have bugged me to update the photos (now) to the right. Beatrice is still complaining, but until she comes up with something, this is what it is. While looking for stuff, I used iPhoto’s facial recognition, and one of the ones it came up with was an old one from a trip to Hawaii in 2005. Wow, what a no-neck, carb-face whale I was. The new face was cropped from this photo of Beatrice and I on the cruise last week. P.S. The design shifted to this new column arrangement as I gear up with the developers for the near-term move to WordPress.

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Wow. It’s been just over two years since this greatest journey of my life began (unnecessary; wish I’d never let myself go so far astray). Nevertheless, here I am, and I wish to first acknowledge the growing number of enthusiastic readers who, I believe, have a major role in this. I really doubt I would have seen it through without your enthusiastic words of encouragement, excitement, and motivation every single step of the way. Not one single time, either in comments, email, or in person have I received a single negative word. Not once. Thank you for your tireless encouragement. It means a lot to me. In return, my sincere hope is that these photos, more than anything else, encourage and motivate all of you on similar paths. Don’t give up. Never quit. Achieving leanness and renewed vitality is within virtually everyone’s grasp. Alright, this is the third official photo update. The first was in February, 2008, and the second, September, 2008. As always, let’s begin with how bad it got. Pretty bad, eh? Here we are nowadays, and you can click these for the full-size versions. Here’s a montage of pics Bea took yesterday afternoon while I was getting…

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Don’t know how many times over the last few months I’ve been asked about putting up new progress photos. Well, I had decided to do them each 10 pounds of loss, and since my last were done at about 193, I decided to wait — no matter how long — until I hit 180 or less. Well, today I hit exactly 180, on the nose. So, I had my trainer snap some photos. Unfortunately, they all came out quite blurry, save one, so here it is. I’ll get some others up within a few days.

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Mark Sisson graciously invited me to share some of my experiences on his very popular blog. It’s one of the top health and fitness blogs on the Internet. So go have a read at my guest post. After the first of the year, Mark will be reciprocating with a guest post on Free the Animal.

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I’m trying to get out a photo of my continuing evolution (an intended pun, there) about every 10 pounds of net loss. Last one was at a bit over 200 pounds, and this is at a bit over 190. But let’s take a trip back, first. Me, on a European vacation, a mere two summers ago. Oh, one more. We’ll call it “fat me II.” Doing what I did best, back then. Here’s the comparison I published last February between me around this time last year and 3-4 months later. Note: the before is actually after about 6 months of my brief, intense resistance training of two 30-minute sessions per week. The second is only 3-4 months later, having incorporated a proper (Paleo-like) diet, also including intermittent fasting in about the last month. Now here’s a photo from just yesterday, taken a bit after a workout, so, there’s a bit of a lactic acid “pump” going on. Now, let’s run that comparison from a year ago to today. Still a ways to go. The abs are there, but unlike those who are content to make fools of you with the latest infomercial “ab this & that,” you simply need to…

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