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#50by50ish #50 – Lose weight – Two strikes down

The PolyBlog
November 22 2019

Well, my first attempt with transparent commitment, public goals, everything arrayed to push me led initially to weight loss of about 30 pounds, and then regained about 15 of it. Strike one.

My second attempt, my “reboot” this year, was wiped out by depression and I ended up not only regaining all of the other 15 pounds I had first lost, but I also added another 5 on top of it. Pushing me to my largest weight ever, 345 pounds. Strike two.

Sigh.

So I’m working on a reboot plan, I know why it’s not working, and what I need to do, but apparently the online transparency plan isn’t working for me as a way of keeping my nose to the grindstone. I have a couple of new things to try, but I guess I’ll try those out on my own and post updates more sporadically. Stay tuned!

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#50by50ish #45 – Pampering myself at Tommy Gun’s

The PolyBlog
July 4 2019

Last year, I tried to do 50 things by age 50, and then stretched the deadline so I would do them while I was still 50 i.e., before I turned 51. A couple of them are still pending write-up, just got sidetracked on a couple, plus there are a couple that I haven’t finished yet. One of them was to go to Tommy Gun’s for a full shave and haircut. For those of you not experienced with Tommy Gun’s, it’s like a high-end hair salon for men, as per their advertising: THIS IS HE TIME. Get a haircut, shave and … Continue reading →

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#50by50ish #50 – Rebooting my weightloss efforts (2.01)

The PolyBlog
April 3 2019

When last we saw our intrepid hero (i.e. me), he was facing a cliff-hanger of epic proportions (literally). He had plateaued, become relatively inert, started to despair, and wallowed in frustration. I needed a break. So I took one. My “goal” for my break was to take my mental energy off my weight and health, and while I wasn’t planning to abandon all my new practices, I didn’t want to be tracking everything every day, only to see no progress. I stopped in early February, and planned to go to the end of March. That was this past Sunday. So … Continue reading →

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#50by50ish #50 – Lose weight – Part 16, complete failure

The PolyBlog
February 20 2019

If you’ve read my blog in recent weeks, you’ll have noticed a trend. Lack of movement. Increasing despair. Frustration. Wallowing. I am struggling to keep with my program, and to get ANY momentum at all, ranging even from eating healthier with my snacking and breakfast times all the way through to actual being ready for exercise. I’ve been trying various things to “re-energize” my approach but most of it is frankly just not working. So today marks my last post on this topic until Spring hits. I’m just focusing too much on negative sides of what I’m not accomplishing that … Continue reading →

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#50by50ish #50 – Lose weight – Part 15, my digital resources

The PolyBlog
February 8 2019

While I should be doing a full update for measurements and everything, I’m really not feeling it at the moment. And so I didn’t do an update on Wednesday. But someone asked after a previous post if I was going to post about what I was using for resources — websites, apps, etc. — and I wrote this up last weekend, so if anything might jive for others, I might as well share. Apps I tried out a bunch of apps, and very few resonated with me. I tried weight trackers, nutrition ones, stuff about exercise, and a raft of … Continue reading →

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