Reconnect to Mother Nature with Ron, Onlineshoes.com’s Suburb Escapee.

I need to remind myself frequently that it’s taken me years to get in this shape, and I’m not going to fix it in a few weeks. All things considered, it was another successful week working towards my goals. I bought a new scale, one that measures body fat, too. I lost three pounds last week and lowered the BF % several points. Not bad considering I have nine more months to lose the rest of it.

Eat Healthy

As Tremer suggested in the comments of my last post, I’ve been using the Allrecipes.com Dinner Spinner for over a year. I think it was actually the first app I downloaded.

What I like most is I can pick a recipe and have all the ingredients at my fingertips if I’m at the store. The other thing I like is how the comments give you really cool variations on the original recipe. Read More

Reconnect to Mother Nature with Ron, Onlineshoes.com’s Suburb Escapee.

Here it is: The first official week of the New Year and I’ve got some pretty ambitious goals. I’m looking at this more like a marathon than a sprint and I’m still doing my warm ups.

I’ve broken my resolutions down into three basic categories so that I can begin to build a baseline that’ll support all of my goals. I’m really starting from the beginning, AGAIN! This real first week was actually much better than I expected as I’ve made progress in all three areas…

Eat Healthier

I’m weak when it comes to self control over food. It hasn’t been until the last few years that I haven’t been able to eat too much of just about everything. I love to cook almost as much as I love to eat. I joke with my friend Dave that I’m committed to a “Life of Lard” as I’ve convinced myself that you need to slather everything in butter to make it taste good. I’m learning this isn’t the case.
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