Time for a pop quiz! I hope you’ve all been paying attention, since this test represents twenty-five percent of your final semester grade.
1. When a friend presents you with a box of Cheez-Its, do you…
- Politely refuse with, “No thank you! I’m watching my girlish figure!”
- Take a handful, because, well, you know, mustn’t be rude?
- Take a hand off as you embark upon a shark-like feeding frenzy?
2. Your coworkers bring three dozen Krispy Kreme donuts to work (and they’re still warm). Do you…
- Politely refuse with, “No thank you! I’m watching my girlish figure!”
- Watch and drool as others partake, greatly tempted to grab one for yourself, yet you somehow resist?
- Shout, “Hey, look! There goes Elvis!” then grab thirty for yourself as all heads turn?
3. Your family takes you to Red Robin (home of the “Bottomless Fries” basket) to celebrate a minor event (such as the arrival of Friday). Do you…
- Order a salad with extra spinach and a teaspoon of dressing (on the side, of course)?
- Get your usual meal but save half of it for lunch tomorrow?
- Cause Red Robin’s stock price to plummet as you deplete their current fiscal year’s supply of potatoes?
4. You wake up one morning absolutely starving. Do you…
- Fix two pieces of whole wheat toast with a light coating of I Can’t Believe This Cheap Substance Isn’t An Actual Dairy Product?
- Eat a Strawberry Pop-Tart?
- Cause Cap’n Crunch’s stock price to soar as your breakfast actions exceed analysts’ third quarter estimates?
5. On the opposite end of the day, it’s eleven o’clock and you’re about to go to bed. But for some inexplicable reason, you’re still hungry. Do you…
- Brush your teeth and hit the sack, full knowing that filling your belly right before sleep is the worst possible thing you can do?
- Eat a Strawberry Pop-Tart?
- Build yourself a four-foot-tall Dagwood Sandwich in the hopes that in doing so just this once, you might fill yourself up for a week and therefore actually turn this disaster into a positive experience?
Give yourself one point for every “a” answer, two points for every “b” answer, and three points for every “c” answer. How do you rate…?
0 — You are amazing. You shall weigh 80 pounds the rest of your life.
1 to 17 — Not bad but could be a little better. Try cutting down on the time you spend awake.
18 to 155 — Not only is your Switch in the “off” position, it’s actually been disconnected by the utility company.
| Week 1 |
| Start Date |
June 20, 2010 |
| Change from Last Week |
n/a |
| Start Weight |
230.0 |
| Current Weight |
not sure |
| Total Lost |
not sure |
At the end of week one, I find myself with a quiz score in the eleven to thirteen range. I’m definitely no longer eating twenty-seven thousand calories of Pringles each week, but I’m still not what I would consider “on”. Yet. That said, I did find myself at a Dairy Queen two nights ago and I ordered: nothing. Yes, even with the Blizzard’s Twenty-Fifth Anniversary in full force, I celebrated with a sixteen ounce cup of air. So at this point, a couple days into Week Two, I will go with “cautiously optimistic?”
How about you? How’d your quiz score turn out?
June 24th, 2010
This isn’t the first Back to the Fridge rerun. But it is the first time I’ve decided to make it an actual feature of the site. Why? Well, I’m glad you asked! Roni has repeatedly tried to convince me that my blog inspires people. I consistently told her she was crazy, because—let’s face it—who finds […]
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June 22nd, 2010
Last week I reiterated my theory on how a successful weight loss plan is under the complete control of The Switch and that you have absolutely no say over The Switch’s position. In spite of that, fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on your point of view) flipping The Switch on can be greatly influenced upon finding […]
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June 15th, 2010
If you’re new to my blog (and to be honest, I don’t know why you would be since my rabid fan base is made up of the same half dozen returning readers) then you already know all about The Switch. If by some great miracle you’re new here and about to become the seventh rabid […]
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June 8th, 2010
Hey look, it’s me again. I didn’t actually intend to take this much time off. Like so many things in life, it just happened. May was . . . well, let’s just say May is behind us now and leave it at that. I may fill you in later, but what’s important now is I’m […]
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April 29th, 2010
In case you haven’t noticed, it’s been a long time since the continental U.S. has seen a total solar eclipse: February 26, 1979 to be exact. And even then, the greatest point of totality was only visible from Canada. That’s a fairly long dearth, considering the size of this country and how long I’ve been […]
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April 27th, 2010
Well, it was fun while it lasted. I tell you, that first week everything fell right into place. I ate reasonable amounts of food, I didn’t feel hungry, I wrote everything down in The Daily Plate again. It was just like the old days. Now of course I had no real delusions that it would […]
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April 22nd, 2010
I didn’t realize how long it’s been since I gave a book update. That was early January, just after I hit a wall near the end of the first draft. Shortly after that, I abandoned that draft. It was not only good, it was good enough (which is a code word we writers use for […]
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April 20th, 2010
All right, kids . . . looks like for the foreseeable future, Tuesday will be check-in day for me, just to satisfy the planet’s desire to keep track of my awesome progress (or lack thereof). I probably won’t be as witty or verbose or graphic-heavy as I used to be, just in the interest of […]
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April 13th, 2010
Now that the holidays1 are behind us, it’s time to start seriously thinking about getting back on the wagon. For those of you just tuning in, here’s a quick recap: Back in August of 2008, terrified of rising blood sugar readings, I decided to cut way down on the high glycemic foods and more or […]
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March 30th, 2010
The Backstory Back in February of 2009, I received an email from Roni addressed “to my fellow fit bloggers*”. I was one of three recipients and also the reason for the footnote on her salutation, which said, “Yes, Charlie, you’re a fit blogger even if you don’t think you are.” This was over thirteen months […]
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March 11th, 2010
Romeo and Juliet had name troubles. One of them a Montague and the other a Capulet (or perhaps a Jet and a Shark, if that’s more your thing), their love was forbidden by the very labels given to them by their families (or by their toe-tappin’, finger-snappin’ gangs, if that’s more your thing). But Juliet […]
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February 25th, 2010
If you’re a fan of Cosmos or just an astronomy buff in general, then you’ve surely heard of the Drake Equation. Formulated in 1961 by Dr. Frank Drake, duly pictured here, it’s a mathematical equation designed to predict the number of possible extra-terrestrial civilizations out there. It’s fairly straightforward. First, figure out the average rate […]
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February 11th, 2010
The following broadcast is an encore presentation of Back to the Fridge. Please to enjoy one of the author’s favorites while he keeps working on various synopses. Note: if you’re viewing this in a feed-reader and/or cannot see any images, please click back to the site. The pictures are very important. If, on the other […]
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February 9th, 2010
The current book project is, indeed, intended to be a series of books. When I first re-tooled the idea last summer, it looked like it would span five volumes. While writing the first draft and approaching what would have been the end of the first book, I realized the ending I had originally outlined was […]
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February 4th, 2010
If I write a story to rival Hemmingway or Steinbeck, but have not an ending, I am only a whining blogger or a pathetic author wannabe. If I have the gift of prose and can understand the difference between “lie” and “lay”, and if I can write for thirty days straight, but have not an […]
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January 21st, 2010
Way back at the end of January 2009, I was contacted by NURU asking if I’d do a product review and/or giveaway. Can you imagine? A company trying to promote its products via the blogosphere! I mean, next thing you know people will start selling banner ads on the internet. So I said, “Sure,” most […]
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January 19th, 2010
Two things amazed me about my writing progress last year: 1) that I was actually doing it; and 2) that I managed to write over four hundred pages without even the slightest hint of a plot. This is okay for forty pages or so, you know, just introducing the characters, setting, and what not. Maybe […]
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January 15th, 2010
<shortest_post_ever> Remember this post? Hard to believe that was 200 days ago. Hard to believe I was safely in Onederland at that point. Hard to believe I was actually sticking to a plan for nearly a year. Hard to believe that today I’m twenty-three pounds heavier. </shortest_post_ever>
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January 14th, 2010
Way back in my own early days of e-mail, now nigh on two decades ago, I remember receiving an unsolicited, obviously bulk-sent, electronic mail message. I have no idea what it was for but I do know it just made me mad. “How unfair!” I thought. “Someone . . . anyone . . . can […]
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January 11th, 2010
I’m still surprised I made it as far as I did last year on the first draft of the manuscript. Back when I made my 2009 New Year Resolutions, I promised myself I’d finish the first draft by year’s end. And, back in January 2009, I actually thought that might happen. After all, I was […]
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January 7th, 2010
My Christmas? Oh, it was lovely. What did I do? Oh, I ate and ate and ate and ate. Then I ate, ate, ate, ate. After that, I ate some more, then had dessert, after which I ate and ate and ate and ate and ate. Once I was finally done eating, I took a […]
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January 5th, 2010
When the newspaper showed up on the porch last Friday emblazoned with the date January 1, 2010, I have to admit I felt like I’d just emerged from a time machine. 2010? Is that even possible? That can’t be a real date. Real dates, as we all know, start with the number “19”. I might […]
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December 17th, 2009
I remember way back in the day hopping in the car, flipping on the radio, and hearing a Christmas song. It was early December and I thought, “Hey cool, something to get me in the mood.” After the song finished another one came on. Then another and another and another. Now, some dozen or so […]
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December 15th, 2009
Somehow–and I honestly have no explanation for this–it’s December fifteenth already. That leaves no doubt: we’re definitely in The Season. And if by “The Season” you think I’m talking about any one of the eighteen or so holidays that happen between October 31 and January 2, you’d better guess again. Nope. It’s Chex Mix Season. […]
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December 11th, 2009
I’d like to apologize in advance for this. But I can’t help it. Alie and Georgia rock.
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December 10th, 2009
Although I’ve posted bits and pieces of information about the latest book, and even uploaded the opening paragraph to tease you for your reading enjoyment, I haven’t really said much about the book itself. Unfortunately, that’s not about to change today. The good news is, though, I thought I’d at least tell you why. Have […]
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December 8th, 2009
Dory: Hey there, Mr. Grumpy Gills. When life gets you down do you wanna know what you’ve gotta do? Marlin: No I don’t wanna know. Dory: Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming. What do we do? We swim, swim. Ah, were truer words ever spoken? I think Dory deserves a […]
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December 3rd, 2009
First Thursday of the month: time to reluctantly report in. Astute readers may have noticed the reappearance of “Return to Onederland” in the post title. Yep, I can’t pretend I’m mostly still in Onederland and “just over a bit.” No, based on the last couple weeks and what’s surely ahead, it’s time to return to […]
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December 1st, 2009
Here are a couple unbelievable facts. In fact, they’re so unbelievable, you might not even believe them. First up: it’s December. Yes, it really, really is December. Second, and somewhat related, NaNoWriMo is officially behind us. A week ago I called myself a winner, but strictly speaking, this isn’t true. Why? Well, I’m glad you […]
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November 24th, 2009
Since I accidentally posted today’s post last Thursday, I was fully intending to take a day off today. That is, until THIS happened: In case you don’t know what that is, that’s my NaNoWriMo graph. The goal was to write at least 50,000 words in thirty days and I somehow managed to do it with […]
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November 19th, 2009
Two video posts in one week! If you’re thinking this is a blogger’s cop-out because he wants to focus his time on NaNoWriMo, you’re absolutely right. But even if that weren’t the case I would feel compelled to share this with you anyway. If you’re a true geek and don’t exactly consider yourself a spring […]
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November 19th, 2009
While there’s plenty of bad food out there I enjoy eating, most of it is just that: bad. This would include everything from pepperonly pizza to Late Night Taco Doritos to Cheez-Its. These foods all have two things in common: 1) I really, really like them; and 2) if I eat too much of them, […]
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November 18th, 2009
Time for a quiz, kids! Complete the following sentence: “NaNoWriMo is . . .” a) 1667 words a day? b) voluntary torture? c) giving yourself permission to write complete trash? d) all of the above? If you selected “d” then you’re absolutely correct. The full definition of NaNoWriMo can be found in this image from […]
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November 17th, 2009
When my oldest daughter Sarah was eight, she read about Kraft’s annual “Blue Box Kid” contest on the back of a mac and cheese box. The basics of the contest went something like this: write a story, create an image, or produce a video proclaiming your undying love for this mass-produced macaroni and cheese food […]
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November 12th, 2009
Today is the 316th day of the year which means there are now fewer than fifty days until that night we leave our friend’s New Year’s Eve party and fall into that hydrangea bush again. What’s worse, this is the absolutely fastest fifty days on the calendar, so the year is, for all intents and […]
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November 10th, 2009
While I don’t watch television very much, I’m nonetheless quite aware of two dance-related “reality” shows. Oddly enough, they’d be just the kind of reality show I might try out for in the universe where I’m twenty-five years younger, in great shape, and, well, you know, actually possess the ability to dance. Which I don’t. […]
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November 6th, 2009
I just happened to run across this yesterday and I have to tell you I just about had an aneurysm watching it, I was laughing so hard. It is thoroughly brilliant in both concept and execution. (My guess is you’ll either get it or you won’t. I really, really hope it’s the former.) Click on […]
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November 5th, 2009
Things were looking pretty good just a few weeks ago. After faltering for a while, I finally got my head on straight, lost six pounds in a week, and was well on my way to a new, svelte self. What a difference a few spins of the earth upon its axis makes. I know y’all […]
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November 3rd, 2009
Although we’re already a couple of days into November, I can’t let my favorite holiday just come and go without any mention of it whatsoever. That would be like winning a two brazillion dollar lottery and not telling anyone about it. Which I did once, so I’m not about to do that again. I was […]
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October 29th, 2009
Yep, there it is again. Long-time readers will recognize this as the book I’ve been hopelessly hyping for the last . . . wait for it . . . two years. That’s right. This book was officially unleashed on the publishing world exactly two years ago today: October 29, 2007. Happy Anniversary to me! Well, […]
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October 27th, 2009
I didn’t get to bed that night until six in the morning. Through a deadly combination of late night gaming and even later night calls from work, I didn’t fall asleep until the gray light of early morn began to appear outside my bedroom window. Fortunately, I still managed to get about five hours in, […]
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October 22nd, 2009
I’ve heard that part of being a good writer is also being a good reader. Of course, if you follow that logic (and also happen to be a big fan of Pixar films) you might also conclude that part of being a good chef is also about being a good rat. But hey, some things […]
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October 20th, 2009
As everyone knows, there are two kinds of people in the world: those that divide the world into two kinds of people and those that don’t. I used to place myself in the former category, but now I find myself in the uncomfortable position of having to alter long-held beliefs. There are actually three kinds […]
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October 15th, 2009
I just realized it’s been seventy-three days since I’ve mentioned anything about my weight. I know! It’s hard to believe the earth is still rotating on its axis. I thought for sure we would have crashed into the sun if I ever stopped publicly reporting my weight on a weekly basis. I also just realized […]
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October 13th, 2009
Welcome to Back to the Fridge 4.0. For those of you not keeping score at home, here’s the deal: for the better part of a year, I posted five times a week, then caught a bad case of blogfunk last May and finally took the summer off, more or less. But I’m back! A bit […]
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October 1st, 2009
What? It’s October First already? That doesn’t sound right! Hang on, let me get my calendar. flip, flip, flip, flip Okay, according to my calendar here, it’s only April. I might give you May and as a very long shot maybe June. But in no case can it possibly be October already. . . . […]
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September 28th, 2009
I just realized I missed the beginning of fall! It happened last week, September 22, 2009 at 4:18 central daylight time. I’m a bit astonished that I missed it because I’m definitely one of those geeks who rarely misses an astronomical event. Not to mention one of those geeks who also knows that September 22 […]
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September 10th, 2009
Welcome to the seventh and final part of How I Got Here. Our journey began in 1992 with a series of Arthur C. Clarke books and is about to end with my latest writing project. Ah, the latest writing project! So it’s finally come to that, has it? All right, here we go. In late […]
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August 31st, 2009
In 2004, while still plugging away at the video editing books, I got this strange idea. “Hmmm… Maybe I should write a book someone would actually want to read?” Not that people weren’t reading the video books. But they weren’t reading them, if you know what I mean. With my epic fantasy novel seemingly on […]
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August 25th, 2009
Well that was a fast year. (But aren’t they all?) Although BTTF existed before August 25, 2008, I really count that date as my blogoversary. That’s when I launched my (then) new look and got five-posts-per-week serious about this. Believe it or not, that site is still up. If you’re new here and missed it […]
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August 23rd, 2009
November 1996, Los Angeles. I’d had this video editing book idea in my head for four months now. Oddly enough, while talking to a product manager for Ulead Systems, he said to me, “We were thinking it would be good if you wrote a MediaStudio Pro book.” Well whaddaya know: I was thinking the very […]
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August 18th, 2009
So as soon as I realized I wanted to: 1) write and 2) have somebody read what I wrote, I smugly assumed I had it all figured out. Unfortunately (for me) I missed one minor variable in my calculations. I needed an actual topic. Coming off my Rings read just the year before, I felt […]
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August 17th, 2009
I’ve worked in software development my entire professional career. It’s a great livelihood for anyone who wants to experience the thrill of going from absolute brilliance to bone-headed stupidity twelve or more times a day. After I finished reading Lord of the Rings in 1992, I was by that point full swing into a project […]
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August 12th, 2009
Welcome to How I Got Here, Part Deux “I wonder what I should read next,” I wondered aloud at work one day. Stephanie, from the cubicle across from me, said, “I know exactly what you’re going to read next.” The very next day she handed me four paperbacks with odd titles about hobbits and rings […]
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August 10th, 2009
HIGH isn’t high. It’s an acronym for How I Got Here. In place of telling the planet how much I weigh this week, I thought I’d branch out a bit and give an extended, multi-part “About Me” series of posts. (Besides: I created that custom “summer vacation” graphic at the top of this page for […]
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August 3rd, 2009
Okay, okay, I know it was only one week ago when I said I’d only post weight progress once a month. After all, there’s a bit more to my life than the number on the scale. (Not that you could tell from this summer’s postings. This isn’t at all how I planned the summer would […]
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July 27th, 2009
This, I must say, is a first. I’m celebrating one year into this current diet. Technically, the anniversary is tomorrow. However, given that diets always start on Mondays, week-wise, it’s today. And I had to ponder that for a while. Yes. This really is a first. Despite the fact that I’ve been doing this for […]
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July 20th, 2009
Hey, everybody! Yes, I’m still here. No, I didn’t fall off the face of the earth. I just went on vacation. And although I was only gone about a week, the beginning and end of the break just happened to land on my regular posting day: Monday. Hence, the long hiatus. Oh sure, I could […]
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June 29th, 2009
My guess is when most people find themselves writing “Day 7000” they’re only doing it to exaggerate. It’s not actually the seven thousandth day of their diet, just as they don’t actually weigh seven thousand pounds (even if that’s what they like to tell people). But I’m not most people. Today really is Day Seven […]
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June 22nd, 2009
I don’t look at my weekly weigh-in data until it’s time to write up that week’s post. So up until that time, my image of how the week is going is whatever my brain feels like making up. (Hmmm… You know, that basically describes every aspect of my life.) Last night, I was so sure […]
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June 15th, 2009
Wow. A whole week between posts! How very strange. Not that that’s good or bad in and of itself—just different. I suppose it’s like breaking any sort of routine or habit. Like the week after finals or when they suddenly (and without warning) make you turn around and skate clockwise at the roller rink. Did […]
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June 8th, 2009
It knows. I know it knows. It knows that “194” is officially the “thirty pounds lost” mark. And every time I hit that milestone, my body retaliates. “Ha ha!” my body says, mocking me. “Try to outsmart me, will ya?” Check it out: On the one hand, I was happy Wednesday. I optimistically wrote, “And […]
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June 5th, 2009
Based on all the feedback yesterday, I’ve decided to use today’s post to respond. But first, a general ‘thank you’ to all the comments over the last two weeks. I don’t want my whining and moaning to be interpreted as unappreciativeness. For the regular readers and the people who actually bought and read the book: […]
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June 4th, 2009
This week’s post requires some context. For that I suggest reading this post from two weeks ago and this post from last week. For those of you who don’t want to bother with that (and I don’t blame you—I doubt I would) here’s the summary: I was in a deep blogfunk and trying to figure […]
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June 3rd, 2009
About a week an a half ago I saw X-Men: Origins: Wolverine. For this review, I’ll assume you know nothing about X-Men, Origins, or Wolverine. That should put everyone on equal footing. I’ll have to say the most memorable part of the movie was after I dropped off Rachel and Laura at the box office […]
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June 2nd, 2009
I’m not sure how this all started, but every year I make Rachel a special cookie “cake”. It’s nothing more than a large chocolate chip cookie which I then frost in some sort of semi-creative manner. The most recent one was this weekend and I thought, what the heck, let’s upload ’em for all the […]
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June 1st, 2009
Not to toot my own horn, but I’ve always considered myself slightly smarter than the average bear. I primarily watch history and science shows on television. I know off the top of my head that the gamma factor in relativity theory is equal to one over the square root of one minus v-squared over c-squared. […]
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May 29th, 2009
Nothing quite brings these two topics closer together than going out to eat. If you’re familiar with me and my writing I like cheap food. And more than that, I just like being cheap period. I highly dislike spending money for no reason at all; and for me “fancy food” gets really darn close to […]
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May 28th, 2009
Last week I asked for some help on this whole blogging thing, and boy did I get it. First up, thanks for all the comments. Really, really. Comments are how I know real, live human beings are showing up every day and not just two hundred scammers trying to sell fake watches and cheap pharmaceuticals. […]
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May 27th, 2009
I didn’t get a chance to write a post last night. I got up early to try and write one this morning, but that didn’t work out. I now have four minutes. It’s do or die time. Write a post or skip yet another day. Okay, just as an experiment, let’s see what I can […]
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May 26th, 2009
At times there are foods so spectacularly good, I alone cannot find the words to properly describe them. Though I do not speak of Pringles as often as other foods around here, this does not diminish my love of this well-formed, duck-billed potato crisp. So let us turn to the works of prose of the […]
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May 25th, 2009
I’d write more, but I gotta start making burgers for grilling. (In other words, I’m taking the day off. Hopefully you can too!) But speaking of burgers, check this out: Click on the image for more. I wants me one of them!
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May 22nd, 2009
First of all, thanks for all the comments yesterday. I will respond soon. In the meantime, here’s the promised Friday Fun! I’m not sure if you’ve ever noticed, but my blog’s logo kind of looks like the Back to the Future logo. (Ha ha.) If you’ve ever seen that movie, then you already know Tom […]
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May 21st, 2009
I created this Thursday category, “No Help Here” in order to provide you, the cool kids, with any sort of dieting-related “advice” my warped mind could come up with. Every once in a while it works out that way, most other times I simply try to write a joke or two, or even review a […]
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May 20th, 2009
Sarah, just finishing up her sophomore year in high school, brought home her yearbook yesterday. I flipped through it for perhaps a quarter hour, marveling at how the more things change, the more they stay the same. While the hair and the clothes and the number of pages printed in full color have changed quite […]
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May 19th, 2009
Two hundred and ninety five days ago, when I embarked on this latest quest, my main goal was to get blood sugars back to reasonable levels. This was when I decided to focus on low glycemic foods and not worry so much about calories. It didn’t take long, however, (two hours?) for me to realize […]
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May 18th, 2009
I took a day off last Monday so this week you get double the pleasure, double the fun. (But no Doublemint gum. Well, unless you just go buy some on your own.) Anyway, before telling any stupid jokes or making obscure movie references or rambling on as I typically do, I want you to check […]
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May 15th, 2009
About a week ago we visited a new restaurant called Johnny Fins. (Well, the restaurant itself isn’t new. It was just new to us.) A soon-to-expire twenty-five dollar off coupon drove us there. If you’re not familiar with the area around Lake Travis in Austin, to get to anywhere around the lake (by car) you […]
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May 14th, 2009
You know the routine by now. Flip the channel, open a magazine, or click a link and you’re confronted with yet another in-depth piece of journalism talking about how horrible fad diets are. “Don’t eat a diet solely of grapefruit for the rest of your life,” they wisely tell us. Um…okay. This is obvious, obvious […]
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May 13th, 2009
Back in February and March, I took five of my Leftovers posts in a row to go through Twenty-Five Odd Facts and Figures You May or May Not Already Know About Me. Of course, no one has just twenty-five things about them and I found it difficult to narrow my life down to just that. […]
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May 12th, 2009
You probably know the song Love and Marriage by Frank Sinatra. In fact, there’s maybe even a fifty-fifty chance you know it without ever having seen Married: With Children. It’s a classic song, but in our house, it goes something like this: Soup and sandwich Soup and sandwich Go together like … something witty that […]
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May 11th, 2009
Takin’ a day off. Double the results next Monday!
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May 8th, 2009
If you’re not eating out at a restaurant and you’re not ordering in and you’re not at a friends house, yet you’re still not eating your own food, well, then you must be on a cruise. A little over five years ago the family decided to go on a cruise. The kids were a bit […]
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May 7th, 2009
I’ve got some new diet tips for you today. And by that I don’t mean “diet tips that are brand new,” but instead, “tips for starting a new diet.” If you’re like me, and you probably are given the subject matter of this blog, you’ve had more than a few days in your past that […]
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May 6th, 2009
I got my first (and, so far, only) iPod just a couple years ago. (I’m the type of person who’s fairly late catching up on trends, which means I’m at least four years away from even thinking about an iPhone.) Upon receiving my shiny new iProduct, like most people I ripped a few of my […]
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May 5th, 2009
Everybody has a perfectly decadent little treat that they save for rare occasions, such as a birthday, the installation of a new pope, or a sunrise. It’s something you want to indulge in, but you know you shouldn’t—mostly because Oprah told you not to. I have several items in this category, of course (pizza and […]
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on June 29, 2010 at 1:39 pm
My switch is “on.” Loved that post, BTW. I’m a saint–definitely deserve to weigh 80 for the rest of my days. Scary family vacay coming up, though. We’ll see how shiny my halo is after a run in or two with s’mores around the campfire.
on June 29, 2010 at 3:42 pm
My switch is “on” too – but I’ll never be 80 pounds!!
My weigh in is tomorrow for the first time in a month, and I don’t feel any different, although my legs feel stronger because of the bike riding – tomorrow we shall see! 😀
p.s. I’ve still never been to a Red Robin!
on July 1, 2010 at 8:19 am
Come visit me and we’ll drive by their parking lot, safely outside the gravitational pull of the bottomless fries.
on June 30, 2010 at 7:51 am
My switch is getting flipped off and on right now. Which is pretty much where I’d bet most of us are. Well, at least most of us who have to take family trips to Dairy Queen, Red Robin and have 9,000 picnics scheduled between now and Labor Day.
BTW, I tried all afternoon yesterday to get in and kept getting your “go away” screen. I thought you had blocked me because you saw my secret answer about the Cheez-Its.
on July 1, 2010 at 8:20 am
I have no idea what happened to the site yesterday. Eventually just fixed itself. I’m positive Cheez-Its were behind it. They can’t be trusted.
on June 30, 2010 at 10:39 am
I am stuck in bed with an ankle sprain (epic!) after a really stupid accident (as opposed to a smart one….). Anyhoodle, I am reasonably proud not to be bringing the entire Cheez-it box in to bed with me and will simply say, eating take out (I am the only one who will cook dinner around here) for every evening meal is not as much fun as it sounded.
on June 30, 2010 at 2:47 pm
haha an entertaining quiz….i don’t know WHAT my answers would be…but thanks to you *evil look* i am now craving krispy kremes!!!!!! xx
on July 1, 2010 at 6:49 am
Love the Savage Chickens. A friend got my husband a t-shirt with them on it that says:
Run a marathon?
I’d rather poke my eyes out with a fork!
He wears it when he comes to watch me finish a marathon. He’s gotten some interesting looks.
Good score – I think being more in the middle is better than being too regimented!! Keep at it Charlie – you can do it…just stay away from the Krispy Kremes – they are sugar crack! 🙂
on July 2, 2010 at 10:19 am
I scored 13! I will now cut down on the time I spend awake. Thank you for this enlightening quiz!
on July 13, 2010 at 11:38 pm
Eating, loving, singing and pooping are, in actuality, the four acts of the mirthful opera known as the freshness, and they pass like bubbles of a grit of champagne. Whoever lets them break without having enjoyed them is a entire fool.
Sent from my iPad 4G
[Another bit of spam just strange enough to be approval-worthy. –Charlie]