Tripping through Fitness

Ok, so it’s obvious that I suck at regularly updating any kind of blog or other social media outlet. I get a whim, I start a blog, then life smacks me around a little and I forget all about my grandiose plans. You’d think I’

Last year I upgraded my beloved Fitbit One to the (at the time) new Fitbit Charge. If you’ve read some of the other old posts on this site, you know that I am not a fan of wrist based activity trackers. I feel like not only do they

Wow. 14 moths since the last update. Told you I ignore this blog as much as the others… Quick update on fitness stuff. In 2015 my GF and I agreed to do a 5k every month of the year. We succeeded (well, June was a mini-triathlon instead of a

I’m not going to lie, I love my Fitbit One. I’ve had it since May of 2013, it’s survived a trip through the washer, several very wet runs and lots and lots of sweat. It is the bar by which I measure all other

About a week ago I received my Pivotal Life Tracker 1 that I pre-ordered months ago, so I thought I’d finally get around to doing an official comparison with actual data and graphs and shit. I now have 3 activity trackers; the Fitbit One, Garmin Forerunner 15, and

So much for regularly updating a fitness blog. And for actually sticking with a plan/workout schedule/achieving goals… Oh well. Shit happens. A lot… Quick catch up: Didn’t develop or stick to a running plan this year, mainly because everything in my life changed. New

Last summer I started a Couch-to-5k training program. I was rather sporadic to begin with, I’ll admit, but after I came back from vacation I started running consistently and while I technically never completed the program, I did run two 5ks and tried my hand at a couple

It comes from this. Because that’s how I feel sometimes when I start digging into different exercises/plans/methods/whatever.

Sometimes I wonder why I’m bothering with the whole “getting healthy” thing. I look in the mirror and don’t see changes, I look at what I’ve done in the way of workouts for the week and wonder what happened to my grandiose

Yesterday I stayed home sick and I didn’t bother logging everything I ate. I know I went over on carbs, mainly because of the little container of yogurt and the serving of beans. The serving of beans (400g) had 57g of carbs. The 6oz container of yogurt has

Yesterday was day 1 in trying to eat according to macros as defined by iifym.com’s calculator, which are roughly 45% protein, 40% fat and 15% carbs. I was doing pretty good up until I got home from work. See, I was already still really hungry after eating

I’ve been on this fitness journey for a while now, starting back in September of 2012 when I realized that I had put on at least 25 pounds in the previous 6 months. Through the use of MyFitnessPal and basic calorie restriction, I managed to drop that weight