I only have two goals remaining to achieve for the rest of my life, and yes, they are wide and kind of immeasurable, but whatever, these are my goals. This is my life. You are welcome to do other things. 1. Succeed With My Family 2. Surf Until I Die That's it. This is all I have left to do. There is no way to measure if I'm on target o...

The environment plays a bigger part in your health habits more than anything else. Like a recovering gambling addict is unlikely to succeed in Vegas, a fat undisciplined person is unlikely to succeed during the holidays. From Christmas Chinese food, to my wife baking the best cookies and muffins around, the ability to cheat dietarily i...

A colleague of mine asked me to help them with their personal finances. I have a reputation for saving, investing, and really stretching $1. My boys from college love to retell a story of me bragging about spending $1 over the course of 21 days. Did that actually happen? Not sure, but the lore lives. During the discussion, my friend re...

I stuck to my promise from an earlier entry. “If you don't hear from me, there's nothing good happening” Most of us share our highs and hide our lows. Some of us don't have a problem sharing our lows. For me, the complete lack of eating discipline is now starting to break down my life. When I was younger, I was always able to kind of r...

I started every day with great intentions. I ended every day poorly. Here's the rules. 1. Stop lying to myself that I will stop eating after a big meal. No. What happens is I eat a big meal, and then I eat a small meal later. I ate a huge pile of vegetables and leftovers for lunch, and then without fail, the wife would get pizza or chi...

When we departed on Thursday night, things were looking good. I took Deeran to get Cook Out late at night and I ordered nothing. My plan was that I had eaten all I needed to eat for the day and I was good. So the plan Thursday was in check. Friday started bad, and Saturday ended worse. Friday: Egg White Omelette with spinach and mushro...

Melt down successful... But I won't get to weigh in or measure anything for 3 days. Will I be heavier? Can I stay on plan?

No problems today. Completed the meltdown. Did pretty good at Crossfit too. Definitely hungry. Chugged water when I started to feel the hunger pains. 1. Fruit with some homemade granola 2. Leftover sweet potato chili 3. Homemade vegetable and egg fried rice 4. Vegetable stew 5. Cauliflower, spinach, and tomato with some naan bread We h...

Embarrassment. Shame. Guilt. Disbelief. As I was driving home from Charlotte stuffing my face, I started wondering how much I currently weighed. I knew I was on a bender of eating since Xmas but I just hadn't weighed myself in so long. Last year, when I was trying to lose weight in public, I failed plenty, but my failures were in the o...

Best piece of advice I give my children: Don't get fat. I'm serious. Ask anyone who has put on more than 20lbs from eating alone, and you'll find someone who faces challenges taking off the weight. Find someone who has been at least 20lbs overweight for a least 10 years, and you will see someone continuously struggle. So why do the ove...

It's amazing how I let short term gratification completely overtake long term goals when it comes to eating and drinking alcohol. This past weekend was the boys reunion known as the Probinis where such prestgious awards are issued such as the Warmbier, Dahmer, and many other tasteless accolades. However, upon return, I could tell that ...

Turned out to be false. Who would've thunk it. Also, this is the first time I've been part of an affidavit to get a Temporary Retraining Order on someone.

WHEN PEOPLE SHOW YOU WHO THEY ARE, BELIEVE THEM THE FIRST TIME - Maya Angelou What a twist of events yesterday. One moment, you're working with your podcasting CEO on how to position the future of the company and the strategy to implement going forward, and the next, you are being told you're fired... but also not fired, because the pe...

One is not a pattern. I had one successful day, and one total shit day. Ate a ton of taco food truck Gordita action. What's wrong with me?

You can be great at many things and weak or terrible in other areas of your life. It's unquestionable that my greatest weakness is food discipline and I've been battling it since I was given a bra at the age of 12. That's right, I've had man titties since I was 12. I guess they weren't man boobs, they were boy boobies, but either way, ...

When you have no money, more money is the answer... and when you have money, more time is the answer. There's just one glaring problem: You can't buy time. Life has this weird way of leaving many perpetually dissatisfied, and we are notoriously terrible at recognizing what we want out of life. For whatever reason, we never seem to have...

Blog over.

Here's what I know to be true... 1. Writing helps consolidate and focus your thoughts. 2. I'm not good at writing Earlier this year I started a blog to document my fitness journey. I called it agingslowpanda.com and bought a Wix site and started my journey. Within 14 days of starting that blog, my mom got diagnosed with cancer, I lost ...