My wife loves watching Dr. Phil and over the years, I've picked up a few things. The biggest thing I've taken away from the many years of my wife watching his show is that you can't change what you don't acknowledge.  I'm very much aware of my being overweight but I'm having a really hard time holding myself accountable.  My thought is that if I confess my weight to all of you and share my plans for weight loss, as well as my goals, perhaps this might help me to remain motivated.  Here's the deal and the absolute humiliating truth. I weigh about 318 lbs. I carry it well but the weight is a huge problem for me.  It all began after I suffered a major, career ending back injury…

I've been a bit disconnected lately and I apologize for that. To say that I'm spread thin would be a relative understatement. I'm really trying to stay on top of everything but not always doing the best job. Not only does that present itself here but also in my daily life.   I want to make a quick announcement before I head off to bed.  Some of you have reached out because comments you've left here have been disappearing. I cannot for the life of me, figure out what's going on.  Here's the facts: Comments made are disappearing after being submitted They are not caught in spam filter They are not being deleted or moderated in any way Comments show in the recent comments widget I receive email notifications of…

I have no idea when you'll be reading this because I have no idea when my server will be restored. Bluehost has had a massive outage and my server has been down for the longest period of time since I started blogging over eight years ago.  I've been sorta lost cause I always write before going to bed and tonight my routine has been thrown off. Anyway, I hope this outage gets resolved ASAP.