I’m putting together some thoughts about eating as it relates to compulsive overeating and weight loss, and in the process, have been poking around looking for useful links on the science of carbs. More about that soon. But in the meantime, I’ve turned up a couple of blogs by folks in the weight loss biz. […]

There’s another great post from Deepak Chopra over on Huffington Post that’s really interesting. Any amateur psychologist knows that part of our problem on Earth is our sometimes ornery ego. The highest aspiration for a Buddhist is to basically meditate so that one realizes there is no ego–that there is no “I” (a realization I […]

Well it had to happen sooner or later, but I finally did it. I went for a walk with no purpose in mind other than to get some exercise in the fresh air.
It really was beautiful out last night, and the alternative was to watch the same episode of 30 Minute Meals they had […]

First, a lighter note from Judd Apatow (of The 40–Year-Old Virgin fame):

My daughter Maude was 5 when she realized that Barney had only one expression. She couldn’t stop laughing when she noticed this. She ran around the living room with this psychotic Barney smile which never changed, and then started saying, “I’m happy. I’m sad.” […]

Okay, so over the last few days (here and here), I’ve started to try and clarify and explain what I’ve been doing that has so far been working well for me.
As I mentioned, my premise from the start was to stop overeating–and presumably then lose weight–by choosing health. But getting started was seemingly an […]

One of the other things that helped me in this latest effort was finding a book totally unrelated to weight loss. I like to think of it as one of those serendipity things. Back in January, I had seen a show on Dr. Phil about money makeovers (part of his New Year’s resolutions series). Watching […]

One somewhat sad thing about being perilously overweight is that you have to lose an obscene amount of weight before people might mention it to you. I’m down 70lbs (about 20% of my starting weight) and I think I’ve had three, maybe four, people say something about it to me. And the later they wait […]

I’m catching up on the weight loss/overeating blogosphere, and had to chuckle at this parenthetical comment from Denise at Do you have that in my size???
She writes re nutrition classes:

Not that I need that - I could teach the class on what you’re supposed to eat!

I said nearly the exact same thing recently when a […]

One of the things that has been very helpful to me in my struggle with overeating has been my exploration of ideas of consciousness, particularly of the Eastern kind. I was born and raised Catholic, but as a bleeding-heart liberal, lost any use for a religion that was so (IMO) women-unfriendly. Having been accidentally exposed […]

Some good news this morning. I’m down 6 pounds from my last weigh-in, which was about six weeks ago. (Current running total is ~71 lbs. I say approximately since I’m guestimating my starting weight.) This is good, because three of those six weeks included a week of vacation at Nags Head, and two […]

So, here I am. Welcome to Act Boldly, my new blog. Before I go into a lot more detail, let me start out with two caveats.
First, this isn’t the start of my journey, which you might infer from the tagline in the banner above. Actually, I think my journey started in infancy, when my well-meaning, […]

Gee, you get ready to go and then someone goofs and your site goes offline for several hours. And then you do something really dumb, like overwrite the .htaccess file that WordPress sets up, which means you can’t get to your archives or individual posts.
Oops.
But all seems to be well now, and I hope to […]

Well, wasn’t that easy? A few hours, and I have a domain, some web hosting, and a weblog. More soon.