Author Archives: jlclark
Why it’s Different
I may or may not have mentioned before that I have gained and lost the same 25-30 pounds at least 3 times in the last 7 years. I have in the past struggled with keeping the weight off, I get lazy, quit working out start to eat bad again etc. I told a friend of [...]
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3400 Calories
I was watching a show on tv that was talking about how many calories Thanksgiving dinner was if you ate all the trimmings and drank wine. 3400! 3500 calories is a pound. I started thinking to myself about how glutinous Thanksgiving is. American’s gorge themselves on 3400 calories and it spirals them out of control [...]
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Coach Charlie
Working out with Charlie is a blast. You never know what he is going to do, I will admit my workout on Monday was the hardest one I have done since starting to workout almost 3 months ago. I had to do do everything to fight back the tears at one point and tell myself [...]
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Skinny pants here I come!
For the heck of it this weekend I decided to just see where I was in relation to my skinny pants. These are some summer pants I have not worn in 3 summers. I could hardly believe it, I could get into them! Maybe not wear them in public, but it won’t be much longer! [...]
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A Quarter of the way
This week was weigh in and retest week, about a quarter into the life journey. I was very thrilled that I lost another 4% body fat, but only 3 pounds. After being 2 and 1/2 months into this I have lost weight slower that the last few crash diets. The difference is I feel in [...]
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What makes a difference
A friend of mine who also works out at Matrix made an observation the other day. It seems that everyone who works and works out at Matrix is super fit. Not in a way that is all “beautiful people” but in an a way that it feels like you are surrounded by “healthy people.” The [...]
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Guilty
I know I have written about this in the past but it has reared its head again. The issue of how life can get in the way of working out. It could be anything from traffic, time, to work. Last night I had a deadline for a big proposal that involved several people I work [...]
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Almost…
Kate (aka Jillian) almost made me throw up from working me so hard last night. Kate did say she put me through the hardest workout she has ever put anyone through. That may or may not have been true, but I will say I was sweating so much my hair was wet for 4 hours [...]
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Fell Off
Ok. So last week I was feeling vain and basking in my acomplishments I had achieved….It is easy to take your eye off the ball. I was supposed to get a workout in over the weekend and continue with my good nutrition. One, I didn’t workout, and two for some reason I felt drinking wine, [...]
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Sore to the Core