Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto

Researchers at MIT have created a robot weight-loss coach. I’m not sure even a robot could have gotten me out of bed and to the gym these past few days. I’ve just been feeling wretched – no energy, dizzy, headachy – and yet none of your traditional sneezy, coughy, pukey flu symptoms. Just general malaise. [...]

That’s a relief

The horrid, cold weather and lack of sunshine has a way of sucking the soul out of me. Plus, I think I’m developing a cold, to boot. Haven’t much felt like going to the gym since last Thursday, when I did an anemic 30-minute workout mid-workday. But good news is on the horizon. According to [...]

The games people play

Not sure how I feel about this guy, although he’s certainly earnest enough. I think part of what sabotages my own efforts to slim down is a latent cynicism – I’m not sure if I really believe I can do it. I’ve had small successes in the past – about a year and a half [...]

Choices

It is about choices, you know. Yesterday, I chose to lay in bed rather than go to the gym. I told myself that I deserved a day off, that I can’t exercise every day, muscles need time to regenerate yada yada yada. Then, a meeting was scheduled for 9.30 a.m. this morning, curtailing my exercise [...]

250

I woke up this morning and weighed 250 pounds. This morning wasn’t any different from any other morning, except for the part where I actually stepped on the bathroom scale; usually, it’s a glorified magazine holder. I’m not really surprised by the number – it isn’t the kind of thing where I saw the number [...]