Looking back, I got some really good advice from the dietician when I was having regular appointments with her. I know that experience drove the advice she gave me. She had seen plenty of people lose weight too fast and blow their metabolism all to hell, unable to maintain a healthy weight no matter what…

I think this was a great sort of directional adjustment in my exercise routine. I began regular resistance workouts, took shorter walks. These days I yearn for the times when I had so many activities to choose from. But I have to be patient. That will come again. Read the full post at http://RunningAFEVER.com/306 Image…

In both episodes 68 and 69, I mentioned recovery foods, and it’s a good reminder not to starve myself, even though I’m not exercising near as much as I was when this episode was recorded. Not only will I not gain muscle when I don’t eat well, but I can lose muscle as well. Read…

In episode 68 I was really trying to move beyond the biggest loser contest, and fill out some gaps in my diet or supplement regimen. That contest was not healthy in the sense that to win it I had to just basically starve myself for 12 weeks. That’s not a healthy lifestyle. The one thing…

This is a great statement of how you don’t have to go crazy. Unfortunately, a lot of information you get is tied to supplemental products that you really don’t need. If you’re trying to do this and make money, that’s the kind of thing you have to promote. Fortunately, you have Running: A FEVER, amateurs…

It’s good to get all the nutrients you need to stay healthy nutritionally and to burn enough calories to have a healthy body composition and a healthy weight. But immediately what comes to mind is one of those blue zone concepts discovered by Dan Buettner. Specifically, staying in a caloric deficit. Perhaps at first glance,…

The point of this series is to learn from my previous success, and also failures. But I said in episode 65 that it isn’t about knowledge, it’s about just doing it, and it’s not easy. That thing about how overcoming an obstacle makes it easier to overcome the next one, so one success is a…

This is a good example of what I had learned about patience I think. I get a sense that slow progress is good. And I should continue to learn, that’s key as well. It shows up in what I learned about extremes of hydration and dehydration as well as the metabolic issues I had early…

Confidence is a result. It’s a good reason to work hard. Realize that if I’m not confident in myself, I need to work that much harder. Read the full post at http://RunningAFEVER.com/299   Photo by Michael Starkie on Unsplash Check out this episode!

In this episode, I am ramping up my resistance training. Something I’m trying to be more consistent at here in 2021. Read the full post at http://RunningAFEVER.com/298   Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Check out this episode!