Just 8 weeks after my annual physical, I have managed to bring my weight and cholesterol down by leaps and bounds. I'm not usually one for sharing exact numbers, but my doctor and I are both so impressed by the results I've achieved, that for once I am going to do just that: 1/7/213/5/21NormalHDL777145-65LDL193.6174.20-130Triglycerides1878440-150Total Cholesterol308262135-200… Continue reading Hard Work Pays Off
After my physical in mid-January, I knew I needed to something to get my weight and cholesterol under control. Working out wasn't the issue (though I still struggle with consistency) – my diet was. I would meal-prep these healthy meals for the week every Sunday and be so sick of them by Wednesday that I… Continue reading A Month of Hungryroot Meals
After a year of putting it off – mostly due to COVID-19 and insurance issues – I finally got back into therapy in December. I was in a very dark place, and had been for months. Years even. But obviously everything got worse when my work schedule got out of control, first when my boss… Continue reading Getting Help
Even though this isn't supposed be a purely hiking blog, I haven't hiked since before Columbus Day Weekend and haven't posted here either, so you do the math. In all honesty, I was deep in the throes of depression this fall and winter. I am doing better now, but I didn't have any desire to… Continue reading Where’d Ya Go? To My Home Gym
It's already been well over a month since I hiked Giant of the Valley and Rocky Peak Ridge on my birthday, but I haven't felt much like writing lately. I am tired – both physically and mentally – and decided this would be my last big hike for a while. It works out for a… Continue reading Hiking Giant & Rocky Peak Ridge
Sunday was the first day after hiking in the High Peaks the previous day that I haven't been incredibly sore. I can't say the same for how I felt during the hike – which was new – but more on that later. Erin and I carpooled up to our Airbnb in Schroon Lake after work… Continue reading Hiking Nippletop & Dial
I finally hit double digits in my quest for 46 this past weekend by hiking Algonquin (twice), Iroquois, and Wright Peaks, as well as Boundary Peak (twice). I had always planned to hike these three this past weekend, but I had originally planned to do them with a group, led by an ADK volunteer. She… Continue reading Hiking Algonquin, Iroquois and Wright Peaks
Why not start yet another hiking challenge, while I'm still working on at least 5 others (Adirondack 46, Adirondack Fire Towers, Adirondack 29, Lake Placid 9, Saranac Lake 6)?! So on Sunday, I headed up to New Hampshire to hike my first 4,000-footer in the Granite State, effectively beginning my NH 48 journey. I didn't… Continue reading Hiking Mt. Tecumseh in the White Mountains
If you are reading this, then you know I survived Saturday's hike of the Santanoni Range. I had joked that I may not, and there were times throughout the hike that I thought finishing might not happen, but thankfully it did. I hydrated like an absolute fish on Thursday and Friday. I drank so much… Continue reading Hiking the Santanoni Range – Santanoni, Couchsachraga, and Panther Peaks
After planning lots of big hikes for spring, all of which ended up being canceled due to covid (mostly because hikers were being asked to stay local, under 30 minutes so that limited me to the two nature preserves in Providence), I finally got some major hikes in during May, June, July and August. My… Continue reading Hiking Street & Nye Mountains
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