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2026 Day 9
There have been many days that I have disagreed with my fitness watch over the quality of my sleep (based on the reported sleep score). This morning is the first time that I can remember that I disagree on the other side – that is, I thought I slept terribly, but my sleep score was…
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2026 Day 8
I did not expect to sleep nearly as well last night as I did the previous night. I never sleep as well when I teach into the late evening. The fact that my sleep score was a 66 (Fair) is a minor victory. I cheated far too badly yesterday to expect a decent reading on…
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2026 Day 7
I have been wearing a Garmin fitness watch since 2019, and it has been measuring my sleep the whole time. In nearly seven years I have never seen this! On the app it reinforces this as such: I turned off the lights at around 10:15pm, and must have been asleep within fifteen minutes. I did…
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2026 Day 6
I did not sleep as well last night as I did the previous two nights, but that is par for the course. I am not used to sleeping well, so when I do I appreciate it. I also know that the evenings that I work until 9:00pm (and in fact last night it was until…
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2026 Day 5
After reading my journal entry yesterday, my diet buddy told me that I should trust my scale, and that I should accept the tremendous weight loss as to be expected in the first week – especially for men. When we spoke later in the day, I explained to her that the reason I did not…
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2026 Day 4
Over the past month I have not really trusted my bathroom scale. I have had a lot of inconsistent readings, and have often had to adjust it on the floor to get it to register at all. As such, the fact that this morning my weight is eleven pounds down from what it was Thursday…
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2026 Day 3
Irrelevant to my progress, I realized yesterday after I published my daily entry that I had already used the title Day 1, Day 2, etc… and so in order to make things clear, I am changing the titles. Today’s year-Day is not set in stone, but it’s what I came up with for now. I…
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Day 2
I was hungry a few times throughout the day yesterday, but I got through it. I was going to write that the first day is always the hardest, but in truth I know that every day for the next month will be really tough. I will do my best to get through it, and I…
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Let’s Go!
Today is Day One. I have a program buddy with whom I am going to go through the program. We have both done it before, lost a lot of weight and then regained it back. No, I have not regained everything, but I do still hate where I am. Last night she and I spoke…
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January, 2026
Here we go again. I am trying this one more time… but the difference is that the holidays are behind me. I got an email a few weeks ago – I think it was the morning after I got back from Calgary – that threw my emotions and mental state for a whirl. That is…
Losing a part of me
Mitch's quest to lose weight… a lot of it.
Losing a part of me 