The maximum weight that I ever reached was 430 pounds. That is a little over 195 Kilos. I was big! I am lucky I lived through that. Want to see what I looked like when I weighed 430 pounds? Look below. In the end, I will show a picture of what I look like today. […]
Confrontation
Yesterday I had a meeting with a close friend. He invited me to lunch. I had not seen him in probably 2 months or so, so I was happy to get together. My friend, let’s call him Steve, is a really physically fit guy, a very muscular guy. I am fasting, but I decided to […]
First Month Fasting Results
Well, as of today it is 1 month since I started doing Intermittent Fasting. How are the results? Get ready… I lost 16 pounds in the past 4 weeks! As I have said, doing the fasting was not really about losing weight, it was about controlling diabetes. That said, I am certainly very happy with […]
Why Ketogenic?
I started using the Ketogenic Diet nearly a year ago, on the advice from a good friend. My first reaction was that it sounded like it could not possibly work and was actually unhealthy. However, I had tried just about everything else you could think of, and I was not healthy. I needed to make […]
Visit to SPMC
When I had my heart surgery last November, it was done at SPMC, Southern Philippines Medical Center. They have a great heart center there, and the care was excellent. I have been back to SPMC several times since then, to visit with the people there and just give my thanks for their hard work in […]
I took the fork in the road
In my late 30s, I moved to the Philippines and have been living here ever since. I did not change my ways, just changed the place where I lived. Just a couple years into my new life in the Philippines, though, I had a stroke, at the young age of 38. It was after that […]