:: Free 2 Be :: the Odyssey ::

A term used much in the law is *due diligence.* This refers to exercising the level of care expected under the circumstances, so that people won’t get hurt, lose money or such.
I’m still stuck on the idea of following up on plans. I need to be *diligent* to *do* what I’ve planned. *Do* diligence. Get [...]

This means me.
How often have I made great plans and then not stuck too them?
Lord, help me diligently do my careful plans.
What plan did you do today?

My biggest breakthroughs in learning about what my body needs came with the knowledge that Breakfast with Protein is KEY. So I pretty much always do have protein with breakfast.
So what’s my challenge?
I’ve also learned that I must give the first part of my day to God or I never get that quality time again, [...]

For five months I have taken a break from watching my eating (translation: eaten whatever I *wanted*). In that time, I’ve gained about 5 pounds per month - just over a pound a week. This can’t be good.
My life is unusual. This means, my options are a little different than most.
I live a lot of [...]

My dad was a pilot. He taught all of us children to navigate as he drove the car. By the time we were driving we could find about anything, with and without a map.
Just this week I’m finding myself in shock over the progress and also re-thinking where I’m headed. It feels like I’ve stopped [...]

Okay, I’m not going to be able to focus on everything during this time of moving so I’m changing my strategy to reporting one good thing I did today on food and one good thing I did today on exercise. My hope is that I will do more than one good thing on any given [...]

My long-term goal is to achieve fitness and health that let me lead the life I want, the life I’m called to, a life I enjoy: able to do what I want to or need to, having fun by myself or with others.
I’m seeing now that losing 150 pounds, which will get me down to a [...]

I’m changing my diet from following the Flat Belly Diet to the Paleo Diet. Here are the primary reasons.
The Flat Belly Diet is primarily a calorie controlled Mediterranean type diet, careful to include good fats - MUFAs, the moly-unsaturated fats - at every meal because it takes good fats to burn fat. I had been [...]

Last week I was feeling great. This week, I hit the wall. Here is what I think happened and what I’ve done about it.
A couple weeks ago, I increased my calories from 1600 a day to 2000 a day, based on a weight loss plateau of about 17 days. I’ve had this problem before. If [...]

The Target:
Make excellence in diet and fitness my lifestyle by building habits based on consistent daily effort and results.
How will I do this?
Over the next six months, October 1, 2008 through March 31, 2009:

develop my diet to increase physical capacity and maintain long term weight loss,
follow a workout plan that will improve performance and increase [...]

When I first started the blog and the Flat Belly Diet, I was posting my food log on their website. I received *three months free* on the Flat Belly Diet website for ordering the book.
That was a good experience for several reasons, primarily because they also have a planner that would recomment gluten and dairy [...]

Last week, I finished the 28-day plan part of the Flat Belly Diet. This week I’m in transition to a place where I can lose steadily for the long-term. Here is my food analysis for the last two days. I had gotten sloppy, and not kept track, but realized I’ll never know why I’m losing [...]