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On October 1st I set a goal to lose 20 lbs by October 31st. I ended up being 6 lbs short of reaching my goal, but I’d hardly call this month a failure as far as my health is concerned. I learned a great deal about self-discipline in the realm of food control, which I’d [...]

Last Sunday I participated in my first race. This served to burst my bubble into the racing community, and alleviate some of that anxiety and excitement about trying something new for the very first time.
This past Sunday I participated in my second race, which was an 8 kilometer (5 mile) race in Central Park, NY. [...]

On October 1st I started out at 5′8″ 195 lbs. Over the past 3 weeks I have managed to lose 13 lbs. Actually, exactly one week ago I weighed 182 lbs. This means that my weight stabilized on 182 for two weeks in a row.
The goal is to lose 20 lbs by October 31st. I [...]

“I don’t believe in diets, I believe in a healthy lifestyle - I don’t believe in working out, I believe in training - I don’t believe in competition, I believe in challenging yourself.” ~Nora Mamadjanova
They say that each of us is a combination of the five people we spend most of our time with. I [...]

I started out on October 1st weighing in at a whopping 195lbs. For 5′8″ that’s a bit overweight. The truth is anyone I asked thought I looked about 170 lbs and I was surprised to find out I weighed that much myself. The excuse of why I let myself get to this weight in the [...]

Today on Shalman’s believe it or not I’m going to give it to you straight. I lost 11.5 lbs in 1 week. I was actually down by 15 lbs the day after fasting but gained a few back. In the article 11 Mindless Eating Habits For Skinny Robots published on October 1st, I pledged to [...]

This is my October Challenge.
From the onset of the summer I have been feeling very impulsive and have cultivated a wide array of unhealthy food habits. This month I’m pledging to go from 195 lbs to 175 lbs, and I’m going to do it by NOT thinking.
Although I run a self-improvement blog, I’m just as [...]

There have been times I’ve woken from a full night’s sleep feeling like a train wreck - drowsy, groggy, and running on zero energy. I’m not an insomniac, I don’t have sleep apnea, anxiety, nor do I have any other kind of sleeping disorder. After analyzing my lifestyle, I’ve come up with some very effective [...]

When most people think about sex they think about orgasms, kinkiness, and all kinds of ways that they can derive pleasure. The squares in the crowd (who probably skipped this article), relate sex to love, marriage, and intimacy. The rest of us know that sex never comes free; there’s always a price to pay.
“I read [...]

“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.”
~John Donne
No matter how much you’ve worked on your self-control you cannot deny that people in your life influence you. We happen to be the average of the 5 people we spend the most time with.
Spend one half of [...]