I am…PhoneBoy

I just got back from CPX 360 in Las Vegas, the series of annual conferences Check Point puts on for their customers, partners, and employees. It’s a kind of annual reunion of sorts as this is the only time I see a lot of people I work with. As such, it’s as good a time…

If you’ve known me for any length of time, you know I’ve been overweight for most of my life. I’ve recently made changes in an effort to remedy this and I’ve experienced some success. It’s not the first time I’ve done it and been successful, at least for a time. I don’t remember exactly when…

While it’s pretty typical for me to go somewhere between 16-24 hours between eating these days (depending on the day), it’s been a while since I’ve gone much longer than that. This Labor Day weekend, I ended going longer than I’ve ever gone before. It wasn’t my intention to go 88.5 hours, but I was…

One could look at the weight loss stall I’ve experienced over the past six months and be frustrated by it. In fact, everyone who actually tries to lose weight eventually hits a stall, sooner or later. On the other hand, during this time, I’ve been traveling like a madman, spending more time in shiny metal…

File this one under non-scale victory that actually does reduce my weight…of my travel bags. Several weeks ago, I had an appointment with my pulmonologist to follow up on my use of CPAP. It had been two years since I saw him and, well, a lot changed since he saw me last. He commissioned another…

While I have gotten rid of most of the clothing from when I weighed 300+ pounds, there is one item I am keeping: a 54 inch belt. At my biggest, I needed to use the very outer hole in that belt. That hole is 56 inches (or 142 centimeters) out! Yes, I measured. I guess…

It’s been roughly a year since I took charge of my health by making two major changes to my eating habits: When I eat, which is typically only once a day. Some days, I will not eat at all. Other days, I may eat twice a day. It depends on where I am in the…

I thought I was making progress on the weight loss front…until I wasn’t. Basically, I’ve bounced around the same 10 pounds / 4.5 kilos for the last few months. That’s what the blue line shows, whereas the green and red curves show where the “floating average weight” is (as calculated by HappyScale). I suppose I…

I Hardly Recognize You! You Look Fantastic! A few years ago, I was prescribed a CPAP machine to treat sleep apnea. For sure, it practically eliminated my snoring and it definitely helped me sleep better almost immediately. And while I don’t mind sleeping with the machine–I’ve gotten quite used to it, actually–I have to carry…

While I’ve had plenty of scale victories, as it were, there have plenty of victories that cannot be measured on the bathroom scale. Oh sure, the non-scale victories are happening as a direct result of the ones I am achieving on the scale, the progress is not exactly linear. The above photo was surfaced by…