Many people have asked me how I lost 80 pounds last year. Even though I've put some weight back on, they still want to know.

The simple answer is that I ate right and exercised.  I usually don't get the impression those asking wanted to hear that.  People usually want to hear that I found some magic pill or easy diet.  In reality, though, there is no magic pill or easy diet.  There are medications to help us lose weight, but they are most effective when we combine the medication with exercise and proper nutrition.

Similarly, there are many diet programs that can help.  Again, they work best when combined with exercise.

Sometimes, folks ask if I had surgery to lose weight.  Again, I feel like they're looking for an easy route.  Weight-loss surgery, however, is not an easy solution.  To be safe and successful, the patient must follow a strict diet r ...

Welcome to Road to a Million, a blog about the real issues we face as we try to reach our goal of losing million pounds in Oklahoma City.  This first post will tell you a little about my journey and introduce you to some of the topics I'll discuss over the next several months.

 You may be wondering why you would want to read the postings of some stranger or wondering what makes me qualified to write this in the first place.  The answer to both questions is the same - because I am struggling with many of the same issues you face as I try to lose weight.  I know what it's like to fight off (a ...

Note to self….never and I repeat never, agree to shoot a video at 7 AM in the morning after fasting since 7 PM the night before.  The result is that all the work you have done to clean up your grammar and speak in complete sentences and appear polished, well groomed and poised for a run at President someday (totally kidding, I’ll leave that to people more crazy than myself)  just goes out the window.  Despite the noticeably absent caffeine that usually makes me appear more humorous than I am in real life, and lack of functioning brain cells so early in the morning, the metabolic testing I just endured at Oklahoma City’s own

Hot enough for ya'll (yes I use ya’ll from time to time….I feel that when talking about this ridiculous heat it’s perfectly fine to use some Okie slang!) yet?  SHEESH……Let’s put a call in to Gary England and ask him to make these triple digits go away!  Surely if he can predict the precise second a tornado is going to come tearing down Broadway, he can make this heat go away!

I wanted to give you a quick update since the last blog where I shared with each of you about my RMR and VO2 Max testing.  I’ve been blessed to get some great advice from so many people about these last 10 stubborn pounds.  After the metabolic testing at Weight Wise, some playing around with my calories, taking an entire week off training to heal my over-trained body and slowly adding back in the correct amount of exercise and changing up my exercises to incorporate high, moderate and low levels of i ...