January 11th: This is my first entry for 2010. I waited on purpose. I usually begin the year with resolutions that go no where, so this year I just slid through the holiday, into the new year without "promises" and here I am with the same hope and dreams but without the pressue of resolutions. It feels better. The goals are the same, pretty much, but it seems like it will be easier now. Now, again, now, I want people with me on this trip to good things, looking and feeling out best so we can do out best. Email and let me know you are with me. I will do good, I promise.

December 16th: There was an article in yesterday's Chicago Tribune about food firms being faulted for ads to TV kids. Ads about junk food. Too many ads after promises from the industry to do less of it. But here is a major, big time announcement to those who don't know: if you don't want your kids viewing such ads, not to mention viewing the drivel of the shows the ads sponsor, don't let your kids watch TV. I know this is shocking, but there was a time when such programs and ads were not even on TV and the kids of those days lived through them. Honest!

December 15th: It is time to do some serious planning for the new year. In 2010 I am going to do more than I ever have to help people get healthy, fit and thin. I am going to do it with them, you and me and them, so stick with me. We are going to do it not to just lose weight, no, no, no. We are doing it so we can feel good about ourselves, and so we can have the energy and enthusiasm to get the most of of life...that's all and that is everything. Along that line you will see more on this site over the next few weeks about dieting and eating right. I recently saw an article ranking diets: flash, no diet works in the long run so we won't diet. Dieting actually makes people heavier over time so dieting is nuts. What we are going to do is eat right and move around a bit. I will help, I promise, and the most important thing is that I will make it much easier than you have seen before.

December 3rd: In the November 17th segment below you will see statistics about 43% of us being obese by 2018. Obese is fatter than fat, a defintition of weight gain beyond normal just "overweight." In reality probably 60% of Americans are overweight now and 35% overweight by enough to be classified as obese. By 2018 as many as 90% of us will be overweight. This is shocking beyond belief when you look at the vast amount of information, dieting, warnings and such that have taken place over the last 20 years or so...so what to do? This extra weight often leads to all kinds of health problems. Stay tuned for some things we can do to make it all better, to reverse the slide, to feel better and to look better.

November 17th: Today Emory University's School of Public Health announced some shocking news about obesity...but not shocking to me. The report predicts our obesity crises will continue to get worse. By 2018 (not all that long from now my friends) 43% of the populations will be obese. The cost to treat this will be $344 billion. Per year. We will not only have serious health problems, we will be broke!

Stick with me as I take us through some things we can do to not let this obesity issue happen to us and those we care about. That is what I am doing here, to a degree. What I do is help people feel good about themselves as a result of taking better care of themselves. The result is better health...and less wieght. The weight loss is not the goal. Being what we can be is. The weight goes away along the way.

October 7th: I know everyone wants to look and feel as good as possible, but I have news for many...we get caught up with life and whatever life is we get comfortable with it. "Things" become the norm. But when we focus and do some good things, we can feel better than we have ever felt in our lives. That is what I do and what I want to help you do. See, a big deal.

September 23rd: I am ready, for you, us, together. This site is all about us feeling good, about ourselves, looking as good as we can, feeling right, and having the energy and enthusiasm to live life to the fullest. It begins here:

> We need to eat right. We all know that. Way too many people are over-weight and at risk of health problems as a result of bad eating habits.

> We have been told and told and told how to eat right, but a lot of what we have been told is wrong or hard to do. Today we start, and we make it easy.

> Don't eat fat. Period. End of story. Please click on the "Fat: Don't Eat It!" page for specifics.

August 18th: Life is short. Ever hear that? Cheap words even when we look in the mirror and don't like what we see, the fat and sag or gray or just not feeling too good due to bad habits. We don't eat right, we don't exercise, we are stressed. Yet we do nothing about the bad so things get worse or stall and become the norm.

This website is for you and me and whoever else wants to get going, enjoy, love and live.

This flows from a book I wrote titled "Two Cookies & A Mile," subtitled Your guide to getting the most out of the good life. (see the "Book" page for more)

The picture above is Carter and grampy (me). He is a kick. He will be three in September.

I sincerely encourage feedback. I want to think we are in this together.