Phil online

Yay! I’m into the “single digits” of the 200’s. And I appear no longer to be stalled. What’s more, my weight loss trendline looks spot on still, if slightly less steep.

I got this email today. It purports to be from MBNA, and it even has their logo linked from their corporate web site. Except for some red flags (like the dorky wording and punctuation), it appears legit. I might have believed it myself if it hadn’t come to one of my spam-trap email addresses. (more…)

I got a pingback from Andy who’s trying to lose weight — and has made it the focus of his blog. He’s making decent progress sometimes, but he also gets somewhat frustrated about the numbers on the scale. See, they’re not going down for him like he wants. He (probably correctly) attributes this to his build-up of muscle mass to replace his fat.

Muscle weighs more than fat per unit volume. That is, it’s denser. So a pound of muscle is smaller (better looking, better for you) than a pound of fat. If you lose inches by building muscle, (more…)