Some of you may have noticed (hopefully?) that I’ve been kinda quiet for a while. Nope I didn’t fall into some kind of runners’ oblivion, nor did I take up permanent residence at Walt Disney World (although I seriously considered the latter). Those of you who follow me on one of the social media platforms …
Went to a festival in town this past weekend and ran into some folks I hadn’t seen since embarking on my weight loss journey. Surprisingly, a couple of them didn’t recognize me at first. Once we established who I was, the consensus reaction was, “Wow, you look great! How did you do it?!?” My standard …
Back in 2014, a conversation about running or hiking to the top of a mountain might as well have been in some foreign language. For a forty-something desk jockey weighing in at 407 lbs, those kinds of activities were all but fantasy. Even if my mind told me I could, my body would say, “are …
Some folks have been curious as to how I arrived at the name for my blog, “why Fatman?” they’ve asked, “You aren’t really fat anymore”. Well, in addition to the fact that it was available and kind of catchy, there is more… First, I have been fat for most of my life. I have dealt with the …
