I was a little more than 45 minutes late doing this episode live, because I decided not to skip it altogether after all. I was going to skip because I didn’t think I had anything to say this week. Turns out, I did. I had about a half hour’s worth of things to say, apparently!

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I’m back on the bike! After a really rough holiday season followed by a week in Sin City, I thought I was doomed. But you know… I’m not. I’m really not. I’m feeling better than I have in months, I got back on the bike earlier tonight for the first time since… November maybe? and my outlook hasn’t been this good in a long time.

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A Doctor-Professor answers the old question “What is the single best thing we can do for our health” in a completely new way.

Dr. Mike Evans is founder of the Health Design Lab at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, an Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health at the University of Toronto, and a staff physician at St. Michael’s Hospital.

Title says it all. Nothing good this week. It’s a very short episode and I’m investigating the possibility that I have an actual food addiction. I explain my thoughts about that during the episode, but it boils down to the fact that I can’t always stop myself from eating. Sounds like an addiction to me. I’ll have an update about that next week.

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See? I told you I would be back on track. There’s no change this week as I clocked in at 235, but like I said on the show, I consider that somewhat of a win. If I’m not down, at least I’m not up. In this episode I talk about how holidays and weather have [...]

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In this episode I break down and explain why this show has been so sporadic for the past couple of months. I promised at the beginning of the series that I would share my ups and my downs with you, and I reneged on that promise recently. I am turning that around now.

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After a little time off I’m back with an episode of YAWLS in which I talk about a slight backslide on the scale, tracking my intake and my excellent new bike courtesy of my super-cool new sponsor, JensonUSA.

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It’s a fun little episode this time, though perhaps a little less coherent than I usually try to be. I was a little loopy. Weight-wise, not a tremendous change from the week before, but a little change – and a little [positive] change is a better than none at all.

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A month or so ago, I had bad pain in my heels when I got out of bed. It got better as the day went on, but the pain continued the following mornings.

After a little research, I found that I had a symptom of Plantar Fasciitis, which occurs when the thick band of tissue on the bottom of the foot is overstretched or overused.

It was uncomfortable, but I was dealing with it. It’s something that happens to lots of runners, and I found that it most often affects active men ages 40 – 70. Nice – I am 41. Welcome to being old.

Last Thursday, I went to a conference, and as I was walking around, I had some pain. I chalked it up to a sore foot from pivoting around as I coached 5-year-olds in soccer the night before.

But it got worse fast. I felt like I was going to drop to the floor with this feeling like nails were being driven into my left heel.

It was so bad that I went home.

I tried to power through it with Advil, but finally went to the doctor today and got the official word that it’s a textbook case of Plantar Fasciitis.

Fortunately, there are some pretty cheap remedies that should work (I hope!).

My doctor recommended icing my heels a few times a day, heel stretching exercises, Aleve twice a day as needed, heel cups, and night foot splints.

Also, I need to stop running for a while. Looks like I’ll be walking and biking when I can diminish the pain a bit.

After a week without a bicycle – my main form of exercise – and some pretty poor eating choices, I was feeling pretty blah. So much so that I forgot to weigh in because I was so far out of “weight loss mode”. All was not lost, however, as I explain on the show.

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