Author: UncleLar

The head orphan and eldest surviving member of the Fall Family Clan.
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Remember this post?

http://www.wearethefalls.com/2007/07/05/time-to-get-serious-about-my-weight/

and this chart that I put up for a short while

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Well they were made a little over a year ago (more like 14 months to be a little more specfic)

Unfortunately, my exercise campaign only lasted a couple of months until my “unretirement” in the Beer Mile last Labor Day.

The good news was that my weight didn’t balloon back up. I pretty much fluctuated around 220-225.

At the end of last spring, I decided to try to drop some more weight.. Things get pretty quiet around State College following spring graduation (mid May) up until the kids come back for the second summer session (end of June), so around Memorial Day I decided to go into one of my “no drinking” phases for the month of June. I also started watching what I ate a little more closely (nothing too health nut serious, mostly cutting back on the amount of red meat, eating a lot more chicken and sometimes fish).

I was very please with the results. By the end of June, without too much sacrifice my weight got down to 215. Rather than end my “fast” as originally planned, I started extrapolating and figured that I could quite possibly break 200 by Labor Day.

Since then, I’ve modified the plan a little, i,e, the complete teetotaling has gone by the wayside. As often as not, I’ll have a beer or two after my men’s league golf on Wednesday and I will drink during “special occasions”, maybe every second or third weekend.

While there were a couple of moment where I wonder if I could make it, I am proud to announce that my scale read 199.5 when I stepped on it this morning. Mission accomplished. I can now go out and celebrate for the Holiday Weekend and first football game of the season (and probably recoil in horror when I get on the scale Tuesday morning but that’s a problem for another day).

I honestly don’t remember that last time that I was under 200. Has to be about 15 years ago. I know when I was training for my marathon (sometime around 1987) I was about 188 but I started putting the weight on after it.

I’m not sure how much longer, if at all, I’ll try to keep losing weight but I am at least going to try to stay under 200.

Now I have to go back and see if I can reclaim at least some of my UncleLar party image that I lost over weight loss campaign. 🙂

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Happy Valley Heroes

Not resting on my laurels, I present the latest addition to my blogging empire.

Happy Valley Heroes – a site dedicated to athletic accomplishments of past and present Nittany Lion athletes, teams, alumni, and coaches.

http://www.happyvalleyheroes.com/

Happy Valley Heroes via kwout

I’m still tweaking this somewhat but I consider it at least ready for a public beta. I use each one of these sites as a learning opportunity to pick up a few more skills. With this one, I easily got further down into the site and template code than I ever have before. I had to do a fair amount of tweaking to get the site navigation as dynamic as it is. For someone that basically knows very little about php coding, I’m pretty proud of the way things have worked out.

I still need to add more content before I’ll be happy enough for a total public release. I want to make sure that there’s at least something there for every PSU sport so I’m going to go back through the season for each of them and pull out a highlight or two.

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New Software Release

WordPress, the underlying blogging software that provides the basis for this blog, has introduced a new version of their software which I’ve installed today. At first you should see no change because the new features are all behind the scene administrative changes that should only be visible to Gary and I – with one major exception.

That one exception will be that, when you go to make a post, you will see an entirely new panel. Hopefully, the new changes won’t be that significant. I would expect that most of you will be able to figure out how to make a post without too much trouble. If you are confused about something, send me an email and I’ll give you a hand.