My trainer and coach both love to tell me that progress isn’t linear. As a person who started taking fitness seriously in middle age, this has been a rock fact for me, not a lesson I needed drilled into me. But I wanted to add some clarity for what setbacks look like for someone inContinue reading “Setbacks”
Category Archives: Uncategorized
Diet culture thought spirals
It’s the time of year when the gym is flooded and people are deciding to start new eating disorders to LOSE WEIGHT. I have been consistently going to the gym for a year and a half and am not interested in calorie restriction at all, and am not trying to lose weight because I knowContinue reading “Diet culture thought spirals”
Olympic weightlifting
I had my assessment with my new weightlifting coach. He said my upper body strength and range of motion is looking pretty good, but it will probably take several months to get my lower body doing the explosive deep squats required for Olympic lifts. This was actually better than I had expected, since about aContinue reading “Olympic weightlifting”
Good news
What I thought was my body deteriorating after 4 weeks in a flare was actually me getting better and then being stricken with norovirus! Great news! After I stopped peeing out of my butthole, I got better really fast and went back to work! Also, reaffirming that my dietary interventions cut thru flare #5 andContinue reading “Good news”
Dinner
Cookies for dinner is valid.
Jacked Fatty
Bodybuilders are less than 10% body fat. You can see every rippling sinew under their thin, tight skin. As a jacked fatty, however, my bulging muscles are hidden under a layer of fat, like a soft blanket of snow. This makes it harder to visibly see the changes happening to my body as I enterContinue reading “Jacked Fatty”
How does one “Feel Better?”
With Crohn’s disease, when you start feeling like shit you know you are in for the long haul. Crohn’s is a Victorian wasting disease where the only remedies are hot pads, cold compresses, and moving to the mountains where the air is less tubercular. Except it’s 2025 and you can’t buy morphine or heroin overContinue reading “How does one “Feel Better?””
Pain
Two nights ago I experienced what I think may have been the worst pain of my life. Following a very high stress week, like crying at work, the students can tell something is wrong stress, like your elderly parents and disabled brother are living in filth with mouse shit all over their kitchen and onlyContinue reading “Pain”
Community
I got recognized on the trail today while I was walking as a Columbus Sports Connection regular by another gym bro and I was like …OMG this actually is my community 😄 I am a fitness person
Reverse Engineered EEN Smoothie
To approximate food like Modulen or Kate Farms medical meal replacement shakes, I made this smoothie. I drink two of these a day currently, in addition to 3-4 Kate farms shakes. The Kate farms micronutrient profile hits all essential vitamins and minerals at 3-4 shakes a day. My last meal of the day is yogurtContinue reading “Reverse Engineered EEN Smoothie”
Eating Vegan with Crohn's Disease 