Today’s number: 17.9 stone First, my apologies, in advance, for bumming you out. Although not my express intention, today’s topic is hardly uplifting. That said, let me start out with a poem, one I recently forwarded to a friend turning 50: On Himself by Robert Herrick   A wearied pilgrim I have wander’d here, Twice five-and-twenty,…

Today’s number: 18.1 stone I swear that I am not writing this post because I’ve just made a New Year’s Resolution regarding weight loss and fitness. I made the resolution last November in no way associated with the new year. Regardless, here’s the situation: after living the “good life” in Spain for a couple of years,…