10 Signs You’re an Internet Fitness Douche Bag

10 Signs You’re an Internet Fitness Douche Bag

The Web is a pit of contagion. It’s infected with fat loss and muscle building douchbaggery. Do you have a fitness website? Do you engage in any of these behaviors? If yes, then you might be an Internet fitness douche bag.   1. Your image is a cartoon Instead of...
Did Jillian Michaels Do a “Bad, Bad Thing”?

Did Jillian Michaels Do a “Bad, Bad Thing”?

This piece was first published on my old site on November 13, 2013. It was very popular, being shared on Facebook over 3,000 times. Okay, so who really cares about this? The title of the article says “Jillian Michaels did a bad, bad thing.” That’s true, but not...
What Do Star Trek and Weight Loss Have in Common?

What Do Star Trek and Weight Loss Have in Common?

I finally saw the new Star Trek movie. So, yeah. Here we are. There are Spocks, Kirks and Khans in the intergalactic battle against obesity. That sentence has some serious “what the hell?” factor, doesn’t it? If you’re not that familiar with Star Trek, here’s a brief...

Overdoing It: A Dispatch from the Med Tent

This piece was first published on my old site on October 17, 2013. If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter, you already know that I did it. What is “it?” It is a Boston Marathon qualification. Barely. But I’m not going to tell you about the race. I can’t, because I’ve...

Goldman Sachs Men Know Nothing About Being a Man

This piece was first published on my old site on October 11, 2013. Another long list full of mostly nothing about what it means to be a man. There is a Twitter account about “things heard in the Goldman Sachs elevator.” Like apparently guys who work for a company with...