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    Annual Review 2024: My First Good Performance
  
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    My Jacksonville Marathon Journal
  
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    My Jacksonville Marathon 2024 Run Recap
  
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    2024 Goal Accountability May Closeout/June Kickoff
  
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    2024 Goal Accountability April Closeout/May Kickoff
  
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    My Short and Long Term Running Goals
  
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    2024 Goal Accountability March Closeout/April Kickoff
  
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    2024 Goal Accountability February Closeout/March Kickoff
  
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    2024 Goal Accountability January Closeout/February Kickoff
  
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    Annual Review 2023: Finally A Real Fitness Reboot
  
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    2023 Goal Accountability Phase 9 Closeout/Phase 10 Kickoff
  
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    2023 Goal Accountability Phase 8 Closeout/Phase 9 Kickoff
  
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    My Longo Inspired Cancer Avoidance Fast Results
  
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    Fasting Transition Days' Soup Recipe
  
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    2023 Goal Accountability Phase 7 Closeout/Phase 8 Kickoff
  
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    Fasting Day 5
  
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    Fasting Day 4
  
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    Fasting Day 3
  
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    Fasting Day 2
  
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    Fasting Day 1: Transition In
  
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    2023 Goal Accountability Phase 6 Closeout/Phase 7 Kickoff
  
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    A Demonstration of the Importance of Crosstraining for Runners
  
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    2023 Goal Accountability Phase 5 Closeout/Phase 6 Kickoff
  
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    Health Reboot Week 4 and Total Update
  
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    Health Reboot Week 3 Update
  
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    Health Reboot Week 2 Update
  
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    30 Day Health Reboot
  
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    Annual Review 2022: A Middling Year of Diet and Fitness 
  
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    Annual Review 2021: Post-Vax Rumspringa Denting Progress
  
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    Annual Review 2020: The Mulligan Year
  
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    Getting Serious About My Carbon Footprint
  
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    Annual Review 2019: From Not That Bad To Train Wreck
  
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    Starting the LiteDB Portal Project, a story
  
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    Development Ramp Up
  
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    How Useful Are Diet Labels?
  
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    Annual Review 2018: Not Good But Not So Bad Either
  
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    First Jekyll Post
  
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    Baby Steps, Ten Minutes of Them On an Elliptical
  
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    Annual Review 2017 Good and (mostly) Bad
  
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    23andMe Weight Loss Study
  
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    2017 Phase 8 Goal Accountability: Finally Dialed In
  
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    Finally had a 4.0 week, don't make it a stumbling block
  
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    Momentum Made Me Do It!
  
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    Coming Out of Fitness Hibernation
  
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    What Does Fasting For Weightloss Look Like?
  
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    Forks Over Knives Follow Up?
  
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    Using my own blog as a research tool is cool!
  
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    2017 Phase 2 Goal Accountability: Finishing Strong
  
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    2017 Phase 1 Goal Accountability: A Dud
  
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    No resolutions, just keep trying to dial it (again)...
  
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    Goal Tracking Report Card 2016 Phase 11/12, A Big Fail...
  
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    It's Marathon Weekend; Or Was Supposed To Be
  
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    Zero Waste As a Path To Voluntary Simplicity
  
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    Cranking Up Fitness Focus
  
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    A Shift Away From Health Experimentation
  
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    I'm Not Labeling Myself By My Diet
  
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    Bread Experiments On the Horizon
  
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    Naked and Afraid Marathon: Best way to end a tough fasting day
  
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    Feast then fasting
  
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    Exercise Isolation: Mixed Results
  
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    Another Week of Great Progress!
  
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    Causation Doesn't Equal Correlation (or Is My FitBit Screwing Me)
  
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    My Legs Are Reminding Me Why We Ramp Up :)
  
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    Marathon Baby Step #2: Four, Two-Minute Run Sessions
  
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    Isolating Exercise For Fitness Improvement
  
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    Hawaii: A Story of Two Visits
  
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    All I can think about is my first free day, and I'm not happy about it
  
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    Week 3 Redux
  
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    Bizarre Food Dreams
  
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    Goal Week 2 Redux
  
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    Salt Withdraw or Too Little Sodium?
  
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    Goal Week 1 Redux
  
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    A Six Week Challenge
  
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    Pollen Down–Time to Run
  
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    80/10/10 Day Redux
  
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    An 80/10/10 day
  
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    Itching to post again...
  
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    Blowing Up (Waistline)
  
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    2014 Recap, Nothing Goes As Planned
  
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    Bitter Sweet Congratulations
  
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    Mystery Solved?  It's the Exercise, Stupid!
  
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    November monthly update
  
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    I Didn't Need a Ruler To Prove the Obvious
  
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    Starting up again
  
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    Post Deluge About To Commence
  
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    T Minus 1 Day to Paleo Phase
  
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    Paleo start inches closer...
  
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    Staging For Paleo Start
  
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    Turkey: Country or Food? (In Other Words, WTH English?)
  
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    Set the Goal But Enjoy the Journey
  
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    Paleo Begins June 1st!
  
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    Craving Some Treats (Not What You Expect)
  
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    Who Needs Sleep When There Is Caffeine?
  
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    Best Laid Plans...
  
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    Paleo Phase Week 1 Plan
  
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    Gorge before the storm
  
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    Testing Over!  Now On To First Phase
  
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    A Bit of a 'Bender' And Now I'm Paying For It
  
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    Gluten Test Week Not As Successful As Dairy...
  
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    Snow shoveling is a great workout–glad I bought a snow blower...
  
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    Day 22 and 23: I think I'm switching to weekly updates
  
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    T-1 Day To Elimination Diet, Strict With Touches of Indulgence
  
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    T-2 Days to Elimination Diet: Cleaning Out the House!
  
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    Making Pasta: Started off disasterous but saved it in the end...
  
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    T-minus One Week and Counting
  
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    Preserving Your Family's Food History
  
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    I Forgot That "Dieting" Psyches You Out
  
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    Good news, Coke Zero relapse proved doesn't taste as good as I remember...
  
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    First marathon down: lessons learned and what to do better next time.
  
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    Thanksgiving Reax: As bad as I planned, so what?
  
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    Skip the caffeine to see what it really does to your system
  
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    A Real Mediterranean Diet
  
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    Soda detox summary: done with diet soda!
  
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    Natural Biohacking
  
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    Vegan Week Experiment Summary
  
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    Are you self sabotaging without knowing it?
  
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    Vegan Week Day 6
  
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    Vegan Week Day 5
  
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    Vegan Week Day 4
  
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    Vegan Week Day 3
  
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    Vegan Week Day 2
  
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    Vegan Week Day 1
  
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    Time for another weekly challenge; Vegan Week here we come...
  
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    Local foods taste good too
  
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    Breaking the fast after 11 days, damn soda still tasted just as good.
  
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    Paleo Week Test Summary
  
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    Paleo Week Test Day 6
  
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    Paleo Week Test Day 5
  
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    Paleo Week Test Day 4
  
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    Paleo Week Test Day 3
  
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    Paleo Week Test Day 2
  
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    Paleo Week Test Day 1
  
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    Let Paleo Week Commence!
  
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    T-2 Days to Paleo Week
  
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    Which diet should I use for one week trial?
  
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    Doubling down on muscle stiffness theory...
  
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    Leg tightness is from lifestyle, just not the way I thought (I think)
  
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    Countdown to just one can of diet soda a week starts!
  
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    Holidays Are A Time For Pigging Out
  
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    Cruising To The End Via Mediterranean
  
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    Paleo Experiment Filling But Somewhat Challenging
  
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    Pescatarian Experiment Day Left Me Hungry :(
  
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    Vegetarian Day Experiment, No Sweat!
  
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    Vegan Day Experiment Went Great!
  
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    Paleo Spaghetti Squash Bolognese
  
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    Sticking With the Plan Through Holidays
  
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    Who Am I?
  
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    Welcome