Chris Maddera

It’s kind of like throwing a pebble in the ocean…I suppose

October 5, 2011

I was playing around with some numbers for other projects I’m working on, and decided to see how only one small change could affect my weight (in theory). For example, a 12 oz. can of Coke is 140 calories. Now, let’s say I have only one can a day. If I’m not doing enough activity [...]

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Back to the Gym Update: This whole running thing is going to take longer to build up to than I thought, but that’s okay

October 3, 2011

Well, this is the beginning of Week 3 of my Back to the Gym adventures, and today was rough. Last week, my knees (specifically, the area just below my knees) started feeling really achy and sore, and I thought I might have damaged them by overdoing “the running”. I have to use quotation marks with [...]

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Taking it one-tenth of a mile at a time

September 21, 2011

Last month, after Cindy and I finished the juice fast, I wrote “I got to where I am by making lots of small negative changes over an extended period of time that felt good in the short-term but resulted in negative long-terms consequences. I’m not talking about just my weight here, either. So, the only [...]

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The 10-Day juice fast: The End

August 18, 2011

Yesterday, Cindy and I finished our 10-day juice fast, and now we’re heading back into eating solid foods. We broke the fast with what started out as a simple cabbage and broth but morphed into a full-blown (and extremely satisfying) vegetable soup. Tonight, we had veggie pizza. Losing 10 lbs. as a result of being [...]

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Halfway through the 10-Day juice fast

August 12, 2011

Today is Day 5 of 10 of our juice fast, and it seems to be going much smoother for me than some of the other detox/cleansing/reboot diets we’ve tried. Everything I’ve seen or read from other people doing a juice fast, they’ve all said that the first few days are the worst, and I’d say [...]

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In 5 days Cindy and I are starting a 10-day juice fast

August 2, 2011

A couple of weeks ago, Cindy and I watched a documentary on Netflix called Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead. It’s about an Australian guy bloke named Joe Cross who is overweight, and suffers from an  autoimmune disorder called chronic urticaria. Sick and tired of being in such lousy shape, he comes to the United States [...]

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Today, I start writing the shitty first draft

July 26, 2011

If you haven’t got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you get to the fourth page you will have an idea, and you’ll only have to throw away the first three pages. - William Campbell Gault I start new writing projects with the ease of a toothless [...]

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Switching webhosts = one plane ticket (almost)

May 12, 2011

Today, I’m moving a few blogs to a new host, consolidating them into one place. I’ve been meaning to do this for about a year now, but I kept putting it off because something almost always goes wrong, and it winds up taking me 10 times longer than it should. And this project, now that [...]

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The dream vacation that haunts you, part 2

May 11, 2011

Trips for us take some serious budget planning. I’m not even kidding. In 1997, when we decided to get married in Las Vegas, we booked our vacation package a year in advance because it was going to take us a year to pay for it. In 2007, we had decided that each year we would [...]

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Torched by Lyndie Strawbridge now available for the Nook and Kindle

May 10, 2011

This is a fact, one that I know to be true without having to look it up, or prove it: more people start writing novels than finish them. And nobody (at least nobody I know) buys a half-written novel for their Kindle, Nook, iPad, or any other e-reader. As someone who’s started several novels, and [...]

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