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Photo by Mateus Campos Felipe on Unsplash I don’t engage in the act of hugging very often. It’s just something I could never bring myself to enjoy in the past, and so perhaps more out of habit than anything else, it’s something I still don’t do very often now. When I...

Photo by Lacey Raper on Unsplash It was a Saturday afternoon, and I was on my way home from a trip into town when I found myself waiting to turn at a set of traffic lights. The straight-ahead light went green, but the turning light remained red for a while, as a...

Photo by Jamie Matociños on Unsplash It was while researching for the later chapters of The Fat Ginger Nerd in 2020, that one day I stumbled upon something that filled me with a terrible, yet familiar, sense of dread. I had found the very diet that had been prescribed...

Photo by Wesley Tingey on Unsplash We all understand what a thermostat is and what it does. It helps to regulate room temperature. Different influences serve to adjust the temperature of the room: the number of people in it, insulation, ventilation, humidity and so...

Photo by Caroline Attwood on Unsplash “So, when are you going to start eating normal again?” This was a question I was asked more than once over the course of my original weight loss journey, most often towards the end of it, as per Chapter 6 of The Fat Ginger Nerd:...

Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash A young lady at the supermarket called out to me one day. “Thank you!” She wasn’t serving me at the checkout. I had served myself as I usually do, and had just loaded my two reusable bags into the trolley. I’m not even sure if she was...

Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash As I write this in the latter stages of 2021, some of the final details of The Fat Ginger Nerd are falling into place. One of those final additions is the inclusion of my 2021 round of blood work at the end of Appendix B,...

Photo by Dominik Martin on Unsplash The rain was hosing down. It wasn’t meant to last, but I had things to do that weren’t meant to wait, either. My shoes, I also knew, weren’t exactly waterproof. I was already onto my second pair of socks for the day at this point,...

Photo by Tim Cooper on Unsplash One of our favourite cartoons in the family household while I was growing up was The Gummi Bears.  It was one of the first TV shows that we recorded regularly on our flash new VCR, taking great care to pause the recording whenever the...

Photo by Monika Grabkowska on Unsplash Various aspects of The Fat Ginger Nerd will appeal to various people, some more so than others, and that’s fine by me.  Different strokes for different folks, and all that. Some might be interested in the personal story and the...

Photo by Bruno Emmanuelle on Unsplash There it was.  My name on the list of speakers for the afternoon of Day Two of the Low Carb Gold Coast conference of 2019. The speaking order had been switched around slightly on the day.  I was now to be the third in our set. ...

Photo by Valentin Müller on Unsplash With the possible exception of 2010-2011 and for different reasons entirely, the year 2015 ranks in my mind as perhaps the worst 12 month period of my entire life.  So if I’m to start keeping a public blog, I figure it might as...