Alan Irwin’s Blog

Well, here they are. The before and after pictures (please excuse the hairy back).
After much discussion and waffling, the big event occurred just minutes ago. The hair is gone (sort of - I kept the pony tail!), and I feel great. It was quick and easy, and yes I like it.
Harriet is still adapting to [...]

Until now, I hadn’t posted anything about the weight loss & fitness changes in my life, but thanks to a posting by my trainer, this is probably a good time to mention a few things.
First, I’m not losing weight due to some illness! Recently, a friend whom I hadn’t seen for some time asked (rather [...]

Mikki, my trainer from Fitness Transform, loves to throw new terms and acronyms at me. The latest is LSD (Long Slow Distance).
Apparently, I’ve been overtraining.
No really. Who knew?
My current training schedule consist of two days of strength training (in a gym, using weights) and three to four days of cardiovascular interval training (running stadiums) per [...]

Diane and Laura have a lovely place in Goleta, and they’ve just finished hanging most of their artwork. It looks great. I love all the color, although I don’t know that they’re completely happy with it, yet.
Those two travel a lot, and so our usual Friday night dinner got changed to Tuesday night. Laura’s been [...]

Okay, if you’ve known me for awhile and seen me lately, you know that I’ve lost a lot of weight and have been working out. At some point I’ll go into more details (okay, so far I’ve lost 76 pounds-but there are other changes as well!), however in this post I want to talk about [...]