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It’s that time again, my weekly update on my weight loss progress.
I’ve stuck to drinking a lot of water daily and only having one diet soda per day.
As of this post, I haven’t had a soda yet, so I might go a day without one. That would be some progress.
I’ve also noticed my [...]

Good morning, afternoon or evening depending on your location my loyal Geek With Laptop readers. It’s time for my Hacking The Body weekly update.
It’s been an interesting week for weight loss. I’ve been doing really good on sticking to one soda per day and it’s been diet Coke, so less sugar intake which is [...]

Last week I started a new project called Hacking The Body where I’d start to document my progress in weight loss and overall “hacking” my body into better shape and this morning was my day to weigh in… dun dun DUN!
I weighed in this morning at 229.8 which is a 2.2 pound weight loss. Yay!
This [...]

As we come to the close of 2006 most of us will dream up some “New Years Resolutions” to put into effect at the stroke of midnight on December 31.
Some of the stuff people usually toss out to the universe are things like:

Working harder
Working less
Eating better
Exercising more
Spending more time with family
Hanging out with friends
Finishing random [...]

Our friends Ben and Melody invited us out tonight for a fun night of dinner, wine tasting, good conversation, good people and some financial advice and learning from Ameriprise Financial.
We even learned how to make Jalepeno-Corn Spoon Bread which I’ll be sharing the recipe at the end of my post. This stuff was so [...]

One of my favorite soups when it’s cold and rainy is baked potato chowder and I just happen to have the recipe handy which will give you 10 servings so you can have left overs for later:
Needed Ingredients:

4 large Baking potatoes
2/3 cup Butter or margarine
2/3 cup Flour
6 cups of Milk
3/4 teaspoons Salt
1/2 teaspoons Black pepper
1/2 [...]