Living Skillfully: Your Mind and Health

This entry is part 1 of 8 in the series Weight GainI haven’t got very personal up to this point on this blog; it’s a professional blog, but it’s a professional blog, so I think it’s appropriate to talk about relevant personal stuff. Not politics or religion; I certainly have views on those, but for [...]

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This entry is part 2 of 8 in the series Weight GainHere’s my personal strategy for gaining weight (as per my last post, Gaining weight: the start of my own change journey, in case you missed it).
I’m already taking a break every hour and a half and doing a set of exercises with the dumbbells. [...]

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This entry is part 3 of 8 in the series Weight Gain(This relates to my weight gain goal, but it’s all equally applicable if you’re losing weight.)
I said to my wife over the weekend, “I’ll be glad when I reach my goal weight and I can ease back a bit on eating all the time.”
That [...]

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This entry is part 4 of 8 in the series Weight GainThis is quite a personal post. Most of my posts aren’t, but this one is. You get to choose how you deal with that.
When I started out on my particular journey of personal change – to gain weight and attain a BMI of 20 [...]

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This entry is part 5 of 8 in the series Weight GainI’ve divided my weight gain goal into three phases.
In Phase 1, I put on 5kg.
In Phase 2, I put on another 5kg.
And in Phase 3, you’ll never believe, I put on yet another 5kg.
Why three phases? Well, the first one gets me back to [...]

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This entry is part 6 of 8 in the series Weight GainI sometimes describe myself as a “sports atheist”1 – just as the children of pastors sometimes end up as unbelievers, so I, the son of a sportswriter, have ended up deliberately distancing myself from New Zealand’s national religion: sport. I used to have a [...]

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This entry is part 7 of 8 in the series Weight GainI noticed in my logs today that someone came here searching for “energy cookie”. I hope that person subscribed, because here is the long-promised recipe:
Ingredients
2.5 cups oatmeal or rolled oats (oatmeal, if you can get it, is more energy-dense, because of how the oats [...]

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This entry is part 8 of 8 in the series Weight GainWell, the end date I set for my weight gain goal – my 41st birthday – has passed, and it’s time to look over the results and reflect on the process and on what comes next.
If you’ve read this whole series, you may recall [...]

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