Author: johnbarban

  • With Great Weight Loss Success Comes Great Responsibility!

    With Great Weight Loss Success Comes Great Responsibility!

    An odd thing happens to people who successfully lose weight, it’s the experience and proof that you can affect the shape/size/weight of your body if you choose to. This certainly doesn’t sounds like a problem. After all if you set out to lose weight, make the appropriate changes to your diet, and actually see changes,…

  • Swimming Up Stream For Weight Loss

    Swimming Up Stream For Weight Loss

    It’s day four of our stay in Barbados and it’s time to check out and go home. I’m sitting in the ‘executive lounge’ while I’m typing this and there is a free buffet here all day, and it’s pretty difficult to sit here and work without eating copious amounts of food. All the knowledge and…

  • The Goal is to Maintain When Traveling

    The Goal is to Maintain When Traveling

    I’m currently sitting in a hotel lounge at the Hilton Barbados. It’s about 30 degrees outside and sunny, the water is a bright turquoise, and the breakfast buffet is calling my name! We’ve already got a lunch and a dinner meeting set up for today not to mention the various bars and lounges that all…

  • Are you at the mercy of your genetics?

    Are you at the mercy of your genetics?

    I was at the gym the other day and I noticed a new member coming in for a workout. He was a younger guy, probably mid 20’s with a very small, dare I say underdeveloped upper body…but massive calves…like freakishly large calves. He was standing in front of a tall window so the light was…

  • Punishing Yourself with the Gym

    Punishing Yourself with the Gym

    I do an excessive amount of people watching in the gym…I’m sure most people there think I’m a bit weird as I’m always scanning the room observing what everyone is doing, and I’ve come to the realization that although on the surface it seems that everyone is there simply to ‘workout’ and ‘get in shape’…