Why California? Her preference. She was born in California and is definitely a California beach girl far more than she’s a Colorado mountain girl. And me? I grew up in SoCal and spent over a decade in Silicon Valley. If I could, I’d move back and get a place walking distance (or maybe biking distance) from the beach. I miss the ocean and the beach culture.

Another factor is that I did my undergraduate studies at UC San Diego and since one area she’s expressed interest in, albeit not in the last year, is oceanography, it’s perfect that Scripps Institute is easily one of the half dozen best places to study that in the world and it’s part of my alma mater, UCSD. Convenient, really.

What’s going to be fun is that Ford has generously offered us a C-MAX Hybrid for the road trip, so we’ll be picking that up at the airport in San Jose and putting 500+ miles on it. “Now that’s a test drive!” (in my best Paul Hogan imitation voice).

I’m excited to try the C-MAX because the most recent car I had prior to my Highlander was a Toyota Prius, and while it felt new and tech when I got it, I was ultimately glad to get rid of it, after being plagued by battery issues that Toyota assured me were just the result of living in a cold climate. We were hoping for a convertible muscle car, but c’mon, it’s 2013, not 1987, so we’ll make do with a 47mpg hybrid and I’ll dream of the top being down and my hair streaming in the wind.

The peppy Ford C-MAX Hybrid

First stop tomorrow is UC Santa Cruz, just to get our feet wet, then a day playing in Monterey, including a visit to the fabulous Monterey Bay Aquarium and, ocean permitting, some sea kayaking for us both. Then… we’ll see.

On my mental checklist of colleges are Cal Poly San Luis Obisbo, UC Santa Barbara, Pepperdine and UCSD. We’re definitely open to suggestions, however, but if it’s inland, it’s probably not going to be too interesting to A- since she’s dreaming of a college on the beach.

We also don’t yet have a specific checklist of things to see or do on each campus, but when I suggested she keep notes as we visit different campuses, A- liked that idea and wants a small notebook to tote with us. As I’ve told her, the goal isn’t to find The One, the college she wants to attend, but rather to get a sense of how different campuses feel and what it’d be like to live in that particular city or area of California.

And with that, it’s time for me to sign off and get some sleep prior to starting our trip.

It’s daunting. We live in a culture that, like most cultures before us, focuses the nurturing enculturalization on females, so while us boys are playing cowboys and indians, soldiers, ninjas and hunters, girls are learning how to do more domestic tasks with dolls, doll houses, dress up and tea. I believe it’s a nature/nurture thing, actually, and that while it may be politically incorrect, I absolutely see these traits in my children too, with my girls more gentle and sympathetic and my son and his peers ready to rumble but often forgetting that other people are worthy of respect and the benefit of the doubt.

Zoom forward 20, 30 or even 40 years later and it can be quite a shock for a man who has spent much of his adult energy building a career to provide for his family, while his wife has been more focused on the daily needs of their children, to suddenly be flying solo without a safety net. It’s no wonder so many dads flame out in those initial weeks and months of single fatherhood: where the heck are they supposed to have gotten the experience to know how to deal with a colicky baby, a cranky toddler, a sarcastic teen and a belligerent, exhausted tween?

That’s why it’s terrific to see organizations like Denver-based Families First offer classes aimed at helping men learn how to be fathers to their children now that the sometimes huge safety net of mom has been pulled out from under them. No need to shout, no need to hit, no need to be mean to try and create cooperative children. Really, no kidding.

Just check out their Parenting Classes Schedule and you’ll see classes like “Constructive Parenting”, “Parenting with Confidence”, “Appreciating Your Adolescent” and “ABC’s of Parenting”. Dig a bit deeper and they also host a Circle of Parents group entitled “Parenting Tools for Dads” (and another one “Grandparents who fill a parenting role”, and I know of at least one child whose grandparents are raising her in our community)

Families First isn’t unique, and its focus on supporting both English and Spanish speaking parents isn’t unique either. But if you’re just waking up to the reality of being a single parent — and in particular a single father — then a few classes, a book, and a few buddies who can listen to you vent about your %$)%&(& kids driving you crazy then offer a few suggestions can not only save your sanity, but dramatically improve your children’s experience with you and lead to a far better dad/child relationship as they grow up.

And what father doesn’t want a great relationship with their smart, funny, loving children?

Since then, I have had facial hair. My 16yo daughter has never seen me without it. When I divorced I toyed with the idea of going clean shaven again, but truth be told, I’d become used to not having to worry about shaving every day and instead changed it up by going from a full beard to a goatee. Still mostly looks the same, but a bit neater.

In the last few years, I’ve received a rather remarkable amount of mens grooming products and tried them all out dutifully, since having a goatee means I need a beard trimmer to keep it neat and a razor to keep the rest of my face smooth and clean. With a drawerful of electric razors and trimmers, it’s been quite a while since I actually used a proper razor too, but when Aveeno offered to send me out samples of their products, I assented, deciding I’d give that ol’ triple-edge razor a try too.

Enter the Aveeno for Men line. I received shave gel, after shave lotion and face wash to try out. And I dug up my razor for the experiment. Now I should admit that even with the goatee, even with a top-of-the-line Panasonic electric razor, I still don’t shave every day. Probably every 2-3 days unless there’s a reason I want to look particularly clean and neat.

I started with the shave gel and rather made a mess of things: it’s a different kind of gel dispenser than the old-school shaving creams I used pre-electric, but a tiny bit squirted onto my hand was plenty for my entire face. Then I shaved and it clearly helped lubricate my face because I barely felt the razor at all. No nicks, no cuts. Please.

After, I washed the remaining gel off and tried the after shave lotion, an almond scented lotion that I actually didn’t like very much. I did the smell test, going around and asking both my girls (9 and 16) to smell my face. Yes, that’s what I said. And they did. Man, having kids can be awesome. :-)

But neither liked the smell. Now what’s confusing is that on the information page for the Aveeno after shave lotion it says it’s fragrance free, but that almond smell is coming from somewhere. So the score so far: gel = +1, after shave lotion = -1. In fact, I felt greasy for the rest of the day as the lotion, rather surprisingly, didn’t actually absorb into my skin.

Finally, this morning I tried out the facial wash, being a big fan of the Dove Men+Care face wash product, and was surprised to find that the Aveeno wash has an exfoliating ingredient (basically a “gritty” substance) that’s apparently natural colloidal oatmeal. Whatever it is, I really like it, and since I’m trying to get into a routine of washing my face every morning and evening, I’m definitely a fan of a product that both cleans my face well and moisturizes. Makes those circles under my eyes look a bit less noticeable, which is good!

So all in all, I’m still not a fan of shaving, even with these new products. Using the gel, then a razor, then washing it off, then using after shave lotion, it’s all a big hassle when I’d rather just have a few swipes of my electric razor and be done for the day. Is it as close a shave? No. But is it 90% as good? Yup, and that’s good enough for this busy dad. The real winner in this mix? The Aveeno Men’s Face Wash. They can send me a few more of those. :-)

Summer camps? Nope. Trips? Eventually, but not this week. Friends? Most are out of town, and those that aren’t generally seem to involve me then having to shuttle people around throughout the day. Benefit? Not so much. And of course my 9yo girl K-, who is the least able to entertain herself without bugging her dear old dad, there are none of her usual friends and classmates around to go over for a few hours.

Now don’t get me wrong, I’m a firm believer in the benefit of children getting bored, because boredom spawns creativity and imagination.

Or at least, it should.

In fact, we modern parents have a far more difficult road to travel because it seems like instead of playing a board game, going out to run around, doing crafts, even calling friends, my kids are doing what most modern kids do: turning to their electronics. UGH. I hate it. And they have a daily allotment of time. But what’s to do otherwise?

That’s why the timing was perfect when Procter & Gamble asked me if I’d pitch in as part of the “Modern Day Dads” campaign as part of their Thank you, Mom campaign that’s celebrating Dads for all we do for our families. Great, but P&G’s doing it under the rubric of the “Thank You Mom” campaign, which upsets me a little bit because we dads shouldn’t be second class citizens, so “Thank You Dad” would be a better campaign, but… it’s still interesting data, so let’s have a look.

P&G surveyed dads and came up with some provocative results, some of which are what I’d expect and others of which are actually lower than I’d expect from modern day dads. For example, as highlighted above, 65% of dads say that they have a different parenting style than their own fathers. Which surprises me, because just about every father I talk to says that he’s more empathetic, more gentle and more forgiving than his own father. Possible explanation: Our memories of our own childhoods, our memories of how our fathers were involved in parenting might just be skewed and inaccurate. Maybe our own dads were more like us fathers than we realize? Or, more in line with these results, there are a lot of dads giving their own fathers the benefit of the doubt?

The other stat I wanted to highlight, as it’s exactly in line with my own feelings as we move into a summer that seems like it’s going to be more defined by electronics than anything else: 73% of dads say that it’s harder to parent youngsters today than at any time in history due to the advances in technology and social media.

Given that I watch my 16yo daughter A- lay on the couch fiddling with her iPhone for what seems to be hours, and when queried, she says “Instagram” or “texting” or “Pinterest” or “Facebook”, well, not only weren’t the devices available when I was a kid, but the social networks weren’t around either. In fact, when I was growing up, “social network” referred to my friends in the neighborhood and my transportation device of choice in this info highway was my bike.

Again, though, what’s interesting to consider are the 27% of dads who think that the growth in personal devices and the Internet either has made parenting easier or, perhaps, hasn’t affected how dads parent young children. Really, what planet are they living on? Or perhaps they’re the theoretical dads who have a 6mo and are projecting into the future, inaccurately. :-)

Then again, I have friends who let their kids swim in the deep end of technology, young kids around 9 or 10 who have full Internet access, portable devices and their own smartphones. No time limits, they can play Xbox or poke around on Pinterest to their heart’s content. And just occasionally, I wonder if that’s not how I should work with my children too, just let them find their own limits.

Then I come to my senses and realize that I don’t want to be around “users” (in the classic Tron usage of the word) but around interesting children and young adults who can have conversations, engage in activities, and have a social network that extends far beyond a glowing 2.5″ screen.

Here’s the full infographic, btw. I encourage you to click on it to read it full size:

Provocative stuff, P&G, and thanks for sharing. Now, dear reader, what’s your take? What of the stats in this infographic surprise you and what do you think is spot on?

I now live in a famously liberal community, Boulder Colorado, and to be candid, somehow people in my area are generally unsupportive of the military, probably seeing it as representative of the military industrial complex or something similar. The argument that the men and women who are in uniform are not the ones making large-scale strategic decisions about where to focus our forces, what our on-ground strategies are, the objectives of our efforts overseas, the allocation of US funds, etc, seems to fall on deaf ears.

Military folk who come to Colorado find a warm reception elsewhere, like Colorado Springs, home of the beautiful US Air Force Academy, but in Boulder? Not so much.

Still, I am quite appreciative of the people who put their lives on the line, who take years out of their own lives, to serve and help preserve our way of life and further our nation’s goals and efforts overseas. It’s tough, often unforgiving work, weeks of boredom punctuated with seconds of terror, death, injury, and worse.

And if you’re a father, you might get to be in touching videos about using Facetime or Skype video chats to stay in touch with your wife and children, but the reality is far more harsh, a reality that I believe is harder for the men of today to handle than our fathers did in the so-called Greatest Generation. Regardless, it’s darn hard to be a dad and not be with your children, and when there’s 6000 miles between you, it’s crazy hard to offer any sort of support at all.

And so I say: Thank you, guys. I dream of a world where we can all be at peace with each other, but in the meantime, we need you to try to keep some sort of balance in an increasingly confusing global political climate.

Some companies get it way more than others, and I have to give kudos to Unilever and their Dove Men+Care brand for their unwavering support of the troops. This time, for Father’s Day, they’ve introduced a pretty slick campaign called Mission Care and are flying servicemen home from overseas to spend Father’s Day with their families and children. Here’s a video:

One area of tech that I’ve been watching very closely for a long time is biometric monitoring. Used to be that if you wanted to collect any data on your exercise and health, you’d be stuck with a gadget that sat in your pocket, a pedometer that probably wasn’t even very accurate. And weight? Yup, you could write down the number on the scale every day if you were so inclined. Data over time? Long term trend analysis? You were on your own for that one.

All of this has changed in a way that has caught the popular zeitgeist in active communities, and now sports bands and monitoring are a big business, with some products even on semi-permanently backorder. On the scale side, I have both a Withings WS-30 wifi scale (shown on the right) and a Withings WS-50 “Smart Body Analyzer” (which looks the same, but is black). They’re exactly what a modern scale should be, recognizing each family member by weight, saving weight and body fat percentage data on a central Internet server, and even including some slick software for your favorite mobile device so you can see trends and ensure that your weight is heading in the desired direction.

For exercise bands, however, the competition is far greater, with a lot of consumer electronics firms in the race. An early entrant in this market was MOVband and they sent me one to play with almost 18mo ago. I liked it, but the device had terrible software so it now sits, unused, in my office. The next company to join the fray was powerhouse Nike, a company that makes a lot more than just sneakers. Nike introduced the Fuelband, and that’s what I have on my wrist right now. I really like it.

The other big players in this space are the Jawbone Up and the Fitbit Flex, both of which look remarkably similar and both of which offer greater functionality than the Fuelband, but without any meaningful user feedback on the device itself. Think of a big metal twist-tie wrapped around your wrist and you’d have the approximate design of these devices. :-)

Their software is what makes them cool, and my friend Erica, who loaned me her Fuelband to try, shared that she’s now a huge proponent of the Up because of its social nature: in her monitoring app, she shares data with a lot of friends and they can all see how each other’s doing on a daily basis. Gamification + social = smart.

But the lack of feedback, the lack of any useful data on the monitoring device is something I don’t really like. Truth be told, just as when I go to the gym and ignore everyone, I look at health data as something I want to know about, not something I want to share on a daily basis with my circle of friends. Hence my preference for the Fuelband, which actually shows useful data at the push of a button and otherwise is just an interesting piece of tech jewelry on your wrist.

The Fuelband photo on the right is showing my “fuel points”, not steps like an old fashioned pedometer, though at its heart, the Fuelband really is a glorified pedometer or, to be more accurate, “The Nike+ FuelBand uses a sports-tested accelerometer to measure your movement in NikeFuel, a universal metric of activity.” Got that?

Put it in a different mode and it’s a watch, with the time displayed at the push of a button, which is actually rather handy, especially in situations where you don’t want to have a cellphone in the mix. It also shows steps, calories burned, and various other stats directly on the wristband itself.

For me, that’s a big win, as I like to see how I’m doing with my fitness goal as the day progresses.

Push the button just a second or two longer and it goes into SYNC mode, sharing its data with your smartphone and thence to your central Nike+ account. That’s where you see trend data and can compare days in a week or even months over a year to see when you’re most active and when you’re more sedentary, a key benefit of any of these devices.

In the app you can easily monitor information like activity versus time:

You can see that 2604 fuel points = 5553 steps = 2.7 miles = 1101 calories and if you were so inclined, you could do the math and figure out what each fuelpoint is worth, but I surmise that it’s also taking into account weight and height (as it should, since a 115 pound person walking a mile burns less calories than a 220 pound person does).

There’s a social component to the Nike+ App on my iPhone and I suppose it’d be interesting to hook in with a few other people to see how we compare on our daily activity, but I’m not rushing into it. For me, however, as a way to monitor my day by day activity, I’m really digging the Fuelband and am heading out today to buy an XL black one for myself. And this loaner from Erica? I’m going to loan it to my teen daughter and see what she thinks. And I’m sure the two of us will share app data, so we’ll see once and for all who is more active on a daily basis!

Now, do you have an activity monitoring device, and if so, which one and how do you like it?

Anyway, hockey. And socializing. Good together. Kinda like chocolate and peanut bu– well, you know the cliché, I don’t need to actually type it all in, do I?

With the support of Enterprise Rent-A-Car – who are a proud sponsor of the NHL – I invited some of the guys over for the fourth game of the Eastern Conference Stanley Cup Playoffs. Since the playoffs are best of seven, game four would either be the deciding game or would at the least be high tension and a good match. Turns out that the Boston Bruins kicked butt in this playoff series and they went into the game 3:0, with the Pittsburgh Penguins leaving commentators and fans alike wondering how they got to the playoffs in the first place.

The game last night was no better. While the Penguins came out strong and dominated the game in the first period, they couldn’t make a goal to save their lives. They kept the Bruins from even having many chances to shoot in the first period, but as happens with many sports teams, they ran out of steam as the game proceeded and by the third period, the Bruins were making complicated three and four player setups and dominating the game. Even with that, though, it was a comedy of errors, with shots going high, wide and more than once bouncing off the metal edge of the goal.

In fact, the Bruins won, and clinched the Eastern Conference Stanley Cup Playoffs spot (nicely done!) with the lowest scoring game possible: 1:0. For die-hard hockey fans, it was a decent game, but for the rest of us more casual fans, it was rather slow and even with a combined 49 shots on goal, to only have one actual shot make it into the goal? ((yawn))

A slow game and a really long “intermission report” on NBC Sports meant that we spent a lot of time standing around the kitchen and talking, while eating what was retrospectively ridiculously healthy foods:

Can you see the spread? Salad, various dressings, some chips, grapes, rice, more salad, and, just off camera, tilapia and brats that I’d pulled off the BBQ. Why did I pull them off the BBQ, you ask? Because I ran out of propane and my ‘q died mid-grilling. D’oh. Luckily it was an easy task to toss everything into the oven for the last little bit of cooking. Result was quite a tasty meal and some good conversation about quite a few subjects, including the rigors of parenting and the often inverse relationship between marriage and sex. But that’s a subject for another blog post, no doubt!

What we should have been doing at the same time was tapping into the fun Enterprise Hat Trick Challenge to see who get the highest score. But who am I kidding? All of my friends and I already spend too darn much time online, so when we’re hanging out, it’s nice to talk with everyone, not stare at our devices. Well, except for Chris in the pic above, who was checking a hockey stat. :-)

A good evening with good friends and while the hockey game itself might have left something to be desired (maybe just one measly goal from the Penguins?) I can’t complain, and with the help of Enterprise, we had good munchies, slick BBQ tools to try out, and even a big stack of stadium beer cups to use, even if everyone preferred drinking straight out of the bottle!

Here’s one that came in to my inbox last night that I read out to my 1oth grader and she agreed, “definitely creepy”. Here’s what this Mom asked:

I have a question about e-mail between high school students and teachers. My daughter’s teacher gave out his work email and work contact information at the beginning of the year. I found that helpful. Yesterday, after finals, my daughter told me that he wrote in her yearbook his personal home e-mail address and a note encouraging her to keep in touch. She is a sophomore. Not a young woman gong off to college. She also told me that he did the same to other girls as well but no boys in the class. They discussed it.

I am finding this a little creepy. Am I over reacting? This man is listed in the phone book so if down the road she wanted to get a hold of him she would not have a problem. I worry that this is his way of having private conversations with my daughter.

I’m usually one to be forgiving and wary of parents misinterpreting situations out of overprotectiveness (something my daughter accuses me of daily!) but in this instance, I have to say that the teacher is most definitely out of line. In fact, even though it’s possible that it would get them fired, I think that my reaction would be to bring this up with the school principal or administrator and ask them to inquire as to the meaning of the gesture by the teacher.

Had the teacher shared his contact info with both male and female students, then it would seem genuinely like a desire to stay in touch and perhaps offer helpful advice and counsel during the summer, but by leaving contact information for each girl, but none for any boys, well, that’s a bit harder to justify or rationalize, I think.

The really great part of this, however, is that your daughter told you about it all and listened to your counsel. You’re doing something right, Mom!

And the teacher? Even if it’s all benign, having their contact info permanently emblazoned in a school yearbook, a book that’s really more for students to build and remember their peer communities than to remember teachers (in my opinion), that’s just daft and quite possibly poor judgment in the first place. Did the teacher not think that parents are going to see this curious message and ask their daughters about it?

I can imagine the conversation…

“Honey? What’s this on page 17? Who is this guy Mark?”

“Huh? (leans over, reads inscription) Oh yeah, that’s just kinda weird. He’s my chemistry teacher and he wrote that in all the girl’s yearbooks.”

“He did? That’s… hmmm…”

Hard to explain that one away as a warm gesture of concern by a connected teacher. Seems more like what they call grooming in the child abuse crime squad, a deliberate attempt by another adult to seem like a peer, like a friend, when they’re not. In fact, teachers need to be extremely careful not to cross this sort of line because, well, it can be easily misinterpreted and it’s just not professional. If it’s all on the up-and-up, then parents should be in the know.

But that’s my two cents. What do you think? Creepy, inappropriate teacher behavior, or nice guy being friendly and poised for a grand misunderstanding?

Don’t forget new wiper blades.

Here in Colorado we have a very specific task that’s required when the weather finally transitions away from the icy grasp of King Winter and into Spring, with all its chaos and unpredictability: take off the snow tires. Some cars just seem to have less traction than others, so it’s common for Coloradoans to have studded snow tires on their vehicles. While they offer considerably better bad weather (read “ice”) traction, they’re expensive and not particularly useful in warmer driving conditions.

Fortunately, my SUV — a Toyota Highlander — seems to do just fine in icy conditions so I purchase all-weather tires instead and replace them every few years. Heavy vehicles wear through tires faster, as you probably know.

Summer just around the corner means road trips are afoot and I thought it’d be useful to write about what I do to ensure my car is ready for summer driving.

Here’s my big four:

Air Conditioning — If the air coming out isn’t chillin’, you won’t be chillin’ on those 100F days either, and driving with your windows down might be good for the dog (actually, not really) but it lowers your gas milage and is a bad idea. If it ain’t rockin’, get it checked out now, before it gets beastly hot.

Hankook Dynapro-ATM tire tread. This is the tread you want: deep and irregular.

Cooling System — at a minimum, make sure your car’s full of coolant and while it’s a mysterious chemical soup, it really does work better than water does, both when it’s bitter cold out and when it’s crazy hot. I’ve had my car overheat driving through the desert — long story! — and it’s no fun.

Windshield Wipers — rain, dirt, dust, dead bugs, good wiper blades are mission critical for safe driving and when that drizzle turns into a monsoon, new blades and new tires will keep you safely on the road while other drivers are stuck hiding under bridges.

Tires — I think there’s nothing more important for vehicular safety than a good set of tires because they’re quite literally where the rubber hits the road. Don’t skimp on cheapo Costco brands and don’t try to save money by keeping them on your car until they’re bald. It’s just a bad idea. Having more than once found myself hydroplaning at freeway speeds (which is quite scary) good, deep treads are a must for any safe driving, summer or winter.

If you do find yourself in the market for new tires this summer, I encourage you to check out Hankook Tires, and to help you get your car prepped, they’re offering an $80 rebate on the new Ventus, Dynapro and Optimo tire lines. Check out the rebate here.

Now, is your car ready to roll?

The goal I’d set for myself was 25 pounds and I’ve already passed that a few weeks ago, so trying not to overwhelm, I set my Withings mobile app weight loss goal to 240 pounds by my birthday on August 3. But I’ll be way past that by then. In fact, I think I should hit 240 by the end of this week at my current weight loss rate, so I’ve adjusted that goal to 230 pounds. Why not?  That’d mark almost 40 pounds lost. Amazing, really. But let’s get there before I break out the party hats and cupcakes!

It’s interesting that I feel like a bit of a slacker with my Nutrisystem diet nonetheless, with my daily non-fat latte or chai and my evening handful of carrots and hummus and occasional noshing on mixed nuts. But I’m also pushing hard at the gym, going every single day and generally for 45+ minutes of aggressive cardio workout + weights. And sometimes I just aim for a specific calorie goal: This morning I hit the treadmill, 15-degree incline, 3.7mph, for 30 minutes. That’s 600 calories burned at my body weight. Helpful!

I had some friends over for board games over the Memorial Day weekend and we had a good time playing — but not winning — the cooperative game Pandemic. During the game, my friend Joel snapped a pic of me and I’m sharing it here so you can see how much things have changed. When I look in the mirror I don’t see a huge difference, but people keep telling me how much slimmer I look. Which, yes, is pretty nice to hear.

At this point there’s a rhythm to my Nutrisystem.com experience too, one that’s proven quite easy to follow. Now I grab a cheese stick, an apple, or a handful of carrots, get the non-fat drink and skip dessert, but when I started out, I can still remember getting The Big Box from Nutrisystem and being completely bewildered. In fact, I think I joined the discussion group and posted a few questions about how to proceed (but figured it out without checking for an answer).

Which reminds me: Part of the Nutrisystem experience is a busy online community site that I do not participate in. I feel like I already have a ton of support, especially from my teen daughter A-, who loves to go to the gym with me and with whom I talk about food, eating and portions just about every single day. She’s a good cook too, so sometimes I veer off the Nutrisystem boxes and grab a bowl of chicken soup she’s made, some stir fry or similar. Without that local support circle, I imagine that the online community would be super helpful, so definitely check it out.

And finally, next week will be mark my four month mark and the completion of my relationship with Nutrisystem. Four months and a dramatic, life-changing difference in my weight, health and image. For that, I’ll be producing a video rather than another writeup like this, so stay tuned for that. One more week. Sweet.

Want to lose weight and get healthy on Nutrisystem? Join today by calling 888-853-4689 or by visiting Nutrisystem.com