Back to the Fridge

This is it. For real this time. I know I’ve written various “goodbye” posts over the years. (Looking back, I’m almost sorry I didn’t create a separate category for them.) But today, thi...

https://www.backtothefridge.com/the-beginning/

Okay. So I let myself go a bit over the holidays. You know, just a bit. The way the Powerball jackpot was a bit large. Or the way Donald Trump is a bit orange. I can’t really explain it other t...

https://www.backtothefridge.com/diet-117/

So another year has come and gone. In fact, even one whole week of the current year is already behind us. Yep, almost two percent of 2016 has now come and gone, if you can believe it. So, before ...

https://www.backtothefridge.com/happy-new-year-2016/

It’s at last time to talk about the book What You Can When You Can: Healthy Living on Your Terms by Carla Birnberg and Roni Noone. Now wait a sec, Charlie. Didn’t this book come out, like, mo...

https://www.backtothefridge.com/book-review-wycwyc/

Running a marathon is a big deal. Whether you’re a world-class runner trying to break the two-hour barrier or a slow middle-aged man who walks it in eight, crossing the finish line brings a uni...

https://www.backtothefridge.com/the-year-in-review-2015/

The year 2014 was probably both my most bestest and my most typicalest dieting year in recent memory. My weight began the year at the usual post-holiday high. It then went up from there, for what...

https://www.backtothefridge.com/down-that-road/

With everything else going on late, I nearly forgot to let you in on the most important topic of all: I’m on a diet. I realize that’s not saying much. I mean, I’m never not on a diet. In fa...

https://www.backtothefridge.com/any-diet-news/

I’ve built many houses in my lifetime . And if there’s one thing I’ve learned in all that time , it’s that the quickest phase of home-building is the framing . The official phases of home...

https://www.backtothefridge.com/the-quickest-phase/

It was Friday, October 30, 2015: the holiday known as All Hallow’s Eve Eve. We’d been hit with hard rains of late—much needed, of course, but nonetheless making for a positively ruffianly e...

https://www.backtothefridge.com/a-dark-and-stormy-night/

If you haven’t seen City Slickers then at least track down the two best scenes on YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, or whatever other video medium we have today that Popular Science failed to envision ba...

https://www.backtothefridge.com/moving-is-moving/

Going into this move, I knew it would be a lot of work. After you’ve been on the planet for a few decades (and aren’t forced to move around a lot) you tend to accumulate a healthy pile of wha...

https://www.backtothefridge.com/hoarding/

As of Friday, October 30, 2015, we’re now about three hundred and eighty four hours, twelve minutes, and thirty-three man-seconds into this project. Last week, in spite of my better judgment, I...

https://www.backtothefridge.com/new-house-problems/

move /moov/ noun 1. a change of place, position, or state. e.g., The move will take place tomorrow. ger·und /’jer·ənd/ noun 2. a form that is derived from a verb but that functions as a noun...

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I’m not sure if you’ve ever noticed this before, but my Back to the Fridge blog logo kind of looks a little like the Back to the Future film series logo. It’s hard to tell at first, but onc...

https://www.backtothefridge.com/back-to-the-future/

Welcome to Part Three of my two-part series on back pain. (And you thought after last week I would have nothing else to say on the topic. Well, let me tell you: by the end of this post you’ll s...

https://www.backtothefridge.com/ouch-part-3/