Your Memory Is Lying About How Hard You've Tried

Fifteen years of logs caught me telling a kinder version.

Ask me when I was in the best shape of my life and my gut says 2003. I was 41.

Nine weeks, a strict deficit, a stack of programs, karate twice a week. I went from 158 to 152 and dropped from 15 percent body fat to 9. That’s the experiment that started all of this.

My gut is wrong. The best stretch in 15 years of logging is October 2025. I was 64. My spine…