New Weight Loss Blog Launched
Welcome to the new blog!
I Won My First Weight Loss Challenge
This will be the final post for this Healthy Wage Weight Loss Challence series because I won! The challenge began a little over 6 months ago when I decided to wager $75 a month for 6 months, so a total payment of $450, in order to have a chance to win $962. To win this […]
Can We Please Finish Strong this Week?
I’m back at the blog station because I am still scared, but still in a healthy way. My eating this week has been better than usual, but still far from perfect. But since I have not blown it with excess, and since I have fasted 2 or 3 meals, I feel that if I have […]
Never too late, and I’m Roaring Back with Healthy Fear
Motivation in anything including weight loss is a combination of desire for good and fear of bad. In my case, after two months of the Healthy Wage Weight Loss Challenge in which I bet to lose 50 pounds in 6 months, that fear has become an important asset. I started pretty strong and lost a […]
Hunger will subside if you let it
Guess it’s time for a new blog on my weight loss mission. After a great week in which I found myself already 13 pounds down, and only 37 to go to reach that magical 50 pound weight loss which will make me almost $1000 richer, I admittedly got a little lazy and a little over-confident. […]
The value of openness
As I enter my third week of 6 months in the healthy weight loss challenge at Healthy Wage dot com, I am right on track to reach my goal of 50 pounds lost by August. When I achieve that goal, I will recieve a check for $962, but this success does not come easy. It […]
Sharing my weight loss journey with the world
Hello from Dr. John F Murray. I am in my late 50s. I have been as fit as a world class athlete and I have been ridiculous in my life. In the past few years, I found myself going up and up in weight, mostly due to sitting as a professional (clinical and sports psychologist) […]
Testing the Post Cat
This is my post
How Athletes Can Stay Mentally Sharp During Quarantine
Special to JohnFMurray.com – April 5, 2020 – By John F Murray – The world is going to eventually recover from Covid-19 and sports are going to be a huge and welcome benefit of that recovery for the teams and athletes involved. If you are a top athlete it’s important to realize that this is […]
Coping with Covid-19 Mentally
Special to JohnFMurray.com – April 3, 2020 – By John F Murray – We live in challenging times. Everyone in the world is on lockdown and much more so than during the 1917/1918 Spanish Influenza when social media and even mass media were non-issues. You either got the killer flu and died or you did […]