The End?

The end of 2025 has been a bright and happy place for me. My household is happy; the kids are thriving here, and we enjoy each other’s company every night.
Last night, after a late practice, Charlotte and I had hot pot in front of the TV, and watched a movie; it was great.

The best news of the year? My blood results landed.
This time last year, my Cholesterol was a slightly elevated 4.6.
In April, it had risen to over 6.
Yesterday—>2.56
My cholesterol is NORMAL.

My blood pressure is down, only slightly high, 10 pounds from now it will also be normal.
The benefit of dropping 27 pounds.

My TRT bloodwork also arrived. It wasn’t as positive. I’m a high normal….which I figured. I have a meeting with the TRT doc on Friday, still hoping to push it through. I think it could get me to 30-year-old levels…and I didn’t mind myself in my 30s.

But I doubt it.

What else is going on around here? The house has never been cleaner, I’ve been vacuuming daily, it takes 10 minutes, hell…I washed the floors on the main twice this week!

I think that’s it, hanging out with the kids, lifting, reading, cleaning…garage is looking good, ready for warmer days.

And Now……….The Weather

Jeremy also is without a scale…I think he went over to the neighbors to weigh in and offered a 186.5, blaming the cuban ice cream.
Jeremy has joined a gym and is looking forward to some clean lifts with 6-8 pound weights, some tai chi, and the sauna 3-4 times a week. Jeremy is looking to gain. I’m not sure if he has lost any mobility due to the brain tumour, the man did get his ass up to Machu Picchu, Russett isn’t getting up there unless someone rolls him!

Krista claims she is getting a scale today and says she needs a goal….ah…there may be something lacking with the plan…or planless.

Slab offers a photo!

This is slab at 138.5, her goal for 2026 is 120s. The 120s is a big 10-pound window for someone that is 5’3″…lets pick a number. The slab thinks 2026 is a bad number, too many curves…but she thinks that appropriate….all things considered.
Oddly, the second person to mention a number to me that day, someone said 2025 was a 9 year which is negative.

It may just be the best ending to a shit year…So many bad years since 2014…but the last month of 2025 was pretty good.

Who we got….TBag! Tbag does not like the weighted hula hoop, she went in search for a better bit of kit and came up with this.

That thing is a thigh master….thing. I did try to get a video of its use, but no go….

She says she feels like she is on a twisted episode of “Sex in the City” and I am Carry Bradshaw. I don’t know what that means….Sarah J Parker did play a role in my all-time favorite movie! Someone…I don’t see any physical similarities…..Deonn?
TBag is aiming for 139 by Feb 9 and currently weighs 149. Now that is a clear goal!
10 pounds, hell, Russett can drop that in a day!

Russett has his new wife mixing his shakes and keeping him on his diet plan. Today he walked on the treadmill and was going to spend 3 hours in the sauna before his weigh-in, which was not taken after the big sweat.

Yours truly came in at 231.4, I did not hit the 220s before the new year. I have been pushing heavy weights, taking creatine, drinking oodles of water, and watching the junk food. If I don’t get TRT my goal is 205. If I get the TRT, 215.
By April 12.
I will spend every extra minute under weights and if I get the TRT I’ll be healing like a 20 years old.

Oh baby jesus, let the god of pharmaceuticals smile down upon me just once!

The Quote of The Day:
As for testosterone, it’s gotten a bum rap. Yes, it has tons to do with aggression but it doesn’t cause aggression as much as sensitizes you to the environmental triggers of aggression.

Robert Sapolsky.

Those close to me see my aggression is at an all-time low. Recent rounds of therapy have done an even better job than those I attended in my 30s.
I understand myself just a little better…and I understand those around me…