A couple of weeks ago, I talked about my participation in a DietBet. If you're curious about the details of the game, check out this post, but the gist of this DietBet is that I put money into a pot, betting that I could lose 4% of my body weight in a month. I did really well the first few weeks of the bet, working out hard and watching everything I ate. I needed to lose a bit over 5 pounds to reach my 4% goal, and I was well on my way to accomplishing it. But then I hit a roadblock. My grandma was diagnosed with cancer. I flew to my home state of New Jersey to be with her in the hospital as she underwent a major surgery to remove the tumor. This would have obviously been enough to throw me off my game in itself, but when her health deteriorated with a case of pneumonia and the ... [Read More]