I'm also fat. I know this. You know this.
My 22nd birthday was last week. So, I've decided that this is as good of a jumping-off point as any to get in shape.
So, instead of doing the usual fat guy thing and wallowing in self-pity, I'm going to give myself two new excuses to complain - diet and exercise.
You all know how many different diet plans, pills, magic bullet workout machines there are out there. The "Get six pack abs while knocking your testicles around with electric shocks" belt comes to mind. I had one. I used it. I didn't get six pack abs. Probably shouldn't have been polishing off packets of deli meats while I was using it, huh?
So here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to try every weight loss method I can think of until I find one that works.
So, now that I've gotten the basic idea out of the way, let's lay down some ground rules:
1. No pills or supplements (that's cheating)
2. No machines or other expensive purchases (nothing more than a gym membership - I'm a poor college student)
3. If it didn't work already, I'm not doing it again (screw Atkins!)
Basically, this leaves diet and exercise. This isn't to say that this limits my options all that much. There are as many forms of diet and exercise as there are people dream them up.
I've got to start somewhere, though.
So here's the first exercise regimen:
1. At least 1 mile run every morning
2. At least 2 gym visits per week
3. At least 10 miles biked per week
4. Body weight exercises every morning (push-ups, pull-ups, sit-ups, stuff like that)
And here's the first diet:
1. Reduce food intake to three small meals per day:
- breakfast: sandwich (two slices of meat, one slice of cheese, can be substituted by hummus)
- lunch: nothing over 200 calories
- dinner: 1/2 fist size portion of meat, 1 fist sized portion of salad or other veggie side dish, and 1/2 fist sized portion of delicious but fattening food (like rice or salat olivie)
2. Drink a minimum of 6 glasses of water a day
3. limit of one portion of desserts a day (i.e. 1/2 cup of ice cream, two smallish tiles of chocolate)
Now here's the part I'm dreading. I've got to put my own fat ass out there on the internet. With any luck, the guinea pig shown in the pictures is the "before" picture. Time to start working on the "after."
