I suppose I'll start by telling a bit about what I'm doing and why. There are a lot of reasons people lose weight but I'd think that the main ones are to look better or because a doctor told them to.
Why would I want to look better? It's always for the appeal of the opposite sex, isn't it? You realize that if you're healthier and thinner looking, you're more likely to get some regular tail. That's half of it though, because for me I really hate how I feel about my fat. For a long time I was happy with the way I was, but then I grew boobies and all that happiness was replaced with a cute little facade.
When I look at old pictures of myself, I didn't realize that I was about the right weight in High School. I've always seen myself as a bit of a chub-o, but I looked really good in those days. Better than I realized, that’s for sure. Unfortunately, I never had a chance to take advantage of my boyish good looks because there's not a single teenager out there who's happy with how they look. If they say they are, it's a lie... I should have a bit of a realization there. I played some sports in High School (Football, Baseball and Wrestling). Even though I wasn't constantly active, it kept me in decent shape. When I quit football my senior year, I went from 170 to 200 pretty quickly. I didn't really notice, because my body is built to weigh around 185-190. I suspect the sudden weight-gain had something to do with buying a pound of fudge and eating half of an 18 inch pizza with my friend Ben instead of playing Football every week.
In college I jumped up to 225, and now I'm sitting at around 275-285 pounds. It's the bitch tits that I really don't like so it's time to do something about it. Today I've started on a road to 200 pounds and I've created this blog to try to prevent myself from cheating.
I talked to my parents (They were both award winning bodybuilders and fitness trainers for at least 20 years each), and they gave me a few pointers. A lot of it has to do with exercise and caloric intake. In order for me to hit my target weight, I'm going to need to eat the amount of calories necessary to maintain my weight AT my target weight. Rule of thumb is about 14 calories per pound... so if I want to weigh 200... I'm going to eat 2800 calories every day.
I'd like to weigh 200 pounds by tomorrow but I was settling for the end of April. My cousin is getting married then, so I figured that would be as good a time as any. Besides, my friend Geoff is getting married August or September next year in Jamaica and I'd like to be able to take off my shirt on the beach and not have bigger titties than the women I'm ogling.
Other than the being attractive to women and looking good on a beach thing; I felt I would need another goal to keep in mind. I want a motorcycle, but I would like to be safe while riding so a leather suit is required. Fat guys don't look good in leather suits, but a Wisconsin boy like me at 200 pounds would look fine.
Anyway, I plan to keep my daily record of diet and exercise on here for the next 180 days and we'll see how far along the Road to 200 I've come.
