28 days: day 1

Bam! So day 1 is under way. And as pre­dicted I awoke before my alarm clock. I’m still not feel­ing 100% but I trooped off to the gym for a light work­out. I hit the tread­mill for 10 min­utes and I did a few weight lift­ing sets. When I got home I show­ered, watched some DVRed shows (Ninja War­rior rocks my socks off) and then pre­pared my meals for the day.

Dad had hit the gro­cery store yes­ter­day so we were fully stocked. My post work­out meal was a big honkin’ smoothie with rasp­ber­ries, straw­ber­ries, blue­ber­ries, peanut but­ter (organic nat­ural), choco­late whey pro­tein and skim milk. I’m still fig­ur­ing out the mea­sure­ments, by my esti­ma­tions it was about 800 calo­ries, per­haps more.

Then I made my sand­wiches for the day. Whole grain wheat bread, turkey and fat free Amer­i­can cheese, or the organic peanut but­ter and low sodium jelly. I packed an apple and a few gra­nola bars. I’m cur­rently eat­ing at around a 2.5 hour to 3 hour inter­val and hold­ing strong against the evils of the con­ces­sion stand at work. My next sand­wich is around 5pm.

I really am deter­mined, I’ve got a fan club cheer­ing for me and I want to see just what I can do. While I was surf­ing online last night I came across “Body­S­pace” which is BodyBuilding.com’s social net­work. I’m not look­ing to be a body builder, I don’t need mus­cles on mus­cles. I just want to be rid of my fat and be toned. Hell, here are the goals I wrote out last night when I signed up for BodySpace:

All of my life I have had the poten­tial to be a spec­i­men of the human form. I’m 6’6″ on a strong frame and yet I wasted it away for the past decade. In high school I played foot­ball and rowed but never fully com­mit­ted to either sport, I coasted along and never real­ized my full poten­tial. I could have been a beast in either had I pushed myself but I was con­vinced that the nec­es­sary pain wasn’t worth devot­ing myself to my phys­i­cal goals. Now I see what I could be phys­i­cally and I want to achieve that. I want to be 6’6″ with a six pack. I want <= 10% body­fat, I want to be able to do 20 pullups. I want to be able to do 100 pushups. I want to be able to slam dunk a bas­ket­ball. I want to run five miles. I want to reach my phys­i­cal potential.

I know I won’t achieve these goals in just 28 days, those are my long term goals. In truth I don’t know what I will accom­plish in 28 days. I’d like to drop at least 10 lbs of fat and put on more mus­cle, but I don’t know for sure what num­bers to expect.

It’s only the first day, and I am rid­ing the wave of deter­mi­na­tion and excite­ment. Here’s hop­ing that wave keeps car­ry­ing on.

Now where’s my water…