A single step

There’s some­thing to be said for a drive. A moti­va­tion. A burn­ing desire. And right now that flame is burn­ing for weight loss. I’m tast­ing suc­cess but my diet has been lax and I’ve only slowed my progress. Well, tonight, in my slightly sick state, I’ve got­ten fed up and am deter­mined to make progress. Let’s start with a goal of 28 days. Let’s see just what I am capa­ble of in 28 days.

I work at a con­ces­sion stand, and that makes it tough. A Snick­ers bar, a bag of M&Ms, Dori­tos and Moun­tain Dew, all are so tasty and all are so ter­ri­ble for me. Tomor­row I go to war for 28 days. Let’s see what I’m really made of.

This is not crazy. This is not stu­pid. I’m not going to starve myself. I’m not going to over­train. I’m just fed up with doing this on my own, I’m going to call on you all to push me.

Start­ing May 3rd I will begin hit­ting the gym with full inten­sity. I will be doing High Inten­sity Inter­val Train­ing (HIIT) on the tread­mill before I fol­low my weightlift­ing reg­i­men. But as I’ve said, all of this is for noth­ing if I do not begin to closely mon­i­tor and mod­er­ate what I eat. I will be eat­ing a fair num­ber of calo­ries spread over 6 “meals.” I will drink water or juice, no sodas. High Fruc­tose Corn Syrup is the devil.

I’m a man on a mis­sion and in 28 days, we’ll see where it gets me. Those 28 days begin when I wake up and head off to the gym, that means it ends on May 31st — excel­lent. Now to see if I can actu­ally get to sleep.

Maybe when I wake up the drive will have disi­pated, but I doubt it. I suc­cess I may even wake up before my alarm, so great will be my deter­mi­na­tion to hit the gym today. We’ll see.