Wednesday, March 16, 2011

What is the goal, and how am I getting there?

As noted in my first post, I started at 275. My end goal ultimately is to get to around 200, ideally a little lower.

How I'm getting there involves 5 activities:

  • Diet & supplementation
  • Detox
  • Surge training
  • Yoga
  • Sleep (yes, sleep)

I'll break down each activity in subsequent posts, but those are the pillars I believe critical to success in terms of what I do.

While my ideal goal involves a target weight, how I feel and function are going to play a much larger factor in picking a true target state for me to maintain.

3 days into it, I feel pretty darn good.

Diet log
Wednesday
Bk - Juice (3 fruit/veggie servings), eggs, almond butter, apple
Sn - Cashews
Ln - Chicken noodle soup, blackberries, pinto beans, lemon tea
Sn - Juice (3 servings of fruit/veggies)
Dn - Ok, a little explanation is needed here. This isn't an excuse, it was a decision.

At 4pm I found out that I passed my CISSP exam that I took a few weeks ago. Its a big accomplishment for me and so naturally I wanted to celebrate. So we went to Savor Cafe and I had arguably the best seafood pasta dishes I've ever had in my life. It was totally worth going off the diet for 1 meal. I still got all my required dietary elements in, so overall it was a fair day. Tomorrow, back to *normal. I've been a little light on water/fluids though, so that will need some improved focus.

* while some of my diet choices are a little more austere in hopes of triggering a detox process, this is largely how I plan to eat for the rest of my hopefully long life.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

The iLance Project

Yeah, its a cheeky name, but the project was conceived the same day as the iPad 2 launch, so I went with it.

The 'i' in this case stands for improvement. As in Life improvement. The first phase of this is multi-faceted, but ultimately surrounds my health, and more specifically, my weight.

I'm blogging this project partly as a means of accountability, but also as a way of sharing my thoughts and approaches to this endeavor. Nothing I'm planning on doing is new or radical. Quite the opposite.

This is hardly the first time I've tried to lose weight, far from it. But my hope is that by holding myself more accountable and sharing this enterprise with select others, my success will be greater than in previous attempts.

Why now? What's different? I won't pretend I had some grand epiphany that will grant me super-powered will and discipline to overcome the inevitable temptations that lay in my path to success. Frankly, its just time. The number of reasons for doing this are so long they wouldn't be worth reading. However I will share some of them down the road. The biggest one, simply put, is I want to be around as long as possible to enjoy this amazing life I have with my wife. And I want to enjoy it better.

I'll talk through approach tomorrow but below I'll log my eating for the day so feel free to stop reading if you get bored with that level of detail.

Monday (start)
275 lbs
Bk - Apple, oatmeal, eggs
Ln - Blueberries, HT Salad
Sn - Almonds, cashews, lemon tea
Dinner - Beans from Earth Fare, grilled chicken, cauliflower

Tuesday
Bk - slept in due to horrible headache
Ln - apple, string cheese (still not hungry from headache)
Sn - Almonds, cashews
Dinner - sweet potato, pinto beans, apple, almond butter, cauliflower, rooibos tea