Like everyone else, I suffered through plenty of diets and exercise routines, but a half-hearted attitude, half-assed approach, or an apparent lack of resolve led to typical failure after failure. In more recent years, I've had varying levels of success, once dropping as much as 24 lbs., but it seems that at the start of every new year I'm back at square one. So here I am again, at the onset of 2010, about 75 days away from my 35th birthday, and I find myself somehow weighing in at pretty much the exact same disappointing poundage I have starting January of every year for the past handful of years or so.
People have plenty of excuses for why they "can't" lose weight. Slow metabolism. A bad back. I'm just not meant to be one of those skinny bitches. It's all bullshit. The real reason is that people lack resolve. People lack commitment. Exercise and deprivation hurt. Staying fat does not. So we hit our pain tolerance and quit, going back to the comfort of the status quo.
The problem here is not a lack of ability, but a lack of will. So it's time to get radical. This experiment is about Radical Fitness, the goal being to be radically fit by my 35th birthday, come the Ides of March, which involves trimming off 25 lbs of body fat in 10 weeks. This experiment will close with a complete report of the experience and before and after pics.
January marks Phase 1, Radical Weight loss, in which I'll find out how much body fat can be lost in a month through dangerously intensive exercise and caloric restriction. It is said that 1-2 lbs a week is a safe amount of weight loss. My goal is 3-4 lbs a week, but... is 5 lbs even possible? Let's find out.
Here are my initial stats:
- Weight: 183.2 lbs.
- Body Fat: 31% (about 57 lbs)
- BMI: 30.2
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