A Month of Radical Fitness... or 15 lbs.

15 lbs. To drop that in a month is uncommon, if not unheard of, but here I am a month after starting this experiment, that much lighter.

My starting stats, January 1:

• Weight: 183.2 lbs.
• Body Fat: 31% (about 57 lbs)
• BMI: 30.2

My final stats, February 1:

• Weight: 168.3 lbs.
• Body Fat: 27%
• BMI: 28.8

And onward toward my goal of losing a total of 30 lbs by my 35th birthday come March 15th.

But I got to thinking... why stop there?

Every single January since I was about 23 I made a promise to myself that by the end of "this" year I'd be back in shape, and at the end of every one of those years I've been either heavier or around the same weight. Since I was the age of 21 I've gained an average of 3 lbs per year, for a total of 42 lbs. After this smashing success of a single radical month, I've decided that I'm going to lose them all--all 42 lbs. In fact, I'll round it up to a solid 50-pound loss by June 1 making my goal weight 133 lbs.

That's 24 weeks, so about 2.1 lbs. per week average, or from today and taking into account January's weight loss, about 1.75 lbs. per week. Child's play.