Mission Statement

No potatoes, no rice, no pasta, no dairy, no fruit.  What the hell can I eat?!

Here begins my journey to find my six-pack.  Although the timing would suggest contrary, this is no New Years Resolution.  I have been trying various half-assed methods for over a year now in attempt to melt away my spare tire and blossoming moobs.  These barely-motivated attempts have fallen victim to hunger: leading to fast-food, chip binges, and other food indulgences I would be too ashamed to mention here.


Failure is not for a lack of concern.  I am not well.  I get winded easily and I am suspicious that i may be developing diabetes.  I feel angry, dizzy, and simply ill if i don't eat every several hours.  It's been a while since I've felt a hunger pang.   Should i mention the negative effects that the snoring, and (possible) sleep apnea.  Lack of concern, no.  Lack of planning serves as better scapegoats for something i cannot explain.

My new motivation stems from an unusual gift.  This Christmas I received an Amazon Kindle.  I must have started reading 3 books within the first day of opening it.  It was then I was introduced to The 4-Hour Body by Timothy Ferris.  My brother had more interest in it then i did.  The restrictions in the first quasi-paragraph, this is truly the diet of "No".  "Are you kidding me?"  Truth is the author comes off like a self-righteous prick: talking about how he knows this movie star and that porn star and how he does this extreme sport and that extreme hobby for fun.

It's easy to hate people who are more successful than we are.  It takes patience and an open mind to learn from them.  Besides he peaked my weak spot.

If I had to describe myself in one word it would be "curious."  I have an ever evolving need to study SOMETHING.  I have tried and studied and tried everything from Woodworking to knitting.  Ashely makes fun when i run over to the computer to check Wikipedia after we watch a movie. I have to know the story behind the movie (furthermore Aranofski and Coen Brothers films can get pretty dense).  I don't know where that gets me in life, but it is what it is.  Ferris' book taps right into this curiosity.  Everything he does, he documents, from body fat to glucose levels after certain activities.  Beyond all the showy experiences, He crafts an accessible scientific journal for you to adapt to test your limits and exceed them.  He writes that there is nothing you can't do, and then tells you how to do it.  For the sake of my own experiment, i am choosing to believe him.

And that's all there is to it.  I'm done talking. I will be 20lbs lighter in 30 days.  Thats goal one.  It's go time.