Welcome (to all nobody who will read this) to my latest attempt at chronicling my self-improvement. In the past, well, it hasn't exactly worked out that well. So why is this time going to be different? Well... it just is. I hope.
So what's the deal? Well, the name "L-IV-e Blog" is both a play on "liveblog" and a hint at the more ambitious side of the goal. While I was discussing weight loss goals with my trainer at the gym, he suggested that working out for an hour a day, six days a week, and going on the "paleo diet," I could lose fifty pounds (L) in four months (IV). Fifty pounds is pretty much exactly how much I need to lose; if it takes a bit more than four months, I think I can live with that. But it worked for the name of the blog, so what the heck. That's what I'm calling it.
What am I going to be blogging? Well, I'm going to be doing everything I can to track my progress and keep myself honest. So expect food and exercise reports, overall progress reports, maybe some pictures if we actually get where we need to be going... basically, super boring stuff that's of no interest to anyone. Well, and I'll be talking about the experience, because believe me, if you don't already know, with the way I've lived my life up to this point... this really is going to be one hell of an experience if I can actually go through with it.
It all starts Monday, November 15, 2010.
The problem with a paleo diet or any other one that radically changes what you eat is that you will have to do this the rest of your life. Do you really want to never eat certain things again? I highly recommend just doing the L-IX diet (50 in 9 months) by just eating smarter and working out more. It's worked for me.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I would have to do it the rest of my life. The combination of the paleo diet and a lot more exercise is intended to knock the weight off fairly quickly; after that, I can just keep up the exercise and start adding things back to my diet to keep at a maintenance level. That's the hope, anyway. It might turn out after a couple weeks that the paleo diet just isn't for me, in which case your plan would be a decent, if longer-term, fallback.
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