First Day, Feelin' Pretty Good.

I'm 6'3, and 261 pounds.

Realistically, I need around 2500-2600 Calories a day to maintain my body weight, this includes the fact that I enjoy doing things like practicing boxing, lifting weights, doing push ups and sit ups, and walking.

Now, let's go over what I ate today. From start to finish...I was actually surprised how easy it was to enjoy myself, while not going over my limit for carbohydrates. And how much limiting that carbohydrate intake and replacing it with good, hearty meals with protein, kept me from wanting to snack.

Today I started off strong, only because I haven't actually been able to enjoy bacon in so long, this won't be a regular thing, but I figured hey, go all in!

3 Eggs, Fried in Butter
2 Pieces of Applewood Smoked Bacon
A glass of 1% Milk

I pretty much attacked the barnyard here with what I did for breakfast, where I'd usually been eating a bunch of fruit, juice, and oatmeal or something loaded with honey and peanut butter to make it ...well...edible. I enjoyed not only eating, but making a good, home-made breakfast, and what a staple to go with! I went all the way to lunch feeling energetic, happy, and eager. The best part? My breakfast was surprisingly low calorie for what it is.

For lunch I was feeling a bit "au-natural", and decided to for a tasty salad with some lightly applied ranch dressing, and yeah - I'll admit it, a sprinkling of shredded cheese. Sue me.

I also enjoyed one of those damn Yogurt things I've heard about, this is actually where a good chunk of my carbs today came from, if you can believe it. A blackberry Yoplait yogurt packed in an interesting 19g of carbohydrates, the salad? 2g.

I did not snack today, my wife came home at around 5:30 or so and I decided to make steak tonight, we had some absolutely wonderful 8 oz New York Strips, which yes, I admit, I cooked in butter instead of olive oil, I wanted to try something different. I also pan-fried some potatoes in olive oil - because the oven is apparently on the fritz, getting on that tomorrow. I can't bake fish without an oven. Or bake anything else, really. Regardless, I only ate the equivalent of about one potato.  I washed this down with a delicious glass of home-made iced tea, which I sweetened with Splenda instead of the usual cup and a half of sugar that goes into the stuff.

All in all, I had a bunch of fat today, very low carb intake, (Under 100, if you can believe it), and guess how my calorie count wound up being? Guess...

Roughly 2150 calories. That's right, I'm actually 350 calories below what I'm "Supposed" to be eating to maintain weight. Honestly, all I did was eat what I consider "Good food" in moderation, it's nothing too special.

Tomorrow for breakfast, I think I'll skimp on the bacon, but eggs? You bet your last dollar I'm eatin' eggs.

Here's to a fantastic remaining 59 days.

Tomorrow, it begins...

I only say tomorrow, because I think I pretty much missed my chance to grab groceries tonight.

I am Liam. I'm 25 years old, and I am overweight. I used to weigh a whopping 512 pounds. If you can believe that - and even at my height of 6'3, that's quite an accomplishment. I had to eat a lot of crap to get to that kind of girth! Well, I lost it, I lost it the only way I knew how, exercise, and eating less garbage.

I achieved an end weight of around 180 pounds. I was miserable, I was depressed all the time, tired, weak...I couldn't even lift heavy things at my construction job, which by the way - is pretty much based on lifting heavy things.  So needless to say...I felt crappy, and reverted back to old habits, I started snacking.


I ate the usual stuff, potato chips, Fritos, snack cakes, all that stuff...and being that I come from a fairly Southern-rich background a good amount of cakes and pies, and cookies....yup.

Now it's almost 2 years after all that initial weight loss, I'm married now, and as of this weeks doctor's appointment, I am now up to 261 pounds. I can't let this happen friends, no way. So I'm going to do the unthinkable.

I'm going to stop trying to eat all of this so called "Healthy" food.

I've been eating all sorts of whole grain snacks, whole grain breads, whole grain pasta, whole grain pizza crusts, whole grain this, whole grain that. While avoiding the "dangers" of "evil, nasty" foods like whole milk, well marbled red meat, eggs, cheese, and even butter. Oh God, I miss butter.

Well friends, for the next 60 days I'm going to document my journey through what I'm going to call "The Man Diet". I'm going to eat meat, butter, cheese, milk, for my meals...I'm going to avoid eating more than around 100 carbs a day, a good chunk of which will be made up of vegetables and fruits. I'm going to prepare my cooked meals in butter, vegetable, or coconut oil, etc. And I'm tossing out the butter substitute ladies and gents, I'm gonna go grab myself a nice, heaping helping of delicious, dairy tastic butter.

I'm also going to stick to a rigid and regular exercise routine, I will walk with a little jogging mixed in every night, save Sunday. (I like being lazy on Sunday...bite me), I'm going to lift weights at home, or at the gym here on base. I'll skip out on the treadmills and stuff, in exchange for some awesome, good old fresh air.

This is the beginning folks, I don't plan on stopping once I start. So if you wanna come along for the ride, you're more than welcome.

Here's to bacon and eggs for breakfast, folks.