Lori and all,
, I'm IN!
Okay, for my challenge this time, it's about a month which is perfect, because what I want to do is to make the final leap to healthy eating/living. I started in 2008 at 235, smoking, eating way too many cals of just fast food, nuker food, easy food, sodas, etc, etc. Over the last 2 years, I've cut out the sodas and the junk food, but still have been having the caffeinated tea with sugar and milk (though I've slowly cut the sugar back, a little at a time), and still have been smoking (but again, cut back from where I was 2 years ago). I've had the exercise dialed in for a while, seen some great improvements there, stronger lifts, gobs of muscle mass compared to where I started, cut my mile run just about in half, lol. So, lately, I've just been feeling like it's time to go for broke with this thing, ditch the last of the bad "intake" habits, get serious. It's like, I work my tail off in the gym, but then I'm kind of shooting myself in the foot with the smoking and the sugar intake.
So, here's my personal St Patrick's Day Challenge: I'm going Paleo-Zone with the eating. I'm almost there with the paleo eating (which is meats/fish, nuts, good oils/fat, veggies and fruit being the only carbs...no grains/beans/legumes/dairy/sugar), and Zone is just a way of weighing and measuring intake, to keep blood sugar/insulin levels even throughout the day, basically calorie counting with portions already figured out for you, like an ounce of this meat and an ounce and a half of that fish have the same calories, that kind of thing, so it just makes it easier to plan portions...and that way I can tweak it down the line.
All the peeps I know who have done it say, the first two weeks are like getting off the crack if you're used to a lot of sugar/sugary carbs, by week 3 you start feeling a little better, and by week 4 you start seeing results and feeling like a new person, so the length of this holiday challenge should be the perfect test of that.
So, starting tomorrow a.m., no more smokes, no more sugar or milk, which means I'm just ditching the tea, because it's not the same to me without all the additives, so I may as well just ditch the caffeine at the same time..if I'm gonna have a crash and withdrawals, may as well get it all over at once, lol.
I'm not setting a weight goal, though this way of eating is supposed to lean you out like crazy, but mainly I'm doing this because, well, okay, the people I know that eat this way look like freaking muscled beasts with no bodyfat all the time, but also they are the fastest and strongest people in the gym, so I'm curious to see what happens as far as leaning out and what happens to my speed and strength in the gym. I'm ready to be superhuman now.
Using the wii fit or walking at least 4 days a week 
