Today is the day...Week one

Today is the start of something great for me.

Well, today I saw a blog online by a guy that looked exactly like me...well at least his body. I can't say if he had my boyish good looks (he had no face shot)  or fine canadian charm, but as for the love handles and man-boobs -as I not so affectionately call "schmeebes"- we looked EXACTLY the same. Which sort of scared me, and here's why.

I did a google search for love handles -hoping I would see from other guys who were once in similar shape to me how to lose them- and I came across a blog that was a guy like me trying to lose weight and get in shape. He was a typical 20-something fat guy with large love handles easily seen from the front and the back. I guessed his waist would have been around 40" or maybe even 42". Nevertheless, he honestly posted pictures of himself and shared his heart in his blog - wanting badly to lose weight. so he created (or downloaded) a series of tables and charts that helped him track his weight-loss, including food intake an all nutritional information, a graph with his weight-loss, and a schedule of his cardio regiment. I have to say, his progress reports and monthly picture postings of himself really inspired me to get cracking on all this too. 

So here we go; let me tell you a bit about myself.

I am 28 years old (born may 20 1980), married and live with my wife in Toronto. We are super happy together, just bought our first home, and are both ambitious and in good careers. My wife looks fantastic, and has since the day we were married. I, on my wedding day, had a nice 6-pack to boast of, and was very fit - I worked out 4-5 times per week and ate very green and clean. since, then I have gained about 35 pounds and now need to do something serious to get myself back in shape.

I am 5'10.5" (same height as my blog-inspiring counterpart) and I weigh in at 215 pounds on my accurate home scale as of today, October 20th, 2008.

So, I am making it my target weight to be at 190 pounds. Once I reach my goal weight, I will set a "leanness goal" of any further results I would like to reach.

For any other fat guys out there wanting to get fit, hopefully you will follow along in my journey to achieve my 'best body' - and more importantly, a happier me.