Introduction - notes on the blog posts.

At first I just put some info here and then more detailed stats but it wasn't until the 24 classes post that I started really blogging and I liked it so much that I kept doing it the next week (this week) and plan to continue it.  I like to have a snapshot of the changes inside as well as the changes outside.  I don't think I missed much because I think while the changes were preparing to happen, most of them started actually happening last week, so I got it all on record.

Here's my mantra:  Safety first.  Know your body, know your limits, live your body.  Don't do what you should do, do what you can do.

Keep that in mind as you read what I write.  I am not about to land myself in a hospital.  If you're going to push your body hard, you have to build it up with food, rest, and care.  Food is my friend.  Helps me to manipulate my body.

I refer a lot to things that happen in the past so you may be a bit lost sometimes if you start reading from the middle of what I write.  It's a continuous running commentary.

One important thing is that the one thing I believe in is to be constantly changing, evolving, learning, researching.  I started eating just about 1100 calories a day because that's about how much filled me up, then upped it to 1300 in preparation for heavy weights, then 1500, then 1600, now 1700-1800.  I was a firm believer of 40-40-20 protein/carbs/fat, but now I lean more towards 25-55-20 protein/carbs/fat.  Just because I write something it doesn't mean I'm taking that belief to the grave.  I like to listen and learn from people (and books and the web and magazines, etc.), and I will change my mind if the evidence warrants it.  The one certain thing is that things are always changing.  So just because I say something on one blog entry doesn't mean I won't be espousing the opposite view in the next one.

I log what I eat just to have a record, not to show people what to eat.  I didn't set out to eat as healthy as possible, I set out to eat as healthy as I could.  For one thing I've never eaten vegetables in my life.  This blog is not about telling you what to do, this blog is about chronicling a life-changing journey and inviting you to share in it.

Have fun, do what you can do, and take care of your body so that your body can take of you.