Preparation: Day 4: Plotting/Planning

Just so you know, I'm going back and editing Day 1. I forgot the most important part of my diet. I'm only going to be drinking water. Not Vitamin Water or flavored water, just water like my ancestors in Russia used to drink.

Plotting/Planning

Like a good newspaper article, a proper diet is fueled by a strong outline of the major points to be addressed nutritionally. As a journalist must collect statistics, opinions, and related facts to support their reports, an actively healthy person must track their progress, research new techniques, and stay focused on their weight-loss goal. In the end, the Journalist is held accountable for the information they represent. And the dieter, is held accountable for the weight they eventually lose. A Journalist is a dieter of word-fat. A Dieter is a Journalist of fat words. Journalists are Dieters and that is why they are healthy and focused. I AM A JOUR-DIET-NALIST-ER!

And that is my crappy intro. I'm dropping the persuasive college paper-style now.



My plan is very simple. I will be tracking my intake calories, portion sizes, exercise time, game-playing, sit-ups, and basically anything that can explain to me why I would fail in my goal to lose at least 2 pounds per week and eventually slim to 193 or less. For my glorious readers and weight-loss practitioners, I will be updating my progress with colorful graphs, pictures, videos, and online updates every other day (which is what I originally meant by bi-daily, but realize now is not the definition of bi-daily). A new graph will be posted at the conclusion of each week, along with an official weigh-in and brilliant creative writing piece reflecting on the triumphs and failures of those seven days.

For those of you who need visual representations, or possibly an extremely erotic presentation of my transformation from a larva to a moth, I will be taking a photograph of myself (shirtless!) for every day of the diet. At the end of 91 days, I will compile the photographs and create a short video. Hopefully, this video will look like I'm shrinking and not just standing around looking bored and not changing for 10 seconds.

It's important. If I'm not keeping track of these things, I end up "saying" that I'm eating healthy, but then eating half a slice of pizza here, a piece of coconut cake there, oh and that cookie at work, and the handful of potato chips from the bag in my car, and that sour starburst, and the ten hershey kisses from band practice. And all that is probably the biggest reason for diet failure...

...right into Day 5...