Day 1

I'm currently at 216lbs, and not so muscley. Thanks to laying off the gym to spend more time with school (and my eating habits), it's mostly fat.

Therefore, the plan is to lose 16-20lbs over the next seven weeks.

This means keeping track of my diet and doing cardio. It also means no lifting for the duration, as it makes one put on weight (by eating everything in sight).

Then, at the end of this term, I start lifting again very carefully monitoring diet to put on lean muscle. Adding muscle is easy, adding it without also getting fat is tough.

So!

This morning, I woke up and ran for 20min. I intend to get up early every day and run for at least half an hour. Along with a proper diet, this will probably accomplish my goal. The run itself felt pretty good. There's a DVD player in front of the treadmill, I figure I'll watch movies half an hour at a time. This week's movie is "Thirteenth Warrior" a viking movie with Antonio Banderas.

Even if I don't lose 20lbs, this phase is over in seven weeks, I don't want to spend any more time than that without gaining some muscle. Honestly, I'll probably do just SOME lifting between now and then.