Pinch my back fat, beyoches!

So having had enough of enough and some trips coming up in September (Indy, Vegas, San Francisco, Portsmouth, OH!), I decided it was time to drop this tire I'm carrying around. To my credit, I've been working the Abs Diet eating plan for the last year and I while I haven't put any weight on, I've been holding steady at about 200lbs the whole time and feeling just better overall. Every so often, there is a crappy string of too much fast food for dinner, but on the whole, my diet has gotten much better. Healthy breakfasts of oatmeal and yogurt, smaller meals more often, and an overall balanced approach of moderation. But still, that damn tire. I'm sure it has something to do with my lack of exercise and that I'm 36 and all those excuses.

But no more...I've decide that to get to my ultimate goal weight of 175 lbs (which is my target BMI weight for my height), some drastic changes need to be made, at least in the short term to "reset" myself. So this week, I started several things: reduced calorie intake to under 1300 calories, almost 500 less each day than normal, increasing my water intake throughout the day, I'm back to walking between the apartment and work so 5.5 miles one way is good for about 400 calories and if I can get both ways in, so much the better. I've also dramatically reduced my carb intake for the short term. It's basically the Atkins Induction phase which I'll do for about a month and should be good for some major weight and inches loss. Of course I know the problem with Atkins is putting all the weight back on after the induction phase is over, but I'll continue back on the Abs Diet plan afterwards and be more conscientious about no fast food and moderating the rest of my "bad carbs" while working to increase my raw veggies and healthful power shakes.

Anyway, I don't believe in such deprivation for so long and really do think moderation is the best course, but I also think that I need some motivation and that is dropping from a 34 back down to a 32 waist and maybe losing my tire. Besides, I'm going to be out in SF during the Folsom Street Fair and I might want to take my shirt off. Doh!