White Ghost Diet

So I'm watching myself on TV, and I'm thinking, "How in the heck did I get so fat?!" I look like a human a balloon! I'm swollen!

And then it dawned on me: over the past 2 1/2 years, since my wife and I conceived our first child, I've been on a food binge freefall. The old Me went to the gym three times a week. He biked 10 or more miles each day three or four times, weekly. The old Me ate healthy foods and rejected high-carb, refined sugar-loaded foods.

In a nutshell, the old Me was lean and healthy.

The current Me has gained fifty pounds and has the activity level of a garden slug. Time to get back on board the health train, I thought, as I watched a very bloated Me on replay.

So here's the White Ghost Diet Plan:

1. Hit the gym 3X each week, working out with weights for 30 min.
2. Biking 5-10 miles 3X each week.
3. Walk as much as possible, especially since the weather's turning to spring.
4. Follow Xiao's Cantonese nutrition plan: slow-cooked rice with each meal, with steamed vegetables and lean meats.
5. No eating after 7:00 p.m.

My goal is to lose 30 pounds in sixty days. I will be blogging my progress and taking pictures along the way. Right now, I wouldn't go out in public without my shirt on. By May, I plan on being ready for the pool.

To make the nutrition side easy to follow, I bought an electric rice steamer (which also doubles as a vegetable/meat steamer), frozen chicken breasts and tilapia filets, and a dozen bags of frozen vegetables.

Look for weekly updates as I transform my flabby shape. If you want to follow my plan and see how it works for you, subscribe to the RSS feed for this blog. The more, the merrier.