Goodbye 2010, you piece of diseased dog shit you. Helloooo 2011, you handsome thing.

Not normally one for New Years resolutions, because they always involve fitness and Jan.1 until about Valentines Day is the absolute worst time of year for the gym, BUT I am hitting the ground running this year.

Weighed in this morning at 192... been hovering around 195 last week or two. Have put on 10-15 pounds in last 2-3 months. Also haven't had a training regimen in months and my body is weak and sluggish.

LET'S SET SOME REAL GOALS AND REAL STRUCTURE!

Diet

January 1 starts the Slow Carb Diet as prescribed in Tim Ferriss's 4-Hour Body.

• STRICT 6-day-a-week diet that eliminates almost all carb-heavy foods like sweets, grains, potatoes and fruit, eliminates most dairy (I will say all) and replaces all the lost calories with more proteins, veggies and LEGUMES.
  
• Stick mostly to only a few basic meals, keeping it simple. I would say 5-10 basic meals, which is easy since you can do "chicken/steak and vegetables" a bunch of different ways. Eggs for breakfast, salads for lunch, veggies and nuts and stuff for snacks IF NEEDED..not too tough.
  
• Saturday will be my cheat/binge day where I can eat any crap I want...doesn't mean I need to force it, but can have sandwiches, or pasta, fried rice, fruit, whatever (as known, spiking calories helps with metabolic balance).
  
• Must make an actual, conscious effort to drink less. NO beer and very little liquor and wine on non-cheat days, and only red wine in moderation when having it. Cheat days (Saturday) anything goes and I can get as awesome as I want :) .
  
• Make sure to adjust schedule for Super Bowl Sunday - that week, Sunday will be cheat day and Saturday will be on diet.

Training

• Start getting general fitness up with GPPs, body weight strength training, easing back into some of my favorite big lifts, some weighted circuit work, and some interval training and sprinting.
• Rely HEAVILY on the 2-handed DB swing. Really try to do lots of reps at least 2 days a week, possibly with some alternating 1-handed sets in between those days (M-W-F). Ideally, take another tip for Ferriss's book and try to do some ab work (those special swiss ball fill extension crunches) with the swings, possibly alternating the exercises as a pair in 3 sets.
• At one point in later half of month, by my birthday, start an ongoing strength-building regimen in the ABA/BAB style like this.

That's it. Looks very doable. If I hit these very VERY basic goals, even with working out only a few times a week, I think we could be looking at 10-15 pounds of true fat loss by end of the month (possibly 20 pounds total with the elimination of a bunch of water weight).